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April 9, 1915
HARTINGTON — Easter Sunday marked the opening day for the Oliver Grove Sunday School, which had been discontinued for some time on account of the deep snow. Sunday School will be held at Oliver Grove every Sunday from here on at the usual time.
April 9, 1915
HARTINGTON — Twenty-three locals of the Farmer’s Union met at the K of C Banquet Hall Friday, April 2, and a County organization was perfected under direction of state organizer O.E. Wood of Lincoln. The following officers were named: E.W. Childs, President, Hartington; H.M Holcomb, vice president; Hartington; R.B. Stafford, secretary and treasurer, Coleridge; H.P. Jensen, director, Wynot; Peter Schmitt, director, Hartington; Herman Korff, director, Hartington.
April 9, 1915
HARTINGTON — The Hartington City Council met in regular session.
The Council canvassed the election returns from the April 6 election. It appearing that Anton Walz for Mayor, W.H. Pohle for city clerk, R.G. Mason for city treasurer, J.D. Clair Smith for city engineer, S.H. Morten for Councilman First Ward, and M.E. Eby for Councilman Second Ward. Each had the highest number of votes cast for said offices, so they were each declared elected.
The Council designated April 2021 as Clean Up Days in Hartington.
April 9, 1915
HARTINGTON — Last Saturday, three good Samaritans — William, Frank and Emil Heimes — came in and paid Thorwald Jensen’s fine and costs, $65.55, and Judge Bryant told the jailer to unlock the prison doors. Jensen is to work for the Heimes brothers to liquidate. He has been in jail 15 days and the judge refused to count anything off his fine.
The judge says, in the first place, the law is made for people who cannot pay their fines; in the second place, he says, the law does not apply when a man is confined under city ordinance.
Buying a half pint of whiskey for John Gustafson will cost Thorwald Jensen nearly three months of valuable time.
April 9, 1925
HARTINGTON — Another angle of the shortage in the accounts of County Treasurer Martin Nelson dating from the robbery of his office two years ago was brought forth when Mr. Nelson filed a suit in the district court against Adolph E. Matson, his former deputy, and the National Surety company to secure the amount of the shortage, $1,872.20.
In his petition Mr. Nelson states that he was elected county treasurer for four years to commence from Jan. 4, 1923. As county treasurer he appointed Mr. Matson as his deputy for one year, the appointment becoming effective on Jan. 16, 1923, when the county commissioners approved the bond for $5,000 given by Mr. Matson with the National Surety company as his surety. The petition states one point in the bond was Deputy Matson should exercise all reasonable diligence in the preservation, care and lawful disposal of all money coming into his hands.
The petition then states between July 19, 1923, and Sept. 20, 1923, Deputy Matson was in charge of the office, due to the illness of Treasurer Nelson. It also states during that time the sum of $1,872.20 came into Deputy Matson’s hands, that sum of money has never been accounted for to the plaintiff, and the plaintiff has been charged with that amount.
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