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Dec. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH - Mrs. Herman Menska, 34, of McLean passed peacefully away at her home Tuesday afternoon. Surviving are her husband and four children.
Dec. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH -A drive is in progress, sponsored by the Cedar County Red Cross, to raise funds to aid the starving children in Europe.
Dec. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH — The McLean Community Club enjoyed a feed and a fine program at their December meeting last Monday evening. Fully 150 were in attendance.
Dec. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH - Clark Blizzard has been using a cane the past week due to an injured ankle. The injury happened when he jumped from the engine base at the light plant.
Dec. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH - Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Van Slyke were honored when a group of friends and relatives gathered at their home on Sunday to help them celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Dec. 16, 1920
RANDOLPH - The Randolph Choral Society will present “The Messiah” at the M. E. church Sunday evening, Dec. 26.
Dec. 17, 1925
RANDOLPH — E. B. Stewart sustained painful burns Tuesday night while keeping the home fires burning at his home on the Eastside. The fire was rather dormant for a mid-December night so E. B. stirred it up with a poker and as he did so accumulated gases burst into sudden flames and puffed out in a miniature explosion.
Mr. Stewart’s hands and arms received painful surface burns, his face was scorched some, even though his head was out of the direct line of the puffing flames, his eyebrows were singed and altogether the explosion was far from pleasant.
Dec. 17, 1925
RANDOLPH - Mrs. A. J. Abts returned last week from her trip to Bellingham, Wash., surprising the home folks who rather expected her to stay another week. Mr. Abts saw her son Albert, who is with a law firm at Portland.
Dec. 17, 1925
RANDOLPH - Three youths, Johnny Bargstadt, Herbert Carsen and William Korth, who live near Pierce, were injured in an automobile accident that occurred Sunday morning shortly after 1 o’clock about two blocks east of the filling station at Pierce on the Norfolk-Pierce road.
Young Carsen suffered injuries to his skull, and was taken to a Norfolk hospital where he regained consciousness about 5:30 o’clock the same afternoon, after having been senseless over sixteen hours. An X-Ray has been taken of his skull but it is not thought that he has received a fracture. His injuries are serious.
Bargstadt received a compound fracture of his shoulder blade and painful bruises and cuts. Korth had a fortunate escape, sustaining only a fracture of a bone in the big toe of his left foot.
In an attempt to pass around a motionless Cedar county car that was parked along the side of the road, the right front fender on the car in which the boys were riding caught the left hind wheel of the parked auto. Due to the speed at which the youths were traveling, their car turned over, pinning them underneath. Carsen, who was riding in the front seat, was struck on the head by the side of the machine as it rolled over. Occupants of the motionless car were not injured, but a wheel was broken when the machine was knocked into the ditch.
Dec. 17, 1925
RANDOLPH - The 8-inch snow of Monday made traveling on the highways rather heavy, yet cars could get through. There were some Good Samaritans on the job in some quarters, however. The highway east of town, State Highway No. 1, was dragged for a considerable length and the snow pushed to the sides of the road. Another good roads booster did the same thing for the Hartington road north of town, and by the time this paper reaches its readers we imagine that the McLean road, the Norfolk and Wayne roads and others will be dragged or a blade put on and the snow removed to considerable extent. There is a fine road bed and use of a blade, getting down to the dirt, would be a great help.
