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Aug. 4, 1920
LAUREL- C.W. Anstine, the new telephone manager, arrived last week with his wife and are making their home in the rooms of the exchange, Mrs. Anstine has assumed the duties of chief operator.
Aug. 4, 1920
LAUREL- H.R. Bessire is one of the young men who is making good progress in the Duroc business. Bessire recently purchased Hillcrest Sensation, a splendid big fall boar, from John Erwin of Concord for $1,500. He has about 325 head of purebred Durocs.
Aug. 4, 1920
LAUREL- Miss Fae Tolles is home from M.E. Hospital in Des Moines for a vacation. She has one more year to complete her course.
Aug. 4, 1920
LAUREL- The engineer anticipates that the paving job will be completed in about two weeks.
Aug. 4, 1920
LAUREL- A.H. Kuhlman, who has been helping D.E. Nellor in the store the past month and intended to remain until the later returns from Chicago, was called to Lodgepole Monday for the serious illness of his young son.
July 30, 1930
LAUREL- Mrs. John Geinapp visited this office last Saturday to tell us that chicken thieves had raided their place and taken all the chickens she had raised this past year.
It is believed that between 70 and 100 chickens were taken.
July 30, 1930
LAUREL- Word has been received in this city that the state department will let the graveling of Highway 20 from Laurel to Allen. This will give a hard surfaced road from Sioux City to O’Neill.
July 30, 1930
LAUREL- J.B. Groff of Madison was visiting in this city last Monday. He was the first settler in this township, homesteading a farm in the northeast corner.
He was followed here shortly by Louis Tolles whom he knew well as his nearest neighbor. He settled here in 1878 getting his homestead papers from Dakota City.
The farm Groff, 99, first homesteaded was later known as the Utter farm and is now occupied by Ed Stalder.
July 31, 1940
CONCORD- Baseball came into its own Sunday when Felber’s Wildcats handed Haskell’s Haymakers the small end of a seven to eight count at the Concord fairgrounds in an extrainning game packed with plenty of slugging, wild throws and errors. But despite the inexperience and lack of practice on the part of many, the spectators as well as the players enjoyed the contest.
July 31, 1940
LAUREL- Dick Johnson, popular assistant at the Huddleston Shoe and Harness Shop in this city, has been entered by friends in the Tribune’s popularity and efficiency contest which is now being conducted by the Sioux City newspaper.
July 31, 1940
LAUREL- Roy Ross, Laurel farmer living one mile north of town, reported an average of 80 bushel-per-acre oats after he had finished threshing last weekend. Ross said this is the best oats crop he has ever raised.
July 31, 1940
LAUREL- At a special meeting of the board of education, an agricultural teacher was elected to take the place of Glen Bierman, who resigned. Lyle Roberts is the name of the newly elected teacher for the coming year.
July 31, 1940
LAUREL- Misses Alice Moore, Esther Johnson, Vera June Paulson, Margaret Fegley and Iola and Dorothy Wendel, who have been attending summer school at the Wayne College will return home this week as school will be over.
