New hours at Fiesta Foods in effect As of Monday, Jan. 29, Fiesta Foods in Hartley will be open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. all seven days of the week. May City firemen hosting soup supper The May City Fire Department will host its annual soup supper on Satur...

• Feb. 3, 1949 For several weeks the younger set of the Hartley community was plagued by a run of three-day measles. The disease seemed to be of a mild form, and discomfort its only feature. The school asked parents to keep their children at home a...

New hours at Fiesta Foods to start Beginning on Monday, Jan. 29, Fiesta Foods in Hartley will be open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. all seven days of the week. May City firemen hosting soup supper The May City Fire Department will host its annual soup supper...

Grace Berberich graduates from UI Grace Berberich, of Royal, was among the nearly 1,700 undergraduate, graduate and professional students conferred their degrees last month at the University of Iowa. Berberich was a student in the College of Nursing...

• Jan. 27, 1949 It was estimated that between 700 and 800 people stopped at the Burns Chevrolet Co. on Highway 18 to look at the new 1949 Chevrolets. Area residents also had the opportunity to stop at Lorenzen Motor Co. to see the new 1949 Pontiac m...

Cocktails & Kisses at HKCC in Everly The Hap Ketelsen Community Center in Everly will host “Cocktails & Kisses” on Saturday, Feb. 10. The event will feature drinks and a meal. Proceeds will benefit the HKCC and Everly Public Library. See the ad on...

Hartley snow ordinance reminders The City of Hartley is reminding residents of snow removal and street parking ordinances during winter. See the ad on Page 2 for complete information. Nearly 200 units of blood donated in ’23 The community of H...

• Jan. 13, 1949 The Hartley municipal skating rink was made ready for use for the first time. Adverse weather conditions held back its construction. Many of Hartley’s young people were making good use of it. Heavyweight champion Joe Louis boxed a f...

Hartley snow ordinance reminders The City of Hartley is reminding residents of snow removal and street parking ordinances during winter. See the ad on Page 3 for complete information. Red’s Catering menu Red’s Catering in downtown Hartley will be...

• Jan. 13, 1949 The Genevieve Rebekah Lodge No. 154 held private installation of their officers at the I.O.O.F. Hall. The district deputy president, Mrs. Smith, and her staff from Sheldon did the installing. The Noble Grand of the lodge was Laura S...

Wild game feed planned at Royal this Saturday The Iowa Great Lakes Fishing Club will host its annual wild game feed on Saturday, Jan. 6 at Haggy’s in Royal. A free will offering will be accepted. All proceeds benefit the Jim McDonnell Scholarship F...

• Jan. 6, 1949 During the annual meeting of the Hartley Fire Department, Myrle Peters was named local fire chief for the coming year. He succeeded Harry Stoterau who declined the position after ably serving for three years. Though a near-record c...

HCC trivia night on New Year’s Eve The Hartley Community Center will host a New Year’s Eve trivia night on Sunday, Dec. 31. A meal will be served before the contest gets underway. See the ad on Page 3 for more details. Grounded closed for hol...

NCC graduates honored Sixty-six students graduated from Northwest Iowa Community College on Friday, Dec. 15. Commencement ceremonies were held in Building A on NCC’s campus in Sheldon. Area students who received certificates, diplomas or degrees a...

• Dec. 30, 1948 Reburial services for Pvt. Edward R. Magee were conducted at the Legion Hall by Amvet Post No. 61. Pvt. Magee died in Germany on July 21, 1945, at the age of 24. He entered military service on Oct. 7, 1942, and was serving in a h...

Change in garbage collection in Hartley Brommer Sanitation will collect garbage in Hartley on Tuesday, Dec. 26 and Tuesday, Jan. 2 due to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays falling on Monday. HCC trivia night on New Year’s Eve The Hartley Com...

Recipients of NCC Foundation scholarships Students at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon were awarded scholarships this fall through the NCC Foundation. The foundation is able to award the scholarship opportunities due to generous support...