Clermont School Notes Highlights Semester Start and Local Games
Clermont Supt E J Kaltenbach notes the second semester begins January 18 signaling midyear and heightened attention to graduation. Clermont plays Oelwein B tomorrow and Postville next Tuesday at home with a predicted tight game. Captain Kenneth Greiss is out injured, sleigh rides thrill faculty, and Miss Helen Phelps organizes the first elimination contest with many candidates listed and dates pending.
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E. J. Kaltenbach
Clermont
Oelwein
Postville
Kenneth Greiss
Vasbey
Jim Powers
Kaltenbach
Helen Phelps
Helen Anderson
Evelyn Wordhus
Eunice Gress
Margaret Powers
Vivian Schave
Lavanda Carr
Lolita Blake
Margaret Conner
Marian Halverson
Dorothy Conner
Beryl Miller
Virgil Rolfs
Thelma Reierson
Phyllis Lubke
Lila Larson
Buelah Gunderson
Priscilla Cook
Miss Phelps
Local team nets four in final half scoring burst
A brief game note reports the locals scoring only four points against four opponents in the last half, underscoring a low scoring finish and a swing in momentum.
Clermont Local News Briefs Highlight Club Event and Games
Mrs. H A Lubke will host the next Business and Professional Women meeting Monday evening. A food sale by Union Sunday School at the Clermont bank building is set for 2:30 Saturday afternoon. H H Follett remains home with bronchial pneumonia but improving. The junior high team is 2-1 in three games, scoring 33 and conceding 2 points more on the season. The girls basketball team, 2-3, has 97 points for and against. Rev. McCaffery attended Fr Haupricht's funeral in Independence with Archbishop Beckman and forty priests. A new business is rumored to open in the Double Store, with remodeling planned for the space.
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H. A. Lubke
Cler’mont Bank
Union Sunday School
McCaffery
Independence
Haupricht
St. Joseph Church
Archbishop Beckman
Holthaus
Clermont Basketball Tosseras
Clermont
C. H. Rogers
Luazia
Hawkeye
McGregor
American Legion Auxiliary
J. P. Paulson
Herman Rolfs
E. W. Appelman
Will Nelson
Legion
Louie Olson
Henry L. Stevens Jr
American Legion
Nelson Read
Andine Vasby
Fred Cline
Jerden
E. C. Voltz
Ames
Iowa State College
Bettter Gardens
Clermont Tossos Defeat Randalia In Close County Battle
Clermont high school defeated championship Randalia 30 to 28 on the home floor in a spirited contest that shook Fayette county basketball. Randalia led early, Clermont surged to a four to eight point edge and held the lead through the game, with a loud local crowd and a strong Randalia rooting effort.
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Clermont High School
Randalia
Clermont
Randalians
Weason
Fayette County
Randelia
Tocala
Hileman of
Maynard
Raleighs Visits to Americas Across Centuries
The account notes that Sir Walter Raleigh never visited North America but sent expeditions to Virginia. It lists years 1384 1585 1688 1587 and 1589 with Queen Elizabeth’s refusals to accompany. It states he later did visit South America.
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Raleigh
America
Walter Raleigh
North America
Virginia
Elizabeth
South America
Primer Mentioned By Shakespeare In King John
The text notes a primer described as an old school alphabet book with simple lessons. Shakespeare references it in King John with a line about an unseen hook as part of a dictionary style exchange.
Community notices and visiting at local homes
A jumble of social calls fills a week in the area with families visiting relatives in Andrew Reinhart and Oscar Lien homes. Guests include the Holm, Aanes Loftsgard, Scholen Olson, Landagard, Larson, Halverson, Martin, and Nelson households. Miscellaneous lines recall local humor about wagon days and advice from a doctor.
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Mine Ay Pee
Selmar Holm
Andrew Reinhart
Mya
Reinhart
Lloyd Aanes
Mellien- Loftsgard
Sam ‘Erickson
Anton Scholen
Arthur Olson
Oscar Lien
Esten Landagard
Eunice
Arthur
Milo Halvrson
Carl Halverson
Trene
Arthur Helgerson
Ardes Olson
Martin Nelson
Debtor and Guarantor Mentioned in Odd Street Aid Tale
Fragmentary OCR records hint at a debt case involving a debtor and a guarantor. The text references a “weird triov” at a street location, suggesting an unusual arrangement or dispute without clear names or dates.
Phrases From Old Records Refine 1818 Pension Acts
The fragment notes an 1784 claim that pensions for partial disability were granted to invalids, while the first pensions under an 1818 act were issued by the government. It references August 26 76 and mentions officers and enlisted personnel with antiquated spellings and phrasing.
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Penatona
Old Stage Favorite Lynne Career Dates Back to 1772
Theatrical career of Lynne traces to March 28 1772 at a New Ville theater. Tripter's hall Otlon by Tayleure, a Brooklyn playwright, prepared the likely fim. Bidth adaptation, nelle Western with the first actress to play Lady Isabel.
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Lynne
New Ville
Tripter's Hall
Otlton
Tayleure
Brooklyn
Isabel
Obligation that hurts is not a great misfortune
Quotation attributes a French moral maxim about the burden of serving an ungrateful person. It notes that an officer tied to a crude man is a more portable trouble, citing La Rochefoucauld’s sentiment on social duty and personal restraint.
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la Rochefou Eauid
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Merton Palmer
Will Cahalan
Oscar Reiergon
Frank Fay
Clermont and
Pleasant Valley Farm Bureau
A. C. Anderson
Brainard
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Henry Kittleson
Earl Kiple
Karl Miller
Alfred Jacobs
Gilbert Nelson
Oscar Larson
Ruth Turner
Union Sondey
Lutheran Church Quartette
Enterprise Office
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Cedar Rapids
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