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Oct. 4, 1900
HARTINGTON — The Knox County fight for relocation of the County Seat is still waging. The last vote gave Center 140, Bloomfield 1088 and Niobrara 422.
Oct. 8, 1925
RANDOLPH - Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leiting have the sincere sympathy of friends in the death of their baby son, Melvin, aged 13 months and 7 days. The little boy had been ill from pneumonia, a hemorrhage followed and this caused death on last Friday morning, Oct. 2, at the family home west of Randolph. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church Monday morning at 9 o’clock.
Those from a distance who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Leiting of Arcadia, Iowa, parents of Frank Leiting; Henry Leiting of Halbur, Iowa; Mrs. Clem Schrad, Mrs. John Sanders, Ben Leiting and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Leiting all of Arcadia.
“Our deepest gratitude goes out to neighbors and friends who were so kind and who did so much for us during the illness and after the death of our beloved boy,” said Frank Leting.
“Be assured your kindness will be lovingly remembered,” he said.
Oct. 8, 1925
RANDOLPH - Randolph people will remember a tramp piano player who was in town a few months ago for a day or two, a queer acting fellow, nervous and jerky and shifty eyed. He was a wonder with the piano and made his living begging and playing. A dispatch from Spencer, S. D., is as follows: A bit of human wreckage drifting about South Dakota was temporarily lodged in the city jail.
The man who gave his name as Bennett and claimed to come from Oregon, first attracted attention by his marvelous piano playing. He dropped into a restaurant, sat at the piano and began to play. His performance was applauded, but it did not seem to satisfy him. He strode out of and after a few minutes returned and began to play again. This time his performance, if not classical, was masterful. He wove three distinct melodies into one number and executed popular pieces with the ability of Snodgrass.
It is now supposed that he was under the influence of drugs while he gave his recital.
Oct. 8, 1925
RANDOLPH - Labor day is no longer a holiday in Nebraska, so far as the legal business is concerned, and all city, county and district courts will operate on that day the same as usual, this year, and each year in the future, as the legislature cut down the number of legal holidays in the state, and this was one of the ones that were eliminated.
Other days that have been observed as holidays, but which will not be recognized in Nebraska in the future are: Columbus Day, Armistice Day, Washington’s birthday, Lincoln’s birthday and Arbor day.
The holidays were abolished in this state, because it was felt there were too many times in the year holidays interfered with regular business.
Oct. 8,1925
RANDOLPH - Fighting hard from start to finish on a muddy field with a wet ball, Randolph edged out with a six to nothing victory over the orange and black visitors from Laurel. The game was mostly a matter of the first team to take advantage of a break which Randolph did in the first part of the second quarter when Allison received a short pass juggled it and ran for a touchdown.
On the toss up Andrews, the Maroon captain, lost, and Randolph kicked to Laurel. They made one or two first downs before Randolph could stop them but as soon as Randolph got the ball Allison bucked the line for five yards, Hanssen hit right tackle twice for gains, and Allison smashed the line again for a three yard gain and first down. A ten yard pass from Manzer to Hanssen was incomplete, Andrews ran right end without gain, Allison hit the line for three yards, and Hanssen failed to gain off tackle giving the ball to Laurel. The rest of the quarter and the first of the next quarter was a see-saw in the center of the field until Allison catching a pass after it had been touched by two Laurel opponents, darted down the field 40 yards for a touchdown.
Randolph then kicked off to Laurel. They failed to gain on three downs and punted, but was blocked by Andrews. Cain recovered and was downed.
