Clermont Local News Highlights School Ties and Visits
Local notes recap visits and gatherings across Clermont and surrounding towns. Friends and relatives from Elkader West Union Cedar Falls and Des Moines share meals trips and summer plans while residents announce moves, weddings, and family milestones. An education tale features a trained horse Dewey who accompanied Redman children to school daily for 34 years. Triplets shown on a Humboldt farm add a wartime farming note as local want ads promise quick sales.
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Bonnie
Portland
Ore
Sverre Hjelming
Marion
Elkader
Willard Moe
West Union
Hans J. Larson
Bernice Grangaard
Waterville
Mary Tatro
Eileen Chamberlain
Postville
Sadie Peterson
Lillian Kaufmann
Marietha
Georgia
Edward
LeRoy
Minn
Anna
Inga Larson
Annette Wenger
Sumner
Alfred Wenger
Harold Larson
Beverly
Doris
Cedar Rapids
John Larson
Clermont
Joseph Wolfs
R. V. Brandt
Strawberry Point
Albert Scheel
Marjorie
Cedar Falls
Russell Nelson
Waterloo
Agnes Paul- Bon
Herman Scheel
Elgin
Lolita Blake
James Brorby
Oregon
Brorby
Richard Banning
Joe Brorby
Len Simek
Pvt
Harlan A. Stee
Fort Belvoir
Virginia
Clarence Tatro
Melvin Stee
Castalia
Cpl
Arthur Wolfs
Miami
Pla
L. C. Osland
Henry Wolfs
Earl
Alfred Evenson
Harvey
Anna Anfinson
Ellen Peterson
Waukon Junction
J. A. Erickson
Hans Larson
la Crosse
Wis
O Pvt
Harlan Stee
Ellen Marie
Iowa City
Stee
Harry Cooney
John
Ed Dugstad
Clarice
Cresco
Chester
Emma Wagner
Austin, Minn
Sylvia ‘Halvor
Dugstad
Wm. B. Miller
Augusta
Hans Sandvold
Nina Stinerson
Morris
Inez Wolf
Ossian
Nels Gilbert
R. Larson
Oelwein
Lutheran Church
Howard Mark
Lorraine Osterhus
Decorah
Luther College
Elmer Sander
Prairie Bu Sac
Sander
Albert Christianson
Dewey
Decatur County
Ben Redman
Humboldt
Card of Thanks for Pvt. Joseph Olson Death in line of duty
The Olson family expresses heartfelt thanks for tributes and sympathy following the death of Pvt. Joseph Olson in the line of duty. They thank Rev. Shelveland the American Legion and those who sent memorial gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Olson Mrs. Melinda Olson four sisters and brother.
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Pvt
Joseph Olson
Shelveland
American Legion
Alfred Olson
Melinda Olson
Appreciation notes and ship story in Grinnell Herald-Register
In appreciation, readers sent cards, letters, and flowers during hospitalization in Decorah. The Grinnell Herald-Register notes the Berean Grinnell, a Liberty ship built by Kaiser yards, with Captain T. C. Rainier. An air raid warning followed. A storm sewer investigation in Gladbrook led to Molly the dog’s rescue. Photographer Willis G. Van derburg left for Alaska to document scenes along the Alcan highway with Sioux City contractors.
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Josiah B. Grinnell
Grinnell ‘Herald- Register
UnitedStates
Berean Grinnell
Kaiser Shipyards
Pacific Coast
T. C. Rainier
Gladbrook
Molly
Freddie Hall
Van
Willis G. Vanderburg
Boyden
Alaska
Sioux City
New Alcan Highway
Fall in the Mud Ends in Narrow Waverly Rescue
In Waverly a 12 year old girl, Marcella Heflin, leaned from a third story window to save a falling umbrella and tumbled about 30 feet. She escaped with no broken bones or bruises. Upon being picked up she quipped that she fell in the mud and it was raining.
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Waverly
Marcella Heflin
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