Clermont Township 4-H Girls Meet at Nesbits
The Clermont Clover Clovers 4-H club met at Ann and Genevieve Nesbit's home on February 1 with sixteen members and two teachers present. President Arlene Amundson led the call to order as members gave grooming habits to improve. Jean Finnegan and Arlene Miller led the musical portion, with talks by Ora Oestman and Vinah Nelson on bathing and other topics, Lavilla Gordon spoke on planning a conservation notebook, and a wash box demonstration was shown by leaders. Songs followed before adjournment and refreshments were served by hostesses. The next meeting will be at Vernice and Joycelyn Engle's home on February 15.
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Clermont Clover Clovers
Ann
Genevieve Nesbit
Arlene Amundson
Jean Finnegan
Arlene Miller
Ora Oestman
Vinah Nelson
Lavilla Gordon
Vernice
Joycelyn Engle
Clermont Council Proceedings February 3 1941
Regular Clermont Iowa town council meeting chaired by Mayor Simek with all councilors present. Minutes approved. bills audited and ordered paid for labor and utilities. Adjournment followed. Dinner guests of Mr and Mrs O K Kittleson noted. Local film study at high school about tuberculosis education. Cradle shower held for Mrs H M Hackett with picnic lunch served.
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Clermont
Iowa
Simek
Rounds
Landsgard
Junker
Kittleson
Riegel
Leo Weiss
Elmer Tr
Clermont School Basketball Wins and Close Loss at Hawkeye
Postville junior high and senior high teams defeated the Commanders 32 19 in the curtain raiser and 34 against the first team despite a late score drought. Hawkeye games saw girls win 30 15 while the boys lost 24 23 in a close finish. Plans for the girls state sectional tourney in Clermont Feb 12 to 15. Junior class members Lupt Ressler and Mr Banning attended a Tin Pan Alley theatre party at West Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postville
Hawkeye
Clermont
Lupt
Ressler
Mr. Banning
West Union
Tin Pan Alley
First and Second Grades Celebrate Birth Day Treats
Linda Lou Greenley hosted a birthday celebration Friday with classmates and teachers. her mother and grandmother attended, and Mrs. George W. Larson visited the primary room. Ronald Burgett returns to school after a week absent. 4th graders begin a new geography unit on Nor ns, after finishing foods plants and trees, starting foods from animals. Elson Gray reading books begin in both grades. 3rd graders advance in multiplication. both grades read The Little Lame Prince together.
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Linda Lou Greenley
George W. Larson
Ronald Burgett
Norns
Graces
Seventh and Eighth Grades Spelling Winners Named
Bertha Jane Olson of the ninth grade won both oral and written contests with Betty Jane Yauslin of the eighth grade runner up. All seventh and eighth graders and their teacher Miss Washby have dental cards. Lois Gadden was absent two days last week and Margaret Martin is absent this week due to a measles outbreak in her family. The seventh grade will read the Carpenters Geographical Travel Series in social science for the next two weeks.
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Bertha Jane Olson
Betty Jane Yauslin
Miss Washby
Lois Gadden
Margaret Martin
British advances cut Italian supply routes in Africa
British capture of Agordat cuts Massaua supply base at the Red Sea as 2000 miles away Bengazi in Italian East Africa comes under pressure. Meanwhile Free French forces trek 825 miles by camel, truck and foot to strike Murzuk, opening a new front against Italian forces.
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Agordat
No. 3
Massaua
Red Sea
Bengazi
Italian East Africa
Murzuk
Sixth Birthday Party for Lind Lou Greenley
Mrs. H. B. Greenley hosted a Friday after school party for her daughter Lind Lou’s sixth birthday. Guests included two teachers, nine girls named Ann Spencer Elsie Marie Jerdee Barbara Appelman Ramona Olson Marilyn Junker Donna Junker Nancy Ann Hackett Mary Ellen Hackett Carol Ressler, with a Mother Goose theme and a pink and green cake centerpiece. Mrs. Frank Greenley of Elgin helped serve the 5:30 dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Greenley
Lind Lou
Richard Banning
Norene Boley
Ann Spencer
Elsie Marie Jerdee
Barbara Appelman
Ramona Olson
Marilyn
Donna Junker
Nancy Ann
Mary Ellen Hackett
Carol Ressler
Frank Greenley
Elgin
Three Marriages Announced in Clermont Area
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Vinton of Des Moines spent the weekend in the W. T. Vinton home. Gloria Richards, formerly of Capitol City, was a secretary in a law office before her marriage on December 30, 1940. Vinton, a Clermont high school alumnus, has just earned his third army rating and serves as drum major. Glen Russell and his wife, en route to relatives east of Gander, paused in Clermont. they now reside in Mason City where he works at a photo shop. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Russell, formerly of Clermont, supported Glen during his high school years and his entry into the navy. Theo Guritz and family attended the wedding of Herbert Hoeger of Maynard to Bernita Schlatter of Hawkeye at Richfield Lutheran church. The groom’s parents, Mary K. Guritz of Cedar Falls, sang at the ceremony and later at the 5:30 dinner hosted by the bride’s parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Vinton
Des Moines
W. T. Vinton
Gloria Richards
Capitol City
Vinton
Clermont High School
Army
Glen Russell
Gander
Clermont
Mary K. Guritz
Cedar Falls
Fifth and Sixth Grades Study Regions and Language
Fifth graders review United States geography with a jig saw puzzle of the nation and study of life in the Colonies while six graders complete a unit on Poland and Czechoslovakia under German rule. They note Hitler's lack of justification. Absent pupils and top performers are listed alongside grammar topics on singular and plural verbs and pronouns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Hitler
Marian Probert
Billy Cooley
Lavonne Schweinerus
Peggy Spencer
James Martin
Amos Pritchard
Betty Burgett
Henry Follett
Vernon Loftsgard
Gerald Schupanitz
Millard Nelson
Helen Gerner
Gerald Kittleson
Mahlon Lantz
Carmen Loftsgard
Sunday Dinner Guests From Postville Families
Mr and Mrs Henry Bahn hosted guests Sunday, joined by Mr and Mrs Walter Powers and other Postville residents. The gathering included Mr and Mrs John Nelson Elmer Millard Nelson Jr Mr and Mrs Theo N Loftsgard and three children, Mr and Mrs Harvey Meyer and family, and Mr and Mrs Eldo Sander with family plus Mr and Mrs Wm Meyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Bahn
Walter Powers
John Nelson
Elmer
Millard Nelson, Jr
Theo. N. Loftsgard
Harvey Meyer
Eldo Sander
Wm. Meyer
Postville
Jerdee to Tulane for postgraduate gynecology study
Dr. I C Jerdee will spend about a month in New Orleans at Tulane University for a postgraduate course in gynecology and obstetrics. He left Sunday for Chicago with two other doctors and will return to Alabama after the program. The trip marks his first return in ten years due to business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. C. Jerdee
Chicago
New Orleans
Alabama
Tulane University
Dugstad to Convention and visits in Des Moines
Ed Dugstad left Monday evening for Des Moines to attend the state lumbermen convention and visit his son Donald, who works for the Iowa Unemployment Compensation Commission, and Wm. Blake who is there this winter. Isabelle Wenger visited Dubuque and Chicago where she and Mary Jane Kuehnle are employed at Cook County Hospital. D. J. Opperud’s family hosted visitors from Cedar Rapids and Clermont graduates Janet Qison and Bernard Schrader joined Upper Iowa fraternities. Clermont Study Club met with a Latin American Art and Literature paper. St Theresa Study Club discussed Incidents from the Life of St Blaise and God the Holy Ghost. Mrs. Wm. Schweinerus fractured both bones of her left leg in a fall and was moved to West Union hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Dugstad
Des Moines
Lumbermen's
Donald
Iowa Unemployment Compensation Commission
Wm. Blake
Isabelle Wenger
Dubuque
Mary Jane Kuehnle
Chicago
Cook County Hospital
Ella
Irene
John Opperut
Cedar Rapids
D. J. Opperud
James Loftsgard
Jessie Loftsgard
Barbara Berg
Rushford
Minn
Nels Gilbert
West Union
Anna Block Hus
Clermont
Janet Qison
Bernard Schrader
Upper Iowa
Kappa Eta Beta
Rho Simga Chi
Clermont Study Club
Martin Nelson
G. H. Hackmann
St. Theresa
St. Peter's Church
Agnes Kneeland
St. Blaise
God
Holy Ghost
Wm. Schweinerus
West Union Hospital
Clermont Ladies Aid Society Committees and Report
The Clermont Ladies' Aid Society met at Mrs. Louise Miller's home on January 25 with 23 members present and 10 visitors. Officers and committees were announced, library gains noted, and a film shown. Other local visits and social gatherings were listed through the week ending with a family dinner at Mrs. Christine Rypestol's.
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BAIN
Eric & Sand Co
Mb i
McClurg’s
Waffle
New York Herald
Assa Bat
Iowa Treas
Consumien
Clermont Calendar February Events and Games
February calendar items include St. Peter's Rosary Society meeting on Thursday the sixth opening of county tournament, American Legion on Monday the tenth, American Legion Auxiliary and Woodland Progressive Study Club on Tuesday the eleventh, a basketball game at Elgin, Union Church Guild on Wednesday the twelfth opening of girls sectional basketball here, and W C O F social time meeting on Thursday the thirteenth.
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St. Peter's Rosary Society
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Woodland Progressive
Elgin
Union Church I Guild
Singing Church Sunday Services and Meetings
Lutheran Church events list divine worship at Highland 10 45 a m and West Clermont Church at 2 30 p m Norwegian service. West Clermont Luther League 7 30 p m. Highland Ladies Aid meets Feb 18 at 2 p m hosted by Mrs Thorne Thompson and others. Rev E E Ramsey pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland
West Clermont Church
West Clermont
Rural Study Club Elects Officers at January Meeting
Grand Meadow Study Club met January 31 at Mrs. Almer Leo Nelsons home with sixteen members and two guests present. New member Mrs Merrill Gunderson joined. Officers elected: President Mrs Arthur Helgerson, Vice President Mrs Clifford Kittleson, Secretary Treasurer Mr Richard Quilson, Gift Purchasers Martin Amundson, Publicity Chairman Carmen Swenson, Program Committee Mrs Almer Lew Nelson, Mrs Ames Olson, Hame project chairman Irene Helgerson led a lesson on Punishing Problems of the Rural Home. Contests awarded prizes to Beulah Gunderson and Mrs Ames Olson. Refreshments were served by the hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont Ladies’ Aid Society
Louise Miller
Anna Buser
Marvin Johnson
J. F. Cooley
KE. L. Crowe
R. V. Brandt
W. R. Blake
Blake
H. B. Greenley
E. L. Crowe
Louie Olson
The
Jews Tuberculosis Assa
Fayette County Association
Lawrence Dennis
Des Moines
Grand Meadow Study Club
Almer Leo Nelson
Presen
Merrill Gunderson
Arthur Helgerson
Clifford Kittleson
Richard Quilson
Martin Amundson
Gift Purcinrs
Carmen Swenson
Almer Lew Nelson
Vinali Nelson
Ames Olson
Irene Helgerson
Hame
Beulah Gunderson
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Helen Halverson spent the weekend in West Union with her sister Mrs John P Camp. Her brother Jackie brought her home Sunday afternoon. Mrs Cena Nelson of Elgin and Mr and Mrs Milton Schierhalz and Stanley Down of Postville had dinner Sunday with Mr and Mrs Wm Belsehner. Dr and Mrs KR V Brandt were six thirty dinner guests Saturday of Mr and Mrs Martin Nelson. Mr and Mrs Wim Paulson of Ocllwein were callers Sunday afternoon in the Richard Grichenow home. Six members of the public school faculty were guests of Mr and Mrs Cornelius Olson at dinner Monday night. They were Margaret Troge Celia Murl Max Reed Norene Buley Katherine Eyingson and Alma Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Halverson
West Union
John P. Camp
Jackie
Cena Nelson
Elgin
Milton Schierhalz
Stanley Down
Postville
Wm. Belsehner
KR. V. Brandt
Martin Nelson
Wim. Paulson
Ocllwein
Richard Grichenow
Public School
Cornelius Olson
Margaret Troge
Celia Murl
Max Reed
Norene Buley
Katherine Eyingson
Alma Smith
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Clermont Township
Council Proceedings
O. K. Kittleson
Mary Anns
Gerhard Gunston
Little Cedar
Vasbey
Mr. Germ
Iowa Tuberculosis Assi
County Association
Dan Carpenter
C. N. Olson
Thomas Cummings
Fay Harris
H. H. Follett
George Belschner
A. J. Priest
Lester Anderson
Paul Wickham
Wm. Burrow
Richard Griebenow
George Larson
Ivan Anderson
Mavis
George Smith
Gilbert Nelson
Clermont, Iowa
Clermont School News
Bya
Egypt
Turkey
Syria
Iraq
SAUD
Arabia
Friecee
Dr. Jerdee
Henry Olson
Leonard
Walter Lundy
Dale
Vernon Olson
Decorah
Anna Gunderson
Morton
Lillian
Emmet Helgerson
Oscar R. Larson
Oelwein
Milton Helgerson
Millard Helgerson
Waukon
Clara Helgerson
Fred Cline
James Brorby
R. ¥. Brandt
Oelwe
Alma Anderson
Alpha Chr Omicron Sorority
U.T.U
Chrystal Miller
Len Simek
Banco
Woodland Progressive Study Club
Arthur Mechelson
Reider Smith
Hjelmer Mechelson
American Legion and Auxiliary
Fayelite
Buchanan
Legion Hall
Hans Hanson
Lillian Crowe
Dan Burke
Gilbert Anderson
Dugstad
Aid Society
Anna Maesro Lovisa Buroden
H. F. Becker
H. S. Steele and
Kathleen
Harry Becker
Warren Harrington
D. C. Halverson
Burnett Larson
Lillian Heigerson
Bertha Frisbie
Lutheran Church
Burgess - Dugstad Lumber Co
Lumber
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