Local residents depart for work and travel notes
Ven s depart for York to attend a business college Duree McNeely. Ralph Kahle and Robert Johnson leave for Omaha to work in railroad shops. Martin Fisher and wife return from a three week auto trip in Colorado and Yellowstone Park. Kenneth Samuels injures right arm in fall from a windmill. Hilmer Jones’s younger son severely burned by spilled hot water. Herbert Wurtz returns from honeymoon in Wyoming and Colorado. Rolland Dahlin and Andy Anderson start vocational training in Lincoln. Twenty years ago note: Nellie Johnson expected from Taylor to work in Miller Cafe.
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Vens
York
Business
Duree McNeely
Ralph Kahle
Robert Johnson
Omaha
Martin Fisher
Colorado
Yellowstone
Park Kenneth Samuels
Hilmer Jones
Herbert Wurtz
Wyoming
Rolland Dahlin
Andy Anderson
Lincoln
Local social notes from Grand Island and area
Friday return of Ernest Kerker from Denver and visits by the Hill and Cummings families. Hazel Adelson took her brother Leslie to Lincoln for university. Wallace Scott family from Stromsburg visited Hugh McGuffin. Grand Island visitors included Dr D H Westfall and L L Marsh of Po son Montana. State fair guests Floyd Miller and Lloyd Kroger. Fifteen years ago on September 22, 1932 Mrs C T Thesing fractured an ankle, Archie Lindburg died in Nebraska City and burial plans followed. Sacred band concert drew crowds from multiple towns with 125 cars on Main Street. The Standard Bearer girls met at church parlor.
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Ernest Kerker
Denver
G. M. Hill
Lincoln
Fred Cummings
Bert
Hazel Adelson
Leslie
Wallace Scott
Stromsburg
Hugh McGuffin
D H Westfall
L. L. Marsh
Poson Montana
Grand Island
Floyd Miller
Lloyd Kroger
C T Thesing
Nebraska City
Archie Lindburg
C H Lindburg
M G Lindburg
Polk
Fredrick Allison
Hugo Players Show Company
Horstman
Coach Gallant
P J Garten
Ten Years Ago Events In Shelby Area September 1937
Local items from September 23 1937 include the WCTU Polk County convention at United Brethren Church in Shelby a Fenster family reunion at Grand Island and an American Legion Ladies Auxiliary picnic at the Mission Camp Grounds. Also noted are a 35th wedding anniversary in McColl a Davis Pharmacy helper and Polk High School football loss to Genoa 32 to 6 with a Reed family reunion at York. Neal McNaught harvested 75 bushels of alfalfa seed from 35 acres selling at 1550 per bushel for a total of 1170900.
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WCTU
Polk County
United Brethren Church
Shelby
Harold Reed
Fenster
Grand Island
American Legion Ladies Auxiliary
Mission Camp Grounds
Womens Country Club
Elwyn Johns
Ray Werner
Mary Liedtke
George Meyer
McCovl
Goldie Foxssberg
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Woodbury’s Soap
Jergen
Emerson Radios
Fairmont’s
Davis Pharmacy
Rexall
Pork
Nebr
Evelyn Norton
The
State University
Albin Larson
Rolland Dahliz
Frank and
Gertrude Stouffer
Clark Stouffer
Willard Adelson
Wayne Ste
Nellie Johnson
Taylor
Miller Cafe
Polk Progress
Howard and W
Polk, Nebraska
Postoffice
Congress
Nebraska
Chevrolet
Fisher
Johnson Bros. Chevrolet Co
Rialto
Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Olin Howlin
Geo. Meeker
Apache Rose
Sun
Mon
Spencer Tracy
Melvin Douglas
Katharine Hepburn
Robert Walker
Sonny Tufts
Barry Fitzgerald
Diana Lynn
Leon Earl
Margaret Anderson
Cooper
Clifford George “Jack
State of
L. M. Merrick
Pollk County
Oscar Stromberg
Ha&s
L. M Merrick
Oscar Dahlin
Carl Hahn
LM Merrick
Charles O Stettner
I[saarson
VM Merrick
Omaha World-Herald
W.S. Desch Sons
York and
Central City
O. A. Cooper CO
Mumbolot
MEBR
Farmer’s Co-Op. Grain Ass’n
Humboldt
Elmer Galusha
Anc’t
Stromberg’s
Calif
Swanson
Pogo
Aan
Idaho
Utah
Bartlett
Remington Typewriter
Sundberg’s
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