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Oct. 30, 1914
HARTINGTON — Cornhusking is in full blast in the West Bow area.
It goes all the way from one to 60 bushels an acre. Jack Burbach seems to hold the record so far in the amount of bushels picked in one day. He picked 100 bushels one day last week which goes to show there is some good corn out there yet, considering the drought.
Oct. 23, 1914
HARTINGTON — ‘Alma, Where Do You Live,” at the Opera House last Friday night was a good play and drew a fair-sized house. The play was a melodrama and was above the average.
The character of local plays has improved very much recently and the management of the Opera House promises that this standard will be kept up. If so, the plays will be well patronized.
A Look Back
Oct. 23, 1919
HARTINGTON — Sen. Chs. H. Randall, Wm. Stagemen and L.H. Bruner of Randolph spent several hours in Hartington Wednesday conferring with F.O. Robinson, County Chairman of the organized movement for the erection of a permanent memorial to Theodore Roosevelt at a cost of $500,000.
The funds will be raised by membership in the memorial association. Oct. 23, 1919
FORDYCE — Frank Meirose has remodeled the big lumber yard building at Fordyce into an amusement hall and will have a big opening dance there next Wednesday evening with Yankton music.
Mr. Meirose is also planning on having moving picture show exhibits at the new Fordyce facility.
Oct. 30, 1919
HARTINGTON —The Hartington Commercial Club went on record last Friday of being enthusiastically in favor of the proposed bridge over the Missouri River at Yankton and by a unanimous vote, authorized President Robinson to appoint a committee to solicit subscriptions to the capital stock of the bridge company.
The decision of the club to appoint the stock-soliciting committee followed the reports of Mayor Ready and H.G. Mason, President of the First National Bank.
