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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1949
Page
4
Local residents report visits to multiple homes including the Blases with the Reed and Miller households. Ernest Gleim begins classes at Norfolk Junior College while others attend dinners, weddings, and church group gatherings in York area towns. Families hosting relatives and friends from Osceola and San Diego mark a busy social week.
Local notices list multiple sales of farm equipment and household items in Osceola with names Paul Monson and Enoch Peterson. A long social column records visits, travels, and gatherings among residents including Miss Rena Mae Willits Imogene Hanquist and Retha Creech with relatives in Polk Stromsburg Omaha and York. The Polk Evangelical Lutheran Church Mission Festival is noted with speakers Rev Homes Benedict and Rev Ernstmeyer.
Mrs Hattie Newman returned home from a two week visit with her daughter in Aurora. The Hearn family from Long Beach California and Phyllis Hearn of Moline Illinois stayed with Phyllis’ grandparents en route home after a Illinois and Iowa trip. Phyllis will remain in California for winter. Local families hosted weekend guests from Franklin Chicago and other areas. Cpl Sterling Anderson returned for a 25 day furlough from Camp Stoneman. Ed Carlson and relatives visited Chicago. Teachers Edith Mattson and Fern Myers are assigned to Gothenburg schools. Don Jackson and family plan to settle in Benedict after visiting North Platte and Cheyenne. A dinner was hosted by Ettie Anderson and Mabel and Laverna Rystrom for H R Anderson and family.
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