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1980: Firemen called out for fire in corn picker

Nov. 5, 1970

LAUREL- The Laurel band received an excellent rating at the State Marching Band Contest in Lincoln.

Nov. 5, 1970

LAUREL- Steve Erwin, a senior at Laurel High School has been selected as one of the best 100 basketball players in the United States.

Nov. 5, 1970

COLERIDGE — A crew of friends and neighbors joined together to pick 100 acres of corn at the Darrell Nordby farm Thursday using 12 corn pickers. Mr. Nordby is hospitalized at the Veterans Hospital in Omaha following an auto accident on July 7, north of Wayne.

Assisting were: Jim Specht; Oran Brodersen; Don Huss; Harold Dirks and Steve; Ralph Felber; Lee Wolfe; Sylvan Olsen; Ray Kalin, Bobby and Richard; Donavon Hahne and Roger; Marion Bayne; Don Holcomb; Roger Jorgensen; John Burke; Vincent Burke; Gerald Smith; Gordon Janssen; Don Polak; Danny Fiscus; Steve and Glen Nordby; Fred Kock; Ernest Janssen; Orlyn Frerichs; Harold Flom; Irvin Hahne; Claire Janssen; Gary Anderson; Warren Janssen; Kevin Gary and LeRoy; Virgil Bayne and Randy; John Pfund; Glen Milander; Leonard Feuerbach; Melvin Rathgeber, Eugene and Larry; Cliff Milander; Bill Milander; Howard Anderson; Marvin Ropte; Raymond Christiansen; Alfred Meng; Ralph Kunze; Joe Schaefer; and Emery Hoesing.

Nov. 5, 1970

COLERIDGE — Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Bailey moved into their mobile home in Coleridge last Monday.

Nov. 5, 1980

COLERIDGE — Coleridge Firemen were called to the Gerald Smith farm west of Coleridge late Friday afternoon where a tractor with a mounted corn picker was on fire. Much damage was done to the tractor’s wiring and hoses.

Nov. 5, 1980

COLERIDGE — Paul Wemhoff, who farms west of Coleridge where his combine had caught fire, called the Fire Department out Monday. The fire was under control by the time firemen arrived. A short in the wiring was believed to be the cause.

Nov. 6, 1980

LAUREL- Mr. and Mrs. Larry Carlson are the parents of a daughter, Karissa Dawn, born Oct. 29.


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