From Our Files

• April 21, 1949

Vernon McCarty, of Hartley, who was attending Creighton University, was selected for the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship by the state selection committee of Iowa.

The Hartley School Board announced the purchase of the lot at the northeast corner of the athletic field from Lawrence Grotewohl. The house on the property was to be moved as soon as possible. Plans were to move the baseball diamond farther west, away from the fence, and to move the football field north and west. Arthur W. Kirchhoff Post No. 288 provided assistance to purchase the land and also agree...