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March 27, 1940
DIXON — The Tom Duffy home at Dixon burned to the ground Tuesday of last week. Considerable furniture was lost in the fire.
March 29, 1950
LAUREL — The weather in this area has been everything unexpected this last week. To sum it up, there has been snow, rain, sleet, dust and wind. Everything except hail.
March 29, 1950
LAUREL — It was announced the first of the week that Marie’s Cafe owned and operated by Mary Frigge has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. William Ahntholz of Tripp, South Dakota.
March 29, 1950
LAUREL — Mrs. Jerry Hish, Laurel dramatics teacher is to be commended for efforts in starting the first Cedar County declam contest which was held in the high school auditorium recently.
March 29, 1950
LAUREL — Winners of the actor and actress award presented at the one-act play elimination contest were: Lyla Paulson, honorable mention; Dotty Ronspies, best actress; Eugene Church, best actor and Boyd Reynolds, honorable mention. Superior winners were Barbara Davis, Paulson, JoAnn Chederquist and Lois Ann Miner.
March 29, 1950
LAUREL — Rev. and Mrs. Wright and Terry, Boyd Reynolds and Margaret Forsberg attended the subdistrict Rally of the Methodist Youth at Carroll.
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 30, 1950
COLERIDGE — The Fire Department answered a call to the Collins Garage Thursday afternoon where a car had caught fire from sparks from a welding torch. Damage to the car was minor. The car belonged to Don Anderson.
March 30, 1950
COLERIDGE — Frederick Otto Kalin, 50, son of Martin and Mary Kalin, died March 25, following a week’s illness.
He was born Aug. 5, 1900, at Wisner. He moved with his parents to a farm west of Coleridge when he was four years old. He was married to Margaret Kurtzhals at Coleridge Feb.
18, 1936.
Mr. Kalin operated a filling station here from 1922-1948 and since that time he had operated a tank wagon service.
March 30, 1950
COLERIDGE — Students of the Coleridge High School have recently organized a Camera Club.
Dean Holcomb was elected president and Virginia Hinrichs, secretary at the first meeting Feb. 28.
So far 29 students have enrolled in the Club. The main object of the Club is to create interest in photography and give the students the opportunity to learn how to develop and print pictures.
The students have at their disposal school equipment, under supervision. The only cost to members of the Club is the cost of the paper for printing pictures.
Over 25 rolls of film have been developed and more than 250 pictures printed. Russell Pedersen is sponsor of the club.
