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World War II
Feb. 22, 1945
HARTINGTON- S. Sgt. Thomas D. Prince, engineer and turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress of the Eighth Air Force in England, who recently received the air medal, has now received the Purple Heart medal for wounds received in action over Germany on Oct. 15.
He is now in a hospital in England. His wife, the former Irene Foulk, lives in Hartington.
Feb. 22, 1945
WYNOT—Mrs. Bert Snowe received a letter from her son, Pvt. Frank Snowe, saying he has been transferred from Camp Fannin, Tex., to somewhere in England.
Feb. 22, 1945
HARTINGTON- Capt. R. J. Wieseler has been transferred from Brooks General hospital in San Antonio, Tex., to Miami, Fla.
He is spending a short furlough here enroute to Miami. Mrs. Wieseler and Mary Lou will return with him.
Feb. 22, 1945
CROFTON—Sgt. Paul Donner is spending a 28-day furlough at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Donner. Sgt. Donner has spent the past year overseas and had been stationed in France. He received shrapnel wounds in his chin and chest last July and will return to Camp Carson, Colo., where he will be admitted to an army hospital. He is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foecke of Hartington.
Feb. 22, 1945
BELDEN—Mrs. Elmer McDonald received a letter from her son, Cpl. Harold McDonald, who has been somewhere in France for some time, that he spent several weeks in England recently and visited with Sgt. Donald Middleton, son of Mrs. Vernie Middleton.
Feb. 22, 1945
HARTINGTON- Ed Walter, petty officer 2/c, arrived Saturday from San Bruno, Calif., to spend a 10-day leave with his wife and children here.
Arnold Bruns and Mrs. Walter and children met him in Columbus Saturday.
Feb. 22, 1945
HARTINGTON-Staff Sgt. Emil C. Goeden, 24-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Goeden, has returned to New York for further army assignment after a 30-day furlough spent with his parents.
He was one of the soldiers fighting on the European front who were recently returned to the United States for a brief furlough.
Sgt. Goeden has been awarded the Bronze Star with an oak leaf cluster.
In earning the first award for bravery, the sergeant took his men into a small town near St. Lo less than two months after the invasion of Normandy. While they were patrolling the village, heavy German artillery forced the men from their vehicles. All took cover, but during the ensuing assault, Sgt. Goeden heard a radio order to evacuate the town. Under severe fire he ran from building to building assembling the men from cellars and attics for the successful evacuation of the village.
Later, inside Germany, he volunteered with two others for the highly hazardous job of contacting friendly infantry outposts to determine if the doughboys were holding their original positions.
The trio operated under deadly enemy machine gun crossfire and was pinned down going to the objective and again while returning.
The round-trip journey required three hours, inching along for 600 yards.
Feb. 24, 1955
HARTINGTON — Greta Rossiter, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. V.E. Rossiter, was selected as the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow at Holy Trinity School.
Feb. 24, 1955
HARTINGTON — Fourteen students from Hartington High and Holy Trinity are eligible to take University of Nebraska Freshman Scholarship Examinations.
Those qualifying must be in the upper 25 percent of the senior class. Students are Genevieve Becker, Donna Dietsch, Sidney Eickhoff, Richard Filips, Elenore Heine, Greta Rossiter, Yvonne Smith, Donna Schrempp, Betty Jean Wieseler Gwen Crowley, Sandra Bartlett, JoAnn McCoy, Paul Robinson, and Kay Sutton.
Feb. 24, 1955
HARTINGTON — Sale of the Allis-Chalmers farm implement dealership here by P.F. Hahn to Harry Lamprecht of Bloomfield was announced this week.
Lamprecht, who farmed west of Bloomfield until recently, has now taken over the business.
Mr. Hahn will continue to operate his Chevrolet dealership company here, however.
