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Nov. 30, 1939
HARTINGTON — Hartington Herald publishers have decided to put on a new contest.
This will be known as the Biggest Grasshopper Whopper Contest and the purpose of it will be to determine which one of Cedar County’s residents living in the grasshopper belt can tell the biggest 1939 grasshopper yarn.
A lot of remarkable stories have been in circulation the past season about the hoppers — size, number, destructiveness, etc. and here is an opportunity to leap to fame by telling one that will surpass all the rest.
No prizes are being offered as the newspaper publishers believe the distinction of being Cedar County’s champion story tell is prize enough, but the Herald will print the name, and possibly the picture of the winner, together with the story itself.
The Grasshopper Whopper Contest starts at once and will run until cl0sing promptly Saturday, Dec. 23, at 6 o’clock.
Nov. 30, 1939
HARTINGTON — With only one day remaining, it is apparent that November will go down in Weather Bureau records as one of the driest 11th months in the history of Cedar County.
Precipitation totals were increased a little last week with .03 of an inch of snow and rain and two days with traces of precipitation. However, records reveal the total for the entire month will not exceed one-half inch. Average precipitation for the month of November from 1891 to 1930, according to government weather records, was 1.08 inches of precipitation. During that period, there were two years when there was only a trace of moisture during the 11th month.
Nov. 30, 1939
HARTINGTON — The following is the Hartington High School honor roll for the last six weeks: Laura Anderson, 5 As; Joan Eby, 5 As; William Frazer, 5 As; Miriam Samelson, 4 As; Elna Eriksen, 4 As; Martha Ekins, 4 As; Allison Koch, 4 As; Dorothy Lidberg, 4 As; Martha Putter, 4 As; Yvonne Hardy, 4 As; Wilma Riibe, 4 As; Gladys Yonke, 4 As; Keith Burney, 4 As; Esther Eriksen, 4 As; Jack Schirmer, 4 As; Rodney Farris, 4 As; Shirley Steele, 4 As. Many Hartington Public School students were neither absent nor tardy for the period covered in
