Becken's Collection of Fossils and Local Church Events
The article describes cephalopods including cameraceras plateiforme and orthoceras varieties found near Clermont and Elgin, noting sizes, forms, and fragments sent to Davenport museum. It also covers a Priscilla Working Band ice cream event with readings, instrumental pieces, a Rescue Army Choir from Des Moines, and ongoing community programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridize
Clermont
Becker
Davenport
Perroti
Elgin
Priscilla
Rescue Army
Des Moines
Speech Recital At W R Blake Studio Delights Local Audience
Pupils of the summer speech class held a Friday evening recital at W R Blake with lawn seating for about fifty. Readings and a one act play Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil featured cast members including Donald Hanson Phyllis Lubke Bernard Hanson and Doris Landsgard. The program showed varied readings and youthful interpretations and mothers served refreshments afterward. Nearby residents attended weekend visits and a benefit bridge party for Union Sunday School hosted by Mrs Blake with high scores won by Mrs Finley Dempster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Blake
Raggedy Man
Donald Hanson
Donna Landsgard
Norma Vasbey
Phyllis
Helen Halverson
Doris Landsgard
Bernard Hanson
Norma Vasby
Margaret Crowe
Bernard Shrader
Chas, Rogers
Cedar ‘Rapids
van Appelman
Louie Olson
Franklin
Lois
Clarence Grover
Waterville
Union Sunday School
Mre
Mra
L. T. Olson
Elgie Burt
Finley Dempster
Cedar Falls
Italy
Harold Greenley
I. C. Derdee
Trustees to Meet at Clermont Cemetery for Sexton
The Clermont Cemetery Association trustees will convene at Farmers' Savings Bank Clermont on Monday evening August 28 at 8 o clock to appoint a sexton. Interested parties must file written applications by that date. 51-520 Mrs. Elgie Burt, Sec'y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont Cemetery Association
Farmers’ Savings Bank
Clermont
Elgie Burt
Sec’y
St Peters Church Notices And Local Social Roundup
St Peter's Church schedules mass and Feast of St Bartholomew observances with choir rehearsal for children. A weekend of visits, gatherings, and social events includes families travelling to Clear Lake Manchester and Duluth, with many local residents hosting guests and attending picnics and parties around Postville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. mi
Redeemer
J. F. McCaffery
Clermont Schools Open September Fourth Amid Changes
The new year begins in Clermont schools on Monday September 4 with a half day for registration and scheduling. Classes start in earnest Tuesday after staff and curriculum changes. Enrollment is expected to rise.
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Clermont
Ossian Passes Dance Hall Licensing Ordinance No 102
The Ossian town council approved ordinance No 102 regulating public dance halls within town limits. It sets a $4 license fee plus $2 for police service and another $2 if a matron is appointed. Cancellations require a six month wait for reissuance. Public halls must close by 11 55 PM and only owners or managers may enter. Unmarried girls under fourteen are barred from public halls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Yakatis
Chicago
Dan McGreevey
Frank Powers
Madison
Wis
Thos. Powers
M. S. Nelson
Idamae
E. F. Schnette
Wisconsin
Arthur Dibble
Spokane, Wash
E. H. Dibble
Phyllis
Lovilla
Roy Thomas
Jim Harvard
Spencer
Nelson
Thomas
Clement Masonic Lodge
Northeastern Iowa
Masonic Fellowship
Guttenberg
R. V. Brandt
Ossian
Sunday School Institute Held at West Union Presbyterian Church
Mrs L T Olson Mrs Fred Cline and Mrs R V Brandt joined Fayette County Council of Christian Education for a Sunday School institute at the West Union Presbyterian Church. Hutton Des Moines spoke in morning sessions panels featured high school students Treva Jane Carmichael and Newell Brink. Evening program included violin solo and a men’s quartet from Illyria church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. T. Olson
Fred Cline
R. V. Brandt
Fayette County
V. C. Welch
Fayette
Treva Jane Carmichael
Newell Brink
Hutton
Illyria
Osterhus Helger son unite in marriage at West Union
Clarice Osterhus and Myron Helger son were married Saturday August 19 at 2 o'clock by Rev. Mona at the West Union parsonage. Attended by Luella Osterhus and Henry Helgerson, the couple planned a Fergus Falls Minnesota honeymoon week and will reside on a Clermont area farm thereafter. Want Ads are good salesmen.
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Clarice Osterhus
Myron Helgerson
Mona
West Union
Luella Osterhus
Henry Helgerson
Fergus Falls
Minn
Clermont
William H Scott Civil War veteran dies at 137 weeks
William Harrigan Scott born March 29 1846 in Ohio dies near Clermont on August 15 1983. He moved to Fayette county with his family in 1856 settled on the Scott homestead in Dover township and owned it until his death. He served in Co Garth Town Infantry from 1862 to 1864, suffered a sun stroke at Vicksburg and later blindness. He married Maria Foster September 6 1866 and left five children Edmund T. died 1921 and C W G D Mrs Helen S Matthews Mrs Maggie Learn Mrs Glenn Wagner. Funeral by Rev Sheldon with pallbearers W W Scott S M Scott Clair and Carl Wagner etc. Interment West Union cemetery beside wife Maria who died 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Harrigan Scott
William H
Mary Meikle Scott
Trumbell County
Ohio
Clermont
Mr. Scott
Fayette County
Scott
Dover Township
McGregor
Co. Garth Town
Seige
Vicksburg
William H. Scott
Maria
Foster
Junion
Edmund T
C. W
St. Lawrence
G. D
Helen
Matthews
Maggie Learn
Glenn Wagner
Sheldon
J. C. Matthews
W. W. Scott
Garretson
S.D
M. G. Scott
Jasper
Minn
Clair
Carl Wagner
Russell Gruver
Robert Estey
West Union Cemetery
Maria Scott
Parking Marked Spaces Could Ease City Parking Woes
City residents complain the parking system causes congestion on Thursday and Saturday nights. Two cars often occupy spaces fit for four or five, leading to scarce spots. Marking off spaces is proposed as a low cost, quick fix to relieve the problem.
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Becken
Clermont National Farm Loan Association
J. A. Erickson
Clermont, Iowa
Neisch
St. Louis
Missigsippi
St. Peter’s Church
Hazel Shrader
Engelhart
Luana
Clear Lake
Anna Lolita
Norma Opland
Gunder
Martin Nelson
Gerhard Gunsten
Duluth
St. Croix Falls
Ernest Schuette
New Hampton
Stanley Gunsten
Jim Johnson
Lanesboro
Ole Reierson
Thompson
Ed Johnson
Postville
Alfred Olson
Willard Martin
Carl Mosby
Anna Lolita Blake
Margaret Powers
Mary Kathryn Killerlain
Lavanda Carr
Phylliz
Lucille Lubke
Marian Halverson
Lenore White
James Powers
Charles Burt
James Brorby
Gress
Lutheran Church Notes
Clermont Lutheran
Dixit Luther League Convention and Choral Union
Big Canoe Church
G. Gunston
Sunday School Institute
Osterhus
Helgerson
William Harrison Scott
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