Sunday Movies Barred
(Special to The Star.) -
Hastings, Neb.. Aug, 21 —
Advocates of the Sunday movies were defeated last night in the council by a vote of six to two, thus continuing in
force an ordinance of twenty years
standing forbidding Sunday work.
Sunday "movie" advocates came to the council meeting with six councilmen pledged to act
over the mayor's veto
but four of them refused when confronted with the names of 700 in remonstrance.
The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917
Five Year Old Boy Hit By Auto
(Special to the Star) - Hastings, Neb., Aug 29. --
Run over by A. H. Jones auto on the main business street today
the five year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. O.
Graham is believed to have been fatally injured.
The family lives above Mr. Graham's furniture store in fron of which the accident occurred.
The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917
Drank Loaded Cider—Fined $10
(Special to The Star.) - Hastings, Neb.. Aug. 29.—
Intoxicated on hard cider purchased at Inland which he declared he didn't know was "loaded". Charles Cornell
paid a fine of $10 and costs for drunkenness.
He was arrested at the Burlington station, after alighting fiom a train from Inland. Cornell said he bought the cider
at Inland.
The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917
A
Hunter Hurt
Roseland,
Neb., March 5 - special
Mike
Wieanda, son of a prominent farmer living near this
place, met with a serious accident
while
hunting yesterday. His gun burst, blowing
away the greater part of the flesh from his left
arm.
Morning
World Herald - March 6, 1891
Hastings
Church Celebrates
Presbyterians to Have Golden Anniversary Late in October
Hastings,
Nebraska, August 8 – Under the
direction of P L. Johnson the Presbyterian Church is preparing to celebrate its
golden anniversary late in October.
Dr. C. F. Washart, president Wooster College,
moderator of the general assembly, will preside at one of the sessions.
The Lincoln
State Journal – Thursday,
August 9, 1923
Hastings
Girl Hurt When Cars Collide
Pleasanton,
Nebraska, July 31. -- Miss Amelia Foscheuer
of Hastings was injured near here Saturday night
when the car in which she was riding, belonging
to George Falk, of Hastings met in a head on collision
with another car.
The
party was returning from Hastings after they had
come to Trumbull when it was reported that the town
here was burning down. The fire did not spread
beyond the lumberyard, where it started.
The
Lincoln Daily Star, Monday, July 31, 1916
Henry Keller, a bachelor German farmer, who owns a farm
adjoining Roseland, was taken suddenly insane and was taken to Hastings and
turned over to the sheriff.
[source: Custer Co. Republican, April 19, 1900 edition]
Transcribed by: Melody Beery
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