Category: Local Interest
Interlibrary Loan Gives You Access to Almost Any Book
Our library in Sargent is fairly small, but did you know that through the Sargent Library you can have free access to most other library collections in the United States? The service is called Interlibrary Loan. If there is a book you need that our library doesn’t have, we can send out a request and borrow it from another library in Nebraska or even another state. There is no cost for us to receive the book, but you will have to pay for the cost of the postage to send it back. There is also the catch that the book has to be more than 1 year old. (Most libraries don’t want to lend out their best sellers to another library.) Interlibrary loan is also available to obtain other items. You can request periodicals, VHS/DVDs, Audio CDs, and even cake pans. Contact the library if you are interested.
Sargent Reads: The Spider and The Fly
This video was a lot of fun putting together. Enjoy!
Local Family in the News
Brenda Maldonado and her family were recently featured on a promotional video for the Nebraska Independent College Foundation (NICF). Congratulations Brenda! Sargent is proud of you!
1914 Football Season at Sargent High School
The following was found in a high school annual from 1914. More annuals can be viewed at the Sargent Library.
Last fall at the opening of the football season we found that most of our material was inexperienced.
Our team of the year before had returned without a defeat to their credit, and it was only due to the fact that we were forbidden to play out of town football that we did not participate in the annual game for the championship of the district.
In reorganizing, our coach, Mr. Leech, found his hardest task was to fill the vacancies left by those who went out the year before. No men were perhaps missed more than our scrappy captain and quarter, Robert Brown, whose generalship had won Sargent so many victories, and Jav Spacht, our big fullback, his right hand man and one of the best High School fullbacks in the state.
Everett Satterfield, star half-back of the year before was chosen captain. After a stiff tryout the men were sifted down until there was barely enough to fill the positions. These men, however, were tried and true and we had the prospect of a very fast team. We, however, lacked weight, and this was our great handicap through the season. Our team average was only 140, which accounted for our losses.
John Wittemyer, quarter-back played the first game as a regular, and to him we owe the winning touchdown in the last Sargent-Ord game.
Everett Satterfield, captain, half-back and quarter for part of the season, brought his team through the season with credit. He had the lightest team in the district, and yet was able to put up a hard close fight through the season. He played his position with a vim that put confidence and life into all his men.
Lyle Winberg, right half, played his first year as a regular. “Pete” is one of our fastest backfield men.
Bryan Sutton, full-back, is one of our fastest men. Many of Sargent’s touchdowns were due to his success in full forward passes.
Clark Hart, right end, played a consistent game and broke up many end runs and forward passes.
Douglas Finley played left end during Sargent’s first game, but he was unable to finish the season. He was a strong man and was missed in the later games.
Leonard Wirsig, right tackle, is one of the strongest tackles that ever played on the Sargent team. To him was due much of the strength of his side of the line.
John Lovejoy, left tackle, what Wirsig was on the right, Lovejoy was on the left. He seldom met his match in a game.
Edward Mead, right guard, played a steady, hard fought game.
Vern Abernethy, left guard, played a good game. He also played left end and was able to stop many runs.
Paul Chase, center, was a new man, but a good one that could be depended upon to pass the ball right and hold his man.
Albert Shafer at left end showed himself to be a star player. This was his first year, and he will be one of Sargent’s most reliable men.
Goodrich, Leiniger, and Reese played their positions well and showed great possibilities for the coming year.
Sargent’s Schedule 1914
Ord vs. Sargent . . . . . . . . . . .21-12
Ansley vs. Sargent . . . . . . . . 13 -0
Broken Bow vs. Sargent . . . .14 -0
Ansley vs. Sargent . . . . . . . . .20 -7
Ord vs. Sargent . . . . . . . . . . . .6 -7
Summer Reading Winners
Our Summer Reading Program was a cooperative effort this year. The Sargent Chamber of Commerce provided ice-cream cones for the kids for reading 300 pages. We gave out 39 ice-cream cones. For an additional incentive, NCTC provided bikes. Saturday, we had a drawing and the winners were Lane Moody and Cassandra Olson. Congratulations kids!
Sargent Fair and Chokecherry Jamboree
2011 State Football Champions!
Congratulations to the Sargent Bulldogs. On Monday night they beat Howells to become the State Football Champions.
Go Bulldogs!
Tomorrow the Sargent Bulldogs will play Howells at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln for the state championship title. The game will start at 2:45 p.m. central time. For those who can’t make it to Lincoln, the game can be seen online at the following link:
GO BULLDOGS!
(photo taken by Carol Fenske)
Sargent Area Homesteaders
Here’s a famous picture taken by Solomon Butcher of the Sylvester Rawding family. The image is deceiving because it appears that the cow is standing on the roof of the house. Apparently Sylvester Rawding was also a deceiver and an expert at tall tales. Mr. Rawding claimed that a large bump on his head was from a Civil war bullet lodged in his forehead. You can read the rest of his story at the Nebraska Historical Society’s website.