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May 10, 1945
RANDOLPH -Graduation activities for six McLean high school seniors began this week and Sunday night baccalaureate services will be held at the McLean high school auditorium. The Rev. H. Niederwimmer of Coleridge will give the baccalaureate sermon and the services begin at 8:30 p.m.
The climax of the graduation activities is Wednesday night, May 16, when the commencement program will be held in the high school auditorium, beginning at 8:30. H.
O. Samuelson of Omaha is the commencement speaker.
Members of the graduating class are Ruth Galvin, Alice Velk, Robert Weyhrich, Omar Smith, Carl Carlson and Lyle Eberhardt. Rev. H. E.
Hoff, superintendent, announced this week that the valedictorian of the class is Carl Carlson and Robert Weyhrich is salutatorian.
The juniors entertained the seniors at the annual junior-senior banquet at Baber’s Cafe in Plainview on April 23.
May 10, 1945
RANDOLPH - Mrs. Ruth Gibson received word Monday morning that her nephew, Lt.
Colonel Morton Sitton, 29, a native of Randolph, was killed in action in the Philippines. Few details were given in the message from the war department received by his wife Sunday.
Lt. Col. Sitton was the son of Mrs. Florence Taylor of Lovell, Wyo. and the late C. C. Sitton.
The Sittons lived in Randolph at the time of the birth of their son, Mr. Sitton being an elevator manager here. When Mr. Sitton’s health failed at the time their son was a year old they left Randolph.
In addition to his wife and mother, Lt. Col.
Sitton is survived by a two-year old daughter and his step-father, W. O. Taylor.
May 10, 1945
RANDOLPH - Johnny and Leon Sohler, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Sohler, farmers living south of here, are recovering from severe injuries which they received within a period of one week’s time.
Johnny was the first to be injured. He suffered a fractured collar bone and a broken bone in his shoulder on May 1 when he fell while playing at school.
One week later on May 8 his brother, Leon, sustained severe burns on both legs, when his trousers caught fire while he was playing in the farmyard at his home. The burns extended from his ankles to his knees on both legs.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—It has been announced by the war department that Sgt. Kenneth Harper has been liberated from a German prison camp after 13 months internment. His wife is living in Lincoln.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—S. 1/C Elmer Hoskinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hoskinson, arrived home Wednesday on leave. He has been in the South Pacific serving on a destroyer. Enroute home he visited his brother, Lewis, who is with the coast guard in California and his sister, Mrs. Clara Weed, in Sioux City.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—Word was received by Fred Smith that his son, Pvt. Kenneth Smith, who has been a German war prisoner the past five months, was liberated. He is now in a rest camp and expects to be home soon.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—Mrs. Elmer Munter received word from her husband that he had been promoted to the rank of captain. He is stationed with the engineer corps in England.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—Ensign Herbert Childers, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Childers, has been promoted to lieutenant, j. g., in the navy.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—Clarence Stapelman and Clayton Halleen are stationed at Camp Fannin, Tex.
May 11, 1950
RANDOLPH — Arthur Kuhl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kuhl, has been announced as a winner of a Regents’ Scholarship to the University of Nebraska. He will graduate from St. Frances High School this month. Bill Sauser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Sauser received an alternate scholarship.
May 11, 1950
RANDOLPH — Mayor Harold Sherwood has announced appointments for city offices, Dr. G.E. Peters, chairman of the council and light and water; Joe Sellon, streets and alleys; Dr. L.T. Peebles, city auditorium and swimming pool and Glenn Stingley chairman of city parks.
