50 years ago
Aug. 13, 1953
The county road crew is busy this week oiling and surfacing an additional three miles on the road south of Hillsboro, extending the present blacktop to the corner seven miles east of Goessel. The first four miles were surfaced about a year ago as a benefit project — the property owners paying part of the cost and the county the rest.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Heinrichs and children and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schroeder left Sunday afternoon for the Black Hills in South Dakota. They returned home Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed F. Geis spent the weekend in Wichita with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Whitney and son. Mr. and Mrs. Quenton Geis. They called on Mrs. Bertha Schultz who is a patient in the Halstead Hospital Sunday evening.
Lt. Richard Franz left Saturday morning by plane for California after spending a 21-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Franz and family.
Mrs. Katherine Funk, Mrs. Justina Franz, and Mr. Abraham Pankratz were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Pankratz and Rosemary.
Louis Grauman, who has been employed at the Mize Jewelry Store, has given up her job and left Sunday for her home in Harvey, N.D.
A Sunday School class of the Ebenfeld Church had an outing last week Monday evening at the swimming pool in Newton. The class is taught by C.H. Seibel with Edwin Harder as assistant.
John Dalke left for North Dakota last week to work in the harvest for several weeks.
John Davis has been hired by the city to be the night policeman. Mr. Davis was employed with the R.E.A. in Hillsboro before resigning to take the job with the city.
