• Nov. 15, 1945

C.R. Pettijohn, owner of Pettijohn’s Shoes and Furnishings store, completed an extensive four-week course at the Scholl Training School for Master Shoe Fitting Salesmanship, where he graduated with high honors. The course was under the direction of Dr. William Scholl, world-noted foot authority.

Posters announcing the annual sale of Tuberculosis Christmas Seals were placed in all the downtown stores. The Hartley schools were cooperating with a more extensive Christmas Seal study than in the past in order to boost sales.

O’Brien County’s Victory Loan drive was credited with $44,000 of the Milwaukee Road’s purchase of government securities. The road invested $22,500,000 and arranged for every county in which it operated in 12 states to participate in the huge purchase.

• Nov. 12, 1970

Terry Dodson resigned his position with the police department. He was leaving Hartley to accept a position with the Spencer Police Department. Larry Rawlings, formerly of Omaha, Neb., was the new member of the Hartley police force.

A two-bed coronary care unit was put into operation at the Community Memorial Hospital and was providing 24-hour a day monitoring of heart patients from the nurses’ station. For over a year and indefinitely into the future, Hartley nurses were attending a coronary care class weekly under the direction of Dr. J.C. Peterson and Betty Meyer.

Hartley merchants again planned to give hundreds of prizes, worth thousands of dollars, to residents of the area who participated in the pre-Christmas activities. Special events planned for the children were visits to Hartley by Santa Claus and the Canyon Kid from KCAU-TV on successive Saturdays in December.

• Nov. 16, 1995

Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn High School students selected to participate in the Northwest Iowa Honor Band festival in January were Ryan Christenson, Debi Douma, Christa Funke, Jennifer Harms, Stacy Havlik, Rory Marra, Jillian Scheerhoorn, Mike Wallinga and Tonya Wegner.

The Hartley Lions Club completed payment of its five-year $10,000 pledge to the Community Medical Foundation. President Lon Vogt presented a $1,500 check to Doris Treimer, Foundation board member and treasurer.

Approximately 15 local “jailbirds” did time behind bars to help raise money for the American Cancer Society through the “Jail and Bail” fundraising event. The volunteers turned themselves in, found out how much “bail” they had to raise and called anyone they wished to raise the amount needed to get out of jail.

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