1923: Passenger train wins in standoff with truck
Oct. 22, 1908
HARTINGTON — Roy McGregor and Claude Baird recently took over the grocery store business in town.
Oct. 22, 1908
HARTINGTON — Several thieves broke into George’s Bakery through the rear side window and stole $15 from the cash register.
Oct. 22, 1908
HARTINGTON — W. W. McKenzie, of Lake View, Iowa, visited here recently and purchased the Gus Anderson farm west of town for $75 an acre.
Oct. 17, 1918
HARTINGTON — W. H. Burney, Hartington, took a load of 270-pound hogs to market in Sioux City. He sold them each for $6.75 per hundred pounds.
Oct. 18, 1923
HARTINGTON — Play in the annual handicap golf tournament of the Hartington Country Club started last Sunday, with quite a number of firstround matches being played, and an unusual number of upsets in the dope occurring.
The players were given their handicaps according to the scores they made in the championship tournament but the chances are that a good many of these handicaps are to be cut down before the handicap tournament goes much further.
Here are results of the play in this tournament so far, together with the present handicaps: Paden, 30, drew a bye; McDonald, 33, drew a bye; E.F. Robinson, 16, plays F.O. Robinson, 30; Durrie, 48, beat V.C. Hertert, 10; Miller, 23, beat L.C. Morrison, 43; Ekeroth, 44, plays Steinback, 60; R. Reifert, 19, drew a bye; C. Isrealson, 32, drew a bye; M.E. Eby, 14, beat Wieneman, 24; Ed Carson,39, drew a bye; Amundson, 30, drew a bye; Mason, 15, beat King, 46; Hedglin, 29, beat Ready, 29; Craig, 36, drew a bye; Larson, 25, plays Matson, 37; Jones, 23, plays A. Isrealson, 37; Gus Walz, 21, drew a bye; H. Goetz, 38, plays J.M. Johnson, 40; S.H. Morten, 60, plays Ewing, 29; Geo. Walz, 34, drew a bye; G. Goetz, 44, drew a bye; Champion, 38, lost to C.A. Walz, 22; Scoville, 32, beat McClellan, 33; Richards, 16; drew a bye; O’Furey, 60, plays Tubby Lammers, 60; C.N. Hertert, 14, drew a bye.
Oct. 18, 1923
HARTINGTON — With this issue of the Cedar County News, the present publisher starts his ninth year of service to the people of Hartington and Cedar County. Of itself an interesting anniversary, it is made more interesting by the fact that the News will shortly round out a quarter of a century of service to the people of Northeast Nebraska.
Oct. 18, 1923
HARTINGTON — One automobile truck, going 30 miles an hour, can’t knock the evening passenger train going through Hartington at 20 miles an hour off of its track.
If you don’t believe this statement, just ask August Rentchell of Wausa, for he tried it last Saturday night, and came out on the losing end of the argument. The truck sideswiped the locomotive and proceeded to lose a fender or two and some other accessories in the process. Mr. Rentchell’s view of the track had been somewhat obscured by the truck cab, and saw the train too late to stop, so he swung the truck to the right, paralleling the track for a short distance before he finally succeeded in stopping near the Great Northern mill. Luckily, no one was hurt in the collision.
Oct. 18, 1928
HARTINGTON — About $17,000 will be spent in building a high tension electric line from Bloomfield to Hartington and the installation of new street lighting, according to Local Manager S. B. Aikman.
Oct. 18, 1928
HARTINGTON — J. H. Edwards has purchased an 1,800 pound Shorthorn cow. It is believed to be one of the largest cows in the county and probably in this part of the state.
Oct. 18, 1928
HARTINGTON — Hartington Mayor Martin Nelson recently purchased the east 72 feet of the quarter block at the corner of State and Cedar streets in Hartington from E. Lingren.