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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1944
Page
3
A short postal registration note records that Clermont in Fayette County Iowa is designated for second class mail under the 1882 act,listing association membership and circulation details for local press entities.
The article notes White calling roads “bread and butter” and urging rights for postwar project approval with maximal funding. It reviews Iowa highway patrol staffing, praising their policing efforts amid manpower shortages and reduced traffic. Justice Oscar Hale of the Iowa Supreme Court, age 77, nears re election after a long career. The piece also mentions Nile Kinnick memorial funds and lineage to Gov George W Clarke.
Kinnick had given several political speeches in Town supporting Wendell Willkie in the 1940 campaign and was renowned for his oratorical powers. The university alumni club plans to perpetuate his memory, though specifics remain undecided. Donations to the Junior Chamber of Commerce fund are accepted via the local chamber or the Iowa City chamber.
Death notice for Mrs Nina Stinerson aged 71 recounts birth in Marion township Clayton County on March 16 1872 marriage to Nels Simerson May 24 1892 and long years in Gander Clermont Ossian Castalia with five daughters eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral held March 16 at West Clermont Lutheran church with services led by Rev A O Nesset. burial in Clermont cemetery.
Seniors choose Believe Me Professor by James F. Stone for the class play with rehearsals begun and a April presentation planned. The basketball banquet occurs tonight March 23 in the Larrabee play room followed by a theater party at West Union to see Destination Tokyo.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of our mother Mrs Nina Stierson. Grateful thanks to Rev A G Nesset the singers the organist and for the memory wreaths from the daughters and their families.
In First and Second Grades the class makes booklets and displays spring pictures from Holland and flowers. Attendance rose after measles return while eight students attended last week. Fifth and Sixth Grades study decimals in arithmetic and learn phrases and prepositions in English. Geography covers Mexico and the neighbor country to the south. The class reads Franka by Walter Johnson about a Seeing Eye guide dog. Thursday the eighth graders tried volleyball in gym for the first time and enjoyed it.
Verle Hulbert entered the 8th grade on Monday March 6 after three weeks at the school from Pleasant Valley No 5. The 7th and 8th grades took the State American Legion Auxiliary Citizenship test with 50 questions on flag history and respect. Peggy Spencer scored 94 percent and Lorraine Kittelson 98 percent. Others scoring 90 or above included Franklin Shipton Helen Gener James Martin Norene Amundson Carmen Loftsgard Ronald Gunderson Donna Ames and Lavonne Swenson. Prizes went to Peggy Spencer and Lorraine Kittelson.
Lavern Wedo of Pastville spent the weekend at the Ernest Holt residence. Joyce Amundson stayed Thursday night with the Ames Olson household. Mrs. Harry Helgerson was at the Enoch Mark home Saturday. Leo Larson and Adrian visited Otto Larson Friday evening. Lavanda Olson spent the weekend in Des Moines with Fern Buraas and Augusta Miller. Willard Martin and Buddy visited Alvin Halverson Sunday afternoon. Thelma Mark stayed weekend with the Enoch Mark home. Mrs Arthur Olson and Doris Johnson visited Willard Martin Friday afternoon. Ames Olson and Leo Larson attended a directors meeting at Center School House Monday.
Noon indicates Aines Olson appointed director for the coming year. He succeeds Larson. Various social notes mention visits: Mrs Caroline Erickson in Mellien Loftsgard home Monday, Helen Reinhart at Willard Martin home, Mrs John Sampson of Clermont with Ernest Holt, Ames Olson family at Henry Larson home near Ossian, Holt and Wedo attending a funeral in Marquette, and Julia Landsgard’s Sunday guests Henry Olson Clermont Arthur Olson Vilma and Laverll Martin.
Halverson Bros West Union and DeKalb Ill bought the Wilbur Bell soybean mill in Fayette, established 1939. W W Clark to manage for the buyers. Bell Inc. to continue operations as before. A rummage sale mix up involved the Larsons Yorks and Minnie Langland, with York household items mistakenly picked up by Langland during the sale. Eastern Star volunteers later helped recover the York items.
Tjaden of Wellsburg left a wallet containing 1239.00 on a Grundy Center store counter. George F. Smith, the store proprietor, found the wallet and located the owner the next morning. The incident comforted Tjaden who learned all contents were safe. In Iowa storm reports, 450 telephones were out of service due to ice on lines and poles, with three to four days needed for repairs.
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