From Our Files

• July 31, 1947

Very light showers brought some relief to the abnormally high temperatures experienced the previous two days. The thermometer reached a maximum of 102 on July 29. Farm crops withstood the intense heat well but were badly in need of rain.

A record turnout of Chamber of Commerce and Legion members from Hartley and the surrounding territory were expected to join a caravan to Everly. Occasion for the festivities was the Everly AMVETS Post celebration.

Representatives of the O’Brien County newspapers were entertained at Paullina by Mr. and Mrs. Don Robinson. Honored guest for the evening was Don Reed, of Des Moines, director of the Iowa Press Association and a former Sanborn publisher.

• July 27, 1972

Duane H. Kolpin, executive vice president of Security State Bank, purchased an interest in Treimer’s Insurance Agency. He had been with the bank for 12 years. Gale Bobolz, who had been cashier at the bank for four years, was promoted to vice president and Lester Petersen, a graduate of Hartley High School, was brought in as a management trainee.

Hartley area livestock exhibitors fared well at area shows. Margaret and Stanley Gable captured three first place ribbons at the Northwest Iowa Guernsey Show and Mark Smith’s senior heifer calf also placed first. Veronica Adams showed the champion heifer at the Iowa State Junior Shorthorn Association Preview Show at Eldora. Showing the grand champion and reserve champion lead calves at the O’Brien County Fair were Greg Paulsen and Candi Albert.

• July 31, 1997

Roxie (Morfitt) Cash, a 1969 graduate of Hartley High School, was elected chairwoman of the Wake County School District, of which Raleigh, N.C. was a part. Cash was elected to the board in 1991 and served as chair of the finance committee for four years prior to assuming her new role.

Dr. Steve Meyer, a Hartley native and orthopedic surgeon at Sioux City, was leaving for Tanzania in east Africa on a return medical and education mission. The team of six shared a mutual interest in Siouxland, Tanzania Educational Medical Mission (STEMM), which Dr. Meyer had founded.

Leslie Sharpe was named the first O’Brien County Economic Development Director. A native of Huntsville, Ala., Sharpe had served as economic development director of the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority and Habitat for Humanity of Bulloch County, in Georgia.

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