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May 26, 1920
LAUREL- Some of the Burlington officials were here a few days ago and announced that it would probably be 30 days before the two roads would separate their work at the deport and go back as they were before the war.
May 21, 1930
LAUREL- The Sweet Shop of this city has been sold by Mr. and Mrs. D.C. Gearhart to a Mr. Smith of Vermillion, S.D.
May 21, 1930
LAUREL- Miss Betty Oxley had the misfortune to fall from her pony Monday afternoon when the animal stumbled. She fell to the ground with such force that her arm was broken, both bones of the arm being fractured between the elbow and wrist.
May 30, 1930
HARTINGTON- Cedar county’s population at the present time is 16,409 an increase of 184 over the figures 10 years ago, according to unofficial reports for the 1930 census which have been received here from the office of Claude P. Hancock, supervisor of the census in this district.
June 4, 1930
LAUREL- A.D. Smith, the gentleman who recently purchased the Sweet Shop arrived Monday morning and took possession of the place. Mr. and Mrs. D.C. Gearhart will move to Sioux City in the near future.
May 22, 1940
LAUREL- Under the efficient management of Earl Iler, Laurel’s ball club closed a perfect pre-season of play Sunday at Randolph by defeating them 8 to 4, making it three games won in as many starts.
May 22, 1940
LAUREL- “Amos” a pedigree cocker spaniel belonging to Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Chederquist, walked off with top honors in his division and placed second best dog in the dog show in Norfolk in which 56 dogs were entered.
May 22, 1940
LAUREL- Some big fish stories will be told as E.O. Waite, Alf Mittelstadt and Al Keating of Omaha left Monday for the lakes in northern Minnesota for a few days of fishing.
May 22, 1940
LAUREL- May 16 the senior dudes attended the Spring Roundup at the J-S Ranch, sponsored by the cowhand juniors under the direction of Miss Mihrman, the foreman. The climax of the program came when Rebecca Silver and Don Rimel were crowned Cowgirl and Cowboy of the range.
May 30, 1940
BELDEN - Although they have attended four schools during the past nine months, Larry and Patsy Connealy received all A’s and B’s as final grades at the close of the school year.
They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Connealy and their father is employed in road construction work. Mrs. Connealy attributes. “their ability to transfer from one school to another so readily to the fact that the schools of today are so uniformly graded, even in different states. Schools the attended the past year were at Last Chance and Deer Tail in Colorado, a rural school near Tecumseh and the public school at Belden.
June 5, 1940
LAUREL- Laurel and the surrounding community was treated to a fine rain of two and a quarter inches Monday night.
June 5, 1940
LAUREL- For a time Tuesday morning it was a question as to whether or not the Advocate would get out a paper this week when Willard Tangeman called the office and told us that our bundle of news print, upon which the paper is printed had “gone down the creek.”
The bundle of feature service which is used every week was in Tangeman’s truck which was swept from the road near Willis in the flood of the night before. The wholesale house started up their press room for a special run of our service.
June, 5, 1940
LAUREL- Bob Sullivan and Warren Patefield from the Sunny Slope Livestock 4-H Club, Harold Burbach of the Northwest Star Pig Club and Alice Marx and Darlene Backman of Hartington represented Cedar County as the 25th boys and girls 4-H club agriculture at Lincoln.
