Riverside Club Elects Officers And Plans Christmas Party
The Riverside Social Club met at Mrs. James Anderson's home with seven members and two guests present. Officers elected were Mrs. Oliver Rowland, president, Mrs. Geo. Larsony, vice president, and Mira Roy Tatro, secretary. The Christmas party is set for December 15 at Mrs. Martin Anderson's home. A picnic meal will be planned by Mrs. Almer Nelson, Mrs. Clar Jon Olson, and Mrs. George Larson. Contests awarded prizes to Mrs. Almer Nelson and Mrs. Larson. Nelson also won the door prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside Social’Club
James Anderson
Robert Mott
Clarence Kittelson
Guy Muchow
Oliver Rowland
Geo
Lar
Martin ‘Anderson
Almer L. ‘Nelson
Clar Jon Olson
George Larson
Almer Nelson
Larson
Nelson
Clermont Study Club Met Tuesday
The Clermont Study Club met Tuesday afternoon at LaNora Shipton’s home with ten members present. Lorranne Crowe led the program, presenting Church World Affairs and Korea armistice topics. A motion approved sending a Woman’s Package to CARE. Next Parent-Teachers Association meeting set for Wednesday evening, Dec. 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont Study Club
LaNora Shipton
Lorranne Crowe
Church
Korea
Clermont Bows to West Union in Close Home Tilt
West Union Bombers defeated Clermont Commanders 51 to 46 on Clermont home court. Mike Bers led West Union with 26 points while Howard Kittelson also scored 26 for Clermont. Reserves fought hard as Clermont won the secondary game 44 to 40 with Leo Riegel scoring 15 for Clermont and Don Moe 18 for West Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont
West Union
Mike Bers
Howard Kittelson
Leo Riegel
Don Moe
Town and Country Club Meeting at Mrs LaVerne Stamitie
The Town and Country Club met at Mrs LaVerne Stamitie’s home with twenty one members. they recited the American Creed, Gladys Nelson led devotion, and a motion to send a Woman's Kit to CARE was passed. A merchandise package will go to Germany, $2 to USO, Helen Kittelson discussed Education, Irene DeSart and Louise Tomshek presented articles, and the meeting closed with the club collect. lunch was served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaVerne Stamitie
Chers Bers
Gladys Nelson
Germany
USO
Helen Kittelson
Irene
Injury for Picker George Fenton Near Clermont
George Fenton, a picker who farmed near Clermont before last spring and now residing near Spring Grove Minnesota, suffered a severe corn picking accident on Thursday afternoon. He lost all four fingers but kept his thumb. Monday neighbors from Spring Grove, with four pickers and accompanying wives, aided in most of the remaining picking. The group included Mr and Mrs George Frieden Merle Anderson Mr and Mrs Harold Kimball Mr and Mrs Gene Wescott and Mr and Mrs Arno Gibbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Fenton
Clermont
Spring Grove
Minn
George Frieden
Merle Anderson
Harold Kimball
Gene ,Wescott
Arno Gibbs
Geneva Wells Hosts Sunday Thanksgiving Dinner Guests
Geneva Wells entertained Sun day at an early Thanksgiving dinner. Her guests included Mr and Mrs Ralph Wells of Ravenna Ohio and Mrs Helen Becker. Mrs Merle Lange of Postville spent Friday evening with Mrs Helen Becker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva Wells
Ralph Wells
Ravenna
Ohio
Helen Becker
Merle Lange
Postville
Sunday school and services at Clermont area church
Full Gospel un-denominational Sunday school at 10 00 a m Sunday services at 11 00 p m Thursday Bible study at 8 00 p Everyone welcome located at No 18 211 two miles west of Clermont in a school house
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No. 18
Clermont
St. Peter’s Church Mass Times and Confessions
St Peter s Church announces Sunday Masses at 3 00 and 10 00 a m with confessions Saturday evening and before Mass. Rev Fr Robert Cooney serves as pastor.
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Robert Cooney
Clermont Lutheran Parish Backs Thanksgiving Services
East Clermont and West Clermont outline a week of services and meetings led by Pastor Knudsen. Events include junior and senior choirs, catechetical class, divine worship, Luther League, and a Thanksgiving Day service with offerings to Lutheran World Relief. Next service with Holy Communion set for November 29 at 11:00 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Knudsen
East Clermont
LCR
Harry Helgerson
West Clermont
Luther League
Lutheran World Relief
Ahaa
The
Mission "Society
I ‘Highland
American Home Week Sermon Emphasizes Stronger Homes
An American Home Week theme urges worship on Sunday November 29 to strengthen the home for national welfare. The piece stresses love, sympathy, and faith as core ingredients, notes parents should know teachers, and cites visits by Louise Miller and Lena Peters to Postville. Local residents and gatherings are listed with family visits and social events through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
School Journal Notes On Classes And Open House
The biology class covers labour foods nutritive value and diseases from deficiencies. A film The Magic Alphabet explains vitamins. American problems class studies early schools and education's role in democracy. History notes national unity versus sectionalism. A full page butterfly design appeared in typing class. New section on arrangement and selective recall aids double letters and centering. Lyric poetry in English with poets Shakespeare Milton Jonson Burns Gray Wordsworth. Armistice Day reflections and a cookie bake for open house. Demonstrations on cottage pudding by Janice Larson and Mary Kamp. assistants Shirley Peterson Grace Olson. Lemon and cottage sauces by Patsy Gass Annette Wenger. Reading includes The Hunting of the Shark and The Yarn of the Nancy Bell. Page 6 continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Shakespeare
Milton
Jonson
Burns
Gray
Wordsworth
Armis
Janice Larson
Mary Kamp
Shirley Peterson
Grace Olson
Patsy Gass
Annette ‘Wenger
Nancy Bell
Auxiliary Activities Report from American Legion Auxiliary Meeting
The American Legion Auxiliary met November 10 at the Legion hall with Clara Belschner and Ethel Paulson as hosts. Members discussed collecting hospital materials, cookies for Glenwood hospital, a USO donation, and plans for a Des Moines gift shop. They approved a County joint meeting, a piano purchase for the hall, and a poppy poster contest. Ruth Olson, Irene DeSart, and others led Armistice programs with readings from the Town Legionaire and wartime songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
the Legion Hall
Clara Belschner
Ethel Paulson
Ruth Olson
Francis Cline
Irene Bennett
Helen Blockhus
Virginia Burrow
Lorranne Crowe
Glenwood Children's Hospital
USO
Irene DeSart
Lois Miller
Fran Hoopman
Des Moines
Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Clermont
Legion
Joyce Appelman
Alice Kittleson
Chrystal Thoma
Nora Loftsgard
Inez Thompson
Irene
France
Ruth
Legionaire
Local social notices from Clifton area include weekend guests
Mrs Nettie Raney of West Union and Mr and Mrs Arnold Stumme with Mrs Len Simek were supper guests Sunday in the Clifton Pringle home. Mrs Raney stayed overnight with Mrs Simek, while Mrs Irene Ostlie and Mrs Solheim visited Oelwein Friday. Mrs Len Simek and the Keith Thoma family dined with Mrs Louise Miller Sunday. Mr and Mrs Bennie Walker and Barbara from Gwan and Mrs Fred Clark of Independence were guests Saturday of Mrs Len Simek. Supper guests also included Mr and Mrs Keith Thoma and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie Raney
West Union
Arnold Stumme
Len Simek
Clifton Pringle
Raney
Simek
Irene Ostlie
Solheim
Oelwein
Keith Thoma
Louise Miller
Bennie Walker
Barbara
Gwan
Fred Clark
Independence
Bess Blake
E. C. Johnston
W. L. Anderson
Waterloo
Gordon Hoopman
Norman Erickson
Cedar Rapids
J. A. Erickson
Week and club meeting notices for November
A compact notice lists events for the week of November with gatherings by the Clermont Study Club Riverside Social Club Town Ladies Aid and Grand Meadow. It notes men’s forest ers meeting on Thursday and a firemen meeting on Monday and includes additional clubs on Tuesday Wednesday and Friday.
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Men’s Foresters
Firemen
Clermont
Riverside
Town Ladies Aid
Grand Meadow
Woodland Club Meeting Recalls First Thanksgiving Tales
The Woodland Study Club met at Amy Hovland's home on Tuesday afternoon November 10. Fifteen members responded to roll call with what they are most thankful for. Mrs Helen Dibble led a lesson on lamp shade making. Readings on The First Thanksgiving Day and Plymouth town folks reenactment were shared. Contests awarded prizes to Mrs Hogan, Mrs Nelson Jr, Mrs Gunderson, and Mrs Appelman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodland Study Club
Amy Hovland
Alma ‘Anderson
Helen Dibble
Farm Bureau
Fayette
Vernon Anderson
Local Polio Case and Weekend Hospital Visits
Mrs. Lee Palmer was hospitalized Friday after tests confirmed polio at Postville hospital and she was transferred to University of Iowa Hospitals polio ward. Laird Cline and Nell Sheehy visited Fred Cline in Rochester Minnesota following surgery, while Mrs. Cline stayed with him. Friends can reach him by mail at St. Mary’s Hospital, Rochester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Palmer
Postville Hospital
University Hospital
Iowa City
Rochester Hospital
Laird Cline
Nell Sheehy
Rochester
Minn
Laird
Fred Cline
Luther College selects Stephen Knudsen for Ladies of the Jury
Stephen Knudsen, a freshman and son of the Rev and Mrs S B Knudsen of Clermont, has been selected for the cast in Luther College campus players second production. He will portray Judge Fish in the three act comedy Ladies of the Jury to be staged December 3 and 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Knudsen
Luther College
Campus Players
Stephen
Judge Fish
S.B. Knudsen
Clermont
East Clermont Mothers Club Meeting Recap
The East Clermont Mothers Club met at Mrs. Alvin Halvorson’s home Friday November 10. Guests and members sang favorite songs and read scripture led by Mrs. Alvin Halvorson. Mrs. Jim Taylor read, film shown by Mrs. Oliver Larson, study topic The First Commandment led by Mrs. LaVerne Larson. The Lord's Prayer recited. Lunch was served by the hostesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Clermont
Mothers’ Club
Alvin Halverson
Jim Taylor
Oliver Larson
LaVerne Larson
Service Man Westpfahl in Austria Mud Lark Training
Pfe Kenneth Westpfahl of Clermont, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Westpfahl, took part in the annual U.S. Forces in Austria fall training maneuver mud lark. A field wire man in Battery A, 610th Field Artillery Battalion, he arrived in Austria in July after entering the Army in November 1952 and serving at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. In Japan, Kenneth Tatro writes to his grandmother that he is recalled to service and asks friends from Clermont to write. his address is noted in the letter.
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Austria
Pfe
Kenneth Westpfahl
Carl A. Westpfahl
Clermont
U.S
Westpfahl
610Th Field Artillery Battalion
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Japan
Mary Tatro
Kenneth Tatro
Kenneth
San Francisco
Calif
Seals Mailed for Clermont TB Christmas Drive
Christmas TB seals were mailed to Clermont residents. Dr. G. E. Jorgenson donated first again this year. Please send in your donation and return any unused seals at your earliest convenience to aid the fight against tuberculosis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clermont
G. E. Jorgenson
Pringle Family Holiday Visit Across Sioux Falls and Granite
Mr and Mrs Clifton Pringle spent Tuesday to Friday visiting relatives in Sioux Falls South Dakota with sister and brother in law Mrs Glen Webb and Mr Glen Webb, and Mr and Mrs John Gruver in Granite. They also called at the R G Wilson home in West Bend. Accompanying them to Sioux Falls was Mrs Emil Lassig who then traveled to Goodwin to see her parents. Mrs Renaldo Ellestad of Spring Grove Minnesota was a dinner guest Thursday evening in the Ray Reierson home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Miller
Lena Peters
Postville
Mary Grover
Bettina Buraas
Cedar Rapids
Caroline Erickson
Sophie Loftsgard
Decorah
Mary Olaga
Clifton Pringle
Glen Webb
Sioux Falls
So. Dak
John Gruver
Granite
R. G. Wilson
West Bend
Emil Lassig
Goodwin
Renaldo Ellestad
Spring Grove
Minn
Ray Reierson
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Riverside Club Met
Parent-Teachers Assn
Harold Bennett
Reuben Schupbach
Elizabeth Rouman
Reuben +Schupbach
Elgin
Florence
Sclermont
T. & C. Club Meeting
Grt Farmers Savings Bank
Iowa
Friendly Bank
Membgr
FDIC
J A- Deport
Full
St. Peter’s Church
Clermont Lutheran Parish
Wah
Paunith
Vu Gov'y
Ely
Joann Swenson
Ann Larson
Mary Martin
Janice Olson
Merilee Entwistle
Arlene Knudsen
Lew Barnhouse
David Gutcher
Helen Reierson
Judy Paulson
Glendal Nygaard
Senior ‘News
Junior News
Freshman News
S Dobout Service
Woodland Club
Yeal
Kee
Felco
Clermont Cooperative Phone
Lyle Gunderson
Mothers’ Club Met
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