1931: Drizzle breaks up Armistice Day football game

Nov. 12, 1931 HARTINGTON — The county championship football tussle between Hartington’s undefeated team and the Randolph Cardinals, scheduled as the main event of local Armistice Day celebration, was postponed early Wednesday afternoon until Friday on account of a heavy rain. The holiday was a rather gloomy one in Hartington, with flags hanging bedraggled in the drizzle. Armistice Day observations was centered principally in the schools of the city. Court house and banks were closed, but most of the merchants kept their doors open to any persons who might have ventured out into the wet weather. Rev. A. R. Hyatt of the Congregational church addressed pupils of the Hartington high school Wednesday morning, choosing as his subject the “Evils of Armament.” Rev. Hyatt pointed that the girls and boys before him then would in 13 years time, the same period that has elapsed since the signing of the armistice, be running the affairs of the country.

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