From Our Files

• April 17, 1947

Baseball was a popular sport in Hartley. The high school team won its opener against Sutherland, 9-7. The American Legion Post announced plans for a Junior Legion team, with boys from 10 area towns eligible to participate. The Hartley Red Caps, a local independent team, was beginning practices under the direction of Coach Harry Olhausen. Anyone living within 15 miles of Hartley was invited to play.

A contract was signed by Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church with the Reuter Organ Co., of Lawrence, Kan., for a new pipe organ. The organ was to be installed in the church some...