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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1929
Page
6
Nebraska tax receipts for 1929 show a 10 percent rise in income taxes with $5,856,729 collected. Corporations contributed $3,525,644 while individuals paid $2,331,084. Officials link gains to improved business conditions and corporate activity in major cities.
E. M. Hosman secretary of the Nebraska State Teachers association reports many Nebraskans at Columbia University. He spent weeks there after attending the National Educational Association convention in Atlanta. Hosman taught three lectures in education philosophy and noted the staff and students mirrored Nebraska.
Joseph Zweimer of Pleasanton sold two carloads of herefords he raised. Nineteen heifers averaged 24 pounds sold at 14.50 per hundred. A carload of 28 steers averaging 914 pounds brought 16.25, reportedly the year's high for light steers at Omaha.
A well equipped distillery believed capable of 200 to 300 gallon daily output was raided eight and a half miles southwest of Louisville. Two active stills were found in a cattle shed with 105 gallons of whisky 10,900 gallons of mash 600 pounds of sugar and two coke furnaces. No one was in the building suggesting a lookout.
Twenty minutes after Judge Fitz gerald sentenced them Dr Ville Evans and Max Crowley were driven to Lincoln to begin 50 year terms. The two had led a spree of robberies ending in the kidnapping of two girls from their escorts in Omaha and were guarded by Sheriff McDonald and deputies.
A. Be. Anderson, state and federal statistician, predicts new high production records for barley and sugar beets in Nebraska this year based on early surveys and weather patterns.
E. J. Wright of Omaha was elected president for the ensuing year when 110 members of the Fouts and Wright families held their twenty third annual reunion at Falls City. Other officers named were Mose Wright Alliance vice president and Edward Pacy Papillion secretary treasurer. The group selected Elmwood part Omaha as the place for the 1930 meeting to be held August 17.
More than 2000 residents attended Albion's annual Old Settlers Picnic. The crowd gathered for a day of community fellowship with games, local vendors, and civic displays reflecting on the town's heritage.
Insurance Commissioner cites steady inquiries from automobile owners and plans a probe into so called automobile service companies. He says contracts offering bail or attorney services after accidents and criminal actions warrant departmental investigation.
Construction moves quickly on the brick hotel project in Superior. Workers and equipment fill the site as foundations rise and bricklaying begins. Local officials expect completion within the year.
Disagreement over their daughter's marriage sends Mr and Mrs Reginald R Young of Omaha into divorce court. An Omaha man was arraigned for violating the parking ordinance after claiming he had been in jail and could not move his car.
A voucher for 2000 on W G Dorsey contract for editing and compiling the 1929 Nebraska statutes shows the total 20000 with 300 for equipment. Dorsey pays assistants from his own compensation and the auditor's office records the first installment.
About 100 potato growers and dealers attended the Western Nebraska banquet in Alliance with Southern state visitors on an inspection tour of seed stock fields. Morrill County board orders the clerk to seek open dates on Chinese and ring tailed pheasants with the state Fish and Game Commission.
Lesson outlines Nehemiah a Persian cupbearer who learns Jerusalem’s distress, seeks leave, surveys the city, and mobilizes Jews to rebuild. It highlights preparation, division of labor, responses to hindrances, and the completed wall in 52 days, emphasizing faith, prayer, prudence, and readiness.
Plato pictured the soul as a composite of a man, a lion, and a many headed monster. The man stands for reason, the lion for passion, and the monster for appetites. The text asserts the lion and monster exist in all people and change comes through Christ’s love, making the lion a lamb.
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