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Feb. 9,1950
COLERIDGE — Coach Franklin Bressler has started directing some Coleridge high school boys in boxing. The team will enter a boxing meet at Wayne this month.
Feb. 9, 1950
HARTINGTON — Clyde Booth, owner of Booth’s Grocery has just completed remodeling the interior of his store. The ceilings were lowered and additional light fixtures were added, giving the store a lighter and more modern appearance.
The walls were also repainted. While the remodeling program was in progress a new refrigerated fruit and vegetable display unit was also added.
This is the first fruit and vegetable counter of this type to be installed in Hartington. It is designed to keep fruits and vegetables fresh and crisp and at the same time easily accessible to shoppers.
The Gieseler Barber and Beauty Shop also recently completed a remodeling project. The ceilings were lowered and the interior was given a fresh coat of paint.
Feb. 11, 1960
HARTINGTON — Edwin Fuchtman, Hartington, was elected commander of the Cedar County Disabled American Veterans at a meeting in the VFW Thursday.
Other officers elected were George Kast of Fordyce, senior vice commander; Gerald Arens of Hartington, junior vice commander, Vernon Meyerott of Coleridge, judge advocate; Don Lucht of Hartington, chaplain; and Ike Sudbeck of Hartington, department executive committeeman. Command Fuchtman appointed Paul Dendinger of Hartington as adjutant-treasurer; and H.H. Felber of Fordyce, service officer. Frank Dietsch of Fordyce is the retiring commander.
The Cedar County DAV chapter received a national citation for having reached their membership quota set by the national headquarters.
Feb. 10, 1965
HARTINGTON — Raymond Peitz, 33, Yankton Star Route, was still reported in serious condition from injuries received in a two-car collision early Sunday morning. A car driven by Peitz and a pick up truck driven by Robert Morten, 39, of Hartington, collided head-on about 1 a.m. Sunday on Highway 15 at the south edge of Hartington.
Feb. 10, 1965
HARTINGTON — Nine inches of wet, heavy snow accompanied by wind reduced traffic to a minimum on streets and highways in this area Tuesday night. Cars were found stranded in the deep snow almost any direction from Hartington and tow trucks were busy this morning putting the vehicles back on the road.
Feb. 10, 1965
Hartington — A full house is expected at Holy Trinity Parish Center next Wednesday when the winningest major college football coach in the nation comes to Hartington to tell the highlights of his past football season.
University of Nebraska football coach Robert Devaney will be the featured speaker at the first annual banquet Wednesday, sponsored by the Cedar County Extension Service, Cedar County Livestock Feeders Association, and Cedar County Soil Conservation District.
The program will also feature Warren Fairchild, executive secretary of the state soil and water conservation commission.
Feb. 18, 1970
HARTINGTON — Tom Tideman has transferred his talent from farming to insurance sales, and since the first of the year, has been associated with the Rossiter-Wirth Agency, Currently he is enjoying intensive training under tutelage of other members of the firm. He has chosen to represent the American National Insurance Co. of Galveston Texas the 17th largest life, health and accident insurance firm in the United States.
