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Feb. 26, 1941
LAUREL - Hansen Dairy proprietors Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Hansen wish to thank their customers on the occasion of their seventh year in business.
‘’This week we are beginning the seventh year of our service to the people of this community. We have tried hard at all times to please you with high quality dairy products, promptly and efficiently delivered to your door. We believe we have been successful because of the new friends we are adding at all times.
We take this opportunity of extending our grateful thanks to you for your splendid patronage and loyalty. We want you to know that we appreciate everything you have done for us, and we pledge to you that we will continue at all times to give you the same prompt and courteous service and the very best in dairy products that it is possible for us to produce. ‘’
Feb. 26, 1941
LAUREL - Lyle Roberts’ FFA quint annexed another win on the maples Wednesday when they took a fast Allen squad into camp 34 to 17.
At intermission the Laurel farmers led the Dixon countians 20 to 5. Klefer was high point man of the game with 13 points.
This win gives the Laurel squad five wins and only a pair of losses, a pretty fair batting average.
Feb. 26, 1941
LAUREL - John, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Maloney of this city, won a fine trip. He is one of the Sioux City Tribune carriers in this city, and in a circulation contest he was awarded the trip.
The group of boys from all over the Tribune territory were loaded in two large busses Saturday and were shown the time of their lives.
High spot of the trip for the boys was the hockey game Saturday night in Omaha between the Omaha Knights and the Tulsa Oilers. The boys got a big kick out of the game, which was a honey, Omaha winning, 3 to 2, in a rough and bruising contest. The boys stayed all night at the Rome hotel.
Feb. 26, 1941
LAUREL - Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hoogner will move this week into the Mrs. Eli Johnson property recently vacated by the Earl Miner family. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grant will move from their apartment to the one vacated by the Hoogners, and Mr. and Mrs. Rof Christensen will move to the apartment vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Grant. This is but the beginning of a series of March 1st changes in both town and the country.
Feb. 26, 1941
LAUREL - Delmar French, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hawley French, who was inducted into army service recently, reports he has been assigned to M. P. duty at Camp Robinson, Little Rock, Ark.. He is getting along nicely there, those here have heard from him report.
Feb. 27, 1946
LAUREL - Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wickett returned home Thursday evening from a vacation trip through the east. They visited relatives in Decatur, Michigan, and Chicago and then went to Milton, Penn., where they visited Mrs. John Wacker.
They then went to East Falls Church, Virginia, to visit in the Archie Ray home and spent two days taking in the sights of Washington, D. C. They report a most enjoyable trip.
Feb. 27, 1946
LAUREL - At a meeting of the directors of the Laurel Commercial Club Tuesday at the light plant officers were elected for the year. They are Dick August, president; J. J. Fennell, vice-president; and A. J. Ford, secretary-treasurer.
Plans for the year’s work were also discussed and an intensive membership drive is being started. It is hoped to enlist every business and professional man and woman in the city.
Feb. 28, 1946
COLERIDGE - The first meeting again organizing a baseball team here was held at the town hall Saturday evening with a fine attendance and a great deal of enthusiasm was displayed.
Presently there are 15 candidates for the proposed team. It is expected the list will increase to more than 20 before the opening of the season with more boys still to be heard from and others are expected to be discharged from service soon.
The interest displayed in the baseball team is sufficiently ample to guarantee that the local team will be strong enough to make an excellent showing against any amateur team that may be playing in this section of the state.
A brief but interesting meeting was held. Subjects discussed included the addition of more interested players to the roster, factors to be considered in probable organization of a desirable baseball league, the purchasing and financing of necessary equipment and uniforms, and probable choices of a manager for the team.
Nearby towns have started discussion of the formation of a new league for the coming season. The local group is planning on attending one or more of the meetings to be held in the county with a view to membership in a satisfactory league.
Baseball here, as in so many other towns, was permitted to lapse with the beginning of the war. The absence of many of the players called to service forced many places to abandon the popular game. Other places also had to cease their efforts when other restrictions were added during the course of the war.
Feb. 28, 1946
COLERIDGE - Announcement has been made by Ed Collins of Sioux City and Clarence Swick of a change in ownership of the Swick Garage. Mr. Collins and son, Gene, have purchased the business from Mr. Swick and will assume the management of the business on April 1.
Mr. Swick has sold the garage at this time in order to conserve his health. He recently spent some time in the hospital and upon returning home his physician ordered him to seek a different occupation.
In addition to purchasing the garage business Mr. Collins has also purchased a home here, the Mrs. Hines property, which is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John Junk and family.
The Collins family will be warmly welcomed in Coleridge in anticipation of a long and successful life here.
Mr. Collins and son, Gene, plan to spend the last week of March in cleaning up parts of the garage building and making some few changes and general preparations before opening the establishment on April 1.
Both men have had wide experience in mechanical work.
Mr. Collins has had 20 years of experience in the automobile field. During the recent war he served as a civilian employee of the army air forces.
Gene, recently discharged from service, served in the army air force where he was an instructor in motor changes.
