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March 11, 1920
HARTINGTON — Rev. Father Joseph Hundt, former pastor of the Catholic Church at Menominee and for the past two years engaged in parish work in Omaha, has been relieved of his duties as a parish priest by Archbishop Harty in order that he may devote all of his time to the work of raising funds for the purpose of erecting a permanent home building for the Father Flanagan Home for Boys in Omaha.
Two years ago, Father Flanagan was present in the Juvenile Court at Omaha when a wayward boy was brought in for trial for stealing. He was sentenced to reform school. Knowing that, if sent there, the youngster would meet other boys worse than he was, he begged the court to parole the youngster to him.
About a week later, two other boys were brought to Father Flanagan.
After many difficulties, he rented an old house at 25th and Dodge Streets where he started the home for poor, homeless boys. Later, a larger place was secured and still later a farm was rented and several sisters of a Catholic Religious Order devoted their time to helping out.
The lease on the present house has expired and the building will be razed to make room for a large, modern building.
In the meantime, the demands upon the home have increased and now more than 70 boys call it home.
Those area residents who have only one or two youngsters and who shiver when the monthly grocery bill comes in, can only imagine the joy of trying to care for 70.
Rev. Father Hundt plans a trip over the entire diocese of Omaha soliciting funds with which a farm may be purchased and a permanent modern building erected. The idea is that this building will not only give a home to the boys, but will also include a school where they can be trained to earn their own living, both on the farm and in town.
The institution enjoys the hardy and sincere endorsement of Archbishop Hardy and many prominent people in Omaha, regardless of creed, who are familiar with the work being done. The only requirement for admission is that the boy needs help. He is then admitted regardless of color. The present address of the Home is 4206 S. 13th Street, Omaha, where contributions may be sent to either Father Hundt, or Father Flanagan.
March 5, 1925
HARTINGTON - For about the umpteenth time, the Roskopf garage at Hartington was host on Wednesday evening to some petty thieves, who staged a little surprise party and walked off with the honors of the evening, amounting to between $3.50 and $4.50 in small change.
The visitors came unannounced some time during the night, and gained entrance by removing some windows in the office. It was then a fairly easy matter to pay an informal call upon the cash drawer, which yielded up the souvenir of the evening for the thieves.
Everything points to the fact that the unbidden guests of the garage are youngsters who are acquainted with the lay of the land in the garage.
Such a robbery is just about an annual affair at the garage, and the identity of the visitors is not entirely unknown to Mr. Roskopf, who claims that he’d rather have such calls made in the day time, when he is around.
Another robbery is reported from the National Guard armory, as the lock on one of the automatic pistol racks has been found to be forced, and one of the pistols taken.
Just why anyone should want to take government property, which has the government stamp and serial number on it, is a question which officials are trying to solve, for these stamps make identification easy, as a record is kept of all the articles. People guilty of taking such articles face stiff punishment.
March 5, 1925
HARTINGTON - Supt. W. H. Steinbach, who is now on his fourth year as head of the Hartington public school system, was unanimously reelected to that position at a meeting of the board of education last Monday evening. Mr. Steinbach will be given a contract for another year.
Members of the board stated Monday that they were very pleased with the way things are going at the school this year, and that very satisfactory records had been made in every respect.
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