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June 10, 1926
RANDOLPH — On Tuesday the city council and Brenner & Nelson came to an agreement whereby the city secures a five year lease of the 100 feet fronting on Main one block north of the square. Brenner & Nelson bought this corner several years ago for a garage site and after excavation did no more.
They have now renewed for five years the lease on their present quarters, and turn the four vacant lots over to the city.
On its part the city agrees to fill, level, clean up and maintain this space of 100x140 feet.
It is the idea of Mayor Reed to use this space for extra auto parking on Saturday nights and other occasions when the ordinary parking places on the 14 blocks of paving are inadequate to accommodate the crowd.
The space is also large enough to pitch a chautauqua tent or a show tent, will make a convenient place for demonstrations of farm machinery or other affairs needing a little room in a convenient public place.
The estimated cost of filling, leveling and cleaning up these lots is about $60 and it is well worth this sum to the city and to the people of the vicinity to have such a place available. The city is to be commended on this move.
June 10, 1926
RANDOLPH - At the last meeting of the commissioners Cedar County was pledged to accept all the provisions of state and federal road building aid and made application for the building of two new roads.
The major project is 13 miles long and begins at the southwest corner of section 6 in precinct 11, at the school house four miles north of Magnet and runs east to the north line of Coleridge.
The second road is four miles long and runs west one mile from the Dixon county line to a point four miles north of Laurel and connects with Highway No. 15.
The first named road also connects with No. 15 at Coleridge. The commissioners also ask for a mile of gravel in the Laurel vicinity to connect with Laurel paving. All very fine. But when do we do some asking for work on Federal Highway No. 20?
June 10, 1926
RANDOLPH - Beckenhauer Bros. of Norfolk have been awarded the contract for the McLean building, two contractors submitting figures. Will and Otto Beckenhauer were reared in Randolph as boys, in fact Otto was a pupil of Miss Margaret McLean in our high school. The excavation will be completed within a few days and then material will begin to arrive for the new building.
June 10, 1926
RANDOLPH - Joe Brown has applied for a patent to protect a clever cover for cane bottom chairs.
Mr. Brown in attempting to repair a broken cane seat hit upon the device and used it with such good results that he considers the idea of some value.
Officials of the Bell Telephone company have examined this chair bottom and have given an order for ten of them to be used. Should this trial order prove satisfactory in their Norfolk office, there is a possibility of the company using these chair bottoms by the hundreds.
June 10, 1926
RANDOLPH - In compliance with instructions received from Hon. John C. Troutman, chief fire marshal, I arrived in your city on June 3 and proceeded to inspect the city for fire hazards.
In order that you may be informed and the citizens also have knowledge of the conditions found, I am reporting through this medium, just what was discovered: There were 71 inspections made; twenty-three were O. K.; this is a fair percentage.
There were 23 cases of accumulated rubbish, six cases in which heating stoves were without metal protection under them, 17 cases of wires hung on nails, 13 cases of loose wall paper and defective plastering, and several other minor abuses of the electric wiring system.
The annual visit of the deputy fire marshal is to prevent fires. That this visit is necessary to the welfare of the various communities will be evident, when it is remembered there are five schools, five churches and 890 other buildings burned every day in the United States.
Most of these fires are preventable; it is often little things that start them.
A little care and a little thought given to fire prevention would mean the reduction of your insurance rates, so in this connection if the recommendations of the marshal are remembered, and taken care of, it will mean a saving of money, a reduction of fires, and possibly the saving of life.
- Thomas L. Wilson, Deputy Fire Marshal June 10, 1926
RANDOLPH - Wallace Benson, 5 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Benson, was painfully injured Sunday when Mr. Benson’s auto ran into a ditch near the Willis Vanderbilt farm home.
While turning his head a moment to get relief from the dust blown into his eyes by the high wind, the auto went off the road, and the child was thrown through the windshield.
The lad’s lip was badly cut, Mr. and Mrs. Benson escaping injury.
June 10, 1926
RANDOLPH - R. W. Hahn was named as city treasurer at a meeting of the city council last Friday night. He will succeed J. A. McEachen who was reelected at the city election in April.
Mr. McEachen will return from Lincoln within a few days and formally turn over his office to the new treasurer.
June 10, 1926
RANDOLPH - Two parties of Randolph, disciples of Izaak Walton, report good fishing the past week. At Wood Lake Dr. Cook, Dr. Gibson, George Deines and M. P. Buol caught their share of black bass and found these fish striking fairly well.
At Lake Andes Wm. Eike and son Harold and Frank Gishpert had plenty of fun with crappies which were striking fine last week, and they caught a nice lot.
From now on the fishing fever is quite contagious and we suspect that other Randolph parties will sally forth to lake and stream.
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