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April 23, 1930
LAUREL — Pioneer lady of the county, Mrs. S.C. Jensen, passed away at her home in Laurel April 16, lacking at the time of her death just three days of being 82.
April 23, 1930
LAUREL — Last Thursday evening during the blinding snowstorm, Wallie Youngberg and Slim Johnson were on their way to this city from a business trip to Norfolk when about three miles south of Wayne they hit another car, throwing their car into the ditch and badly damaged both machines. Luckily no one was injured in the accident caused by blinding snow.
April 23, 1930
LAUREL — Rev. Skanderup, who has been pastor of the Danish Lutheran Church in this city for several years, preached his farewell sermon last Sunday and on Monday he and his family left for Moore, Alberta, Canada, where they will make their home.
Rev. Knut Lar-advocate; Oscar Kardell, chaplain; Jim Campbell, sergeant; Glenn Morten, Otto Carstensen and Harold Burns, trustees.
April 24, 1940
LAUREL — Rev. James E. Harris, pastor of the local Presbyterian Church, was elected moderator of the Niobrara Presbytery.
April 24, 1940
LAUREL — Sterling B. Stage of Laurel, freshman in the college of business administration and Reuben L. Silver, sophomore in the college of engineering at the University of Nebraska, were two of 632 students who were recently honored for high scholarship at the 12th annual honors convocation.
April 12, 1945
LAUREL—Pfc. Gail Carmen, who is stationed at Fort Jackson, S.C., writes his mother, Mrs.
Bertha Carmen of Laurel, that he is now one of the guards of a German prison camp there. Pfc.
Carmen recently spent a furlough at home after two years at Kodiak, Alaska.
April 12, 1945
BELDEN — Farming in the South Pacific is “a little on the old fashioned side,” according to Lester R. McLain, E. M. 1/c, who is stationed on an island in that area with the Seabees.
In a recent letter home, he wrote: “I expect you are getting ready to start farm work. Quite a lot of the natives have farms around here, but they are a little on the old fashioned side. They use water buffaloes to do a lot of their work. The rest is hand labor.”
McLain, who had a fungus disease on his hands, reported he was much better and had a new job as camp electrician. “I work at night and just have to sort of keep things going,” he said.
“I was over to see Laurence Frerichs (of Coleridge) today and one of the guys in his tent had some pop corn that his folks sent him. We popped it and it really tasted good.”
McLain, who has been in the Seabees three years, part of which time he spent in Attu, wrote that he had seen Ernie Pyle, famous war correspondent, who is now in the Pacific.
April 12, 1945
LAUREL—Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Maloney from their son, Seaman 1/C James Maloney, that he is now training aboard a motor torpedo boat, stationed at Milledgeville, R. I.
