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April 20, 1916
HARTINGTON —J. P. O’Furey, publisher of The Cedar County News, was advised this week he had been appointed vice president for Nebraska of the National Editorial association.
The appointment was made by President E. G. Brodie, of Oregon City, Ore., following the revision of the national constitution and by-laws at the recent national convention.
The Nebraska delegation at the convention suggested Mr. O’Furey’s name to President Brodie.
The appointment came as a surprise to Mr. O’Furey as he was unable to attend the convention. His selection is not only a great personal honor but is also a tribute to the standing of The Cedar County News as one of the leading country weeklies of the country and it helps to put Hartington on the national map.
The National Editorial association at the recent convention also adopted a plan suggested months ago by O’Furey providing for the holding of annual delegate business meetings.
Mr. O’Furey is vice-president of the Nebraska Press association.
April 20, 1916
HARTINGTON —S. B. Shively, son of County Commissioner A. B. Shively, of Laurel, has been reelected superintendent of the public schools at Wausa for another year. The teaching staff of the high school at Wausa is being increased and it is necessary for the board to dispense with the teaching of music for at least a year because of the added expense.
April 20, 1916
YANKTON, S.D. - There are 1522 paying stockholders in the Meridian Highway Bridge Co., according to an audit completed last week by Secretary M. R. Magner at Yankton. By paying stockholders is meant those who have gone on the books by following up their subscriptions with money. Of the whole list who have signed stock subscription cards since the beginning of their circulation, there remain only 55 who have failed to make good their word with cash payments. These are chiefly for small subscriptions, some of them made by people who have since moved away, some by those who apparently wanted to be good fellows with the feeling that the project would never go through, and some whose motives are difficult to discover. Names are being checked off this delinquent list from time to time, the record shows, until at last there is good indications that only a very few who have promised to take stock will have failed to make good on that promise.
April 20, 1916
HARTINGTON — No longer can the law breaker escape by paying small cash fines if convicted before County Judge Bryant who has decided the payment of the fine in cash does not secure obedience to the laws. Hereafter it will be necessary to serve out the fine at hard labor with the county bridge gang.
And failure or refusal to perform the “hard labor” part of the sentence means the guilty one will be entertained free of all expenses at John Fleming’s hostelry on a diet of bread and water as a guest of Sheriff McFadden.
April 20, 1916
HARTINGTON —Charles Wilson, 20, of Randolph, was the first victim of the new method of securing respect for and obedience to the laws. He was found guilty of stealing a harness from Peter Hansen and was sentenced to 30 days at hard labor.
Howard Sherry, 20, was found guilty of stealing an overcoat from L. A. Baker at a dance at Laurel and was given a similar sentence.
Herman Obermeyer, of Laurel, was found guilty of assault and battery on Nels C. Anderson by a jury Tuesday night and was also given 30 days at hard labor. Anderson leased a farm owned by Obermeyer’s father and occupied by the son.
When he went to occupy it a personal encounter resulted and Obermeyer had Anderson arrested. He plead guilty some time ago and then had Obermeyer arrested.
The new rule will have a discouraging effect on violators of the auto laws who have heretofore regarded it as being good sport to be arrested for breaking the auto laws. If they have to do bridge work for 30 days it is generally believed that the number of violators will be less than if gasoline jumped to 50 cents a gallon.
