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85 Years Ago Aug. 19, 1936

August 18, 2021

(Herald file photo from Thursday, Aug. 28, 1986)

HAXTUN FOOTBALL - Members of Haxtun's Fightin' Bulldogs 1986 team are back row (l-r), Coach Keith Lick, Manager Rusty Eckman, Craig McCarty, Trever Fix, Steve Meakins, John Harris, Kevin Fetzer, Todd Workman, Greg Koellner, Jeff Zimmerman, Randy Nolin and Head Coach John Starkebaum; middle row (l-r), Manager Nathan Peterson, Dino Nolin, Jeff Braun, Joel Brotherton, Doug Hainley, Jim Switzer, Roger Brown, Mike Clark, Jerry Switzer and Roger Agnew; front row (l-r), Scott Thompson, Elrik Bech, Aaron Knode, Tim Olson, Sean Fryrear, Dan Fetzer, Roger Fetzer, Jared Anderson and Jay Goddard.

85 Years Ago

Aug. 19, 1936

Frank Sullivan, well-known farmer living south of Haxtun, was drowned at Scottsbluff, Nebr., Wednesday evening. It was understood that he was swimming the Platte River there. He was 28 years of age.

Dan Edmund Hofmeister of Haxtun received the master of arts degree at Colorado State College of Education in Greeley last Saturday, Aug. 15. The class of 306 was the largest on record in the nearly 50 years of history of Colorado's professional teacher-training institution.

The object of an auto pilgrimage to Arriba, Colo., is to study the chisel-damming machine...

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