From Our Files

• April 3, 1947

The town council decided to reject all bids submitted for construction of a sewage disposal plant for Hartley. An advertisement for the letting of bids was ordered republished. It was hoped that any new bids would be such that the council would contract for construction of the necessary project.

Ed Meehlhause brought an egg of unusual proportion to the Sentinel office. The egg measured 7-3/4 inches around the short way and 9-1/4 inches in circumference. The shell was cracked, the egg apparently being too large for the hen.

Once again the Hartley kids proved they could hold their own even in competition with larger schools. When the dust had cleared for the preliminary state music contest held here, the students had grabbed the lion’s share of honors by racking up 13 first places. All contestants receiving a No. 1 rating were eligible to compete for state honors.

• March 30, 1972

Tweet Ott, Bob Hoper and Bill Westphal, all of Hartley, caught several walleyed pike below the powerhouse at Oahe Dam, at Pierre, S.D. The fish averaged 5-1/2 pounds each.

Howard Payne and Steve Ver Mulm were the grand prize winners of the 13th annual Hartley High School science fair. The division winners were Marci Eilers and Julie Flick, chemistry; Steve Sayler, physics; Richard Duncan, general science; and a tie between Lori Meiske and Glenda Norton, biology.

Duane Kolpin was reelected to a second term on the Community Memorial Hospital board of directors, and Arlo Snider was elected to replace Art Linder who did not seek reelection.

One segment of the annual Pony Express Ride to raise funds for the Easter Seal Crippled Children’s Fund was to originate in Hartley. Hartley firemen agreed to solicit funds in the residential district and the Tritonia Club would accept donations on Central Avenue as the ride got underway.

• April 3, 1997

Friends of the Hartley Public Library received a $250 donation from the local men’s Lenten breakfast group. The funds were to be used to support ongoing projects at the library.

Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn Elementary Principal Rod Patton pedaled his bicycle all through the students’ lunch time. Bicycling was the theme of the school’s reading promotion. One activity was “stop and read time” designated by the blowing of a bicycle horn.

Wally Petersen, of Hartley, underwent a gamma knife procedure in Seattle, Wash., with the hope that it would lessen the effects that Parkinson’s disease had on him. The procedure delivered a single highly-concentrated dose of radiation in a small, critically located intracranial target within the thalamus.

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