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Dec. 6, 1945
RANDOLPH - Discharges were received by S/ Sgt. Lawrence Hosch, Cpl Lloyd T. Larsen, Lt. Robert H. Bowles, S/Sgt. Phleet Hash, Lt. Frank Buchanan.
For the first time in nine years, all the children of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Hosch were at home for a reunion.
Emanuel E. Dotson, 85, who had been a continuous resident of the Wareham community since 1887, died at his home.
Dec. 6, 1945
RANDOLPH - Mrs. S. O. Black moved to her apartment above the veterinarian offices. The Howard Blacks have bought her acreage and will move there soon.
Dec. 6, 1945
RANDOLPH - Mrs. Alva Miller took a position as teacher of the upper grades in the Sholes schools.
Dec. 6, 1945
RANDOLPH - A heavy rain with several periods of lightning and thunder brought .61 inches of precipitation.
Dec. 7, 1950
RANDOLPH - The sight of the right eye of Bobby Backer, seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Backer, was saved and the sight will be unimpaired, Sioux City doctors said this week after treating the child for a serious cut to the eye, sustained at his home when he and his brothers were playing with a jack-knife. The injury occurred Nov. 28.
He was taken to a Sioux City hospital the next day and was brought home Monday from the hospital and is getting along satisfactorily.
Dec. 7, 1950
RANDOLPH - Marilyn Lenzen, Bernice Spader and Joan Dendinger and Janelle Colling, St. Frances high school students, who are on the staff of the Chantalette, school publication, and their two faculty advisors, Sr. Digne and Sr. Felice, attended the 24th annual conference of the National Scholastic Press Association and National Association of Journalism Directors held November 24 and 25 at Chicago. The meetings were in Hotel Stevens.
Featured at the convention was the appearance of Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Pulitzer prize-winning foreign correspondent and author, who gave the featured address on “Where Are We Going in Foreign Affairs?”. Another address, “Your World and You” by Max Gilstrap, Chief of the Chicago Bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, was also a feature. Sectional meetings were held, and the Randolph group attended the sessions with special emphasis on sports, features and editorials. Sr. Digne and Sr. Felice attended the advisor’s luncheon held Friday.
The group also spent some time sightseeing. They visited the Board of Trade, and attended a lecture and film at the Planetarium, and visited the Chicago art museum and the Shedd Aquarium. They went to Milwaukee for a brief stay and visited the Mother House of the School Sisters of St. Francis at St. Joseph’s convent. At the Institute at St. Mary’s Hill they were present at the performance of an amateur program presented by the postulants and aspirants of the convent.
Dec. 7, 1950
RANDOLPH - Albert Borst, Lawrence Kalvelage and Orville Brandt returned recently from a deer hunting trip in Wisconsin, bringing home with them two deer, a six-point buck and a doe.
The men hunted at Stanley, Wis., and spent seven days there.
Dec. 7, 1950
RANDOLPH - The annual Pierce county 4-H Achievement day was held at the Osmond city hall on Friday, November 24, when 225 club members and their families gathered for the event which closed their 1950 activities.
Awards were presented to leaders of clubs and various awards were made to the club members.
Arlen Robinson of Randolph won the award for Boys 4-H Achievement and was presented a special award by the Schmitz Hardware of Osmond, as was Vivian Meierhenry, who won the award for Girls 4-H Achievement.
Winners of Pierce county 4-H medals were Lillian Broekemeier, cooking; Rolanda Hoffman, clothing; Vivian Meierhenry, dress revue. Twila Riley, Rolanda Hoffman, Virginia Webb, Elaine Buss, Joan Brummond and Mary Ann Thelen, dress revue.
Delores Huwaldt of Randolph won the medal for meat animal, and Larry Robinson of Randolph for beef. Deloris Stonacek, poultry, and George Swanda, home grounds, were other medal winners.
Mary Jo Polt led the group in square dancing, and group singing was led by Arlen Robinson. Movies of national 4-H camp activities and Five C clubs of Cuba were shown. Lunch was served, the Osmond Community club donating part of the lunch.
