1959: Hoebelheinrich is recovering after accident

Jan. 28, 1949

HARTINGTON — The Hartington Chamber of Commerce baseball committee has named Gordon C. Gobel as manager of the Northeast Nebraska league team here.

Jan. 28, 1949

HARTINGTON — Phil Hahn, county March of Dimes chairman, said that Obert was the first town in the county to report on the results of the polio benefit drive.

They will have between $400 and $500 for the fund.

Jan. 28, 1949

HARTINGTON — Dr. Dwight Burney, Jr., who is specializing in orthopedics, is practicing at the Veterans hospital in Lincoln.

Jan. 28, 1949

HARTINGTON — Norma Jean Weir left for Clovis, N.M., where she will be employed at station KICA.

Leonard Miller was featured at a soil conversation broadcast over station WJAG in Norfolk.

Jan. 22, 1959

HARTINGTON — Mr.and Mrs. F.C. Feelhaver, pioneer county residents, will observe their 50th wedding anniversary Jan. 18.

Jan. 22, 1959

HARTINGTON — Leonard Kurtzhals of Coleridge was elected as the chairman of the Cedar County Board of Commissioners for 1959 at their annual reorganization meeting here Tuesday.

Jan. 22, 1959

HARTINGTON — Two boys 14 and 12 stowed away on a truck at their home in Houston, Tex., hoping to get to Covington, La., to visit their grandmother.

Instead the truck headed north and the two were discovered at the state weighing station north of Laurel.

Jan. 22, 1959

HARTINGTON — Urban Hoebelheinrich of Bow Valley is reported improving at Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, S.D. where he was taken following a pickup-truck accident south of Hartington last Thursday.

Jan. 22, 1959

HARTINGTON — The annual Farmers Day event will be held Tuesday, Feb. 17, in Hartington, County Extension Agent Robert Weir announced.