Jewell Record News (Newspaper) - August 20, 1987, Jewell, Iowa South Hamilton Kamrar ews 50130 AUGUST Volume Number 34 Clerk of Court Marian Daniels Clerk of Court off ice has impact on peoples lives By Julie Bush Complexity is the name of the game if you work at the Clerk of Courts Theres so much to this Marian Hamilton County Clerk of This of fice is probably the most the most diverse and covers the most different activities of any office in the The list of responsibilities Daniels has is She is the registrar of deaths and She is in charge of all court in civil cases of law and small adoptions and name She is in charge of alimony child support collec tions and monitors foreclosure ac issues keeps naturalization records and issues These duties are only the tip of the iceberg as far as Daniels is con We probably have more impact on peoples lives than any other office because me things we do affect them as Daniels One of the hiost important rights of people is This office restricts We issue warrants of confiscate illegal property and issue executions for Daniels describes a typical day for her as I couldnt begin to count the clients we serve each she We have to carry out what the courts but we do other things in ad dition to what the court Daniels is involved as the commissioner for bar is involved in jury management and calls jurors to come in according to trial She has worked in the Clerks office since and was elected Clerk of Court in In 1986 the state took over the so her position has become an appointed The state has control of the office for a unification of the court she Things keep getting more complex each Daniels Everything has increased tremen she The case the bookkeeping and the paper work have all in Daniels is aided by six Each em ployee concentrates on one general They have to be able to handle other phases in ad dition to their assigned Daniels I do a little bit of every phase and also Along with the diverse activities assigned to Daniels she also must work with quite a few other These include court state Veterans Im the Department of the Depar of Human Services and the parole just to name a One problem Daniels office has with the public is the misunderstanding about court A lot of people will file a small claim and think we do everything automatically from she She also said the clerk cannot give legal When people have a question about legal mat they should see their she The diverse activities she must do is one thing Daniels likes Each day is definitely a she So many different things are The negative side of her job is the pressure and the hectic pace of her she We are under such a tremendous load of Daniels People need to try to be Communication skills are an important part of her she Other good skills to have include record budgetary decision making skills and administrative Daniels said many of the restrictions her office has are to ensure order to operate the A lot of the people look at them as road but the restrictions are for their own Daniels Speaker named for annual Farm Bureau meeting John executive tor and secretary treasurer of the Iowa Farm Bureau will be the featured speaker at the annual Hamilton County Farm Bureau meeting September The meeting will begin with a catered meal at 6 at Webster City Community High The business meeting will follow at 7 Reserved tickets should be purchased before August Snethen serves as chief ad ministrative officer of the Iowa Farm is a member of the Farm Bureau Management Cor and is responsible for the financial records of the Iowa Farm Bureau and insurance Snethen was appointed to his current position this Prior to he served three years as administrative five years as director of the public policy and four years as the divector of the field service Snethen and his wife Ruby live in They have eight Bank names new president It has been announced that Denny Rouse has been appointed President of the Farmers State He will continue his association with the Farmers National Bank as Senior Vice President and affiliation with the Board of David Chairman of the Board at both stated that Rouse will begin his new duties at Jewell on September Rouse has been associated with Farmers National Bank since moving City in He and are the parents grown Rouse member of the ity Lions and the Dity Development I Board of Webster Chamber Rouse who st interests Bank in President will places Gary Meyer down to pursue his he Exchange State where he is also Meyer on the staff of the Farmers State Bank as a part time Hill praised the job Meyer done and is happy hell be staying oneven though it is only on a parttime Dave Hill left extended a welcome to new bank president Dennis A As a part of the Hamilton County Extension Service Open House on September the organization will be looking back at activities during its past 70 according to Lynn Hab County Extension This excerpt looks back at the year 1929 Hamilton County Extension Farm Bureau and the Chicago Northwestern Railroad cooperated in sponsoring a scheduled stop of the Pig Train Special in the year people passed through the train and viewed the This was he third largest attendance on he Northwestern line and the back at extension in 1929 on highest for a night that more men are their Band played highest for a night Swine production at that and at the present one of the major industries in Hamilton In view of serious losses from diseases and a countywide swine production project was carried The project was to embrace several series of meetings in discussions on 1 timely economic information 2 brood sow selection 3 disease and parasites 4 portable hog house construction and 5 feeds and A total of 67 people attended the 6 meetings on brood sow selection and the report stated that more men are fulling their brood sows than have ever done so Stouder of the Extension Service in Ames conducted the series on swine diseases and parasites with 117 attending the five Impassable roads cut down the attendance con One hundred fiftytwo people attended the five demonstrations on portable hog house construc The use of moveable hog houses increased very materially and more men were taking ad vantage of this type 6f construc The Hamilton County 4H Band played again for the National Boys and Girls Club Congress and the International in They played an engagement at the Iowa State the Hamilton County the Boone County Fair and the Webster County Included also were numerous concerts at various towns in the county and they played a concert for two meetings the American County Life Association at The Open House to which all people of Hamilton County are invited will be held from 2 to 9 at the Extension Office in Webster With the return of noise again rings from the gymnasium as the South Hamilton volleyball team is at work preparing for the upcoming The open their campaign September 3 at home against in both varsity and junior varsity photo
