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May 5, 1949
RANDOLPH – A bridge on a county road three miles south of Randolph was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. The ten-foot bridge was engulfed in flames and beyond saving by the time the Randolph Volunteer Fire Department arrived. Of crested planks, the bridge burned rapidly, with the flames fanned by the strong wind.
It is believed that the fire started from burning thistles in a nearby field.
May 12, 1949
COLERIDGE — Franklin Bressler, Wayne, has been chosen to be the principal at Coleridge High School for the 1949-50 year.
May 12, 1949
HARTINGTON — R. H. Smith was recently elected the president of the Hartington Public School Board. E. W. Berglund was elected as the vice president.
May 12, 1949
COLERIDGE— A plowing bee was held at the farm of Robert Hansen near Coleridge on Saturday, May 7. Sixty-eight acres of ground were plowed and harrowed in the morning. Mr. Hansen was injured in an April 20 tractor accident.
May 12, 1949
HARTINGTON — Clair Roddewig, former resident of Hartington and the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Roddewig, has been elected president of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company.
May 12, 1949
HARTINGTON — Delores Schwarzenbach was named the salutatorian at Hartington Public High School for the 1948-49 school year.
May 13, 1954
RANDOLPH — The Coleridge Bulldogs will be playing eight-man football next year.
Members of the schools in the Corntassel Conference decided to up the Coleridge Bulldogs team from six-man to eight-man play at a meeting in Randolph on May 5.
May 7, 1959
HARTINGTON — Two inches of welcomed rain fell in the Hartington area this past week. The most fell on May 5, 1.37 inches.
May 7, 1959
HARTINGTON — Don Schmidt has been named to manage the Hartington Junior Legion team and baseball program this summer. The season will start on May 31.
May 7, 1959
HARTINGTON — Dennis Noecker, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Noecker, was killed in an automobile accident early on Monday morning when the vehicle missed a curve on Highway 116 and the car rolled ejecting Noecker from it. Gary Miller, owner of the car, suffered minor injuries.
May 7, 1959
BELDEN — Larry Whipple, Belden, left Tuesday for Omaha where he will be inducted into the Armed Services. Larry, the nephew of Charles Whipple, voluntarily entered the draft.
May 8, 1969
OMAHA — A Business Research Bureau estimate of the population of Cedar County in 1968 was 12,768.
