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April 15, 1926
HARTINGTON — City officials started their cleanup campaign Sunday on thoughtless youths and careless drivers of automobiles. Officer Parmley arrested four youths, Henry Erickson, Alfred Jensen and Harold Harmeier of Coleridge and Raymond Hegert of Hartington for speeding.
Three of the youths were brought before Police Judge Emerson Monday morning and were fined ten dollars and costs. Harmeier was brought before Judge Bryant Tuesday morning and was given the same fine, costs bringing the fine to $25. The defendant refused to pay the fine and was sentenced to serve his time on the county bridge gang.
These were the first arrests made in the cleanup campaign planned by local officers. It is the intention of the city officials to make Hartington streets a safe place for pedestrians and hereafter violators of the traffic laws including speeding, driving cars with one light, or with cut-out open, will be punished.
Regardless of the standing of the families or the reputations of the parties violating the law, it is the intention to make the arrests. It is believed that the offenses committed by the boys arrested Sunday was done without thought on their part as to the harm that might have been done. If a pedestrian had been struck any one of the cars, the sentence might have been the years in the reformatory. With the arrests of these youths, the officials are sounding a warning to violators and it is expected that the streets will be a safer place.
April 15, 1926
COLERIDGE — Frank Crane of Wakefield has purchased the bakery at Coleridge from Lee Hunter and will take possession the last of this week.
Mr. Crane is planning to do some remodeling and will put in a fountain and lunch counter in the front of the room. Coleridge folks will be glad to welcome Mr. Crane to their town and trust he will be given the very best of reception in a business way as well as in a social manner. This is the second time within a few weeks that the bakery has changed hands, Mr. Hunter buying it recently from Ernest Lindgren.
