Two Big Days at Clermont This Week
Clermont hosts Dairy Day and Farmers Picnic on August 12 and 13 with Gov. Wilson and officials headlining. Highlights include 4-H dairy display, Windisch Troupe acts, Farmersburg Monona band, Dr. Holbrook on Iowa, boxing carnival refereed by Alex Fidler, and Sunday features by Dr. Garvin Fay I county chorus and local bands. Clermont Commercial Club sponsors invite all to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont
George A. Wilson
Mark G. Thornburg
Ernest Wright
State Dairy Association
Montauk
Windisch
Farmersburg-Monona
Royal H. Holbrook
Iowa
Alex Fidler
Cedar Rapids
Samuel Garvin
Dubuque
Fayette
Health girl honor for Clermont Clover Clovers 4-H team
Savy Crowe visited the Mahoney home in Oelwein on Wednesday. Marjorie Noack, daughter of Mrs. Clay Noack, traveled to Fayette for a county health examination along with ten county girls, earning the Clermont Clover Clovers 4-H club health girl title. Mrs. J. J. Burke and granddaughter Patricia Lannon and John Burke with daughters Mary Kathryn and Patricia visited the Dan Burke home Friday and left Monday for St Paul with Mrs. Burke staying longer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savy c Crowe
Oelwein
Mahoney
Verni Engle
Clay Noack
Marjorie
Fayette
Miss Noack
Clermont Clover Clovers
J. J. Burke
Patricia Lannon
John Burke
Mary Kathryn
Patricia
Dan Burke
St. Paul, Minn
Burke
Cedar Rapids
C. T. Burke
Western Trip Rosary Society Plans Ice Cream Social
Sadie Peterson with Fileen Malloy Loren Dahms and Mary Jean Malloy of Castalia returned Friday after a 3500 mile motor trip through western Iowa the Dakotas Wyoming Montana and Minnesota. They visited the Grotto at West Bend the Corn Palace at Mitchell Rushmore and Yellowstone Old Faithful and the Bad Lands. In Townsend they visited the Malloy ranch and returned home via North Dakota and Minnesota. Back home Sunday guests included G M Hackett Stella Hackett and others. Rosary Society and Altar Guild plan an ice cream social for Aug 12 with Mrs Fred Bigler Mrs B Reigal and Mrs Sheldon Boyle in charge. Fr Leo O Connell spoke on church repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Peterson
Fileen Malloy
Loren Dahms
Mary Jean Malloy
Castalia
Iowa
Dakotas
Rapid City
Black Hills
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Yellowstone National Park
Montana
Peter Malloy
Malloy
North Dakota
Minnesota
St. Peter's Rosary Society and
Altar Guild
Fred Bigler
B. Reigal
Sheldon Boyle
Chas, Regan
John Ryan
Waukon
Phione
Elizabeth Priest
Lycurgus
Frank Boyle
West Union
Leo O’connell
B. Paulson
A. J. Priest
Day celebration speakers include Thornburg and Wilgort
Secretary of Agriculture Mark G Thornburg will speak Saturday afternoon at the Daily Day celebration along with Gov Geo A Wilgort Ernest Wright Royal Holbrook Fréderic Larrabée and B W Patsey Also noted are multiple social visits weddings and family events in Iowa and Wisconsin with residents from Waterloo Cedar Rapids Postville and West Union among others Including a wedding reception at Brown's Tea room and plans to settle in West Union after a honeymoon in Missouri and Arkansas
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Geo. A. Wilgort
Ernest Wright
Royal, Holbrook
Fréderic Larrabée
B. W. Patsey
Ten stowaways die from ship fumigation fumes in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn a freighter named Ayuroca is linked to a deadly fumigation in its hold. Ten stowaways trapped inside were felled by poisonous gases with some reported killed. Survivors are shown as they are aided by police emergency squad members in gas masks lowering into the hold.
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New York
Brooklyn
South America
Social Roundup Of Dinner Guests And Local Moves
Want ads tell and sell. Mr and Mrs Harry Johnson entertained Mr and Mrs Alfred Wenger and Isabelle at dinner Sunday. Kenneth Anderson of West Union visited the J M Brorby home from Tuesday until Mr and Mrs W R Blake drove to Manchester Wednesday and spent the day with her sister Mrs Frank Barne. Mr and Mrs Paul Wells and children of Osterdock spent the weekend in the parental Mrs Mary Washburn home. While visiting friends in Waterloo Mrs Len Simek a dinner guest of Mrs John Howard in Cedar Falls on Friday Esther Carlin arrived Friday from Erie Pa to spend the remainder of her summer vacation in the L H Carlin home. Anna Stee began work at Schup s grocery last Thursday. She is getting acquainted with her clerical duties before Harold Halverson leaves the latter part of this month to teach at Dover No 6 west of town. Harold has been employed as clerk for the past year and a half.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucille Lubke
Willis Gress
Ida Wede
George Paulson
St. Peter's Catholic Church
Richard Olson
Ole Triem
Waterloo
Len Simek
J.nhn Howard
Cedar Falls
Esther Carlin
Erie
L. H. Carlin
Anna Stee
Sehup
Harold Halverson
Dover No. 6
Harold
Round the Houses Auto Race Attracts Notable Field
Alexandria Bay N Y Sixteen noted drivers race through village streets on August 12 in a 70 mile event with fifty 1.4 mile laps. Sponsored by the Automobile Racing Club of America the race promises thrills with tight turns. Lemuel Ladd of Boston shown with his Ford Special is a top favorite after recent Montauk Point success and prior wins.
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Alexandria Bay
N. Y
Automobile Racing Club of America
Lemuel Ladd
Boston
Montauk Point
L. I
Store Employees Help to Harvest Hidden Tax Crop
Fayette county counts about 1,210 unofficial tax collectors among 476 retail stores. Clerks behind counters collect fractions of hidden taxes in every sale, raising prices to consumers. While taxes are hidden, merchants cannot absorb the burden, and each cash register ring represents a tax payment.
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Fayette County
Iowa
Testing the Renter and Tenant Qualities in Farm Lands
A Pella Chronicle excerpt notes a renter for a large insurance company who judged tenants by weed-free fence corners and roadside verges. He believed uncut weeds near fields indicated an undesirable renter, a standard he would apply to town tenants as well.
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Pella
Advertising insight and a corn remark in the Gazette
The piece muses on advertising as an investment and the need to save, cites old Navy slang about reserves, and questions a plan to tax aging tractors. Ralph H. Wilson visits the Gazette with a quip about an ear of corn showing five distinct kernels on a summer page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph H. Wilson
Sumner
Gazette
Summer Gazette
Fayette County Fair Opens Children Day Invitation
The Fayette County Fair invites all locality school children to attend free tickets on Children's Day Tuesday Aug 22. Boys and girls living in or near Clermont may collect tickets at Davis Market anytime from now until the fair's Tuesday. Come on kids it is your day but you must have a ticket.
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Fayette County
Clermont
Davis Market
Boxing Referees Highlight Clermont Saturday Evening
Alex Fidler of Cedar Rapids will referee the boxing matches at Clermont on Saturday night featuring fast lightweight bouts in Iowa. Visitors include Robert Carney of Waterloo and friends, with several locals and out-of-town guests noted in social rounds around Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont
Iowa
Clermont August social calendar and local visits noted
The Clermont calendar lists August events from the 42nd to 17th including Dairy Day Farmers Picnic American Legion Auxiliary Society meetings and lodge business. The report notes Mrs Ruth Olson at the state Legion Auxiliary convention in Burlington, visitors from Elkader Postville Monona, and local gatherings at homes and dinners with names such as Henry Bahn Ben Hulbert Louise Hanks N. H. Nelson Bertha Frisbie J C Erickson Marguerite Rogers Phyllis Gress Margaret Moen Claude Gress and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Legion Auxiliary
Mission Society
Clermont Lodge A.F
A.M
Ruth Olson
Burlington
American Legion Auxiliary
Wayne Abel
Henry Bahn
Elkader
Ben Hulbert
Postville
Louise Hanks
Monona
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Earl Marting
Hazel Schrader
Aiglé Ead
Burgess - Dugstad Lumber Company
Clermont, Iowa
Wan
Rosary Society
F. M. Hackett
G. M. Hackett
Sabula
Stella Hackett
Mré
Children of
Coast Falls
Sinclair
Cline
St.Paul, Minn
Frank Schweinerus
Anna Finnegan
Oakland
California
Wm. Smith
Mauston
Wis
N.H. Nelson
Austin and
Albert Lea Minn
R.S. Henderson
Russell Gruver
Ammazette Henderson
Little Gene 'Gruver
Oyat
Secretary of Agriculture
Leslie Anderson
Edwin Stry
University Hospital
Iowa’ City
Clifton Pringle
Otto Vasby
Ray
Anamosa
L. V. Candee
Marvin Johnson
Nellie Malone
Jack Malone
Cornelius Olson
Janet
Lake Geneva
George Larson
Hans Larson
Arthur Mechelson
Frances Peterson
Celwein
Herman, Johnson
June
Arth Bradley
Mr. Ongemach
Chicago
G. O. Andéroi
Anderson
Johnson
Carl Johnson
Delwe
Brown
Missouri
Arkansas
Mr. Johnson
Harry Johnson
Alfred Wenger
Isabelle
Kenneth Anderson
J. M. Brorby
W. R. Blake
Manchester
Frank Barne
Paul Wells
Osterdock
Mary Washburn
Karl Fischer
Towa
Robert Carney
James Brorby
John Moon
Peter Anfinson
David
Perry
Jake ,Anfinson
Helen Larrabee
Iowa City
Lillian. Larrabee
Fred Cline
Harry Cline
Hopkinton
Isabelle Wenger
Volga City
Myr
Lester Wenger
Arlington
S. W. Clark
Independence
Mary Benson
Roy Meyer
Sarah
Sophie Groth
John Nelson
Gilbert Nelson
Anna Paulson
L. L. Whitworth
Mrs. Simek
Mrs. Simex
Clermionit
Loretta Belschner
Herbert Malven
Maynard
Norman Amundson
George Belschnner
Ozark , Mountains
H. S. Anderson
Marguerite Rogers
Frank Fay
Byra Taylor
Chicago Heights
Taylor
H. B. Taylor
Martin Bakken
Rochester, Minn
Fennimore
N. H. Nelson
Bertha Frisbie
J. C. Erickson
Colorado Springs
Colo
Corner Cupboard
John
Denver, Colo
J. M. Brorbky
Clara Anderson
Phyllis Gress
Margaret Moen
L. A. Wise
Francis Shay
Mrs. Shay
Son
Claude Gress
Denver
Decorah
Bily Bros
Spillville
Ghee Avalon
Beller Pictures
Jack Fallows
Fred MacMurray, Frene Dunne
Lemotion
Roy Rogers
Mary Hart
Rough Riders Roundup
Jones
Hollywood
Henry Fonda
Mars
Weaver
Mr. Lincoln
Robert Young, Ann Sothern
Maisie
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