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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1967
Page
5
The Polk Garden Club hosted a large flower show and courtesy tea with 700 registrations at the display Bean Day. Seventeen door prizes were awarded along with a cake for drawn numbers. Corsages went to the two oldest registrants and a flower given to each entrant.
Mrs Lydia Peterson hosts visitors at Good Samaritan Village Hastings on Bean Day with Carl and Eric Nelson and others. Numerous families from Aurora to Lincoln drop by for meals and calls, including the Hoffmans, Gustafsons, and Hardings, sharing time from Friday through Sunday across several towns.
Local residents host and visit friends in Arborville and nearby towns. Dwight Herd and family from Colorado Springs spend the weekend with the Hoffmans. Norman Recknor travels to Fort Monmouth New Jersey for 28 weeks of schooling. Ted Otte attends a reception for newlyweds Ivan Friezen in Ohio before heading to California for schooling. numerous weekend guests from Central City Lincoln Longmont and other towns share meals picnics and conversations.
Mrs Fred Yungdahl and others attend a Lincoln hairdresser convention while many neighbors host and visit across Swede Home. Lt Randy Lindgren of Omaha joins Dennis Johnson for a meal. families travel to eastern states and spend weekends with kin. Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church schedules fall activities and choir rehearsals through September.
Local social items list weekend visits and upcoming plans. Mr and Mrs Dwight Hurd of Colorado Springs were guests in the Martin Hoffman Jr. home over the weekend. Several families from Lincoln Hastings York Elmwood and Sioux Falls visited, with absences and enrollments noted at Wentworth Military Academy Chicago Trinity College and local churches and picnics.
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