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Aug. 13, 1980
HARTINGTON — Rain soaked the fairgrounds in Hartington on Saturday and Sunday, but spirits were not dampened as the Cedar County Fair opened its 100th year.
Gate receipts are up from last year, according to gate chairman Ritch Miller.
Sunday’s parade could not have been timed better, as a brief heavy thunderstorm held off until participants had traveled the parade route.
A large crowd lined the streets of downtown Hartington and several hundred people saw the parade as it passed the fairground grandstand at the end of the route.
Aug. 13, 1980
HARTINGTON — Dedication of a new dam and lake on Aowa Creek near Newcastle has been announced by the Lewis and Clark Natural Resources District.
Buckskin Hills Wildlife Management Area is located 2 1/2 miles west and three miles south of Newcastle. The area includes 340 total acres of public land on which a 55 foot high dam has been built. When full, the lake will cover 75 acres.
Aug. 13, 1980
HARTINGTON — A narrow band of hail accompanied by strong winds cut through rural Hartington Sunday afternoon stripping corn and soybeans and playing havoc with vegetable gardens.
One of the farms that was hit was Bob Steffen’s corn on land southeast of town. Tommy Steffen believes his beans may come back on the home place. Along Highway 15, soybeans are almost without leaves and the cornstalks are grim reminders of the brief storm on Sunday.
Aug. 13, 1980
HARTINGTON — Howard G. Allaway, former editor of the Cedar County News and Wynot Tribune, died in late July of cancer in Boston. He had been living in Canton, Mass.
Allaway served as editor of the Wynot Tribute from 1933 to 1934 and as managing editor of the Cedar county News in Hartington from 1934 to 1936.
Allaway, 68, was born in Homer and graduated in 1933 from the University of Nebraska School of Journalism.
Aug. 13, 1980
HARTINGTON — Four home extension clubs displayed booths at this year’s Cedar County Fair. The Odds and Ends Club, with Mrs. Daryl Reifenrath president, received the Grand Champion purple ribbon for their display entitled “Locked in a Bottle.”
Aug. 13, 1980
HARTINGTON — Gary Dunn, business teacher and assistant coach since mid-term in the 1966-67 school year, will serve as principal of Cedar Catholic High School beginning this year.
Aug. 13, 1980
HARTINGTON — Nebraska Public Power District will soon begin converting Hartington business district’s lighting system from incandescent lamps to the more energy-efficient high pressure sodium lights.
