CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - A Three day Blizzard

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CEDAR COUNTY NEWS   April 5, 1920

A Three day Blizzard

H.P. Lauretzen recalls bad blizzard in Northeast Ne 47 years ago

	In spite of the snow fall last Sunday it was a balmy spring 
day compared with the weather on Easter Sunday, which occurred on 
April 11, 1878 in the opinion of H.P. Lauretzen one of Cedar county’s 
very early settlers and still an honored citizen of Hartington where 
he is known by nearly every resident and highly esteemed by all.

 	Mr. Lauritzen will celebrate on April 20, the 52nd anniversary 
of his arrival in Cedar county having landed here in 1869 making the 
trip from Omaha by river steamer. Coming to Cedar county direct from 
Schleswig-Holstein, Mr. Lauretzen celebrated his 21st birthday the day 
after his arrival. He worked on a farm two years and then farmed for 
himself for one year. A few months after he sent to his old home for 
his boyhood sweetheart during the summer and in the fall Mr. Lauretzen 
and his young bride leased the old Lewis E. Jones farm adjoining the 
Bow Valley mills near Wynot which is one of the historical landmarks 
of northeast Nebraska. It was while occupying the Jones farm that the 
famous blizzard occurred.

 	The spring season was remarkably warm and plowing started early 
after an exceptionally open winter, spring crops were far advanced and 
wheat and oats were both out of the ground.  The day was so bright that 
Mr. and Mrs. Lauretzen upon a visit to Mrs. Lauretzen’s chum who resided 
in the village of Green Island.