.jpg)
Jan. 24, 1901
HARTINGTON — Local businessmen report concerns over break-ins here as Poeggler’s Saloon was broken into and relieved of $30 in cash.
Jan. 26, 1911
HARTINGTON — F.O. Murphy sold his farm southwest of Fordyce. He intends to buy some land near Hartington.
Jan. 26, 1911
HARTINGTON — The Cedar County News has purchased a new folder. The machine attaches to the big press and the papers now come out of the press neatly folded and trimmed, ready for the mailing machine.
Jan. 22, 1916
HARTINGTON — When spring comes, a new modern and up-to-date hotel will begin to go up on the ashes of the Grand, which was destroyed by fire Jan. 4. The builder will be John Krause of Los Angeles, Calif., the owner of the hotel which was burned. This information is first-hand and authentic and was conveyed by Mr. Krause himself. It is the first authentic information given out concerning the future of the property, although there have been numerous rumors in regard to it.
Mr. Krause also has words of appreciation for the Hartington Fire Department and gave them a $25 check as a token of his appreciation for their recent efforts.
Jan. 22, 1921
HARTINGTON — Nineteen boys were suspended from classes at Hartington High by Supt. A.M. Nelson after they attempted to enter the school through the basement to make away with refreshments prepared for the party following freshmen initiation.
Jan. 22, 1921
HARTINGTON — The Newcastle School Board has voted and is now preparing to erect a new $75,000 school building.
Jan. 22, 1921
HARTINGTON — Mrs. N.D. Tiffany, superintendent of St. John’s Hospital here for several months, has resigned. Miss Mary Zavadil has agreed to succeed her.
Jan. 29, 1931
WYNOT — The old Wynot Hotel building, one of the first structures to be erected in Wynot after the town was platted in 1906, was purchased during the past week by Ralph Morten and is being torn down. Mr. Morten plans to use the lumber from the building in the erection of his new house on his farm at Spring Valley, south of Wynot. The house will replace the house recently destroyed by fire.
The front part of this building was erected by Wm. Cable, who traded a big team of horses to D.F. Sweet for the lumber to be used in the building.
Jan. 23, 1936
HARTINGTON— With the mercury recorded at 15 degrees below zero and a light snow falling at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon, residents of Hartington were wondering if and when the cold wave which hit this region Friday night would ever commence receding. Weather observers indicated that the sub-zero weather was at an end Wednesday morning, but indications Wednesday afternoon were that there was no relief in view. Hartington’s official low temperature Wednesday morning was 21 degrees below zero, the coldest day of the season, surpassing the previous low of 20-degrees below zero, which was set on Jan. 6. The highest reading of the past week was Jan. 16 and 17 when four-degrees below zero was registered.
