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Jan. 6, 1965
HARTINGTON – H.H. ‘Jelly’ Johnson, long-time Hartington rural mail carrier and postal clerk will be honored at a party sponsored by the Hartington Post Office employees and their wives. The occasion being Jelly’s retirement from active duty.
The party will be at the VFW Club. He will be presented a certificate in recognition of his retirement. The certificate is signed by Postmaster General John A. Gronouski and Regional Director Charles Schumaker.
‘Jelly’ retired from active duty Dec. 28., 1964 after 35 years of service to the Post Office.
He began his career Sept. 3, 1929, as a clerk in the Hartington Post Office under Postmaster Louis R. Eby. He was a clerk until Sept. 9, 1936, when he exchanged jobs with Lloyd Hardy, who was the rural carrier.
He said the roads were very poor when he started on the rural route in 1936, but now most of them are graveled and maintained and cannot compare to the roads of 1936.
He prides himself in the fact that over 28 years of delivering mail and over 550,000 miles he never has had an accident. He used 12 different cars to deliver mail over his career.
The worst winter he experienced for delivering mail was 1948-49. But he still got through every other day for the two-week period the storm was at its peak.
He also recalls a Spring in the early 1950s when heavy rainfall caused much damage in the north end of the county. He said the water was over two feet deep in many places one particular day that year. Just after he crossed the bridge on the northwest edge of Fordyce, the high water took the bridge downstream.
He suffered a heart attack in August, 1963. He remained on sick leave until his recent retirement. His activity is pretty much now contained to the golf course and bowling alley.
He has been a member of the American Legion for 45 years. He has been a member of the Odd Fellows lodge for 38 years. He was also: World War I barracks for six years and is a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church.
Jan. 6, 1965
HARTINGTON – Paul Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Robinson, Hartington, was officially appointed Assistant Clerk of the Unicameral Legislature in Lincoln.
He will assist Hugo Srb, who has been clerk of the Unicameral ever since it was established in Nebraska.
Young Robinson started his work on Monday. He is a graduate of the University of Wyoming and George Washington University School of Law, and has been employed in the Washington office of Congressman Ralph Beerman.
He was admitted to the Bar in Nebraska in 1964.
Jan. 6, 1965
HARTINGTON – The VFW announced the winners of the Voice of Democracy contest held at four high schools in Cedar County.
The local winners will represent their respective schools at the district competition.
Hartington High’s winner was Hazel Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson. Sixty- two Hartington High students competed in the contest. Jeanne Lammers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Lammers, won the competition at Cedar Catholic. She competed against 50 students to win top honors. Coleridge Community School’s winner was William Behrens, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Behrens. He competed against 80 other students to earn the top spot. The Obert- Maskell winner was Gerald Wiedenfled, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wiedenfeld. This was the first year the contest had been held at Obert-Maskell.
Jan. 6, 1965
HARTINGTON – The new museum has now been open to the public for six months and there have been over 300 visitors to see the exhibits.
There are many articles of interest for all and especially for the children who attend school. It would be a real education for the students if their teachers would bring them in and spend a couple of hours.
If the visit is not possible during the hours the museum is open, 2-4 every day except Monday, then appointments can be made.
Jan 14,1970
HARTINGTON — Jim Adkisson announced students in the grades 7-12 would see a special program on Mental Telepathy for Hartington students at the City auditorium.
For years it has been thought two people’s minds can be “in rapport” that is to say, in sympathy and unison with each other.
Jan 14,1970
HARTINGTON— New to the market most anytime now will be hams under the label “Sugar-cured on the Hoof” that is if Edgar Bruening ever can stand to market his pet Polands. At least that’s the consensus of the many other pork producers in the North Central States who exhibit their best at the various swine shows.
Jan 14, 1970
HARTINGTON— People of the U.S. are getting weekly doses of propaganda loaded with statistics about how many folks are going hungry in this country. Hard to believe isn’t it, with corn and milo heaped straw stack style all over the breadbasket of Nebraska.
