From Our Files

• Aug. 9, 1945

Sylvan Ewoldt, of Hartley, purchased the R.C. Sawyer grocery store at Sanborn. Mr. and Mrs. Ewoldt planned to move to that community in the near future. They had been farming near Sanborn and Hartley for a few years.

Goals for the Hartley patriotic chest drive were $800 for the town of Hartley and $600 each for Hartley and Omega townships. William Treimer was chairman for Hartley and William Specht was the Hartley township chairman.

An innovation at the upcoming O’Brien County 4-H fair was the seven livestock exhibition tents instead of one large one. The tents were to be situated on the athletic field in northeast Hartley.

Memorial services were held at the Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church for Corp. Virgil L. Krager, who lost his life in the service of his country on Aug. 4, 1944, somewhere in Germany.

• August 6, 1970

A Head Start class was being held at the elementary school in Hartley during the summer. Students attending were from Sanborn, May City, Everly, Moneta and Hartley.

Ed Rons, owner of Koele’s Foodland, announced that Cecil Peterson, of Everly, had been hired as assistant manager of the store. Peterson had been in the grocery business for over 20 years.

Over 1,000 persons toured the new St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Hartley. In addition to those from Hartley and the surrounding area, guests at the open house came from Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, Nebraska, South Dakota and Kentucky.

Central Avenue Baptist Church announced plans for its summer Neighborhood Bible Time which was open to all area children in grades K-8. Two trained crusade youth leaders would conduct the program.

• Aug. 10, 1995

Jean Ahrenstorff and Fred Schoelerman were named queen and king of the 1995 Threshing Bee. The Hartley residents were crowned at the airport Friday evening and rode in the parade on Saturday. Only rain at various times on Saturday dampened what was otherwise a successful weekend.

An informal vote of Hartley city council members indicated that Myrna Colling and Bev Heimsoth favored videotaping meetings and replaying them on the local cable channel while Ron Hengeveld, Doug Hoaglund and Clayton Pyle did not support the idea.

Heartland Ag Industries entered into an agreement to lease additional land in the Hartley industrial park. The company was required to expand its operation, with the land becoming Heartland’s property if it remained in business for the term of the lease.

“From Our Files” is compiled by Sentinel-News sports editor/staff writer Mike Petersen.