From Our Files

• June 16, 1949

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church planned to hold its Sunday service in their new church basement. The congregation was to gather in the old church for a brief farewell devotion and then march to the new church. Services would be held in the basement until the new church furniture arrived.

Darold Rost was presented the DeKalb Achievement Award for 1949. The award was presented each year to the senior boy with the best all-around achievement in vocational agriculture and FFA work. His name was engraved on a plaque displayed in the vocational agriculture room.

The Royal Bullseye Rifle and Pistol Club, of Royal, was granted a National Rifle Association charter. The group conducted registered NRA tournaments at its range. The club was headed by R. Reyburn Fulton, of Spencer.

• June 13, 1974

The Hartley School Board approved several departures from the traditional senior week activities that would be carried out on a trial basis during the 1974-75 school year. Class Night was moved to Wednesday and graduation exercises were to be held Sunday afternoon. There would be no Baccalaureate service, and there would also be no class valedictorian or salutatorian. Instead, students would be honored for their academic standings based on cumulative averages.

The Hartley Housing and Urban Development Agency met with Dave Discher, director of the Northwest Iowa Regional Council of Governments. The meeting was an outgrowth of the city council’s intention to seek funds for housing development. The federal government had reactivated housing development funding and changed the requirements to qualify.

• June 17, 1999

Work on the all-weather track project at Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn High School began with removal of the curbs and cinders from the old track. LeRoy Peters; Bob Knowlton, of Sanborn Backhoe; Mike Thorne, of Ag Partners; and Alan Erichsen, of Erichsen Backhoe, donated time and equipment.

Marie Glacken was the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn winner of the first poster contest sponsored by the O’Brien Country Soil and Water Conservation District. All grocery stores in the county provided bags as the medium for the students’ posters.

“Jungle Journey” was the theme of the joint Vacation Bible School program of the Hartley United Methodist Church and Trinity United Church of Christ. Bible school was held at the Methodist church and involved more than 125 students, teachers and helpers.

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