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March 12, 1931
HARTINGTON — At 81, Peter Nissen of Laurel is still considered the area checkers champion.
March 12, 1931
HARTINGTON — It has been announced that Jay Shumway has purchased the Lammers Lumber and Coal yard from A.K. Lammers.
March 12, 1931
FORDYCE — The students at the Fordyce High School received their six weeks’ report cards this week from Supt. Wm. Zahranicek. There just remain 12 more weeks of school at Fordyce.
March 12, 1931
HARTINGTON — Dr. and Mrs. V. Cook moved from Wynot to Hartington this week where they will make their home.
Dr. Cook, who is a member of the Schulte and Cook partnership of Veterinarians will maintain the Hartington office of the firm.
March 6, 1941
HARTINGTON — Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Burney, Cedar County residents since 1882, will observe their 61st wedding anniversary on March 11.
March 6, 1941
HARTINGTON — The Hartington School Board agreed to reduce the staff because of a decrease in pupils.
March 13, 1941
HARTINGTON — Marylin Person, 13, eighth grade student at Magnet, is the new Cedar County Spelling Bee champion.
March 13, 1941
HARTINGTON — Richard Hesse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Hesse of Hartington, has been named as a principal candidate to fill a vacancy at the U.S. Naval Academy from the Third Congressional District. His cousin was named three years ago.
To fill two vacancies at the United States Naval Academy, Congressman Karl Stefan has sent nominations to the chief of the bureau of navigation, Navy department.
One vacancy is the result of a graduation, while the other vacancy has been produced by the action of Congress since convening in January, authorizing an additional midshipman for each Congressional District in the United States.
March 13, 1941
WYNOT — Joe Wohlman was appointed Town Marshall of Wynot last week to replace Paul Harder, who had recently resigned from the position.
March 13, 1941
HARTINGTON — A highway crew reorted to using dynamite last week to blast ice jams and save bridges between here and St. James.
March 13, 1941
ST. HELENA — Fanned by a terrific northwest wind, flames quickly consumed a large barn, horses, harness and other equipment at the Peter Schmidt farm in the St. Helena vicinity. On Sunday afternoon between 2:30 and 2:55.
Mr. Schmidt farms the Frank Heine place, which is known as the McCullough farm near the Missouri River.
The barn, about 28 by 40 feet, was soon consumed by the flames fanned by Sunday’s wind.
As the roads were nearly impassable and as the building burned so rapidly, it was impossible for assistance to arrive to fight the flames.
A straw stack about 100 yards south of the barn was ignited by flying embers and also burned to the ground.
Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt had been at the Hubert Hoesing home for Sunday dinner and Mr. Schmidt had walked over to his farm after a time, and upon arriving, found the building ablaze.
March 13, 1941
HARTINGTON — — Albert Miller, pilot of Obert, received his third license last week after passing several tests at Omaha.
He is now authorized to instruct aviators, having passed the test for an instructor’s license.
Mr. Miller spent the previous three weeks in Omaha where he trained, taking his final test on Wednesday.
He now has a pilot’s license, a commercial license, and an instructor’s license entitling him to teach flight training.
While in Omaha, Mr. Miller had occasion to see a large number of fighting ships enroute from the West Coast to the East and some to Canada, from which place they will be flown to Britain to be used in battles raging there.
