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Sept. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH - On Thursday, the 16th, the wild duck season opened and the sand hill lakes will sound like the siege of Verdun. Randolph duck hunters are out at the lakes and we are expecting the boys to make some good bags.
Among those we hear of as on the hunting grounds are: Wm. Eike, W. W. Hammond, Frank Gishpert, L. V. DeVore, V. L. Gibson, L. A. Hammond, Douglas Myers, F. W. Robinsin and son Bilsie, C. L. Graves and Ray Grant.
Sept. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH - E. W. Leicy, N. H. Dowling, John McClain and John Ellis will start Saturday for the National G. A. R. Encampment at Indianapolis. We don’t think the old boys in blue would take anything that they couldn’t move, but we advise you to lock your hen house.
Sept. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH - The Randolph Wildcats played Laurel Sunday at the latter place, winning 8 to 7, in a close contest. The Wildcats battery was Newberry, Lobdell and Scott. Aeeriter for the Wildcats featured with the stick getting a three bagger and a two bagger. On the former he attempted to stretch it into a home run, but was caught at the plate.
In his long run and hard effort he ran into the Laurel catcher and hurt him. The accident, for it was such, caused the Laurlites to want to mob the visitors.
The game at Wausa drew a big crowd, many from here saying it was the largest crowd and most autos they had seen for a long time.
Bloomfield won the game 7 to 6 in the first half of the ninth. Baird for Wausa and Cook for Bloomfield, hurled good ball. The Bloomfield catcher couldn’t hold Cook and allowed a few runs, so Hathaway of Niobrara was put behind the bat and played a fine game, assisting in the winning. Milo Brown of this city was the chief worker with the bat for Wausa, getting four hits out of five times up, one of them a home run.
Sept. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH - Tuesday morning papers brought the word that U.G. Bridenbaugh, prominent Coleridge citizen, had leaped from the bridge at Omaha into the Missouri river and lost his life.
The Omaha Bee account is as follows: “U. G. Bridenbaugh, 56, retired banker of Coleridge, Neb., leaped to his death yesterday afternoon from the Douglas street bridge into the Missouri river.
“Mr. Bridenbaugh, who had been confined at the St. Bernard’s hospital in Council Bluffs for the past two months, is thought to have suffered a relapse and escaped from his nurse, Miss Nancy Fogg.
The nurse and Oscar Fleming, a hospital attendant, had taken Mr. Bridenbaugh and another patient to an Omaha theater.
“The body of the suicide victim has not been recovered.
“How the man escaped from his nurse has not been learned. Authorities at St. Bernards hospital had not learned of Mr. Bridenbaugh’s death until Omaha detectives informed them.
“Identification was made through a letter addressed to Dr. Frank T. Seybert found in a coat left on the railing of the bridge by the suicide before he climbed to a water barrel and took the fatal leap.
“Mrs. E. L. McGuire, 1706 Fourth avenue, and Mrs. W. E. Murphy, 2100 Avenue A, both of Council Bluffs, saw the man leap from the bridge as they were crossing in an automobile. Mrs. McGuire screamed.
The man turned his head, shouted, ‘I am going!’ and hurled himself into the water.
“The two women sped to Central police station and reported the affair. R. Allen, tollman, 2924 Avenue B, Council Bluffs, saw the man climb to the railing, but too late to prevent him from taking the leap, he said.
“Mr. Bridenbaugh had recovered sufficiently to be released from St. Bernards hospital, Council Bluffs, within two more weeks, Dr. Frank T. Seybert of Council Bluffs, who had been attending the man, told Detectives Trapp and Wavrin. Overwork caused his demented condition, Dr. Seybert said.”
