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April 16, 1940
HARTINGTON — A car driven by Miss Grace McCloud hopped the curb directly in front of Spork’s drug store and smashed into the entrance of the building. A few scratches near the door was the only result of the crash.
April 16, 1940
MAGNET— The $9,000 bond election for the purpose of building a new schoolhouse at Magnet was defeated in an election April 3.
April 16, 1940
HARTINGTON — After a prolonged delay because of inclement weather work is again going forward on the new $23,000 Holy Trinity Catholic school building on the hilltop directly across the street from the church. Cement was poured Tuesday and carpenters and electricians have been working for several weeks.
April 16, 1940
HARTINGTON — Crack marble shooters from towns in this vicinity will flock here Saturday when the preliminary round of the area marble tourney gets underway at 10 o’clock Saturday morning.
Finals will be played at 2 p.m. Four contestants from each town in the area will meet at the public school campus to play for the right to represent this area at the district “migs” contest at Norfolk April 27. Winners of the Norfolk tournament will go to the state meet at Lincoln May 4.
April 16, 1940
HARTINGTON — The new Felber Park in the northwest section of the city will be formally and fittingly dedicated at a tree-planting ceremony on Arbor Day.
April 12, 1945
HARTINGTON — Two Hartington marines lost their lives last month during the bitter fighting on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands. Both were 19 years old.
The first word received by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Giesler of their son’s death came in a letter from one of Dick’s buddies. It was dated nine days after his death. Today (Thursday) the Gieslers received a telegram from marine headquarters verifying his death.
Memorial services were held at Holy Trinity Catholic church here this morning (Thursday) for Welchert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Welchert, farmers living east of Hartington.
A paratrooper until he broke his leg in a jump last spring, Welchert had been in the marine corps since Oct. 20, 1943. Giesler had been a marine less than a year, entering the service shortly after his graduation from high school last May.
Memorial services for Pvt. Giesler will be held at Holy Trinity Catholic church here Monday morning at 10 o’clock. Rev. Frank Werthman of Butte, an uncle of the dead marine, will officiate at the requiem mass, and the American Legion Post of Hartington will conduct military rites.
April 12, 1945
COLERIDGE—Larry Dendinger, 24-year old son of Mrs. Lou J. Dendinger of Coleridge, has been reported missing in action with the United States navy. He was a ship’s service mate third class.
Word that he was missing was received by his wife, who lives with her mother in Randolph. The couple has a three-month old son whom the father has never seen.
Dendinger joined the navy in June, 1942, and has seen considerable service in the Pacific. He has a brother, James, who is also in the navy, and two sisters, Mrs. Maurine Winkelbauer of Omaha and Mrs. Wilma Brennan of Coleridge.
April 16, 1950
HARTINGTON — One of every three persons killed by fire is a farm resident.
The National Fire Protection Association singles out this fact as one of the most important reasons rural residents should adopt the Spring Clean Up program for greater fire safety.
April 16, 1950
ST. HELENA — It is a long way from St. Helena to Camp Haugen, Japan, but an egg produced in St. Helena made the trip.
Francis Wiepen wrote his name on an egg in October, 1949, giving his address in St. Helena, March 5, as Jimmy Berry of Dallas, Texas, army cook was preparing breakfast, he saw the name on an egg he was about to break.
