Progress Files Highlights Local Life and Movements
Local notes cover boxing at the band stand, marriages of Nora Shenk to Merle Simpson and Elsie Coordes to Gilbert Nelson, rail postal clerk exams by Roy and Leonard Strasburg, land sale by Will Kroger to Emma Nelson, and church assignments for Rev. Arthur Bates. Other items mention a baby born to the Strombergs, a hog loss amid swine plague, social events, and community visits across Polk, Grand Island, Stromsburg, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Bates
Polk Church
Charles Eckles
Grand Island
Will Kroger
Polk
Emma Nelson
Nora Shenk
Merle Simpson
Omaha
Elsie Anderson
Gilbert Nelson
Stromsburg
Alfred Anderson
Roy
Leonard Strasburg
Pleasant Hill
Allen Samuels
Mil Walter Widge
Oscar Stromberg
Elsie Coordes
Haxtun
Colo
Arthur C. Bates
Methodist
Shickley
First Methodist
Swede Plain
Bates
S. W Longacre
Edgar
Lloyd Kroger
Dave Ekdahl
John Elving
Spirit Lake
Iowa
Dorothy Wilbrandt
Central City
Charles Ang
Betty Ang
Stanford
Frank Adelson
Will Miller
Melvin Hill
Minnie Nicholson
Frank Clifford
August Nelson
Edwin Lindburg
Ryan
Salem
Oregon
Lawrence Hoffman
Will Welch
Charles Peteron
Denver
Jessie Peterson
Frank Garretson
Local Nebraska Newspaper Classified Rates and Notices
Obituary and poetry listings priced per line with minimum charges. Advertising columns list rates: 10 cents per line, 10 lines minimum at $1, plus $2.50, $4.00, and $5.00 options. Polk Progress is printed as second class matter at Polk Nebraska Post Office under 1879 act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk
Nebraska
Community Notes From Local Social Scene
Local residents attend funerals, family visits, and travel updates. Will Welch family heads to Glendale for new home. several couples visit, school events and a bicycle hike are noted. Darwin and Leslie Adelson link to Clarkson hospital injury. various baptisms, weddings, birthdays, and a university move are recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaVaughn Adelson
Army
San Diego
California
Dist. No
Marilyn Dahlin
Marion Dahlin
Myrl Johnson
John Crites
Phyllis Steelquist
Jill Ann
Columbus
Ohio
Otis Anderson
Chehalis
Wash
Claus Lindahl
E. T. Lindeberg
Sioux City
Iowa
Nels Pearson
O. F. Alfred
Farnum Schrader
D. N. Mills
Everett Cramer
Pete Schrader
Crippled Children's Hospital
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Ted Otte
Edith Otte
Patty Funk
Lincoln
University of Nebraska
Marvin Bankson
Betty Bankson
Donald George
Sutton
Grace Lutheran Church
Central City
Gordon Fossberg
Daryl
Attica Riots Rooted in Racism and Policy Failures
A reflective piece links the Attica prison uprising to white racism and government policies. It flags Nelson Rockefeller and Nixon era actions, including harsher crime control and the My Lai case, as fueling inmate desperation and violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attica
N.Y
United States
Nelson Rockefeller
Omaha
FBI
Fletcher D. Thompson
Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police
Ramsey Clark
Nebraska
Johnson
Commission On
Nixon
South
George Harrold Carswell
Supreme Court
William Calley
My Lai
Vietnam
J. Edgar Hoover
John Mitchell
Department of Justice
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Charles Henderson
Harold Carlson
Elizabeth Allison
Verbena Brauer
Beulah McCoy
Glee Club
Emalyne Deuker
Albert Knott
Lawrence Fusby
R. H. Thesing
Fusby
Oklahoma
P. E. Shostrom
Olof Ostlund
Jones
North Platte
Roy Branting
South Gate
Ostlund
Larson
Thesing Implement
R. B. Williams
Billy
Warren Frickey
Benedict
George Pearson
John G. Ehn
Henning
Charley Ehn
Emil Ehn
R. L. Smith
Harry Lock
John Johnson
Martha
Glen
Co-Op Oil, Inc
Polk, Nebr
Nebraska Association
Fridhem Lutheran Church
Hordville
Carl Gustafson
Raleigh Merchant
Atlantic
Merchant
Creston
Arnold Neuhaus
Allen
Arkansas
Neuhaus
Darwin
Clarkson
Harlan T. Frazier
York
Evangelical Free Church
Hilmer Jones
Lindale Cemetery
Leslie Adelson
Clarkson Hospital
Carroll Shenk
David Carroll
Central City Hospital
Gaylen Holmes
Hermann Hospital School of Physical Therapy
Houston
Texas
Gaylen
Jimmy
Judy Green
Harold Bedient
Calif
Margaret Cooper
Cooper
Marvin Nelson
Family of
Arcadia
Walter Nelson
Michael Nelson
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