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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1976
Page
6
Cissy 60c pictures to be taken Thursday at the high school and elementary by Rehor Studio. Pep Club elects officers while school news notes photographers will offer three photo packages this year instead of one. Parents and students may choose packages and pay with the order, reducing money collection.
September 13 17 1976 menu shows daily items from mac and cheese to hot dogs plus vegetables fruit and milk. Polk Pep Club elects officers Leslie Jones president Becky Brazdza vice president and Jean Ziegelbein sec treas with 16 members and five cheerleaders Denise Sterns Peggy Neeman Jan Lindburg Debbie Bankson Bobbi Brazda. Hot lunches 60 cents daily 55 cents weekly meal tickets 275 semester 44 00.
Mrs Lee-Hanson and Pam visit Grace Harless at York hospital Monday Miss Pam Harless back to Midland College Fremont Tuesday. Mrs Don Newton of Denver stayed with Richard Sealey Sr family. Dale Steuben of Oklahoma City visits Sealey home a week. Ruth Aker and Sadie Clark visit Litzenberg Memorial Hospital Central City. Birthday party at Roland Rodine home honors Norma Rodine Mrs Dan Garner and Mrs Lennis Lind.
The narrator Marsha Redman looks back at a teen wedding from twenty years earlier. She describes private moments amid public ceremony details, doubts about love, fear of failure, and seeking divine help as she and her husband fled the reception.
Obituary lists bearers Robert Carlson Galyn Lind LaMar Lind Verland Widga Donald Widga and Steve Widga. Interment was in Polk Cemetery. Poignant lines affirm reliance on God as guide and comfort, promising never walking alone through life and after.
The UMW Society of Polk United Methodist Church met in church parlors on Thursday evening September 2. Leaders presented an engaging program led by Mrs C M Fredrickson Mrs Rolland Stromberg Mrs Lawrence Larson and Mrs Rolland Stromberg with a Denmark and Sweden trip feature by Mrs Walt Nielsen. Vocal selections were given by Mrs Ann O Shea of Central City. Hostesses included Mrs Gilbert Lampshire Mrs Oscar Gustafson Mrs Paul Strand Mrs Leonard Drendorf and Mrs M O Johnson.
Polk area notices note Mr and Mrs Gilbert Lampshire visiting Dr and Mrs Earl Lampshire at their Lake Wagner cabin in Columbus. M G Lindburg took guests to Lincoln and Cambridge to see Irvin Hahn, with Gary Stark and Marie Ziegelbein among the Hahn household group. The Lindburgs returned Monday night. Don Boda of Polk City was a prior guest, and Dennis Widga and Micki visited from Ankeny for Lyle Widga’s funeral and stayed with Lyle’s parents and relatives in Sutton before returning Tuesday.
Polk residents share visitors and weekend trips from Stromsburg to Ar cadia with breaks in Broken Bow Neb City Brownville Bellevue and Goodland Concordia and Osceola. Neighborhood couples attended football games hosted gatherings and hospital checks as the community notes reflect fall festival Labor Day travel and kin visits.
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