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Dec. 14, 1944
HARTINGTON- Seventy-two Cedar County men have been called for military service and will be shipped out of here in three groups next week, Ludvig Nedergard, secretary of the Selective Service Board, has announced.
The area men who have been ordered to report next Monday are: Clarence Hoesing, Delmer Provancha, Rodney Farris, Marvin Konken, Jay Parks, Wallace Johnson, and Ralph Hager, Martin Gubbels, Francis Gubbels, Ivo Kathol, Benedict Arens, Warren Dowling, Merlin Miller and Kenneth Dowling, all of Hartington. And Fordyce residents Joseph Jansen, Raymond Keiser, Cletus Koch, Alfred Borgehinck, and Benedict Blashke.
Dec. 14, 1944
HARTINGTON- A crop of 129.66 bushels per acre gave Ingvard Skobo of Laurel the corn growing championship of Cedar County in the 1944 DeKalb hybrid corn growing contest.
The yield was calculated from the best five-acre tract of land on the Skobo farm.
Other large yields were reported as follows: Max Reifenrath, Wynot, 126.44 bushels per acre; Victor Sudbeck, Hartington, 113.18 bushels per acre; Arthur Bottolfsen, Hartington, 112. 57 bushels per acre; and Harold Lorentzen, Hartington, 110.7 bushels.
Dec. 14, 1944
HARTINGTON- Mr. and Mrs. George Hans received a letter from their son, Sgt. Marcus Hans from Holland stating that he has been promoted to the rank of Staff Sgt. Sgt Hans was recently transferred to Holland from Germany.
Dec. 14, 1944
HARTINGTON- Pfc. George Arens has been transferred from New Guinea to somewhere in the Philippine Islands. He was promoted several weeks ago to the ranks of corporal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Arens.
Dec. 14, 1944
HARTINGTON- Private Arthur Noecker, former Hartington youth, who was wounded in France several weeks ago, has written Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Noecker, that he received four shrapnel wounds in his left leg.
He is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Noecker of Sioux City, former Hartington residents, to be wounded.
His brother, Private Ralph Noecker was wounded in fighting in the South Pacific. He has recovered sufficiently to return to duty.
Dec. 14, 1944
HARTINGTON- Postmaster C.J. Dendinger has announced that Sunday mail will be distributed in the Hartington post office starting at 10:30 each Sunday morning. In the past, the mail was distributed at irregular hours, depending on the time of the arrival of the mail bus.
Dec. 14, 1944
MASKELL- Adolph Olson Ebberhart, former governor of Minnesota, who died in St. Paul Dec. 6, spent most of his youth in this community.
He came to this community with his parents, Andrew and Louisa Olson, and most of his boyhood was spent on the farm now occupied by H.K. Johnson.
He received his elementary education in the Lime Grive school and was a member of the Bethany Lutheran church.
