Old Questions About Filing Dates Reappear
Re election and party nominations dominate a political dispatch listing five candidates for secretary of state and several for lieutenant governor. Republicans may add two new hopefuls, Rep. John R. Irwin and Rep. Robert D. Blue, while Democrats see Curtis L. McKinnon as their lone hopeful for lieutenant governor. The item also notes the Forty-Second Annual Farm and Home Week at Iowa State College February 9 to 14 with events on February 12 and 13, including a luncheon for farm writers and the Mid-West Farm Editors Association meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Irwin
Keokuk
House of Representatives
Robert D. Blue
Eagle Grove
Devere Watson
Council Bluffs
Ray Emerson
Creston
Curtis L. McKinnon
New London
Town State College
Ames
Fawa
Mid-West Farm Editors Assn
Nationwide nursing shortage spurs high school girls to enter field
AlmaHartz chair of the state nursing council on national defense says a 50,000 surge of young women is needed to enter one of 1,300 approved schools in 1942. Iowa nurses unsuitable for military service may volunteer in coastal hospitals, as shortages remain acute on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma & Uartz
State Nursing Council On National Defense
National Nursing Defense Council
Miss Hartz
Iowa
Atlantic
Pacific
Middlewest
State car service to double up vehicles for efficiency
State Car Dispatcher George W. Hesalroad books higher efficiency by recapping worn patrol tires and moving good tires to patrol cars. He aims to extend patrol tire life and shift state agents to share cars when traveling to common sections of the state, potentially sending three to four agents in one automobile to reduce vehicle use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Hesalroad
Highway Patrol
Victory Book Campaign Aims Two Hundred Thousand Volumes
Iowa pursues a one month drive to collect two hundred thousand books for the Victory Book Campaign. Sponsored by the American Library Association Red Cross and the USO, donations go to Army and Navy libraries and USO houses in camps forts ports and ships. Both old and new books are welcome in good condition including textbooks and fiction. Boxes are placed at the post office Baechler's store and the library in Clermont for contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Vst
American Library Assn
Red Cross
United Service Organization For National Defense
Army
Navy
Clermont
Baechler’s
Rooker announces daughter Lois to wed William West
Mr and Mrs Harold E Rooker of Clermont announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Lois to William West of Stillwater Oklahoma. The wedding will be Friday February 6 at 5 pm in the Methodist church at Stillwater. The couple will live in Cush ing Oklahoma where he is teaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold E. Rooker
Clermont
Lois
William West
Stillwater
Oklo
Cushing
Oklahoma
Clermont Local News Guests in the Becker home Sunday
Local social notes list guests visiting various families in Clermont and nearby towns including Haas Becker and Steele of Elgin, with visits to Hawkeye, Decorah, West Union, Stillwater, and other areas. Names include Couley, Mathews, Voelz, Nelson, Solberg, Lubke, Sideman, Olson, Lundy, Olson, Rowland, Decker, Priest, Yausha, Vinton, Amundson, Wenger, Wen ger, Camp, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Becker
Wm. Haas
Louis Becker
H. S. Steele
Elgin
Grace Couley
Lewistown
Mont
James Mathews
Farmersburg
Carl Voelz
Martin Nelson
Arthur Solberg
Hawkeye
H. A. Lu
Hetly
Lycurgus
A. J. Priest
Is O'Toole
Eagle Grove
Elvira Johnson
Harry Yausha
Ezra Rowland
H. E. Rooker
Stillwater
Okla
Lois
Vinton
Des Moines
Harold Vinton
Harry Amundson
Jean Rosaley
Amundson
Baby
Alfred Wenger
Lester Wenger
Volgar
James Triem
Cedids
Par Éental
Sialph
Steven Camp
John Camp
West Union
Beating Back Ills and Village News From Iowa
Local notes report residents recovering from illness and ongoing bon mots of daily life. Families such as Olson, Camp, and Halverson host and visit, while soldiers like Harley Johnson and Donald Horan move through training and induction. Sundry letters reach loved ones in California and the Pacific Fleet, with updates on bees, honey, and drafts. Evening visits, travel, and farm work punctuate a busy period in small-town Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Olson
Sophie Lofisgard
Walter Lundy
Olson
Harley Johnson
West Union
Fort Riley
Kansas
Harley R. Johnson
Stanley
U.S. S. Dale
Pacific Fleet
San Francisco
Calif
Normal Olson
Waterloo
Lucas Olson
John Camp
J. C. Halverson
Elbert Dean
San Diego
Robin Smith
Harry Stolle
Betty
Bertha Frisbie
Lorraine Osmundson
Ina Lewis
Edward Krueger
Mabel Barnes
Ossian
E. E. Ramsey
Jess Phillips
Louie Olson
Die Christianson
Robert Francis
Robert Sperry
Cedar Rapids
Hans Hanson
Elmer Olson
Oran Brandt
Castalia
T. F. Shipton
Geraldine Kohler
Chester
Trene Minihan
Decorah
Dan Burke
Pat Minihan
Arthur Nelson
Albert Wilbur
Hawkeye
Theo
Loftsgard
Millard Nelson
Nels Nelson
John Nelson
Elmer
W. R. Blake
Donald Horan
Des Moines
Grand Meadow Study Club Plans 1942 Programs
A committee meeting of the officers was held last week at Mrs. Henry Kittleson’s home to plan and write the club programs for 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Meadow Study Club
Henry Kittleson
Quisling Accepts Premiership Amid Occupation Forces
Oslo scene described with Gestapo and Norwegian troops as Major Vidkun Quisling is said to have accepted the premiership of Norway. The report notes his name now figures in the dictionary of Democracy and places him at the center of the occupied government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oslo
Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Dictionary of Democracy
Bees and departures mark uncertain Iowa page
Fragmentary local notes show Ray Powell and Fred Schlachter of Rockwell City leaving for eastern Africa to work on an air project. A Northwood mill pond business faced discontinuation after 65 years, ending commercial gutting. A swarm at Akin farm near Grundy Center looms as bees depart their long home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Ray Powell
Fred Schlachter
Rockwell City
Iowa
Shall Rock
Northwood
Akin
Grundy
War Production Board to add seventh division announced
The War Production Board under President and head Donald M. Nelson announced a seventh division field service. Nelson said it would compare in importance with the six major divisions established last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson An
Singapore Life Battle Intensifies With Heavy Gunfire
An Australian soldier pledges to hold the line as Singapore endures intense bombardment and thickly studded defenses. The report notes heavy artillery and looming combat conditions shaping the peninsula's perilous stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
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Clermont Enterprise
Agnes Paulson
Towa Press Association
National Editorial Association
Fayette County
David A. Dancer
Lamont
A. J. Secor
Keosauqua
Harry D. Linn
Alma
Bes Moines
Towa
Blanche Graves
Nessing Eduwotinn
Ies Moines
Jawa
L. C. Jerdee
Clermont, Iowa
R. V. Brandt
Louis Schutte & Son
Clermont and
Postville
Nurse Placement Service
South Michigan Ave
Chicago, Ill
Monticello
A. B. Grimes
Gracia G. Bremer
Kansas City
Bedford
D. O. Thomas
Decatur
Quisling
Tadog
Stacy May
William L. Batt
John Lord O'Brien
Satants
Chansman Benak
Nealon
Herbart Erimati
James A. Robinta
Iuar Supp
Hendersen
Pivision
Sidney Killman
War Production Board of
Washington, D. C
Battle For
Tobruk
Sun-J Tions
Mr. Farmer
Uncle Sam
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