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May 30, 1940
HARTINGTON — It’ll be worth while for farm folk to drive from near and far to Hartington next Saturday, officially designated as “rooster day,” when merchants will pay one cent per pound above market price for roosters sold in trade.
Checks for the marketed roosters will be marked by the produce buyers as “rooster checks.” And number of pounds will be notated. In turn the Hartington firms where the money is spent will make the extra cent allowance on merchandise purchased. Farmers in the territory with roosters ready for sale are urged to take advantage of this special. The plan has been okayed by civic groups and all stores and business houses are cooperating.
May 30,1940
HARTINGTON — Mumps drove into the adult ranks and claimed two days early this week for Hubert Gengler, Gamble Store manager here. However, the contagious febril disease didn’t stop Gengler. He suffered no ill effects except didn’t report for work as usual.
May 30, 1940
HARTINGTON — Two hundred cherry trees on the Julius Kramer farm three miles northeast of here, said to be one of the largest cherry orchards in Cedar County, are carrying a “heavy crop.”
They are expected to be ready for harvest July 1. All the trees are of the Early Richmond variety. The owner says he has “unusually good success” with cherries and recently set out a “number of trees of later varieties, which will bear in three or four years”. The orchard is protected by trees on the north and west.
