04 Sep 1969
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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1969
Page
1
Local notes preview Pork Bean Days with a beef barbecue and parade on Main Street. Everett Green of Lincoln to MC Saturday evening program. nostalgia about radios and inventions contrasts with plans for bean day entertainment and chicken barbecue doubts. Page 8%
Polk Bean Days, an annual event for over a decade, hosts free beans and barbecued beef at noon Saturday. Miss Nebraska Teenager Susan Herman of Wilber attends the teen dance Friday and the parade Saturday morning, with Legion Post 160 organizing children’s prizes and a parade. Committees manage events, with barbecued food funded by local firms and beans supplied by Custom Farm Services and Meerkatz Land-leveling. Tractor pulls, races, and stage acts cap the day, ending with prize ceremonies and bicycles for children.
Mr and Mrs Hugo Person were honored on their golden wedding anniversary Sunday August 31 at Baptist Church in Hordville. About 270 relatives and friends attended as the children hosted and grandchildren assisted with reception duties. Rev Winchester offered a brief message before the social hour. They wed September 6 1919 in Central City.
The deadline to submit a five word or less slogan has been extended to Bean Day September 6. Open to out of town participants. Send multiple ideas to tell others about Polk. Mayor Dean Myers offers a ten dollar prize.
Mabel L. Lucado age 82 of Fairfield died Tuesday at Good Samaritan Village Hastings. A longtime Nebraska educator she taught in Clay county rural schools Fairfield Harvard Alliance Nelson Polk and other high schools and served on the University of Nebraska English faculty before retiring in 1956. Funeral services were held in Fairfield with burial at Fairfield cemetery. Survivors include her brother Thorton Lucado of Oklahoma City and cousins Milo Storrs Hastings and Addie Storrs Clay Center. Condolences may be sent to Mrs Milo G. Storrs Hastings.
Rev. Gene Woods returned to the Veterans Hospital on Monday after spending the weekend at home.
A Polk County Nebraska picnic occurred August 24 at the Shelter House in Greeley Colorado with attendees from Greeley Engelwood Loveland Fort Collins Denver Sterling Milliken Boulder Commerce City Gothenburg and others. A noon picnic dinner followed by afternoon lunch and plans were made to hold the event again next year at Islands Grove Park in Greeley on August 30 at 12 30 PM.
A mother reflects on the start of the school year with routines, clothing costs, and the mixed emotions of sending her child to first day. She laments fashion trends, notes the effort of preparation, and recalls her own memories as her third child begins school.
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