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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1963
Page
4
Clermont residents hosted and visited many friends and relatives from Postville, Elgin, Cedar Rapids, and beyond. Local gatherings included dinners, showers, and weekend visits as families supported each other across nearby towns and states.
The Clermont Ladies Aid met at Mrs. Louis S. Olson's home on a Wednesday afternoon, May 24, with Miss Andine Vasby assisting. Mrs. Blake led the meeting. roll call followed. Birthday songs honored Mrs. Delmer Kingery and Mrs. Fred Cline. The March library report was presented and noted days open five, largest 6 percent, average 93.5. The president announced plans for beautification of a city park as other towns push to establish small parks.
A town meeting discussed moving trailers from the park to another site to improve Clermont residents’ convenience and accommodate out of town visitors for family gatherings. A committee was appointed to contact the council regarding the relocation.
The Business and Professional Women’s Club met Monday at the Lutheran Church Parlor with a dinner for members and husbands, Commercial Club wives, Valley girls basketball team, cheerleaders, manager, chaperone, and several couples. The business session, led by the president, included roll call from 24 members. Awards, plant duties for Lincoln Capital Stock Park, and a proposed $35,000 capital stock were discussed. a June outing venue was chosen. The group voted to pay half the basketball dinner cost from the cheer fund, and a 500 prize draw followed.
A Clermont school presents a musical titled Round the World on Friday May 10 at 8 pm in the Jr High. The program features Kindergarten through eighth grade students and uses social studies themes to explore likes and dislikes through song and performance.
Renewed amended and substituted articles for Farmers Savings Bank of Clermont Iowa outline bank name and place of business Clermont Fayette Iowa. Describes business as savings bank under Iowa code provisions, duration extended fifty years to 1963, board and officer structure provisional directors, annual stockholders meeting first Tuesday February 1964, names of provisional directors, annual board meeting after stockholders, officers Karl A Miller president J A Erickson vice president L H Meier cashier, private property exemption for shareholders, dated April 16 1963.
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