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June 11, 1925
HARTINGTON - John B. Hoesing has opened up a cream station in the Tom Hindmarsh building south of the depot, and will buy cream for the Beatrice Creamery Company.
John Hoesing is well qualified for the position, having had three years’ experience in running a creamery in Hartington, and long experience in various lines of business.
John has many friends here who hope to see him make a great success of that business.
Mr. Hoesing has been severely handicapped for active work since he was injured in a tractor accident a few years ago and this is a business he can handle as well as anybody and ought to succeed.
June 5, 1930
HARTINGTON -Wind accompanying a rain storm last Monday caused considerable alarm over the county, although it was a straight blow with no “twister” tendencies. Considerable damage was done by the wind to trees and small buildings, and one person at least was quite severely injured.
Mrs. Christine Schaller, an elderly woman at Wynot, went into the back yard to look after some chickens when the storm broke. As she was tending to this work, a small outbuilding blew over, pinning her beneath it. Her cries for help were fortunately heard by neighbors, who came to her assistance and lifted the building to get her from beneath it. It was then found that her left leg had been broken just above the knee, and the next morning she was taken to the hospital.
Lightning accompanying the storm struck at numerous places in the county but no heavy loss resulted. The Ole Klanderud home in Hartington was hit by a bolt of lightning which came into one of the rooms and followed out thru a wall socket without doing much damage.
Since Monday night to this morning the rainfall has totalled nearly two and one-half inches.
June 5, 1930
ST. HELENA- Ghosts of Indian days are arising out of Cedar county’s earth with the discovery of two human skeletons, lying side by side, on the road leading past Frank Lammer’s farm eight miles west of Hartington.
The skeletons were discovered about three feet beneath the ground on the hill a quarter of a mile west of the Lammers’ chapel by Rudolph Lammers, son of Joe, who was dragging the road. Because of the location in which the skeletons were found it is surmised they are the remains of aboriginal Americans.
According to popular Indian superstition, the bodies of their dead must be buried at a shallow depth on the top of a hill in order that snakes might consume the flesh rather than have it decay and pollute the air.
Glimpsing a white bone emerging from behind soil clods, Mr. Lammers stopped the drag and investigated. Digging into the soil he partially uncovered the frame of a skeleton and another by its side.
The bones crumbled at his touch, indicating the bodies had been buried for many years. Nothing further has been done to investigate the surroundings of the “grave” pending word from state historical society authorities at Lincoln.
An investigation may prove the presence of Indian relics or jewelry which would indicate that the skeletons are Indian, rather than those of a white man caught in a blizzard or killed by a flying arrow of an Indian and alter buried.
June 10, 1940
HARTINGTON — A can of sour cream “exploded” as Wallace Johnson was carrying it. The lid struck him in the face and broke off a tooth.
June 17, 1940
HARTINGTON — Members of the Hartington tennis club going to Norfolk to play the club there are Joe Thomann, Jerry Schula, Bob Thielen and Barney Hochstein
