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March 7, 1901
HARTINGTON — F.M. Reed, tailor, this week moved into rooms above the First National Bank in downtown Hartington.
March 7, 1901
HARTINGTON — Two youths, held in jail here last week for robbing the Poeggler Saloon, have escaped from their iron bars. They have not yet been found and are still out on the loose.
March 9, 1911
HARTINGTON — L.H. Burbach sold his farm south of Hartington and purchased the Jacob Kaiser farm near St. Helena.
March 9, 1911
HARTINGTON — Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Schulte of Bow Valley arrived home just last week from Texas. They spent the winter in the warm Texas weather with their sons.
March 9, 1916
HARTINGTON — The Cedar County State Bank opened for business Monday morning in its fine new home, opposite the Post Office.
The work of remodeling the structure and making it suitable for the needs of the “fastest growing bank” in this section has been in progress all winter, and was completed only a few days before the bank moved in.
The improvements were quite extensive, as a cellar had to be dug, and a vault built. The ceiling is now steel and the building entirely remodeled.
The vault doors weigh one and one-half tons each, so the protection which they afford can be easily imagined.
The vault is really only the outer wall, however, as the big safe is located inside, as are also the safety deposit boxes, which are all equipped with additional locks.
The bank will celebrate the sixth month of its existence on March 16, but during that brief time its deposits amount to nearly $100,000, proof of the high standing it has with the people of this community.
All day Monday, friends called at the new home to admire the enlarged banking room and to extend congratulations to Messrs. Hertert and Lammers on the continued growth of the institution.
March 9, 1916
HARTINGTON — Joe Pick had a carload of steer on the Sioux City market Tuesday that were good enough to top the market, selling at $9 through Steele Siman and Company.
Joe has a reputation for selling good stuff and seems to be getting the money. Good prices have been secured by a number of local shippers during the past few weeks.
More stock has been shipped this vicinity recently than ever before, indicating that the area farmers are finding it more profitable to feed their corn to stock, rather than to sell it on the market.
March 9, 1916
HARTINGTON — Application has been made by the local telephone company to the state railway commission for permission to raise the rates on all phones 25 cents per month. Under the new schedule, business phones would be $1.75; residence and farm line phones $1.25 per month.
The commission has set 10 a.m., March 28 as the time for hearing the application at the office of the commission at the statehouse in Lincoln. The company is now operating an average of 700 phones and if the application is granted, it means an increased revenue of about $2,100 per year.
March 9, 1916
HARTINGTON — The committee of the Commercial Club, which took a census of the city, stopped when it listed the 1,500 names required for the organization of the city into an independent school district.
The work was carefully done by the committee, of which B. Ready was the chairman.
A special meeting of the school board was held Monday and the census results were examined. A resolution, certifying the returns to the City Council was then adopted.
The Council met Wednesday and instructed the municipal officer to call for the spring election, including the six members of the school board, who will be elected at the regular spring election instead of at the old town meeting, as formerly done.
March 11, 1926
HARTINGTON- Work on the Grant Highway, known also as the Antelope Trail and State Highway No. 1, also recently designated as Federal Highway No. 20, has been promised by our county commissioners in a resolution passed at the last meeting of the county commissioners. The resolution is as follows: Resolved by the county board of Cedar county, Nebraska, that as soon as grading and drainage structures on Highway No. 15 from Fordyce north are completed and as soon as Highway No. 15 from Laurel to the south county line is gravelled, that it is then desired that the Antelope Trail, being U. S. Highway No. 20, be constructed as soon as the funds thereafter are available, and the state department of public works is requested to make surveys and prepare plans for this purpose.
