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Aug. 8, 1935
HARTINGTON — Hartington voters will decide the issue of the sale of hard liquor by the drink at a special election Aug. 20, it was decided at the regular meeting of the City Council when petitions were presented bearing 250 signatures asking that the question be put to a vote.
Aug. 8. 1935
HARTINGTON — County Treasurer L.G. Riibe this week announced the appointment of Edward S. Stevens as deputy county treasurer. He succeeds Mrs. Mamie Nelson Schager, who was recently married.
Aug. 9. 1945
HARTINGTON — An article about Joseph L. Uhing, Hampshire breeder who lives northeast of Hartington, appeared this week in the annual Fair and Breed issue of the Omaha Daily Journal Stockman.
Aug. 9. 1945
HARTINGTON — Pfc. Theodore Sudbeck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sudbeck, Fordyce, has been awarded the bronze star medal for “meritorious achievement in connection with military operations against the enemy in the Philippine Islands.”
Aug. 9, 1945
HARTINGTON - Pfc. Harvey E. Olsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Olsen of Hartington, was a member of an 84th Division Battalion which was selected to form an honor guard for President Truman during his recent visit to Europe.
The battalion previously had been given a presidential unit citation for “extraordinary heroism, gallantry, determination and esprit de corps under unusually difficult and hazardous conditions in Germany from Feb. 23 to March 5.”
Formerly a member of the Ninth Army, Pfc. Olsen was recently transferred to the Seventh Army for occupation duties.
He wears the Combat Infantry Badge, the European Theater Ribbon with three major battle stars, the Good Conduct Badge, and the Presidential Citation Ribbon.
Aug. 9, 1945
LAUREL — Staff Sgt. Jack Lindberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lindberg, arrived here last Thursday following his discharge from the army. He had 122 points and returned from overseas July 26.
Sgt. Lindberg, a glider pilot and later a paratrooper, joined the army in July, 1939.
He saw action in Normandy, the Rhineland and Ardenne and took part in the siege of Bastogne, where his unit was completely encircled by the Germans for a week last December. Prior to returning to the United States he was stationed in Germany.
Wounded twice, Sgt. Lindberg has the Purple Heart Medal, the Bronze Star, a unit citation badge, Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Arrowhead, American Defense Ribbon with one star and Good Conduct Medal.
Sgt. Lindberg expected to leave for Los Angeles this week to join his wife.
Aug. 9, 1945
HARTINGTON - Cedar County has fewer farms now than it had five and ten years ago, but the acreage of land in farms is considerably larger, according to the preliminary count of returns of the 1945 federal census of agriculture.
Cedar county now has 2,074 farms, compared with 2,100 in 1940 and 2,283 in 1935.
The total land in farms this year is 466,761 acres. Five years ago the figure was 455,376 acres and 10 years ago the acreage was 460,775.
The average size of the 1945 farms was 225 acres, compared with 217 acres in 1940, and 202 acres in 1935.
The census bureau said these figures are preliminary and subject to correction. Final tabulation of returns will be made later.
Aug. 9, 1945
HARTINGTON — New projection equipment has been installed at the Lyric Theatre in Hartington and will be used for the first time Sunday night, R. V. Fletcher, theatre owner, said this type of new equipment is the first to be installed in the state.
“The Lyric will show the public what the latest inventions will do to a technicolor film Sunday night, and the patrons can see what the future will hold for motion pictures,” Fletcher said.
The new system is composed of high intensity arcs, with 14-inch special reflectors and 4-tube, 50-amp rectifiers, which have been developed by research as result of government war demands.
