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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1956
Page
3
The Clermont school notes cover classes from fifth to ninth grade, detailing projects like a snowplow and furniture pieces, color tests, and poetry studies. It notes open house attendance, individual student reports, and a Thanksgiving program planning, with daily life and science topics, dental cards, and calendar mentions.
Mrs. Lyle Olson was ill with a virus and hospitalized a week at Postville hospital. Michael Olson joined his mother for a severe cold but went home Friday. Marsha Mitty returned home Friday after a two week stay. Mrs. Gerald Gutcher came home from University hospital Town City Friday much improved. Ruth Starkey was taken to Decorah hospital Friday for observation and treatment. Donald and Duane Guteher visited their mother at University hospital. Astrid Kimball had surgery at Decorah hospital last week and is home recovering. Mr and Mrs Gordon Hoopman traveled to Rochester Minnesota Friday for a health check-up.
Afternoon picnics and church events noted as Mr and Mrs Harvey Meyer Wanda Meyer and Mrs Isobel Nelson attended a baptismal dinner for infant Ronald Dean Lauer tome at the Leslie Lauer home. Guests include Walls Evenson Helgerson Amundson Frieden and Anderson families with Cedar Rapids trips and birthdays referenced.
A fox squirrel touched a high line and fell into dry grass causing a blaze near Elgin. Two acres burned before firefighters contained the fire.
Clermont residents Gerald Fortsch and Michael from Waterloo spent Veterans Day with his ill mother Mrs Helen Becker who has since improved. Supt M H Moore Clarence Tatro Carmie Peterson Thos Ogle and Max Medberry attended the 11th annual convention of the Iowa Association of School Boards in Des Moines, returning home Friday. Mr and Mrs George V Larson hosted the Men’s Catholic Order of Foresters and their families at their home Thursday evening.
The Sacred Heart Circle of St. Peter's Church held a family night at the Robert Minger home with a short business meeting, progressive 500, and a late picnic lunch. Guests included Fremont Sull ivan of Independence, plus several local families dining and visiting through Sunday. The piece notes multiple other social gatherings, open houses, baptisms, anniversaries, and weekend visits across Decorah, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and nearby towns with numerous families listed.
On the Paton farm near Whittemore bugs led to a fire after Mr Paton used a blow torch to rid the house of the insects. The blaze damaged the south side of the dwelling. Nearby, Cletus Weipert of Lansing reportedly bagged Iowa’s biggest bow and arrow deer, a 15 point buck weighing over 250 pounds.
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