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July 5, 1950
LAUREL- And who said the corn in Northeast Nebraska wouldn’t be knee-high by the Fourth of July? Shirley Andersen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Andersen, who live on a farm northeast of Laurel, is pictured in the Advocate to demonstrate that the corn is knee-high.
July 5, 1950
LAUREL- Raymond Burns of Laurel shipped 29 lambs to Sioux City. They averaged 109 pounds at $27.00. He also had 28 that averaged 88 pounds at $26, seven ewes that weighed 148 at $14, and 46 that averaged 163 at $11.
June 30, 1960
LAUREL- Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Martin of Laurel are the parents of a son, Michael Stewart born June 21.
June 30, 1960
LAUREL- Cheryl Swanson showed the grand champion at the Canton Brown Swiss Show at Wakefield.
June 30, 1960
LAUREL- R. J. Huetig of Laurel recently acquired the Purina line of feeds and is now open for business in the former Kennedy Produce building.
July 7, 1960
LAUREL- Customers were swarming to get into Felber’s Drug Store Saturday, but seemed to have trouble getting in. There were some unwanted customers, though, a swarm of bees.
Harry Kuhl tried probing for the queen bee but she made an escape and the remaining bees had to be exterminated.
June 25, 1970
LAUREL- The fire department was called to the Art Winquist farm where the cab of a truck had caught fire. The truck belonged to a construction company.
July 13, 1950
COLERIDGE — Rainfall here the past week totaled almost an inch as .40 fell here Saturday night and Sunday a total of .51 fell Tuesday. The Nebraska weekly crop report states that corn made marked progress and showed improvement and that fields were in a good state of cultivation and were mostly laid by. The report stated spraying for corn borer was done in the northeastern and eastern part of the state, with one county reporting 30,000 acres sprayed.
Consensus is the first brood of the corn borer will not do as much damage as expected.
July 13, 1950
COLERIDGE — An overflow crowd, estimated at about 500, crammed every nook and corner of the Legion Hall Tuesday to pay their respects to Coleridge’s honored citizen of the day, Dr. F. G. Dewey.
A heavy downpour about the time of the banquet failed to slow the enthusiasm for the affair.
The event honored Dr. Dewey on his 40th anniversary of service to the Coleridge community. Dr. Dewey told those present the event was something he and his family would remember until the last days of their lives.
Dr. Dewey was presented a Hamilton watch as a gift from all those who attended the event and a purse from the Five County Medical Society designated to be used for a long needed vacation for Dr. and Mrs. Dewey. From California came a congratulatory note from the Coleridge society in California accompanied by signatures of 30 former Coleridge people. Heading the list of signatures was Dr. C. T. Ingham, the man that Dr. Dewey succeeded here in 1910.
July 13, 1950
COLERIDGE — Ed Anderson is a patient at the Methodist Hospital in Sioux City where he had his right leg amputated Thursday, July 6.
Injury to the leg was caused by a fall suffered by Mr. Anderson some time ago. He is getting along satisfactorily.
July 14, 1955
HARTINGTON — Over 32 miles of electric transmission line is being built between Gavins’ Point Dam and the Belden substation to provide more electrical power for the residents of Cedar County.
Construction on the power line got underway April 1 and should be completed about Aug. 1, according to Bureau of Reclamation officials.
Structures have already been built from the dam to the substation and wire stringing crews are now working southwest of Hartington. The line is a bureau of Reclamation standard 115-kilavolt threephase wood pole, H-frame single circuit transmission line.
The line is constructed with 556,500 circular mil aluminum steel reinforced conductors and two 3/8 galvanized steel strand overhead ground wires.
This line is designed for heavy sleet and wind conditions.
It took 550 poles to construct 254 twopole structures and 14 three-pole structures to carry the line from the dam to the Belden station.
These structures vary from 55 to 80 feet in height. The contour of the ground and the crossing of other transmission lines causes the variation in height.
There are about eight poles to a mile, which are set about 700 feet apart. In building the line, it was necessary to cross 200 farm fences, 31 power lines and 23 telephone lines.
The first phase of construction was to obtain an aerial map of the county and draw a tentative location for the line.
The power line had to miss farm buildings, cemeteries and shelter belts.
Easements were then obtained from farmers to build across their land.
Except for a few deviations for buildings, the line runs straight across the county.
Crews, starting at Gavins’ Point Dam, worked across the county, laying out poles, cross arms and braces.
July 14, 1960
COLERIDGE — Announcement was made this week of the sale of the P. J. Flynn Implement to Charles Cass. The sale included the business, stock and building. The business will be known as Cass Sales and Service.
The Cass family moved to Coleridge from Wakefield where Mr. Cass was manager of the Schroeder Farm Store.
Mr. Flynn has been in business here since
