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Dec. 18, 1919
HARTINGTON— The old City Hall building, which has served the needs of the city for nearly a quarter of a century, will be sold by the city dads in the near future in order to clear the site for the new city auditorium.
The old laundry building, which also occupies part of the site, will also be disposed of. With the removal of these two old landmarks the site of the new City Hall will be two-thirds clear.
Both old buildings contain excellent lumber, and with a little remodeling, can be made into serviceable residences.
With the demand for residence buildings greatly exceeding the supply, the city dads believe that better prices can be secured now than a few years later and also the site can be cleared.
Arrangements are now being made to slightly remodel the old Cedar County State Bank building for use of the fire department and also as city headquarters until the new City Auditorium is erected.
Dec. 18, 1919
HARTINGTON— One child in every 20 in Nebraska is educated in a parochial school, without expense to the taxpayers, according to figures compiled by Miss Lulu Wolford in the office of the state Supt. of Public Instruction.
The total number of persons school age, that is between 5 and 21, in Nebraska is 40,000, but the average daily attendance in public schools is much smaller. The total number of parochial schools is over 200 and 650 teachers are employed by these parochial schools. This shows an average of 100 pupils and three teachers in each parochial school. About three-fourths of the children attending parochial schools attend Catholic parish schools, according to the latest diocesan directory, which says that there are 117 Catholic parochial schools in the state, with 15,474 pupils and giving employment to 477 teachers.
Dec. 10, 1929
HARTINGTON—The old Farmers Union location, formerly occupied by Hansen’s market, is rapidly being made ready for occupancy by the People’s Store, new business house coming to Hartington under the management of Ben Norinsky and Abe Hurowitz.
Dec. 5, 1934
HARTINGTON—Bids on seven miles of highway paving north and east of Laurel, the first ever laid in Cedar County, have been called for Dec. 20 by A.T. Lobdell, acting state engineer.
The paving work will be done on the new Highway 20 route from the Cedar County line to the junction of Highway 15 three miles north of Laurel.
Dec. 5, 1934
HARTINGTON—Spurred to optimism and already touched with the Christmas Holiday spirit as December opened promising an early answer to their prayers for a hard winter, Cedar County residents this week were joyously digging themselves out of the heaviest December snow in exactly 10 years.
Sunday morning it began sifting down with just the slightest breath of north wind on top of what remained from a four-inch snowfall on Tuesday of last week.
All day and all night, it continued until Monday morning, the ground was blanketed with the deepest covering of snow northeast Nebraska has seen at this time since 1928.
Eight inches fell here from Sunday morning to Monday morning, the most in a single December storm since 1924.
Dec. 5, 1934
HARTINGTON—A $29,000 loan and grant to the city of Randolph for building a city auditorium was announced in Washington Monday by Public Works Administrator Harold Ickes.
