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World War II
April 26, 1945
HARTINGTON — Ultra-violet ray lamps have been installed in the meat cooler in the market department of Ferris and Sons store. These lamps, which give off a bluish light, age and tenderize meat in addition to killing all bacteria and mold formations.
April 26, 1945
HARTINGTON — Hartington high school athletes won the 1945 Cedar county track championship here Tuesday by piling up a total of 72 2/3 points in the 13 track and field events. Only two other teams competed in this year’s meet, Randolph and Coleridge. Randolph scored 56 1/3 points and Coleridge 13.
The Wildcats took first in seven events and tied for first in two others. Randolph scored three firsts and Coleridge one. The latter two schools each shared in one tie for first.
Adams of Randolph was high individual scorer of the meet with 19 1/3 points, compiled of two firsts, a tie for first and three third places. Miller of Hartington scored 17 points on two firsts, two seconds and one fourth place. Krause of Hartington scored two firsts and a tie for first for a total of 13 1/3 points.
Winners of the various events were: 100-yard dash, Krause, Hartington; 220-yard dash, Krause; mile run, Nagel, Hartington; 100-yard low hurdles, Miller, Hartington; 60-yard high hurdles, Miller. Discus throw, Adams, Randolph; 440-yard dash, Fox, Hartington; 880-yard run, Jensen, Coleridge; broad jump, Adams; high jump, Collins, Coleridge, and Heedum, Hartington, tied for first; pole vault, Heedum, Krause and Adams, tied for first; relay, Hartington.
In a practice meet last week Hartington won over Coleridge by a 98 to 9 score.
April 26, 1945
HARTINGTON — More than 200 4-H Club members and parents from all sections of the county attended the second annual Cedar County 4-H Achievement Party in the Hartington city auditorium Friday night.
Special awards were presented to 4-H members and leaders in recognition of outstanding achievements in 1944.
Fred R. Zimmer, publisher of The Cedar County News, presented The News awards to Joyce Wohlman and Joe Heimes, who had been named by the awards committee as the most outstanding girl and boy in 4-H club work in Cedar county during 1944.
Miss Wohlman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Wohlman, who live northeast of Hartington, has been in 4-H club work since 1938. During these years she has completed the following projects: Learning to Sew, Summer Wardrobe, Winter Wardrobe, Girls’ Room, Meal Planning and Preparation, Poultry and Baby Beef. She has held various offices from president down in the clubs of which she was a member. She was the First Place Clothing Judge at the 1944 Cedar County Fair and was named County Clothing Champion, for which she received a gold medal from the Spool Cotton company.
Heimes is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Heimes who live northeast of Hartington. He is a member of the East Bow Livestock club, which he served as president last year. He showed the Grand Champion Baby Beef at the Cedar County Fair in 1943 and 1944, and has won for himself the reputation as a champion in feeding and showing Shorthorns.
May 3, 1945
RANDOLPH - T/5 Harold H. Rohde, who the war department reported was seriously wounded in Germany on April 5, is recovering satisfactorily from a wound in his right knee, according to a letter written to his wife, Mrs. Elsie Rohde, from a hospital in Paris.
After receiving the telegram on April 21, Mrs. Rohde had received no additional information from the war department and had not heard from her husband until April 30 when she received three letters from him.
He stated that the bone of the knee was not injured and did not mention having received any other wounds. He was first hospitalized in Germany, and then sent to Paris, and he is now in England.
