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Jan. 18, 1916
LINCOLN—The sixth annual basketball tournament of Nebraska high schools, under the auspices of the state university will be held March 8 to 11.
The Nebraska high school basketball tournament is the biggest event of its kind and Manager Guy Reed is starting early in order to attract even a greater number of schools this year.
Seventy schools, including about 600 athletes, were represented at the tournament last year.
The announcement Reed has sent to all Nebraska high schools follows: “The annual basketball tournament of Nebraska high schools will be held under the auspices of the University of Nebraska, March 8 to 11. This is an invitation to your high school to be a competitor.
“This tournament has been the largest in America for the past few years.
“This year the tournament will be divided into three classes based on the season’s record, the size of the town, the size of the high school and the tournament experience. This plan enables the boys to go through the entire tournament without over exertion. A physician will be on the floor at all times and a doctor’s examination must be had before players will be permitted to compete.
“The receipts of the tournament are pro-rated among the competing teams, according to distance traveled on a basis of six men per team. For the past four years, about four-fifths of the railroad fare has been distributed.”
Jan. 18, 1916
RANDOLPH — On Thursday City Electrician Wiley strung electric lights along the public ice skating rink and hereafter the rink will be nicely lighted for evening skaters.
The city council and mayor have arranged to light the rink free of charge and their action will be a nice help for this popular place of amusement for the children and young folks.
Every day and many evenings the rink is comfortably filled with skaters who thoroughly enjoy the recreation and exercise it affords.
Jan. 18, 1916
RANDOLPH — Rev. Father Lordeman returned last Friday from Omaha where he was present at the funeral of Bishop Scannell. Father Lordeman was delayed on his return by the blizzard that tied up railway traffic. He reports a large gathering of prelates and priests at the pontifical Mass and is among those who regretted that Archbishop Ireland was snow bound and could not be present to deliver the sermon. The sermon was read, however.
The funeral of the Rt. Rev. Richard Scannell, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Omaha, was held at St. John’s Collegiate church January 12, with Archbishop James Keane, of Dubuque, Ia., as celebrant of the pontifical requiem mass, assisted by the Very Rev. F. X. McMenamy, president of Creighton University, of Omaha.
Archbishop John P. Ireland, of St. Paul, was to have delivered the funeral sermon, but at the hour of the funeral he had not arrived, being reported on board a train stalled in the snow.
Visiting divines from many cities and several thousand laymen attended the services. Interment was at Holy Sepulcher cemetery.
Jan. 18, 1916
RANDOLPH - At the last meeting of the Cedar County Commissioners, Geo. N. Jorgensen of Magnet was elected chairman. The News at Hartington was named as official paper, the rest of the county getting a “good night.”
The county commissioners have decided to pay all old warrants with interest from date of registration just as rapidly as the funds accumulate.
Jan. 21, 1926
RANDOLPH — The new method of artificial daylight for laying hens is being tried out in Randolph by Miss Nina Harper at her home on the east edge of town. Miss Harper had an electric light placed in the hen house last November, and it has been giving the method a good trial during December and January. In December the light was switched on at 4:30 every morning, and the extra of the roosters indicated that the poultry was properly deceived into thinking it was daylight and while other flocks were dozing on the roost, the hens in the Harper hennery were busy scratching in the litter for feed, and taking early morning exercise, making a full day of work and feeding and thus storing up egg-making material. The December and January days’ work for the Harper hens is about equal to a normal summer day in length. The hens seem to like the longer day and are laying all day long and do their singing after lay and often at this time the Harper poultry farm is getting from 10 to 11 dozen eggs per day from the 200 pullets being subjected to the electric light plan. The older hens are kept in a separate house and are not producing half of the eggs that the hens with the light are producing.
Miss Harper has no way of telling exactly how the egg production compares with the old way for she has no figure from previous years, yet we are inclined to believe the plan is a success. The theory is that by having a longer day the hens eat more, exercise more and therefore produce more eggs because of the larger amount of egg material consumed. Fresh water is constantly available and it is surprising to know how often the chickens will come for a drink of water.
