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Aug. 5, 1915
HARTINGTON — Contractor Stuckenhoff informs us that Hartington’s public library will be completed about Sept. 1. On account of the continued wet weather, work has been delayed considerably, he said. At present, the building is so damp that finishing work cannot be completed.
Aug. 5, 1915
HARTINGTON — The total rainfall recorded here for the month of July was 10.14 inches, according to the weather report of D.E. Ewing. That is quite a contrast from July, 1914, when the July rainfall for the month was just 1.92 inches. In fact, the total precipitation for the year of 1914 was just 14.95 inches. From January 1 to date this year, we have received 31.91 inches of rain in Ewing’s rain gauge. The heaviest day of rain was July 1 when 2.65 inches of rain fell here. The second wettest day of the month was on July 18 when 1.82 inches of rain fell here. Sixteen of the 31 days of the month had measurable precipitation.
Aug. 5, 1915
HARTINGTON — The playground committee has made arrangements with Miss Bird Morten to oversee the playground and she began her duties on Tuesday of this week. An invitation is extended to mothers as well as children to attend and the mothers and children from the country are especially invited. Miss Bird Morten will be in charge each afternoon from 3-5, except Mondays. She will have an assistant on Saturdays and the hours will be from 2 to 5 that day.
Aug. 6, 1925
FORDYCE —Fire of an unknown origin destroyed the Frank Zavadil home and all of its contents in the Beaver Creek neighborhood while the members of the family were away. The house was on what is known as the old Kuehn place between Crofton and Yankton.
Aug. 6, 1925
HARTINGTON —Mrs. Wilbur F. Bryant, president of the Hartington unit of the American Legion Auxiliary, was reelected to the office of state chaplain at the state convention of that organization.
Aug. 6, 1925
RANDOLPH —C.R. McDonald and Donald Pohl have a monopoly on the honors in the Tri County Tennis Tournament held at Randolph as this pair won the doubles and Pohl took the singles title.
Pohl went through the singles like Sherman through Georgia, never losing a set and ending up in the finals with one of the prettiest displays of accurate tennis ever seen in this section of the state.
Aug. 1, 1935 HARTINGTON —Twenty-five 200-pound hogs valued at about $800 are believd to have been stolen from the Joe Lammers farm west of Hartington.
Aug. 1, 1935
HARTINGTON —Hartington will send its city band to both the Bow Valley Schuetzenfest and the Cedar County Farmers’ Union banquet at Bow Valley Park without cost to either organization.
Aug. 1, 1935
HARTINGTON —The best known early Cedar County ‘tomboy’ was Bess Gearhart of Coleridge, who shocked purists of the ‘80s by donning bloomers and riding astride a cross bar bicycle to Hartington to win a gold medal in a declamatory contest.
Next fall, Mrs. Bess Gearhart Morrison, now a grandmother and noted public speaker, will return to speak at the annual Cedar County Teachers’ Institute.
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