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Polk County News Tidbits Stir With Births Trips and Dances
S Sgt and Mrs John Andrews and family visit from Chesente Wyoming after a sister’s death in Milo. A dance at Polk Square Club is slated for Friday September 1. Local reunions, birthdays, and service members featured as new officers are named in the Adelson family picnic notes and club reports. Excerpts relay a Polk boy’s ten day leave from Memphis electronics school and base life at Weeksville. Local visits include the Ehn, Shostrom, and Seymour households with church aid society and picnics noted. Several residents attend the National American Legion Convention in St. Louis and other regional gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Carlson
Reuben Ehn
Adelson
Buckley Park
Stromsburg
Willie Shostrom
Lavelle Lamoree
Lloyd Lind
Leslie Adelson
Dana Shostrom
Sec
Wayland Flodman
Paul Holmes
John
Polk
Memphis
Tennesee Electronics School
Elizabeth City
North Carolina
ATA School
Weeksville