Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties

From Our Files

1974: Hailstorm rips through Hartley area

• Aug. 25, 1949

An intensive training course was given at the Hartley school for prospective student school bus drivers from Hartley and Royal. Safety was stressed throughout the conferences, and the students were given actual driving tests with the Hartley buses. The course was given in an attempt to train additional drivers of school buses.

Blaine Hirt, Fred Schoelerman and John Meiske, of Hartley, and Charles Walker, of Paullina, represented O’Brien County as a livestock judging team at the Iowa State Fair.

Coach Harold B. Church resigned his position in Hartley to accept a position as head...