High School Critic Music Festival at Wartburg College
The annual festival at Wartburg college in Waverly features critic judges of note from Iowa institutions including Prof. Myron C. Russell and Prof. Harold R. Stark. Judges will listen to groups and soloists from various schools and offer feedback, with a concert closing the event by Wartburg’s band and choir. Clermont students listed as attendees include Paul Hackmann, Charles Wagner, Wendell Baechter, Leland Probert, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wartburg College
Waverly
Myron C. Russell
Iowa State Teachers College
Harold R. Stark
State University of Iowa
Alvin R. Edgar
Iowa State College
Edward Kurtz
Waterloo
Wartburg
Karen Jacobson
Vivian Basler
JoAnn Moore
Arlene Knudsen
Mary Martin
JoAnn Swenson
Howard Klitleson
Shirley Olson
Cathryn Crowe
Janice Olson
Senior News Confident Pace for Class Night Plans
Senior News outlines busy period for seniors with plans for Pride and Prejudice play, Plantation Song court theme, and annual completion. Vocational pamphlets, school safety assembly notes, and a student council project on daily aims are described alongside junior English class challenges and reading Sheridan’s A School for a Scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Sheridan
Modern History Study Highlights Tech Progress and Class Activities
Our history class explored modern American history focusing on radios cars television electricity and flight. Students practiced practical business knowledge typing skills tabulating centering and letter styles while juniors showcased class rings chosen in solid red blue or black. Helen Henderson summarized two English Journal articles television in the English Curriculum and Whats Happening to Reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Henderson
English Journal
Sophomore News on Industrial Revolution and Pies
A fragmented student prompt discusses the start of the industrial revolution, Henry Ford, and a 100 word theme. It notes pie making for a pastry project in home economics and mentions reading Shakespeare and dramatizing As You Like It in class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ford
Eighth Grade Plans Gym Party and Play
On Friday February 28 the eighth grade held a class meeting with about 20 dollars in treasury. They scheduled a gym party for March 5. Don na Leslie Rose and Clifford served on the game committee and planned volleyball basketball murder steal the sticks and other games while they prepare an one act play Alex the Great for the commencement program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donna
Leslie
Rose
Clifford
Alex the Great
Clermont Iowa Council Meeting Minutes March 1 1984
The Clermont Iowa Town Council met March 1 1984 with Mayor Will J Nelson presiding. Councilmen Riegel Gunderson and Griebenow attended while Thoma and Appelman were absent. Minutes of the prior meeting were read and approved. Bills were presented and paid including charges for alum floor sealer stamps postage power lights meters rock chips gas labor and truck service. The meeting adjourned with no further business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont
Iowa
Will J. Nelson
Riegel
Gunderson
Griebenow
Thoma
Appelman
Lawrence Fritz
Interstate Power Co
Interstate ‘Power Co
Arwell Inc
Badger Master Co
Neptune Meter Co
Fayette Stone Co
John ‘Barnhouse
Geo
Durscher
Clermont Fire Dept
Fee Olson
Clarence Bear
Tractor overturn injures farm wife near Forest City
Mrs. Orville Borg, 28, of near Forest City, was seriously hurt when her tractor overturned. She was pinned under the machine and Forest City fire department had to lift the tractor off her leg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Borg
Forest City
Obituary and community notes from Clermont area 1892 to 1950s
Mrs John Larson Amelia Julia Nelson was born in Hurdahl Norway in 1869. The Ole Nelson family settled Clermont in 1883 and Amelia married John O Larson in 1892. They farmed until their deaths, having eleven children. Numerous relocations, visits, baptisms, and social news follow, detailing kinship, church events, travel, and local happenings in Clermont and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia Julia Nelson
Hursdahl
Norway
Navy
Ole Nelson
Clermont
Amelia
John O. Larson
Edwin
Bangor
Wis
Joseph
Ida
Edwin Arness
Decorah
Mabel
Frank Feck
Harold
Cedar Rapids
Austin
Minn
Ethan Guyer
Clara
Albert Madson
Parkers Prairie
Julia
Anton Olson
Hartland
West Clermont Lutheran Church
S. B. Knudsen
Agnes Bilden
Sylvia Larson
Manchester
Harold Osland
Leroy
Jesus
Anton Larson
Milwaukee
Kenneth Larson
la Crosse
Harold Larson
Richard Larson
Gordon Larson
Mt. Vernon
Robert Blood
Sandra
Rebecca Larson
Zeta Blood
Ann
Joyce Larson
Lloyd Dahl
Frank Dahl
Galesville
Lars Osland
Lynsworth Osland
Leroy, Minn
Eddie Osland
Waterloo
Edwin Larson, Jr
Bergman
Melvin Evenson
Clarks Grove
Pioneer seed corn sale and local notices from Clermont
L T N Olson reports selling 30 bushels of 349 Pioneer seed corn to John A Larson of West Union for use on two farms next season. The piece notes Larson's long involvement with Pioneer corn, a 1953 yield of 129 bushels per acre from a 70 acre field, and lists several attendees at the funeral of Russell Bouser of Wisconsin Dells, a WWI veteran and Gress relative. It also records various social visits and events in Clermont and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L.T.N. Olson
Pioneer
John A. Larson
West Union
Larson
Pioneer Corn
Claude Gress
Parker Gress
Cedar Falls
Lloyd
Donald Gress
Waterloo
Russell Bouser
Wisconsin Dells
Bouser
Gress
Oklahoma
Clermont
Ethan Guyer
Presbyterian Church
Stanton Halvorson
Cherri
Cedar Rapids
LaNora Halvorson
Ann Larson
Gordon Larson
Mt. Vernon
Cornell College
Armar
Robert Gustafson
Minneapolis
Julia Helgerson
Martin Amundson
Washington, D. C
Paul
Bernard Schraider
Jimmie
Harriet Dugstad
Evelyn Olson
Donald Dugstad
Local Social News Highlights From West Union and Castalia
Mrs Harry Raney of West Union visited Tuesday and Wednesday with Mrs Len Simek. Mr and Mrs George Wanders and family of Castalia were Sunday guests in the Joel Wander home. Margie and Buddy of Rockford were guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Clifton Pringle. Friends and relatives gathered Monday evening at the Joe Wander home for a birthday party honoring Mrs Wander and Harold Schneider. Euchre and canasta provided entertainment and a late lunch was served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Gress
Louie ‘Rhoda
Nashua
Sumner
Harold Gress
Winifred Sullivan
Cedar Rapids
Postville
Cleremont
Howard Boyle
Vance Knutsen
Elgin
Robert Carter
Dena
Princeton
Gene Moorhead
Inga Larson
University Hospital
Iowa City
Carman Swenson
Annapolis
C. W. Swenson
Naval Academy
Mahan Hall
Midshipmen
Judith Kay
Dean Mitts
S. B.knudsen
West Clermont ‘Lutheran Church
Arthur Schott
Mason City
Garner
Decorah
Ossian
West Union
Lawrence Fritz
Joe Leehy
Harlan Schultz
Harold Bennett
Wilson Patterson
Barbara Burger
Fayette
Clavus Berentson
Bernard Schradler
Jimmie
Ralph Schrader
Carl Voelz
Luana
Schrader
Voelz
Bernard
Frank Stones
Oelwein
Ray Chapman
Richard Griebenow
John Moen
Elmer Pape
L. le Appelman
Don Whitford
Wanda’Shafter
Volga
Pauline Boehm
Ada Palas
L. H. Appelman
Henry Whitford
Ted Whitford
Birthday Club
Alma ‘Nelson
J. A. Erickson
Nelson
Cheryl Shipton
Cheryl
Otto Wolf
Larry
Andrew Helgerson
Carlin
Gordon Hoopman
Jim Kelly
Cresco
Lester Welzel
Eldorado
Lester Luchsinger
Clifford Kittelson
Carolyn
Howard
Dean Kittelson
Josephine Wells
Lee
Geneva
Len Simek
Harry Raney
George Wanders
Castalia
Joel Wander
E. D. Turner
Margie
Buddy
Rockford
Clifton Pringle
Joe Wander
Warm Water May Save Chilled Lambs
Newborn lambs at risk from chilling can be saved by immersion in warm water then brisk drying with a dry cloth. After warming, feed colostrum from the mother, wrap in a warm dry blanket, and return to the mother when strong. Pen ewes in clean dry lambing pens to reduce orphaned lambs and help bonding. Encourage early grain with milk.
Age of house found by Hull man in 1886 papers
While tearing down an old house near Hull, Willam DeVost discovered two newspapers stuck between partitions. The Rock Valley Journal and the German Welt Bote were dated in 1886, confirming the building’s age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willam DeVost
Hull
Rock Valley Journal
Welt Bote
Also Mentioned on This Page
Judy Nelson
Alton Ames
David Gutcher
Leland Probert
Leo Riegel
James
Duane Wander
Lew Barnhouse
Aldora Anderson
Moore
Abraham Lincoln
Council Proceedings
Mrs
John Larson
Eastern Star
Clavus Serentson
Daisy Stry
Guy Williams
Lorraine Kittelson
Luther College
Cresco High School
Alfred Olson
Leonard Olson
Waucoma
Kenneth Ellis
J. P. Elis
Amid
Oran Roe
Waukon
Robert Martin
Calmar
Karl Martin
Keith Thoma
Don Martin
Edwin Krueger
Alfred Wenger
Truman Paulson
Union Street
Alma Anderson
Reuben Schupbach
Lloyd Meier
Kathy
P. J. Meier
Guttenberg
Henry Olson
Reuben Svendsen
Lawler
Ray Reierson
Norris Reierson
Richard
Arthur Olson
Clarence Jellings
Henry Schwemefus
Duncan Hines
Beautiful Women
Camay 3
Toayh Cares
Sunkist
Briardale Enriched
Briardale Fure
Oran
Rae - Beck
PMU
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