Clermont school notes show sports and FFA insights
The Clermont school report highlights a student favoring Maynard in county finals and lists interests including baseball football and kit tenball. It covers Elgin Clermont FFA meeting with nineteen members, films Green Harvest and In Partnership With Nature, a shared lunch, and student activities across Ninth News First Grade and Brownies with winter crafts and a farm unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard
FFA News
Elgin-Clermont
The
Future Farmers of America
Resent
Nature
America
Harley Evenson
Jane
Ronald Osterhus
Bonnie’ Kittelson
Clermont Local News Notes Family and Social Visits
Clermont area residents share funeral attendance and family visits. Dubuque visitors attend Herbert Gass’s uncle’s funeral. Schmidt and Simek families host and travel between Decorah and West Bend. Dummermouth and Osterhus host gatherings. Bud Schrader leaves for Kanawha to begin duties, with Jimmie delayed by mumps. Mrs. Osterhus hosts cradle shower for Mrs. Lyle Olson with contests and gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Klien
Katjely and Macky
Dubuque
Herbert Gass
Bill Schmidt and Sons
Charles Schmidt
Decorah
Len Simek
R. G. Wilson
Dick Schmidt
West Bend
Elgin
Clifton Pringle
Arnold Stumme
Herbert Dummermuth
Helen Strahmer
North Miami Beach
Florida
R. T. Paynter
Townsend
Montana
Clermont
Chicago
Lincoln
Neb
Bud Schrader
Kanawha
Lorenz Schatz
West Union
Herbert Dummermouth
Richard Osterhas
Lyle Olson
Local social notes feature family visits and parties
A string of supper visits and birthday celebrations across Hawkeye Eldorado Ossian Guttenberg and Waterloo highlight community life. Guests include Reiersons Brady McGrew Thoma Crowe Blake Olson Finnigan and many local families with multiple family birthdays and a surprise visit from Capt Vernon Reijerson. Proceeds from a Sacred Heart circle card party supported church funds.
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Ray Reierson
Joe Brady
Hawkeye
McGrew
Reierson
Brady
Lorranne Crowe
Ladies’ Bridge Club
Bess Blake
Mary Burke
Mary Carlin
Max Thoma
Elgin
Keith Thoma
Karl Martin
John Koch
Eldorado
Lloyd Meier
Kathy
P. J. Meier
Guttenberg
Clarence Rear
Connie
Vernon Reijerson
Lafayette
Ind
Chanute Field
Ill
Sacred Heart Circle
St. Peter’s Church
John Finnigan
Louis Olson
Frank- UN Olson
Waterloo
Mike
Leo Brickley
Winthrop
Maryann Finnigan
Cedar Rapids
Cathryn
Wayne ,Gilson
Jack Dibbie
Lavern
Chas, Wenger Farm
Mr. Gilson
Farmers Co-op. Co
Auxiliary Initiates New Members at Thoma Home
American Legion Auxiliary members meet at Mrs. Keith Thoma’s home on Tuesday evening January 11 with thirty three present including six juniors. New members Patricia Gass and eight others welcomed. treasurer’s report given. The unit plans a March of Dimes drive and a Mother’s Porch Light Drive, with donations extended to Independence hospital and Woodward Home toys.
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Keith Thoma
Theo. Loftsgard
American Legion Auxiliary
Thoma
John Bakewell
Sgt
At Arms
Franz Appelman
Fred Cline
Theo, Loftsgard
E. W. Hilgemann
Louie Olson
I. C. Jerdee
Robert Burrow
Lyle Olson
Dean Mitts
Millard Bear
Elsie Jerdee
Jacquelyn Bakewell
Marilyn Paulson
Bonnie
Margie Swenson
Ray Tomsheck
Elmer Larson
Suzanna Kjosa
Olson
Independence Hospital
Des Moines
Clermont
Mary Olson
Dean Loftsgard
Venards Welcome Second Son Raymond John Edward
Riverside couple Mr and Mrs Claude Gress announce the birth of a second son to Mr and Mrs Harry Venard weighing 6 pounds born Tuesday Jan 11 the child named Raymond John Edward Mrs Venard formerly Phyllis Gress.
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Riverside
Calif
Claude Gress
Harry Venard
Raymond John Edward
Venard
Phyllis Gress
Man Learns Fate After Being Fired
A local man discovers his ambition falls short as he is terminated from his position, reflecting on ego versus reality in a terse newspaper brief.
John Deere Day Free Film Program For Farm Families
Olson and Olson host a free John Deere Day on January 25 at 1 PM for area farmers and families. The event features the full color film Miss Hattie about a town music teacher, plus Freedom for Eric about a displaced European and modern American farming, with additional films to follow. Admission is free but tickets are required.
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Olson & Olson
Gram
Eric
Europe
America
Miss Hattie
Olson
State News continues with senate leaders and liquor crackdown
Dewel becomes Republican floor leader as Iowa senate begins without a presiding officer due to a vacant governorship and last president pro tem’s defeat. Dayton Countryman calls for a liquor sales crackdown with monthly raids to stop liquor by the drink. Fourteen Iowa high school pages work in the 1985 legislature earning five dollars a day. The state supreme court will rule on using two million WWI bonus dollars to fund a Marshalltown soldiers home dormitory.
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Senate
Dewel
Frank C. Byers
Cedar Rapids
Watson
Iowa
House
Des Moines
David Hangon
Atlantic
Charles Smith
Sioux City
Bruce Bloedel
Tabor
Jim Dirksen
Guthrie Center
Larry Young
Creston
John Kirstein
Mason City
Iowa governor commutes 17 life terms amid feud at statehouse
The Iowa governor commuted life terms for 17 inmates as part of final acts, making parole possible for 16 men and one woman, while a feud surfaced in the statehouse with Secretary of State Melvin Synhorst citing a board investigator about liquor being sold by the drink. Attorney General Dayton Countryman challenged the claims, insisting Kuehl lacked legal evidence to support accusations of illegal liquor gases and urged charges for failure to notify enforcement officers.
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Iowa
Dayton Countryman
Hoegh
Countryman
Melvin Synhorst
State Beer Permit Board
Synhorst
Ray O. Kuehl
Beer Board
Kuehl
Leo Elthan
Lfe
State Parole Board
Court fights over transfer of World War I funds
Seven Iowa World War I veterans challenge a Polk County court ruling that funds from the first world war be used to finance a dormitory project at a state home. The supreme court now hears the case after a judge deemed the transfer constitutional.
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Isiymakere
Supreme Court
Polk County
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