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Cook
is Held
Columbus,
Neb., March 5 - Special
The
preliminary hearing of W. Cook, charged
with forging a note for $641.10 about a
year ago, was held today before the county
judge. The evidence was strong enough
to hold him, and bail was fixed at $1,000.
He went to jail to await the action
of the district court.
Checks
on Clay, Robinson & Co. of South Omaha
were found in his possession. He confessed
to being an all around dead game sport and
professional gambler. He is supposed
to be wanted elsewhere.
Morning
World Herald - March 6, 1891
Hire 14 New Teachers in City System
Fourteen
new teachers have been hired in the Columbus
City School System by the board of education.
Three
are in Senior High School, six in Junior
High and the rest in various Elementary
schools.
New
Senior High teachers are:
William
Wollenhaupt, a 1959 graduate of Wayne State
Teachers College, who will teach science.
Cecil
V. Carlson of Lincoln, a graduate of the
University of Omaha, who will teach English.
Warren
E. Moor of Garnder, Kansas, who received
his master's degree from Fort Hays Kansas
State College, who will teach history
and be the guidance director.
Mr.
Carlson previously taught at Clatonia and
Elmwood High Schools.
The
New teachers at Junior High are:
Richard
W. Loseke, a graduate of the University
of Nebraska, who formerly taught at Louisville,
Nebraska.
Mrs.
Joyce Norris of Columbus, a 1959 homemaking
graduate of the University of Nebraska.
Miss
Louise Kaufmann of Columbus, a graduate
of Doane College and former teacher at Ord
and Madison.
Milton
E. Holtz, graduate of Midland College and
a former instructor at Neligh.
Kenneth
Hatfield, a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan.
Robert
F. Chamberlin, a graduate of State Teachers
College East Stroudsburg, Pa.
In
Elementary schools, five new teachers have
been hired.
They
are as follows:
Mrs.
Roberta Uhlmann of Columbus, graduate of
Haslings College who will teach as Field
School.
Miss
Dorothy Thompson of Newman Grove, a graduate
of Wayne State College and a former teacher
at
Newman Grove who will teach at Lincoln School.
Miss
Shirley Allen, who received her training
at Kearney State College and a former teacher
at Silver Creek and Giltner, will teach
at Emerson school.
Mrs.
Virginia Willman, a former teacher at Field
School returns to the system at Emerson
School.
Miss
Sharon Sullivan, a former teacher at Aurora
who received her training at Wayne State,
will teach at Highland Park.
Columbus
Daily Telegran - August 21, 1959
Fleeting
Suspects Slay Two Officers in Running Fight
Colby, Kan., Tuesday, Aug. 25 –
Authorities today had found no trace of two young men who yesterday shot and
killed Sheriff Sam Pratt of Thomas County and then crossed the Nebraska line and
killed Ed Clark, North Platte traffic officer, after running fights with posses
of the two states.
The slayers are believed to have
committees a series of hold-ups in Western Kansas and were escaping in a motor
car when they encountered the officers.
Seattle Daily Times,
August 25, 1925, page 4
Transcribed
and contributed by: Peggy Thompson
Columbus Bank Installs Tear Gas as Protection
Special Dispatch to the World Herald
Columbus, Nebraska, November 22. -- A tear gas system, as a precaution against bank robbers, has been installed by the Central National Bank here.
The system is controlled by a series of buttons at convenient locations in the bank and it is claimed that the lobby may be filled with gas in three-fifths of a second.
Sunday World Herald: Omaha, Nebraska, November 12, 1930
Martin Jensen 
April 4, 1900, Martin Jensen, a baker, twenty years old, who
has been employed the past six months at Humphrey, stole a ride with a companion
Saturday night on the Union Pacific accommodation train, and fell under the
wheels at Platte Center. Both legs are badly mangled. He was brought
to the hospital here and one leg was amputated soon after midnight.
Attending surgeons hope to save the other, but are not sure they
can.
Source: Custer Co. Republican - April 15, 1900 edition
Transcribed and contributed by: Melody Beery
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