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Nov 8, 1944
LAUREL — Harvey Leapley, who has been employed in the local light plant for some time past, resigned his position on Oct. 29 and went to work on Oct. 31 in the light plant at Sioux Falls, S.D. The new job is a fine promotion for Leapley. His place in the local plant is being filled by Don Brittell, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Brittell and he is making good on the job.
Nov 8, 1944
DIXON — Lester Troth and son Rex and Walter Peterson of Dixon, decided to go hunting the other day. Accordingly they loaded the fliver up and headed for the Black Hills where the deer and elk season opened the first of the month. They were after big game and they got their heart’s desire for when the hunt was over they loaded two bull elk and a fine two-point blacktail buck on the fliver and started for home. Mr. Troth and son each got themselves a bull elk and Peterson got the prize of the hunt, the fine two-point deer.
Nov. 10, 1949
COLERIDGE — Richard and Ronald Skalberg, twin brothers of Wausa, have purchased Jim’s Palace market from James Dendinger and assumed ownership of the business Monday morning, Nov. 7.
Nov. 10, 1949
COLERIDGE — The Coleridge football team and Wayne Prep are co-champions of the new Seven School Six-Man Conference. The Prep team defeated Winside 54 to 0 Friday night to end the season with the same conference record as the Bulldogs. Both teams had 3 wins and 1 tie.
Nov. 10, 1949
COLERIDGE — Approximately 300 4-H club members and their leaders were in attendance at the annual Cedar County 4-H achievement banquet held at the Legion Hall here Tuesday evening, November 8. Fern Wilkerson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Wilkerson and Curtis Papenhausen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Papenhausen, all of Coleridge, were named the outstanding 4-H club girl and boy.
Nov. 4, 1954
COLERIDGE — Coleridge topped all communities in the county Emergency Polio Drive with donations amounting to $512.48 according to the final report of the drive released this week by Willis Jones, county chairman. Miss Erna Brockman was the local chairman of the campaign. Nov. 4, 1954 COLERIDGE — Coleridge and Cedar county voters followed a state pattern by giving state and congressional republican office seekers comfortable margins as voting was quite heavy in the general election Tuesday although not as heavy as in the 1950 general election. A total of 296 voters were cast in precinct 16 as compared to 370 in 1950.
Nov. 4, 1954
COLERIDGE — Commissioners Bernard Schager and J. H. Promes were both re-elected in close races. Promes, a Democrat, defeated Republican Louis W. Stevens 688 votes to 504 in the first district. Schager, a Republican, defeated Democrat Hugo Wuebben 859 -568 in the third district race.
Nov. 4, 1954
COLERIDGE — Three Coleridge youths composed the Cedar County quota leaving Tuesday for induction in the armed forces. All were volunteers. They were Larry Peck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Peck; Carroll Neuhalfen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Neuhalfen; and Robert Hintz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hintz.
Nov 11, 1954
LAUREL — Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Burton and Mr. and Mrs. Max Lamson and family and Boy Scouts Billy Lamson, Jerry Elliott and Richard Bearshear attended the Boy Scout Exhibit in Norfolk.
Nov 11, 1954
DIXON — Dorothy Garvin of Cherokee, Ia and Emmett Garvin of Lincoln were home to help their mother, Mrs. Lee Garvin, celebrate her birthday.
Nov 5, 1964
LAUREL — Laurel’s two candidates for public office took it on the chin Tuesday as they failed to capture enough votes for office.
Unofficial results Wednesday morning showed Isadore Sudbeck trailing behind Leonard Kurtzhals by 74 votes for county commissioner and Bernard A. Burton of Hartington ran 474 votes ahead of Arnold Sauser for the county judge’s post. Laurel voters went against the national landslide for the Johnson-Humphrey ticket and gave the Goldwater-Miller ticket 400 futile votes. They also gave defeated Burney 381 votes over Gov. Morrison’s 274.
Nov 5, 1964
LAUREL — All merchandise and fixtures of Maloney’s Drugs will go on the auction block Nov. 7. C.M. Maloney, owner, has been a pharmacist for 46 years and has operated his drug store here the past 36 years.
Nov 5, 1964
LAUREL- Frank (Dick) Hansen has told the Advocate that he will open a roller skating rink in the Legion building in Laurel for the first time Saturday night.
Nov 5, 1964
LAUREL- Laurel High School has shown tremendous growth over the past few years but the high school has not, as yet, reached its maximum size. Over the past five years the high school has grown from a total of 145 pupils to the present 231 enrolled this year.
This growth points out vividly the need for increased facilities in the Laurel school system.
Voters will have the opportunity to provide these facilities for their children and future generations when they vote “FOR” on Nov. 23. Nov 5, 1964
