Clermont School News Highlights and Activities
Fourth graders learn two digit multiplication and averages while studying Nancy in Alaska. Eskimo dress and lifeways explored. Perfect paper honorees listed. Art periods featured Indian and cowboy costumes with free hand drawing. Seventh grade covers Iowa Missouri boundary and new geometry topics. Dental card return rate urged. Eighth grade self testing drills praised and first aid kits built. Sandra Sherman of West union visited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy
Alaska
Jean Amundson
Kathleen Amundson
Roger Berg
Robert Fenton
Karen Gilson
Dennis Griehenow
Onnie Taylor
Ellen Theis
Elsie Wede
Joyce Larson
Dennis Muchow
Hawaiian Islands
Guam
Wake Island
Iowa
Iowa - Missouri
Sandra Sherman
West Union
Clermont Local News Last Week's Letter Highlights Visits
Lyle Gress of Davenport hosts a gathering with Francis Shay and family of Waubeek Harry Venard and children of Oakville Kenneth Gress and Vine Gress with Gene of Cedar Falls attend at Claude Gress home A group of women visited the B Riegel home to celebrate Mrs Riegel's birthday A Cedar Rapids party including Mrs William Burrow Jr visited the Bob Burrow home Easter guests Winnifred Sullivan joined Mrs Fred Bigler and Frank Cahalan with Jack Burrow and family at Cedar Rapids location
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle Gress
Davenport
Francis Shay
Waubeek
Easter Sunday Guests at Will Burrow Sr Home
Rapids were Friday supper guests in the Will Burrow Sr home with Easter Sunday guests Mr and Mrs Bob Burrow and family visiting.
Bees Sent By Parcel Post To Clermont
A 1927 Clermont note reports a parcel post novelty as a colony of bees shipped from Ohio to Mrs. Emma Grossman in a double screened container. The mail cost 20 cents and most bees survived the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont
Emma Grossman
Ohio
Clermont State Bank
Clermont Farmers Co-op
Minneapolis
Hubbard
USU
Peacock
Larson
Sullivan
Shipton
America
W. H. Tate
Clermont High School
Ebna
Local families attend funerals and visits across towns
Community notices list Henry Scheidel’s funeral in Ossian, dinners in Arthur Wilken’s Strawberry Point home, and visits by the Ostlie and Burger families. Principal Billy Bigler named at Dumont school. birthday acknowledgments and bridge prizes noted. Additional items mention Mr and Mrs Joe Wander visiting Monona, Ed Pines funeral, and trips by A R Morgan of Minneapolis to visit Bess Blake in Cler mont and Manchester/Dubuque family connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Schupanitz
Robert
John Kelly
Henry Scheidel
Ossian
Lloyd Meier
John Bakewell
Jackie
Arthur Wilken
Strawberry Point
Wm. Brehn
Ashley, AL
Henby Schweinerus
James Ostlie
Waterloo
Irene Ostlie
B. Burger
Bob
Clermont
Billy Bigler
Dumont
Fred Bigler
Beulah Lubke
Ruth Starkey
Lubke
Frances Cline
Hazel Jerdee
Mildred Moore
Rosa Reigel
Frances Hoopman
Bess Blake
Lorranne Crowe
Ruth Olson
Joyce Appelman
LaNora Halverson
Hart Dummermuth
Nora Halverson
Joe Wander
Preston Carr
Monona
Doyle Bennett
Oelwein
Harold Bennett
Len Simek
Ed Pines
Castalia
A. R. Morgan
Minneapolis
Manchester
Dubuque
Blake
Barbara Burger
Fayette
Social Calendar and Friends Gatherings Almanac
Olavus Berentson hosts dinner guests Betty Burget of Minneapolis and her mother Mrs Don Burget of Fayette. Attendance at a Elkader funeral included Mr and Mrs Harold Bennett. A birthday party honored Reuben Svendsen hosted by his wife and children. Various visits and dinners occur across Lawler Cedar Rapids West Union Guttenburg and Postville with church group meetings and a baptism at St Peter's Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olavus Berentson
Berentson
Betty Burget
Minneapolis
Don Burget
Fayette
Harold Bennett
Fred Katschkowsky
Elkader
Vernt Engle
John Bakewell
Lawler
Reuben Svendsen
Earl Monroe
Albert Lea
Minn
Christena Monroe
Cedar Rapids
Oliver Schultz
Mary Washburn
Vern Washburn
Mary
Frank Davis
McGregor
Tuck ‘Taylor
Vern
Washburn
Paul J. Meier
Herbert Fassbinder
Henry
Cann
Billy
Mamie Heck
Jerry Heck
Guttenburg
Joel Wander
Ole Rejerson
Ruth Collings
Marie Fallows
Bess Blake
David Lee
Gene Waters
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
Robert Cooney
Lloyd Meier
Waters
Bernard Waters
Postville
Inga Anderson
Fran Hoopman
Desert Bridge
Rosa Riegel
Mildred Moore
Beulah Lubke
Ruth Starkey
Frances Cline
Hazel Jerdee
Lorranne Crowe
Ruth Olson
Joyce Appelman
LaNora Halverson
Blanche ‘Dummermuth
Lubke
Bridge
West Union Presbyterian Church
Larson
Perry Wagner
West Union
Chili
South America
Len Simek
Clifton Pringle
Arnold Stumme
Keith Thoma
Pringle
Fremont Sullivan
Waterloo
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Lester Hope
American Legion Auxiliary
Kipling
Enterprise
Louis Schutte & Son
Clermont and
Funeral Home
Briggs-Stratton
H. B
Nelson’s
Avalon
William Powell
Julia Adams
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Lost Canyon
Siam
Chiang
Tim Holt
Richard Martin
June Allyson
van Johnson
Paula Corday
Gig Young
Mickey Rooney
Sally Forrest
James Craig
Hollywood
R. Li Myers
Optometrist
DR. I. C. Jerdee
Clermont, Iowa
L. R. Tappan
FORD
Aareane
AAA
Horsepa
Fred T. Cline Motor CO
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