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Sept. 18, 1924
HARTINGTON — Better streets in Hartington are urged in a petition which is now being circulated by Cedar County Treasurer Martin Nelson, in which the city council will be asked to pass an ordinance requiring all streets within the corporate limits of the city to be graveled.
The suggested ordinance in the petition states that the residential streets shall have a surface of gravel four inches deep, while the alleys are to be graveled to the depth of three inches.
The present graveling on Broadway for four blocks and two blocks on Main Street is to be torn up and replaced with six-inch screened gravel. That gravel which is taken up would then be used in the alleys in the business blocks along those streets.
In his petition, Mr. Nelson asked that the intersections from the highway filling station to Sorensen’s Implement building and at the corners of the Grant and Waldschmidt garages be paved by the city, all other intersections being graveled.
He met with the city council Tuesday evening and the paving proposal was laid by for awhile because of the cost. Otherwise, with the exception of taking up the gravel on Broadway now, the suggested ordinance was highly approved by the council.
Sept. 18, 1924
HARTINGTON — Folks who think the ways of the flapper and cake eater haven’t had any effect on the staid government of this state need take but one look at the automobile license plates for 1925 to be convinced of the error of their ways, for here is more pep and jazz tangled up with the orange and black plates this year than there is with the Hartington orchestra.
Cedar County’s plates arrived at the courthouse on Tuesday afternoon, which explains the loud noise coming from there at about that time.
In fact, the plates are so loud, that County Treasurer Nelson and his assistants have to shout to make themselves heard, since the plates have been stored in the office.
There are 4,200 auto license plates, the same amount the county had this year and 400 truck plates, 25 more than last year.
Sept. 18, 1924
YANKTON, S.D. — Probably the largest church service ever held in this section of the country will be held at Yankton on Sunday, Oct. 12, the opening day of the week’s celebration which will mark the formal opening of the Meridian Highway bridge. Bishop Mahoney of Sioux Falls has invited Archbishop J.J. Harty of Omaha to join with him in the celebration of a high Mass to commemorate the union of South Dakota and Nebraska by the bridge.
The two bishops will meet at the center of the bridge on the morning of Oct. 12 and will then proceed to Sacred Heart convent, where Archbishop Harty will say Mass in the spacious foreground of the convent. The service will be followed by a sermon by Bishop Mahoney.
Sept. 18, 1924
OBERT — Citizens of Obert on Tuesday rejected the plan of the Minnesota Electric Distributing Company to bond the village for $10,000 for the purpose of erecting a high tension electric distribution line to the village to supply it with electric current.
The vote was 34 against the proposition and 16 for it. Details of the plan had been under discussion for several weeks and the vote was very gratifying to the opponents of the measure.
