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April 6, 1916
HARTINGTON - New readers to the number of 22 were added to the library list during March, bringing the total to 1,000, according to the monthly report of the librarian, Mrs. B. Ready.
Harold Higgins, west of town, took out card No. 1,000 on Monday.
During the month 995 books were loaned, as follows: Fiction, 362; non-fiction, 262; juvenile 361; and German, 7. Books on gardening and similar subjects are very popular at this season.
April 6, 1916
HARTINGTON - Rev. Father Schnuettgen has just received word that his brother, who is a noncommissioned officer in the German army, is now on the east front fighting against the Russian army.
Mr. Schnuettgen was formerly on the west front, where the army was opposing the French and English. While there he suffered an attack of heart failure and was for a while in the hospital, but recovered sufficiently to re-join his regiment.
Later he suffered a second attack but had again recovered and was about to go to the front when he wrote.
Mrs. O. E. Pockrandt has two brothers in the German army. The oldest one, Joseph, is a lieutenant, who was visiting at home the last time she heard from him.
A younger brother, John, who is a private, who has been home for several weeks, was again called to the front and wrote that he was just leaving, but hoped that it would not be long until they would meet again. The rest of the letter was torn off, evidently by one of the censors.
April 6, 1916
HARTINGTON - Newcastle will have a saloon in the future, the election Tuesday indicating that this was the desire of the voters, and the trustees will grant a license. The drys made an effort to retain control but lacked the votes.
April 6, 1916
HARTINGTON - The “wets” won DeWitt and Silver Creek while the “drys” captured 10 towns including Albion, Beatrice, Bridgeport, Fairbury, Hebron, Long Pine, McCook, North Platte, Sidney, and Sutton.
April 6, 1916
OBERT — Obert voted to continue to issue license at the election Tuesday and the saloon there will be continued.
April 6, 1916
HARTINGTON - One may be formed to help build A stock company may be organized to assist in building a new hotel in Hartington, the need of which is very great.
It has been announced that John Krause will build on the site of the burned Grand hotel though the building as planned would not be as large, imposing or convenient as the community would desire, though it would require as large an investment as would pay a return to the investors.
The matter has been under discussion by a number of prominent members of the commercial club who are anxious to further the effort to secure a suitable hotel building, and the plan of forming a stock company has been talked of.
No definite action has been taken but the club members say that they will do all they can to promote the best interests of the community.
April 7, 1921
HARTINGTON -The City Meat Market and, in fact, the whole block in which it stands, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on Monday night.
Before closing time, some one evidently tossed a cigarette stub into the sawdust under a meat block and it remained there smoldering when Joe locked up for the night.
How long it lay there, no one knows, but it burned a patch of the sawdust about six inches in diameter and a hole through the floor and then apparently died out.
It was a very narrow escape and made Mr. Obert gasp for breath when he saw the burned hole. There was a terrific wind blowing that night, and, had the fire got started, the entire block would probably have been destroyed.
April 7, 1921
HARTINGTON - Supt. A. M. Nelson, who recently declined an offer to return to Hartington next year, has accepted a position as superintendent of the Auburn city schools.
He went to Auburn last week to look over the field, and was so favorably impressed that he decided to locate.
Auburn is a city of about 3,500 inhabitants and is the county seat of Nemaha county. It is situated only a few miles from Omaha, and is on the main line of the Missouri Pacific, with three lines of railway entering the city.
The community has fine churches, paved streets and a free mail delivery service, and the public schools are among the best in the state with a corps of 30 teachers, and a very large enrollment.
Mr. Nelson served very efficiently as superintendent of the local schools for a period of five years and is well qualified to assume charge of his larger responsibilities at Auburn.
