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Oct. 14, 1920
HARTINGTON - A Salvation Army drive for Cedar County’s quota of $2,454 will be made next week.
Oct. 14, 1925
LAUREL - Cal Hogel has recently had a house built on his truck to house his popcorn machine, and is now located on the corner by Ray’s meat market.
Mr. Hogle had the popper at Lo-Val lake all summer. With J. D. West’s popcorn wagon on the corner by the old Laufel National bank building, and F. W. Larson’s machine in the auditorium, our people should be well served with popcorn and they all seem to be doing a good business.
Oct. 14, 1925
LAUREL - It was with deepest sorrow that we learned of the passing of our beloved friend and townsman, Dr. James C. Hay, last Monday morning.
Like a tired mariner, worn out by a night of storms and buffeted by wind and wave, he gladly hailed the dawn and calm and set his course toward the glorious sunrise, drifting from our earthly sight to the shores of eternal morning. Life’s voyage is ended for he has cast anchor in the harbor of peace and found eternal rest.
His span of life covering almost sixty-five years was filled to overflowing with honest toil, self-sacrificing service, solid achievement, interspersed with more true friendships than with honors, which made earthly joys more real and sorrows more easily borne. He was born October 31st, 1860, near Paisley, Ontario, Canada, and died at his home in Laurel, Nebraska, October 12th, 1925. He attended country school, graduated from the high school at Walkerton, Ontario, Canada, and attended the normal school for two years receiving a teacher’s life certificate. For seven years he followed the profession of teaching and at the same time studying to prepare himself for the practice of medicine. He studied medicine for three years at Trinity Medical College, Toronto, and one year at Winnipeg University, from which institution he received the degree of doctor of medicine. He first practiced at Hamilton, N.D., where he met Miss Catherine Thacker, who became his wife in 1898. To this union two children were born, Helen Jean and William Edwin. Before coming to Laurel, he practiced for a short time in Belden. Since 1897, a period of twenty-eight years, he has practiced his chosen profession among us. He was the fourth child in a family of eight children all of whom preceded him in death, save one brother, Arthur G. Hay.
Oct. 17, 1935
LAUREL - The cheerful music of golden ears of corn hitting the bangboard begins to be heard in the fields of Cedar County as farmers get under way in harvesting the corn crop. This was revealed to members of the newspaper’s survey party Monday on a drive which took them north of town.
There were only a few farmers picking corn at that early hour; but conditions were perfect and indications were that the harvest would commence on a large scale in a short time.
The corn is mature, the stalks dead and withered and the corn pickers are a picturesque sight as they drive their teams hitched to a boxwagon equipped with a bangboard through the rows, which reach to the tips of the horses’ ears.
While there is a vast acreage of corn in this territory, the yield will not be as large as was at first hoped or expected. The size of the crop and the number of ears would suggest possibly a yield of bumper proportions; but this is not the case. Between 20 and 25 bushels to the acre on the average or about half a crop seems to be the general estimate as nearly as The Herald can ascertain.
Reasons for this reduced production have been fully set forth in previous articles, including hot winds at a critical stage, smut and worms. Of course, the yield will vary considerably according to the location.
