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June 20,1935
June 14, 1945
RANDOLPH - Some idea of how much water can fill the creeks and low places in a short time was demonstrated here Monday afternoon. First reports of high water were brought to town by a traveling salesman who told that the golf course west of town was well inundated.
Citizens drove out and found a veritable lake with floating logs and trash of various kinds. Water was running over the road west of the course.
The drainage ditch in west Randolph was doing a good job and the narrow channel sent the water away at high speed and with the usual roar.
North creek went out and water ran nearly to the top of the railroad trestles and well up into the Reed alfalfa field.
The source of the sudden and excessive water was from a downpour in the vicinity of Magnet between 11 and 1 o’clock. Better than two inches of rain fell in less than 30 minutes. The water rose so rapidly that people who were in town and lived north of Randolph were notified that they had better get home while they could.
A sample is enough and we don’t care for the real thing. Rainfall in the Randolph vicinity for the day was about three quarters of an inch and came intermittently.
RANDOLPH - The Sioux City district OPA office has announced that applicants for 1945 canning sugar will not have to sign a pledge to obtain canning sugar as was previously announced in several newspapers during the past two weeks.
The only requirement at this time, Robert E. Cartwright, district food rationing specialist said is that the persons making application for canning sugar will account for the number of quarts of fruit canned in 1944. This can be recorded on the present application. All local boards in the district have been notified to this effect.
June 21, 1945
RANDOLPH - First Sergeant Willie H. Broer, who has been in the army over eight years, received his honorable discharge last week at Ft. Leavenworth, Kans. separation center and arrived at Sholes Friday night.
Mrs. Broer, the former Mildred Tietgen and her two sons, have been residing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tietgen at Sholes, during the former army man’s service overseas.
Mr. Broer is the son of Henry Broer, Sr. of Randolph who has four other sons in the army.
The former soldier holds the Bronze Star medal awarded him for heroic achievement against the enemy in the vicinity of Saarlautern, Germany. He went overseas last summer and was with the 95th Infantry Division.
Mr. Broer’s plans for the future are still indefinite at this time.
June 21, 1945
RANDOLPH - A press release from the Sixth Infantry Division on Luzon states that S/Sgt. Raymond W. Beltz, son of Mrs. Caroline Beltz of Randolph, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal by the commanding general of the 6th Infantry Division for “meritorious achievement in connection with military operations against the Japanese” on Luzon, P. I. from January 9 to April 20.
The Randolph soldier is in charge of all civilian employees in headquarters company of the 6th Infantry which holds the record for continuous combat in the Pacific.
June 21, 1945
RANDOLPH - Arthur R. Rohde, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Rohde, was one of 30 Wayne county registrants who went to Ft. Leavenworth, June 13 for pre-induction physical examinations.
He attended Sholes high school and has been farming with his father. He has one brother, Pvt. Wayne Rohde, in the European theater.
June 21, 1945
RANDOLPH - Pfc. Kenneth J. Rath, who was employed in Randolph before entering service the past summer, was wounded on Okinawa, May 18 and is now in a hospital in the Hawaiian Islands, friends here learned this week.
Pfc. Rath, whose home is at Coleridge, was employed as a truck driver by Harrison Huwaldt before entering service.
June 21, 1945
RANDOLPH - James F. Callaway of Wahoo, county superintendent of schools in Saunders County for the past 11 years, has been elected superintendent of the Randolph schools to succeed F. H. Larson, who resigned this spring after being elected to serve his fourth year here.
