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1950: Rossiter takes over local insurance office

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June 15, 1950

HARTINGTON — ET3 James E. Brewer, son of Mrs. Freada Brewer of Hartington, is one of a class of 313 which has just graduated from the U.S. Naval School Academy and College Preparatory at Coddington Point, R.I.

He will enter the Naval Academy at Annapolis this summer as plebe of the class of 1954.

Brewer entered the Navy following his graduation from Hartington High School in 1948. He had been stationed at

He had been stationed at San Diego, and Treasure Island, Calif., prior to entering the Naval School in Rhode Island.

The school offers men of the fleet adequate preparation in necessary subjects so that they may compete for appointment to the Naval academy.

June 15, 1950

HARTINGTON — Effective today Lawrence Rossiter took over the insurance business of the Dwain Conner office in Hartington.

This agency was operated for many years by the late George Beste.

Mr. Conner came to Hartington in May of 1948 after buying out Ralph Wiebelhaus, who operated the Hartington office.

An announcement of the merger of the Dwain Conner insurance business here with that of the Lawrence Rossiter Agency is in this issue of The News.

June 15, 1950

HARTINGTON — As part of the nation-wide economy campaign of the Postal Department, post office hours in Hartington will be reduced starting Monday, June 19, according to information given by C.J. Dendinger. Hartington postmaster. The reduction in hours will not change the dispatch of mail, but will shorten the hours during which the window and lobby are open.

June 15, 1950

HARTINGTON — The Hartington Junior Legion team rapped out a 20 to 9 victory over the Coleridge team on the loser’s field Sunday.

Hartington collected 16 hits in making their 20 runs and were aided by seven Coleridge errors and bases on balls.

Hartington’s mound staff gave up only five hits and the local lads made but four errors.

June 22, 1950

WYNOT — A 60-foot steel bridge was swept away by a flood north of Wynot.

June 22, 1950

HARTINGTON — Art Arens’ success at winning blue ribbons and championships with his Duroc hogs may not be due to the breakfast food he eats, but his success with Duroc hogs has made him famous enough that his picture and the story of his championship Durocs as carried as an endorsement of the “breakfast of champions.”

The June 17 issue of the Nebraska Farmer on page 36 carries an advertisement for Wheaties in which Art Arens and his family are featured as regular eaters of Wheaties.

June 22, 1950

HARTINGTON — A Cedar county yard beautification tour will start from Hartington Tuesday, June 27 according to R.E. Weir and Vaunia Burbank, county agents. They invite all husbands and wives who are interested in beautifying their farmsteads to join in the tour. Only farms in the northern part of the county will be visited this year.