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May 28, 1953
HARTINGTON — Dr. W. E. Smith, Hartington, was elected president of the Lions Club for the 1953-54 fiscal year. He succeeds Dr. R. R. Dietz.
May 28, 1953
HARTINGTON — Dr. F. P. Dorsey, Sr., was among the doctors given recognition for fifty or more years of practice at the recent Nebraska Medical Association convention in Omaha. Dorsey has practiced medicine since 1896.
May 28, 1953
HARTINGTON — Three young men from Hartington will be heading off to Conception Seminary to begin their studies. They are Donald Dendinger, William Dendinger, and Eugene Aschoff.
May 28, 1953
HARTINGTON — Mrs. Marge Smith was elected president of the Hartington Women’s Golf Association at the organization’s annual business meeting.
Mrs. Bea McCoy was elected vice president and Mrs. Hazel Buchanan was elected secretary-treasurer. The association also named Mrs. Marge Peck and Mrs. Ann Zimmer as co-chairmen to supervise the junior golfers’ activities during the summer.
May 28, 1953
HARTINGTON — R. E. Horton and his wife, Dorothy, were severely injured when their car ran off the road into a ditch six miles north of Laurel Wednesday afternoon. The couple were en route from Royal to Maskell where they planned to spend the summer at his home. The accident was caused by a bee which flew into the car.
May 28, 1953
HARTINGTON — A total of $7,674 has been distributed among the school districts in Cedar County from the state insurance funds.
This is based on the average attendance in the various districts, according to County Supt. J. Mike McCoy.
May 28, 1953
HARTINGTON — Olof Klanderud was elected president of the newly organized Hartington Gun Club here Monday night.
May 28, 1953
HARTINGTON — Oscar Berg and Ada Berg Miller, siblings originally from Obert, died on the same day. Oscar died in Omaha and his sister in Olympia, Wash.
May 28, 1953
HARTINGTON — Anne Beste and Kenneth Heimes, both Wynot Public seniors, tied for valedictorian honors. Third place honors went to Joe Wieseler.
May 29, 1958
HARTINGTON — Victor Arens, farmer in rural Hartington, was seriously wounded in the back when the wadding from a blank cartridge struck him.
Arens was pretending to be the bad guy resisting arrest in a comedy act when the blank cartridge wadding hit his back. It was not revealed whether the wadding penetrated his kidney.
