Oldest Voter in Clermont Active at 90
Charles Anderson, aged about 90, was the town's oldest voter at the polls last week, voting for the eighteenth time for a presidential candidate since his first vote in 1872 for U.S. Grant. He has lived through Civil War, Spanish-American War, and World War I eras, and his cane shows little sign of age as he walks.
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Charles Anderson
Wm. Starkey
H. A. Lubke
U.S. Grant
Harrison
Cleveland
White House
Clermont High School Play Promises Family Entertainment
Clermont junior class presents the comedy Uncle Cy Hits a New High in the high school auditorium on November 15. The play unfolds on an ocean liner with three acts in one day and features a large cast including Sapp Ray Vasby and Doris Johnson. Also covered are Armistice Day activities, the night school, band and choir performances, a pencil sale by the student council, and a faculty dinner hosted by Dr. and Mrs. L L Carr.
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Clermont High School
Uncle Cy
Cy Sapp
Ray Vasby
Paul Sapp
Luis Schrader Rae Mooney
Helen Stee Spring Heather
Lorraine Osterhusduke
Doris Johnson
Mary Sprin
England
Norman
Clermont
L. L. Carr
Seventh and Eighth Grades Quiz and Birthday Gift
The girls won the current events quiz Friday night as the score stood boys 2, girls 1. Seventh and eighth graders surprised their teacher with a birthday gift and cake last week.
World's Third Biggest Span Collapses at Puget Sound
Tacoma Wash residents watched as the bridge on the Narrows began to collapse into Puget Sound. A car was abandoned by its occupants as a photo captured the moment the span disintegrated and fell 190 feet.
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Puget Sound
Tacoma
Wash
Tacoma Narrows
Declamatory Date Set For High School Contest
The declamatory contest will be held on November 19 at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Participants should mark the date. The program includes McBermott's Memorial Address by Arthur Alloway The Inner Threat Our Own Softness by Frederick Appelman The Sacrifice that Failed by Helen Halverson.
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McBermott
Arthur Alloway
Frederick Appelman
Helen Halverson
Clermont Chronicles: Club, Church and Family News Brighten Fall
A village round of club meetings, visits, and celebrations fills Clermont headlines. The men’s bridge score at J C Halverson’s home tops the night, while St Theresa Study Club weathered postponement. Birth announcements, hospital updates, and family gatherings tie with church groups, tours, and local society notes across Clermont, including Armistice Day visits, missionary appeals, and daily routines of residents like the Follett, Halverson, Tatro, Halvorson, and Belschner families.
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J. C. Halverson
St. Theresa
H. F. Becker
Nels Gilbert
Barbara Berg
Rushford
Minn
Henry Wilson
Thomas Waldrons
Lemmon
Patricia Anne
L. H. Carlin
Elizabeth Carlin
R. WV. Brandt
Louise Miller
Cornelius Olson
Upper Iowa
Fayette
Celia Morf
Chrystal
Miller
Lois Brandt
Clermont
EB. S
Wim. J. Nelson
Sioux City
Wm. J. Nelson
Walter Follett
Priscilla
West Clermont Lutheran Church
J. A. Asgaard
Foreign Missions
E. E. Ramsey
Lutheran World Action
Rally of Lutheran youth at St Pauls Postville
West Clermont church Luther League members attended a northeastern Iowa rally at St Pauls Lutheran in Postville with Dr N Astrup Larson of Decorah delivering talks. Musical numbers included a vocal solo, a violin piece, and choir singing. Socials followed with entertainment from Clermont and other local groups.
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E. E. Ramsey
Agnes Bilden
Patricia Anderson
Ina Moen
Phyllis Schweinefus
Loretta Belschner
Arthur
Clarence Amundson
Lorraine Osterhus
Helen Ramsey
Helen Anderson
Norman Gilbert
Lois Schweinefus
Margaret Moen
Belva Miller
West Clermont
Iowa
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Postville
N. Astrup Larson
Decorah
Iowa Lutheran Welfare Society
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Lutheran World Action For
Rev. Ramsey
Archibald Sowden
West Union
St. Paul’s Choir
Luther League
Clermont
College billiards grow in popularity says lecturer
Miss Lorraine Bosnak of the University of Chicago learns billiard basics from Charles C. Peterson world champion shots at the Midway during his college tour. Peterson notes that college men and women are taking up billiards in increasing numbers each year.
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Lorraine Bosnak
University of Chicago
Ellen Sherman 90 Dies. Noted National Physician and Ornithologist
Dr Ellen Amelia Sherman at National died Saturday night at the family home known as the Acre of the Birds in ornithological history. She was born in National and educated at Upper Jows University Oberlin College and the University of Michigan with postgraduate work at Pennsylvania and Chicago. She served at Mary Thompson Hospital Chicago and was physician for women at the Iowa hospital for the insane in Independence from 1884 to 1887.
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Ellen Amelia Sherman
National
National Community Church
Sherman
Upper Jows University
Oberlin College
University of Michigan
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Mary Thompson Hospital
Iowa Hospital For the Insane
Independence
Lutheran Singing Church Services and Meetings Schedule
The Singing Church holds Divine services at Highland at 10 45 a m and at West Clermont Norse at 2 30 p m on Sunday Nov 17 the 26th Sunday after Trinity Epistle Hebrews 4 9 13 and Gospel John 5 22 29 West Clermont Luther League meets 7 45 p m The West Mission Society meets Wednesday Nov 20 with hostesses Mrs Melvin Anderson Mrs Ethan Guyer Mrs Richard Olson Mrs Ole Amundson Mrs Louise Amundson Mrs Henry Olson and Mrs E E Ramsey Program chairman Mrs H E Landsgard East Clermont Sewing Circle meets Thursday Nov 21 Hostesses Mrs Evan Lien Mrs Alphie Thorson and Mrs Emalia Larson Rev E B Ramsey Pastor
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Singing Church
Highland
West Clermont
Norse
Ole Amundson
Louise Amundson
Henry Olson
E. E Ramsey
H. E. Landsgard
East Clermont
Pioneer Men's Study Club Begins 61st Year
The Historical and Literary Club, Iowa’s oldest men’s study club, opened its sixty first year at West Union Monday with charter member H. P. Hancock age 88 still active. Membership runs to 15 and women are barred from meetings except the annual banquet. A member absent without acceptable excuse must treat the club, historically with fruit offerings and cafe orders. Also notes want ads drive results. Mr and Mrs W J Blatte hosted a 6 30 dinner with guests Anna Larraber Frederick Larraber and Mr and Mrs IL Greenley.
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the Historical and Literary Club
Iowa
West Union
H. P. Hancock
W. J. Blatte
Anna Larraber
Frederick Larraber
IL. B. Greenley
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Jackie Halverson
Diamond's
Central States Power & Light Co
John Finnegan
Howard, Boyle
Mary Carlin
Rosary Society
St. Peter's
Dan Burke
Archbishop Beckman
Dubuque
Lo7as College
F. Leo O'Connell
George P. Rounds
Danny
L. L. Rounds
Margaret Clarke
George L. Rounds
Lovella
Helen Dibble
Jane Dibble
Dunbar
Des Moines
Capitol City
Avalon
Jack Fallows
West Union, Iowa
George Murphy, Brenda Joyce
Robert Sterling, Jean Rogers In
Roy Rogers
Pauline Moore
Colorado
Socgoods
Errol Flynn
Flora Robson
The
Sea Hawk
D. Fairbanks, Jr
Rita Hayworth
Clermont School News
Clermont Public Schools
Legionnaires
Assembly
Lillian Crowe
America
Robert Burgett
Marines
Willet Miller
Arthel Meyer
Betty Gilbert
Boldier
Two Minute Silence
H. S. Briefs
Rose Marie Hackmann
Henry Follett
Decorah Hospital
Ronald Faust
Delaware
Marvin , Davies
Elmer Trude
Augusta Miller
Mary Stuart
Arlene Amundson
Blanche Johnson
Mildred Thorson
Lorraine Follett
Peter
Betty * Follett
Marvin Larson
Richard Crowe
Farm Bureau
Mission Society
Clermont Lodge
ALF
A. M
Sophia
Sarah Groth
Nellie Halstenson
L. M. Hovland
Henry Follett, Jr
Fred Tann
Mary Tatro
Roy
Andree
Hazel
Clarence Tatro
Stanley
Harold Halverson
Spring Valley
Dover Township
J.C. Halverson
Helen
Jackie
John P. Camp
Q. W. Krueger
Ruth
Dan Carpenter
Brown
Palmer Wallin
Minneapolis
Harry Amundson
Arthur Helgerson
Sylvan Houg
Hallins
Oscar Houg
R. V. Brandt
Fred
Elizabeth Anderson
Donald Scott
Hazel Tatro
Clifford Stee
Castalia
Richard Banning
Frank Wickham
Donald Poplett
Washington, NL
J. S. Sullivan
Fred Tann and
Robbie
Milo Olson
Waterloo
Eleanor Anderson
Anna Mae Anderson
Martin Anderson
Belva Olson
Donna Schweinerus
Gladys Anderson
Anna Mae
Andree Tatro
Fred Caldwell
Max Reed
Ellen Sherman
Lutheran Church
Pioneer Men
Egins
Burgess - Dugstad Lumber Co
Clermont, Iowa
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