Grace C Walker Visits Clermont Iowa Home in Memory
Grace C Walker recalls a cold April trip from Florida to Clermont Iowa to visit relatives and childhood scenes. She reunites with cousins Marian and Will Cahalan, tours family homes, chats with Mrs Engle Mae Crowe and Nellie Malone, visits St Peters Church, meets Cedar Rapids Cahalan kin, and reflects on Montauk and governor links before ending at 425 West Hazel Ave Orlando Florida.
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Florida
Clermont
Iowa
Mary McDonald Cahalan
Maurice Cahalan
Charles
Maurice
Marian
Postville
Crowe's Drug Store
Will Cahalan
Toby
Will Cabalan
Martin Cabalan Shea
Mae Crowe
Grace C. Walker
South
River Road
Sampson Orive
Sand Creek
Vine Street
Verni Engle
Mrs. Engle
Grandmother
Nellie Malone
St. Peters
Oulwein
Kate
Lawrence Raftis
Cedar Rapids
Cahalans
Frank
Pearl
Albert
Bernard
Jim
Gene
Richard
George Malone
Netlie Malone
Larrabee
Montauk
Connecticut
Groton
Grace ‘C. Walker
West Hazel Ave
Orlando
Fla
Clermont School News Party and Projects Highlight
Clermont School notes a high school party on October 20 with dancing and refreshments. The government class used a new text book projector to view a bill and study Congress in Action. Seniors sell Your Household Guide booklets for fund raising and graduation portraits are planned.
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Congress
Early US Government Studies and CHS Activity Notes
Junior News outlines March 4 1789 as the start of the US government with executive departments and courts. It lists Federalists and Democratic Republican groups, and a CHS manual training project roster including Alton Ames and others. It notes cold weather forcing indoor lunches with ping pong volley ball basketball checkers and group singing and lists monitors for each activity.
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United States
CHS
Arthur
Victor
Elbert
Billy
LaVerne L
Ramona
Fayette County Board of Supervisors Proceedings September 16 1951
Fayette County Iowa board met in regular session with all members present. The chairman authorized a settlement receipt in the John Wagner estate and approved levies for county education and permissory funds along with township cemetery and hall levies for numerous townships. District school levies for Auburn Banks Bethel Fremont and others were continued to page 7.
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West Union
Fayette County
Board of Supervisors
Iowa
Court House
Payatta County
Phitly J.” Wolfe
Payette County
John Wagner
County Board of Ducation Fund
Auburn Township
Banks Township
Bethel Township
Center Township
Tery
Hall Fund
Clermont Township
Cema
LPUM
Lpum Ee Eee 100.00 Dove Ownehin, No Levy Eaten ‘Townahip
Comey Itery Fund
Satan
Matrfield
Comester
Eae
Mundool
Siainee
Italfund
Tuwnhng “Diatriet Townahlp
Auburn Rehool Township
General Fumi
Banks School
Tu General Fund
Bethel
Clermonts Open Season With November 6 Home Tip
The Clermont basketball teams schedule their first game at Randall's on November 6 and ask for community backing. Fourth graders report a higher arithmetic average after a self test and describe Halloween crafts and class birthday treats. Fifth graders thank the PTA for the Halloween party and note maps, a Western United States unit, and new club officers.
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Clermont
Randal‘a
Snow White practice notes with visiting guests
We spend time daily practicing the operetta Snow White. Mrs Guy Muchow and Mrs Orville Myers visited our room this past week.
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Guy Muchow
Orville Myers
Sixth Grade Arts and Halloween Plans
Sixth graders report freehand October and Halloween drawings and masks for a party. English lessons cover reports and orals, with index encyclopedia and dictionary usage. Reading is sparked by new library books and short reports. The Good American's Club elected officers, Robert Swenson president and Rose Larson treasurer, and plans a Halloween costume party.
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The
Good American's Club
Robert Swenson
See
Seventh Grade In Harmony With Longfellow Poems
Seventh grade in harmony studies Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and shares favorite poems. The Sunshine Club has held no regular meetings. Helen Henderson and JoAnn Moore planned the first program with a Halloween story and contests.
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Harmony
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sunshine Club
Helen Henderson
JoAnn Moore
Amusing play and club events at our meeting
Verne Swenson and Charles Wagner with Annette Wenger Gary Gilson Rowland Hackmann and Robert Larson presented an amusing play Shutting of the Door at our second meeting. The masquerade Halloween party Saturday night was also a club undertaking. In arithmetic class we are making scale drawings of a tennis court rooms and home and constructing scale model buildings. We completed a study of The Vision of Sir Launfal by Lowell.
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Verne Swenson
Charles Wagner
Annette Wenger
Gary Gilson
Rowland Hackmann
Robert Larson
Sir Launfal
Lowell
Halloween Masquerade Graces Quiet School Night
In October memory of a June masterpiece, students memorized a line about rare days while a Halloween masquerade delighted the classroom. Mary Barnhouse Doris Ames and Keith Ames planned the evening’s entertainment during the quiet event on Tuesday night.
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Mary Barnhouse
Doris Ames
Keith Ames
Kerkove couple marks 67th wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs Peter Kerkove recently observed their 67th wedding anniversary at Sigourney. They were married on October 14, 1884, and this milestone was celebrated by family and friends in the community.
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Sigourney
Peter Kerkove
Emblazoned Blizzard Claim Spreads Nationwide
In the 1970s a harsh snow storm labeled a blizzard by the editor sparked wide coverage as other editors picked up the story and the term spread across the country. Today's dictionary does not refute Estherville's claim.
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Estherville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Clermont School News
Senior News
Alton Ames
Kenneth Halverson
Roger East
David Gutcher
Leo Reigel
James Wander
Duane Wander
Leland Probert
Lew Barnhouse
Ellen Kneeland
Gerald Wander
Marguerite Sullivan
Carla Mast
County Board of Supervisors
Ellen Thies
Marion
Marilyn Halverson
PTA
John Nelson
Wayne Larson
Gary Hyde
Curtis Olson
Shirley Jacobin
Kenneth Nelson
Briggs - Stratton Engines Sales
Nelson
Towa
DR. I. C. Jerdee
Clermont, Iowa
Joe Marsh
U.S. Brewert Foundation
St. Peter’s Church Grounds
Ford Tractor
Massey-Harris
Torkelson Motor Co
St. Peter’s Church
Lauren H. Trudo
Howard Boyle
Lloyd Meier
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