1923: Hartington team comes up short against Yankton
Nov. 28, 1918
HARTINGTON — Rev. Nervig, who was pastor at the Norwegian Lutheran church in Paragon and Lime Creek, has moved his family to Minnesota.
Nov. 28, 1918
HARTINGTON — The average price of a farm horse declined from $145 in 1910 to $131 in 1916, according to one report.
Nov. 22, 1923
HARTINGTON- The Congregational Church Circle will hold its annual bazaar and supper Thursday at the City Auditorium.
Nov. 22, 1923
HARTINGTON- Lester Aspen, who broke his leg some time ago during a football game between the Hartington and Ponca high school football teams, is once again able to be in school starting this week.
Nov. 22,1923
HARTINGTON- Ignatz Arens held a big barn dance at his place northeast of town Wednesday evening to open his big new barn, one of the handsomest in that neighborhood. Over 100 couples attended the event.
Nov. 22, 1923
HARTINGTON- Members of the Board of Education at Coleridge have begun looking over samples of brick, in order that they may make a selection for use in the new addition to the school building there.
Nov. 22, 1923
LAUREL - G.W. Griffith of Laurel set a trap in the basement of his home to catch a rat last week, but when he went down to see how the trap was getting along, he found he had caught a skunk. Some quick work with a gun ended the skunk’s career, but not before the atmosphere in the immediate vicinity had become somewhat clouded.
Nov. 22,1923
HARTINGTON- Donald McLain, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLain, Belden, died at his home last week of pneumonia. The youngster had scarlet fever last summer, and before he had entirely recovered from that disease, he became ill with pneumonia, and was not strong enough to withstand it.
Nov. 22,1923
HARTINGTON- Playing against a team which is generally conceded to be the class of South Dakota, the Hartington High School football team dropped its first game of the season when they went to Yankton and took on the high school team there last Friday, losing by a 35-0 score.
Captain Tom Driver of the Hartington team was about the only player who could make gains against Yankton. Peebles led the Hartington 11 on defense.
Hartington folks who saw the game, and have seen some of Nebraska’s fastest high school teams in action, say there is no team in Nebraska high school circles that has any business going on the same field as this Yankton team.