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March 23, 1950
LINCOLN — Fred Zimmer was elected as the new head of the Neb. Press Association.
March 23, 1950
HARTINGTON— A contract for the paving of highway 84 east and west through the city of Hartington was awarded to the Abel Construction Co., of Lincoln at a meeting in Lincoln Thursday. The company’s bid of $78,925.96 was the lowest of three received on the work and was approximately $8,000 below the engineer’s estimate. Work on the project will be started about May 1, the company has advised city officials. The project involves about 10 blocks of pavement on Franklin street, from the Jordan Oil Station east to the Olson Service Station. The pavement will be 8 inches thick and 39 feet wide and will include curb and gutter.
March 30, 1950
HARTINGTON-The Hartington junior high cheer leaders won the cheer leading championship at the recent Belden tourney. The girls who brought home the bacon to Hartington were Virginia Wagner, Darlene Israelson, Kay Sutton, and Marilyn Gildersleeve. The group was sponsored by Mrs. Marcella Nedrow.
March 30, 1950
HARTINGTON — The Hartington high speech department under the direction of Miss Reta Graham took double honors during the past week.
They captured the county championship and followed Saturday in the top ranking in the Class B district speech and drama contest.
March 30, 1950
HARTINGTON — Howard Mathers of Hartington has been awarded a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Aviation by Western University of San Diego, Calif.
March 30, 1950
HARTINGTON— High waters on several creeks in this area damaged bridges and approaches in several locations the past week and interrupted highway and railroad traffic. Rains have not operated on the Omaha railroad line between Wakefield and Crofton since last Wednesday because run-off waters damaged bridges east of Concord and north of Laurel.
Repair work is underway on both structures but it probably will be another week before a train can be in Hartington. Cars loaded with merchandise for Hartington and other nearby points are being unloaded at Wakefield and Wayne and the contents brought here by truck. Highway 12 in the vicinity of Wynot was impassible the last week because of high water in Bow Creek, which flooded the highway in several places. Bridges on several county roads have been damaged by high water and some are not in a useable condition, but are being repaired by county bridge crews as rapidly as possible. Dirt roads have dried considerably the past two days and most country routes should be passable by the weekend.
March 24, 1965
HARTINGTON— The Hartington Volunteer Fire Department has answered three calls in the past few days.
The first call came about 10 a.m.
Friday from the Joe Sudbeck farm home, one mile east of Fordyce when a chimney became over heated and began to burn. The blaze was soon curbed with little or no damage to the home.
The second call came from the Gerald Miller home in northwest Hartington about six o’clock Friday evening. The call came in after a deep fat fryer temperature control failed to function and the appliance exploded.
Gerald received second-degree burns on his left hand and arm when he tossed the burning fryer outside.
