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Oct. 21, 1920
RANDOLPH - Most of the duck hunters returned home Monday bringing with them quite a few of the feathered tribe. They claim that it does not hurt a duck hunter to get wet.
Oct. 21, 1920
MAGNET - Saturday evening a bright little baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Cox.
Oct. 21, 1920
MAGNET - Leroy Gillilan was looking after business interests at the county seat Tuesday.
Oct. 21, 1920
MAGNET - It is now Judge C. F. Cotton, he having been recently appointed justice of the peace by the county commissioners. Now look out for the speeders.
Oct. 21, 1920
MAGNET - John McCarroll and Pete Anderson went to Omaha Wednesday to buy cattle to help dispose of their surplus corn.
Oct. 21, 1920
SHOLES - George Feddern, a former Sholes citizen, now of Hugo, Colorado, is in the community this week dealing in western Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado lands.
Oct. 24, 1935
RANDOLPH - Dee Wilson Post American Legion have named new officers for the coming year as follows: Commander, J. W. Anderson; 1st vice commander, C. W. Hughes; 2nd vice commander, Frank Herman; finance officer, Dr. L. T. Peebles; Adjutant, A. E. LeClair; service officer, Dr. Peebles; sergeant, Dr. S. S. Gibson.
The local Legion membership roll stands at 57, which is seven more than its quota of 50 and five more than last year.
Dee Wilson Post holds the membership record for Nebraska, the Randolph post having filled or exceeded its membership quota for six consecutive years, including membership for 1936. This record is unexcelled in the state, the nearest approach being one post that has for three years filled or exceeded its quota.
The Legion auxiliary, a very active organization in Randolph, has named new officers as follows: Mrs. Peebles, president; Mrs. Bonnet, vice president; Mrs. Carhart, chaplain; Mrs. Effie Nelson, historian, and Mrs. O. O. Reed, secretary-treasurer.
Oct. 24, 1940
RANDOLPH - Three Randolph men, Ed Gerber, Ralph Westadt and Harold Korth, placed in the Cedar County Corn Husking contest held last Thursday, October 17, at the Magnus Hansen farm one mile east of Laurel. Sponsoring the contest this year was the Laurel Commercial Club, with the following committee of Laurel businessmen in charge of arrangements: George Berglund, general superintendent and chairman; Hubert Fleer and Clarence Riemers.
Each precinct was given an opportunity to select a contestant after a tryout in that precinct, and the contestant and committeeman from each precinct were expected to furnish two gleaners and a referee for the county contest.
Dick Kramer of Hartington won the contest this year husking 28.93 bushels of corn that weighed 2025.60 pounds. Herbert Abts of Belden, the county champion in 1938 who took 11th place in the state contest at Madison that year, won second place. Harold Korth of Randolph, who placed first in the 1937 contest and second in the 1938 contest, placed fourth in the contest this year, and Ed Gerber, winner of last year’s championship crown, placed 8th this year.
Other placements were: Lester Forsberg, Laurel, third; Glen Milander, Hartington, fifth; Paul Pockett, Laurel, sixth; John Bargstadt, Hartington, seventh; LeRoy Voss, Laurel, ninth; Walter Hames, Crofton, tenth; Oliver Thiekle, Hartington, 11th; Ivan Kramer, Hartington, 12th; Dalph Westadt, Randolph, 13th; Joe Brandl, Coleridge, 14th; Martin Kramer, Hartington, 15th; and H. J. Asbra, instructor F. F. Johnson has announced that students of the F.F.A. at R.H.S. will conduct their second annual boar sale next Saturday afternoon, October 26, at the Randolph ball park. Mr. Johnson states that forty choice registered boars, of superior grade, have been selected for this event and includes six Hampshires, 18 Durocs and sixteen Spots. A number of these boars have won Grand Championships at Junior and county fairs.
Oct. 24, 1940
RANDOLPH - Pupils of the schools taught by Misses Jean Boughn and Agnes Koeppe united last Friday afternoon at the latter’s schoolhouse for a Historical Hour, conducted in an informal manner and illustrated with early-day pictures of Randolph and this vicinity.
The hour was presented by the two instructors as part of the study of local history of which the pupils have been engaging in during the past number of weeks. The uniting of the two schools for the occasion gave the students a more interesting and instructive program, and afforded them the chance of hearing tales of early-day history “first hand.”
John Boughn, one of Randolph’s best historians on local early-day happenings, appeared as the main speaker of the afternoon and told the history of Randolph and other sections of the county describing the growth of this vicinity. Students found Mr. Boughn most alert to their many questions concerning this vicinity, and enjoyed hearing first-hand information of historic spots such as the old Boughn Hotel.
Also appearing on the program was Carl Thaden who gave many accounts of his experiences during the early days around Randolph. Pictures were passed around showing main street of Randolph during its first year of existence. This picture has been in the Boughn collection of old scenes of Randolph and vicinity, and is now owned by Miss Jean Boughn. Other pictures showed the first school house of Belden, and scenes of Cedar county.
Oct. 24, 1940
RANDOLPH - Randolph found itself crowded with eager hunters for the first day’s sport, both local cafes being jammed during the noon hour and unable to care for the crowds which gathered for a meal before returning to their war on pheasants. Birds were plentiful, the hunters reported, despite the weather which sent temperatures soaring to near the 90 mark in most sections of the state. Northeast Nebraska seemed to be the most popular hunting ground, many Omaha, Fremont and Lincoln hunters reporting they had their limit before noon.
State game officials Monday estimated that 200,000 pheasants were killed by approximately 65,000 hunters over the state of Nebraska when the hunting season opened in shirt-sleeve weather Sunday. In and around Randolph reports vary as to the success of hunting opening day. Hunters in general reported good luck Sunday morning but below average during the afternoon as they trampled over fields in this vicinity harassed by a blazing October sun.
One hunter died of heat stroke and eight others were accidently shot as the season opened, all reported injuries occurring in this section of the state. The hunter who died from heat stroke was H. C. McLain of Lincoln who collapsed at Primrose.
