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Oct. 29, 1925
HARTINGTON - Shower baths were installed last week in the gymnasium at the Hartington high school.
There are two rooms which can be used for the purpose, and two showers were installed in each room.
A 250-gallon tank will furnish water for the baths. These baths will be very useful to the members of the football squad after practices and games. After the football season, they will be used by the girls after their basketball practices and physical training.
Oct. 29, 1925
HARTINGTON - One of the very interesting and profitable projects used in a Cedar County school this year has been developed at one of the schools in District 38, where Miss Reta Kuhl is the teacher, as the pupils of the first, second and third grades there have finished building and furnishing a “Miniature Education Store.”
Pete Musander, an eighth grade boy, built the shelves for the store, while different companies and corporations sent, upon request, some school store provisions. Every Wednesday morning, time is allowed to play “store.” This project has not only created a great deal of interest among the pupils, but the parents and patrons have been helping in every way to make the “store” a success.
Excellent instruction is afforded thru the “store” in arithmetic, grammar, thrift, marketing, spelling, geography and safety instruction, so the project is considered very much worth while.
This school also has some unusually good autumn decorations, made by the pupils. The windows and curtains have been decorated with different colored leaves. Pumpkins, apples, black cats and owls have been cut out of paper and pasted on the windows. In one corner of the school room a small tent made of corn stalks and leaves is being erected. The children are bringing pumpkins, ears of corn, apples, potatoes and other things raised on their own farms to school, and all these will be scattered around the tent. The decorations certainly give the school the appearance of autumn.
Oct. 29, 1925
HARTINGTON - Lou Eby, the postmaster of Hartington, has a peculiar preference: breaking records for producing large vegetables or eggs. This seemingly harmless hobby not only takes the joy out of life for those who believe they have prize winners but also disrupts the delicate balance of the community. So when he heard that Rev. H. H. Smrckelson, pastor of the United Brethren church at Logan Center near Laurel, had raised a mangel-wurzel beet that weighed 17 pounds, Lou immediately went out in his garden and dug one up that weighed exactly 20 pounds.
The big beet which Lou raised must be a blood relation to the famous “beet” on which three policemen were found asleep. It looks as though it had started out to imitate the growth of one of the big trees in California, but after getting about halfway there had become somewhat discouraged because of lack of room, its brothers and sisters on all sides having been doing some growing also.
Lou raises these beets for feed for his flock of chickens, which have already made some records for laying big eggs. If they are fed beets of this size, it’s a wonder that they haven’t produced larger eggs than they have.
There’s no secret in raising these big beets, Mr. Eby says, for his success lies in the fact that the ground in his garden is so fertile.
As proof of this, he tells about some cucumbers he planted last summer. He knew from past experiences that the ground was very rich, so after preparing the place for the cucumbers, he threw the seed on it and started to run.
The seed took root, and the cucumber vines grew so fast that they caught up with Lou as he was racing to get away from them.
The vines became entangled with his feet, tripping him and throwing him to the ground. He reached into his pocket to get his knife, so that he could cut himself loose, and to his surprise pulled out a ripe cucumber.
Oct. 29, 1925
HARTINGTON - Patrons of the Basket Grocery, whose destinies are presided over by L. A. Nelson, will have to get out of the habit of calling at the old place of business soon, for Mr. Nelson is to open his store in the fine new building south of the Cedar County State bank next Monday morning.
Work is being rushed this week to get the building ready by the time the moving is done, which will occupy about a day.
The big windows in the front have not been put in yet, but many of the interior furnishings have been installed during the week. The new site will give Mr. Nelson an ideal location for his store, the building having been put up especially for a grocery store.
