Football Contest Inside! The Hebron ournal $100 J egister Volume 146, Issue 39 12 Pages, One Section, Plus Supplements WWednesdayednesday, SSeptembereptember 27, 2201017 Serving the communities of Alexandria, Belvidere, Bruning,R Byron, Carleton, Chester, Davenport, Deshler, Gilead, Hebron, Hubbell and surrounding areas www.hebronjournalregister.com Tidbits Hidden Fall Festival packs in activities Football contest results There was a fi rst place tie be- goodies tween Chris Connell of Fairbury and Joy Solomon of Hebron for last week’s Football Contest. They both missed the TCU/ along Oklahoma State matchup. It came down to the tie-breaker game with Connell closer to the point trail spread. Hebron is featured in the High- LaVonne Kassebaum of Hebron way Heritage brochure Trail of makes his fi rst appearance as a Treasures, set for the fi rst weekend winner with a $5 third place prize. in October. Connell will claim the $15 prize and To integrate the city along the Solomon, the $10 spot. trail, the Hebron Chamber of Com- merce is advertising “Hebron’s Hidden Treasures,” with 15 garage Oregon Trail run sales to date, antiques, business seeking teams promotions and food for Oct. 5-7. The garage sales can be found Teams are being sought for the on page 3 of this issue. Pony Express Run half-marathon The Trail of Treasures stretches relay Oct. 21. from Brownville to Edison and Teams of four to run a half- highlights along the historical marathon with each member southern Nebraska trail are avail- running 3.275 miles and passing able in the Heritage Highway the “mochila” mail bag in step brochure. with Pony Express history, are The Heritage Highway website welcome. offers plenty of self-guided points of interest to explore along the The “mochilas” will feature each Nancy McGill/JR Photos team’s number and timing chip. trail including, the porch swing, Hebron’s Post Offi ce mural by Berdon Pedersen of Davenport keeps the Deshler broom factory history alive with his demonstrations, The fee to register teams such as the one at the Thayer County Museum Fall Festival in Belvidere Sunday. Pedersen, who was a plant includes a fi nisher’s medal and Eldora Lorenzini in 1939 as part of performance shirt, along with the New Deal’s Public Works of Art manager at the Deshler Broom Factory from 1982 to 1996, brings his broom winding machine bought from Project, one of 12 in the state. a pre-race meal the evening of the factory’s sale after it closed, and shows onlookers the principals of broom making. He also demonstrated Also advertised on the Heritage at Deshler’s town celebration and Homestead National Monument this year. Oct. 20. Highway website are the Hebron After team leaders have regis- Civil Conservation Camp that tered at active.com and paid the housed German prisoners of war fee, individual team members can during World War II and the lime- register, using the team password stone Romanesque and Gothic- set by the leader. style Thayer County Courthouse. The committee organizing the Over 700 people from numerous run held the fi rst marathon and states visited Hebron for the sales half-marathon event last year. last year. They created the Pony Express “We’re very excited to host this Run to honor the history of the event again and hope we have Pony Express. good turnout,” chamber director Last year, “Where’s the Finish?” Jana Tietjen said. “We hope we relay team won the county division draw people from all over to our in 1:51.9. The team represented county.” Bruning. “We hope that every community in Thayer County would fi nd four runners to represent their town,” Offi cers committee member Jeff Friesen said. “Bring in some ringers. Make it a fun day to celebrate the history and community that we have in make Thayer County.” Donna Vieselmeyer of Hebron takes a peek at the 1934 Trailmobile on the Thayer County Museum grounds The Pony Express operated for Sunday. approximately 19 months from two April 1860 to October 1861. Rid- ers changed horses about every 10 miles and passed the mochilas every to new riders about every 75 arrests miles. They rode day and night to The Thayer County Sheriff’s deliver the mail. Offi ce made two arrests in the past Hebron week, with the fi rst solving the August burglary at Peace Lutheran Majestic Theater Church in Deshler. 402-768-6061 Calvin Collins, 18, of Hebron, - Cinema I - was arrested Sept. 19 at 4:05 a.m., 7 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. for burglary and theft by unlawful Hitman’s Bodyguard taking. Collins has not been for- Rated R mally charged and the two initial reasons for arresting him could - Cinema II - change once he is in the court 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:30 p.m. system. The Glass Castle Rated PG-13 He is scheduled for arraign- Friday, Saturday, ment Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. His bond Sunday, Monday was amended to 10 percent of *Movies subject to change* $10,000. According to a warrantless arrest Check the website at affi davit fi led in Thayer County Members of the Belvidere Woman’s Club, Cheryl Marsh, Linda Hudson, Jean Shipley, Jenn Waldmeier and www.hebronmajestic.com Court, Collins broke into the church Dianne Waldmeier, served up Walking Tacos at the Fall Festival. during the early morning hours Aug. 24. ~Obituaries~ Taken was a Gibson guitar. Col- Bauer, Dorothy, 84, Deshler lins used the cross from the church’s alter to break into the church’s Bessler, Laurie, 57, Plymouth offi ce. The cross was later tossed in a ditch near Deshler. The Gibson was sold to a music Nebraska: store in Lawrence, Kan. .00 Charges are also pending against $34 Eric Donahoe, 43, of Davenport. .00 An affi davit shows Donahoe was Outstate: $39 arrersted for strangulation, terror- .00 istic threats, third degree assault Online: $23 and child abuse. Donahoe was taken into police custody Sept. 22 after Donahoe (402) 768-6602 argued with a minor child and held [email protected] the child on the ground with at least one hand on the child’s throat, ac- Members of the Belvidere Volunteer Fire Department, Dusty Blake, Secretary Treasurer Kelly Wagner, Chief Mail payments: cording to the affi davit. Randy Waldmeier and President Joshua Waldmeier, were on the museum site Sunday. The fi re department is His bond was set at 10 percent holding a raffl e for three fi rearms and will announce the winner immediately following its Hunter’s Breakfast P.O. Box 210 of $7,500. He is also due in court Hebron, NE 68370 Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. Nov. 11 from 5 a.m. to 12 p.m. 2 - Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - The Hebron Journal-Register PPagesages ooff tthehe PPastast...... From The Hebron Journal- Register 1887 to Kansas. home of Dr. H. J. Newell. Byron: Some of the people 1927 130 Years Ago who sit around on the street Bruning has a call out for and talk about other peoples’ 90 Years Ago a public meeting to devise business would do well to (The Alexandria Argus) ways and means to make hunt a scythe and pass their Izaak Walton meeting: A a town on its surrounding spare time in mowing weeds few members met Monday prairies. and improving the looks of evening at C. W. Beer’s tin The Hebron Opera House the town...A. B. Summers shop and a number of busi- was sold last Monday at pub- has the record for raising ness matters taken up. It was lic auction and was bid in by wheat and oats. He threshed decided to ask the State for J. H. Lynch, of the First Na- from 16 acres of wheat 720 a shipment of pickerel and tional Bank. The sum bid was bushels and from fi ve acres catfi sh to be put in the Big $2,250.25 and the assuming of oats 400 bushels. Sandy this fall, waiting until of a mortghage and interest next spring for additional J-R File Photo amounting to $800. 1907 species of fi sh. The game This Week 2007…Essay Contest Winners...Thirteen Thayer Central students’ essays Mr. James and Miss Lizzie 110 Years Ago reserve was also discussed were accepted for publication in the anthology Celebrating What is Important to Me--Sum- J. Kleppinger, brother and J. M. Marsh of Hebron has and a committee appointed to mer 2007, as part of “Creative Communication, Inc.,” essay contest they entered in Mrs. sister of Mrs. J. D. Garmire, purchased H. L. Weimer’s see the owners. The Walton Boatright’s ninth grade English/Literature course. This is an honor as there were numerous returned to their home at league signs appealing to the elevator at Carleton, which entries in the contest and not all entries were selected for publication. The following students Walnut, Iowa, this week. honor of the Sportsman have will be run by Fred Marsh. and their essays include: Amber Brungardt, “My Favorite Dog;” Braden Burkey, “Hunting;” Among the pleasant occa- Fire at Gilead: One third been received and will be sions was the wedding Sept. of the village of Gilead, in put up in prominent places Spencer Culler, “The 2nd Chuck Norris;” Maruica Eshom, “Perfect Hero to the Rescue;” Will 8 of Mr. Bert Cropsey and east Thayer County, was along the Big Sandy and Goldhammer, “Da Bears;” Sheila Heitmann, “There’s No ‘I’ in Volleyball;” Kaylie McGhghy, Miss Nettie Stevens at the destroyed by fi re at an early other points.