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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1944
Page
3
The notice is entered as second class mail matter at the Clermont post office in Fay ette County Iowa under the Act of March 3 1952.
Secretary of State Wayne M. Ropes of Onawa seeks a second term after being Republican nominee in 1942. Born October 23, 1898, Ropes attended local schools and embalmers college. Mrs. Genevieve E. Nichols of Iowa Falls hopes to be the first woman secretary of state since 1930s. She was born November 3, 1885, in Iowa Paris and educated at Ellsworth Academy. Attorney General John M. Rankin of Keokuk seeks a third term after service as first assistant and interim appointee in 1939. Born on a farm, Rankin advanced through college and state service.
Garrett served during the Herring Kraschel administration. He was born December 24, 1887, and attended public schools at Corydon, graduating from Corydon High School in 1907 and from the University of Iowa Law College in 1911.
Clermont locals recount a weekend gathering at Henry O. Olson home. Attendees include Harold Olson and family from Milwaukee, plus siblings and relatives from Decorah Postville Lavern Marble Rock Forest City Buffalo Center and Lavern. Other relatives and visitors joined for meals and a Sunday stop at Tillie Swenson’s home.
Social notes list numerous visits in Caledonia Minnesota with Mrs Bess Tschantz, Mrs Marguerite Rogers of Detroit, and others plus relatives in West Union Decorah and Oelwein. Guests include Cpl Walter Pratt Jr returning from overseas, Johm Moen's birthday dinner, and various dinners at Crowe Osmundson and Swenson homes. Several church, Sunday school events and homecomings referenced with multiple local households and nearby towns Clermont items noted to continue on page 8.
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