From Our Files

• July 11, 1946

William Gathman, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Gathman, of Hartley, pitched successfully for Yale University, winning all the games he had worked during the 1946 season. He was to be discharged from the Marines but would be ineligible for college ball as he had signed a Boston Red Sox contract after graduation from Everly High School in 1942. Gathman had also played for the Hartley Junior Legion team.

August Zinn, one of the oldest residents of O’Brien County and the last charter member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Hartley, was called to eternal rest. He was born in Germany in 1...