From Our Files

• Oct. 2, 1947

Mrs. R.W. Hoper left Omaha, Neb. on a special train for Los Angeles, Calif., where she was a delegate to the Supreme P.E.O. Convention. She also planned to visit in the home of her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fisher and family, at Berkeley, Calif.

The organization of the local Future Farmers of America chapter started on Sept. 19. Seventy members were present at the meeting during which officers were elected: Dale Wacker, president; Blaine Hirt, vice president; Duane Philiph, secretary; Howard McCarty, treasurer; Donald Steinbeck, reporter; and Jarold Jager, sentinel. The local chapter had an acreage for experimental and demonstration purposes across from the Royal 400 station.

Members of the Hartley Methodist Church and Hartley folk regardless of church affiliations learned with pleasure of the reassignment of Rev. S.A. Kruschwitz as minister of the local church.

• Sept. 28, 1972

Crisp weather helped a group of young people enjoy their March for Hunger from Hartley to Sanborn via Highway 18. Each young person was sponsored by one or more friends or relatives who paid them for each mile marched. All proceeds went to the Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP).

After a long and successful ownership of the Hartley Electric and Radio Service, V.A. McCroskey sold his business to Howard Borchard, superintendent of the Hartley Community School. McCroskey had been in failing health which necessitated his decision to sell. Borchard would continue as superintendent until the termination of his contract.

H. Kenneth Nurse, of Hartley, was installed as Lieutenant Governor, District 3, of Kiwanis International. The district comprised the states of Iowa and Nebraska. The lieutenant governor’s banner was presented to the Hartley club during the installation banquet. Harold Woodard, president of the local club, presided at the event.

• Oct. 2, 1997

By the narrowest of margins, the proposed bond issue for a new library in Hartley failed to pass by just six votes. The final result was 243 votes in favor and 170 against authorizing a $580,000 bond issue to finance construction of a new library on Central Avenue.

Harvest scenes were becoming a common sight in the Hartley area as farmers had begun soybean combining in earnest. One area farmer, Brad Miller, had his harvest interrupted by a fire in his combine. Damage was not extensive and he was back in the field the next day.

Dale Lux, of Hartley, placed second with his team in the Belgian horse division at the Clay County Fair.

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