Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties

From Our Files

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• Oct. 17, 1946

Mayor P.A. Leese warned boys with firearms, who were shooting the bulbs of street lamps in ever-increasing numbers, that anyone apprehended would find himself minus a gun and both he and his parents would be taken before the sheriff of O’Brien County.

The Hartley Rainbow Assembly for Girls received their charter at an impressive ceremony in the Masonic Hall. The Hartley Rainbow Assembly was organized May 4, 1946, and had been under “Letters Temporary” since that time.

The O’Brien County American Legion Auxiliary fall meeting was held in Hartley with the local unit acting as hos...