1924: New Sunshine Highway route includes Hartington, Fordyce

Feb. 11, 1904

MCLEAN — The bank in McLean, which is just west of Randolph, was broken into. The thieves got away with $500.

Feb. 11, 1904

HARTINGTON — A. H. Cressy recently went to Lincoln to attend the state meeting of county assessors.

Feb. 19, 1914

HARTINGTON — The Grand Hotel is now under new ownership. W. H. Fry recently sold it to M. F. Dillon of Sioux City, Iowa.

Feb. 19, 1914

HARTINGTON — Guy Porter and Miss Nellie Lively were recently united in marriage at the Methodist parsonage.

Feb. 19, 1914

HARTINGTON — Miss Lenore Allen and Miss Pauline Bange, of the Ballantyne Millinery Store, just returned from a 10-day buying trip to Kansas City, Des Moines and a few other locations.

Feb. 21, 1924

HARTINGTON - J.W. Goodenow of Omaha is the new clerk at the Hartington Hotel, succeeding Oscar Edlund.

Mr. Goodenow is a young man who saw plenty of action during the World War as a member of the 9th Armored Division, and he was seriously wounded on the St. Mihiel front.

Feb. 21, 1924

HARTINGTON - Hartington will be on the new route of the Sunshine Highway, which comes south from Brandon, Canada to Wichita, Kansas.

At the present time, the highway goes from Brandon to Sioux City, with the towns along the route in S.D. boasting for it. However, Sioux City has shown no great desire to be on the route, while a number of towns in Nebraska have expressed a wish to be on a new routing of the road.

Highway officials felt that the appeal of these Nebraska towns was too strong to be denied, so the old route to Sioux City stands a good chance of being dropped.

As planned now, the highway will cross the Missouri River at Yankton over the Meridian Highway bridge and will then come south through the present state highway through Fordyce, Hartington, Coleridge, Laurel and on to Wayne.