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Jan. 4, 1951
RANDOLPH — Four Randolphans enlisting for service in the armed forces the past week are: Merlin Brummels, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brummels, enlisted in the Navy and was sent to San Diego, CA for training; Arthur Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brown; Joedy Sellon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sellon and Darrell Wurdinger son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wurdinger, all enlisted in the Air Corps and left from Omaha.
Jan. 4, 1951
RANDOLPH —Pfc. Ted Korth left Dec. 31 to return to Biloxi, MS after spending an over Christmas furlough at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Korth. In the Air Corps, Pfc. Korth has been attending a special radio school in Biloxi.
Jan. 4, 1951
RANDOLPH —Miss Batty Blizzard, student nurse at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sioux City, IA, visited from Friday until Tuesday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Blizzard.
Jan. 6, 1956
RANDOLPH - Leslie Caster of Norfolk, son of Mrs. George Vanderbilt of Randolph, suffered a compound fracture of the hip Monday evening a short time after leaving the Vanderbilt home.
A carrier of mail to the Norfolk airport, he went directly from his visit with his mother to the Norfolk post office. He slipped on ice near the post office, the fracture resulting in the fall.
Jan. 6, 1956
RANDOLPH - St. Frances high school is planning to inaugurate football next fall, Rev. Peter Zarkauskas school athletic director, told the Times this week.
Final plans are contingent upon raising of $300 as only that amount is needed to reach the $1500 goal.
Rev. Zarkauskas reports that he will equip a 20-man squad for $1500. The school will play either eight-man or eleven-man ball, depending on which ever type will most readily adjust to filling a schedule.
If the sport is inaugurated at the school, Rev. Zarkauskas and John Pock will be coaches.
It is expected the fund will be completed at an early date.
Jan. 6, 1956
RANDOLPH - The post-holiday lull was enlivened in Randolph this week by speculation about the roll of money found by Joe Rohloff in a chunk of tree trunk he was chopping.
Speculation, naturally, centers around where the money came from and who placed it there. There is considerable conjecture that it might have been placed there by the robbers of the First National bank, $10,000 having been taken there in 1910, or by the robber or robbers of money taken from the Fairmont creamery more than 25 years ago.
The wood containing the cache was from a tree located on the premises of the Taggart property, formerly the site of the G. Idler residence and livery barn.
Very little of the money, which must have been a sizable roll of bills when it was placed in the tree, could be salvaged, according to Ben Rohloff, Sr., who Wednesday morning told the Times of the find. The bills were moldy and pitted with holes, and all were so dry they fell into shreds.
The Rohloffs declined to place an estimate on the amount of money in the cache, but said from the condition of the bills it had undoubtedly been in the tree many, many years.
The cache was in a hole about five feet from the base in a boxelder tree, which had a trunk somewhat larger than a washbasin. The hole containing the cache was too small for a person’s hand to have been inserted. Joe Rosien had felled the tree this fall, George Worland had cut it into logs, and Rohloff had taken the logs to his place, where they had lain for some time.
Old-timers can remember only two robberies in Randolph where enough money was taken that could have possibly have formed a cache such as was found.
The first is the daring bank robbery in 1910, when the night marshall, J. J. Carroll was seized and bound and kept in a small room at the bank while three men blew the safe. It was fairly well established at that time that a team stolen from a farmer south of Randolph was used by the robbers. The team was not near the bank at the time as near as can be remembered now, so speculation is rife it might have been tied at a hitching post at the livery barn premises, where the money was found. More than $10,000 was taken at that time, and it is possible a roll of part of the money was stuffed into the tree for safe keeping until the person returned for it.
Recollections about the robbery at Fairmonts are hazy, and as to whether that much was taken or not is considerably doubtful. Fairmonts, now Craven’s lockers, is adjacent to the place where the tree was felled.
