Sumner School Board honors Vo Ag instructor
Sumner Vocational Agriculture instructor and FFA advisor John A. Scott receives a letter of commendation from the Sumner Community Schools Board of Education for 17 years of service and his Honorary American Farmer Degree. The award was presented by Board President John R. Milnes with a board-wide letter noting Scott’s dedication to students and the educational mission.
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John A. Scott
Sumner
FFA
Sumner Community Schools Board of Education
Scott
John R. Milnes
Sumner Education Association
Sumner Community Schools
Herbert F .Hoepfner
Jo- Ann Elmer
Patricia O’brien
Eldon Schoephoerster
First Baby of ’74 Will Be Lucky One
Twenty four Sumner businessmen join to offer merchandise and cash prizes to the parents of the first baby born in 1974 at Sumner Community Memorial Hospital. The 23rd annual contest awards gifts to the newborn, with prize redemption within ten days.
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Sumner
Sumner Community Memorial Hospital
Jason E. Cahoy
Rollin Cahey
Fredericksburg
Sumner Gazette
Birth notices from Sumner area list new arrivals
Three newborns are reported with guardians and hospitals: Chad Donat born Dec 25 at Allen Memorial in Waterloo 7 lb 8 oz to Ray and wife of Sumner. Kelly Lynn Cayton born Dec 24 at Emmetsburg Hospital 8 lb to Mark and wife of Whittemore with great grandparents Hill iott Schroeder of Summer. Tonja Marie Heller born Dec 25 at Sumner Community Memorial Hospital 7 lb 16 oz to Ronald and wife of Arlington Iowa. Local businesses include Bealmer's Dry Goods McAloon’s Super Valu Christensen Real Estate & Ins Summer Gazette The Booterie Sumner Plumbing and Heating Sumner Variety Sumner Lockers Rebecks Clothiers and Cleaners Fauser Oil Co Inc Bill Nauholz Ins Agency Sumner Bakery Pipho & Tiedt Inc BE M Lumber Co Gambles Store Sumner TV O'Brien Bros Meyer OK Hardware Pickering's By Lo First National Bank of Sumner Tom Kersch Chevrolet Olds Inc Peoples Natural Gas Coast to Coast Store and Fred's DX Service.
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Bealmer's Dry Goods
McAloon
Super Valu
Christensen Real Estate & Ins
Summer Gazette
the Booterie
Sumner Plumbing and Heating
Sumner Variety
Sumner Lockers
Ribbeck’s Clothiers and Cleaners
Fauser Oil Co, Inc
Bill Nauholz
Sumner Bakery
Pipho & Tiedt, Inc
BE. &*M. Lumber Co
Gambles
Sumner TV
O'Brien Bros
Meyer OK Hardware
Pickering’s By-Lo
First National Bank of
Sumner
Tom Kersch Chevrolet Olds., Inc
Peoples Natural Gas
Fred
Sumner Businesses Close for New Year Holiday
Sumner observes New Year’s Day with all stores closed including the Post Office. No mail, deliveries, or bank and city offices open. Liquor store also closes. In other news, Becky Flanscha, daughter of Mrs. Delores Flanscha, makes Concordia College Dean’s List for Pall Quarter.
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Sumner
Oswald Worthmann
First National Bank
Matthew Leyh
Lydia Reisner
Sumner Liquor Store
Art Larson
Becky Flanscha
Delores Flanscha
Concordia College
Mrs Will Braun Dies At 74 In Sumner Area
Mrs Will Braun a lifelong Sumner area resident died December 19 at 3 10 p m at Sunrise Guest Home Fredericksburg after a lingering illness She had lived at the Home since May Funeral services were held December 22 at 1 30 p m at Emerson Milnes Funeral Home Sumner with Rev Robert MacCanon officiating Interment in Wilson Grove Cemetery She was born April 9 1899 in Sumner daughter of August and Henrietta Torne She married Will Braun December 31 1919 in Sumner They farmed here until 1970 retired moved to town Survivors include her husband a son Myron of Fredericksburg one sister Martha Vandersee of Waverly three granddaughters and four great grandchildren She was preceded by her parents a brother Otto and a sister Emma
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Will Braun
Sumner
Fredericksburg
Emerson-Milnes
Robert MacCanon
United Methodist Church
Wilson Grove
Elsie Edna Torne
August
Henrietta Frisch Torne
Otto
Emma
Aliens Must Register Next Month Across Nation
Oswald Worthmann Sumner Postmaster reminds all aliens to report their addresses during January. Cards to report are available at Sumner Post Office and Immigration and Naturalization Service offices nationwide. Reports must be submitted to one of those offices. parents or guardians must file for alien children under fourteen.
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Oswald Worthmann
Sumner
Sumner Post Office
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Sumner area WWII veteran Norman Hurmence dies at 57
Norman Edward Hurmence 57, of Lampe Missouri, longtime Sumner resident and World War II veteran, died December 23 at 4 am at the home of his sister-in-law in Sumner. He served in a Combat Engineers unit in Alaska, married Nancy McDonald in 1946, later lived in Florida and Shabbona, and moved to Lampe in 1972. Survivors include his wife, three sons, a daughter, a grandson, his mother, four brothers and a sister. Funeral services were held at United Methodist Church of Sumner with military rites by the American Legion Honor Guard. interment at Union Mound Municipal Cemetery. Funeral arrangements were by Emerson-Milnes Funeral Home.
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Norman Hurmence
Lampe
Missouri
Sumner
George McDonald
Hurmence
United Methodist Church
Robert E. MacCanon
Union Mound Municipal
Thomas E. Woods
American Legion of
Legion Comrades
Shabbona
Ill
Emerson-Milnes Funeral
Norman Edward Hurmence
Florida
American Legion
Legion
V.flw
Hurmences
Dunwoody Institute
Minneapolis
Minn
Nany
Kenneth
Douglas
Mark
Ann
Leslie George
Jeremy
Irma Hurmence
Ralph
Newton
William
Tripoli
Wayne
Austin
Gerald
la Verne
Calif
Jeanette
Chester Bunnell
Oskaloosa
Town
Ihe
Joyce Ellen
William Hurmence
Donald
James Paul
Bremer County approves 1974 road program costing 659000
Bremer County Board of Supervisors adopts a 1974 road construction plan totaling 659000. Projects include 7 miles of new paving 14 miles of resurfacing 5 miles of shouldering 0.5 mile of grading and culvert work with Black Hawk County joint efforts. Bremer County funds 357000 local plus 302000 Farm to Market funds.
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Bremer County
Wapsle Valley High School
Fayette County
Black Hawk
Kilnger Road
Dunkerton
Black Hawk County
Finchford
Klinger
Iowa No. 3
Buck Creek
Iowa No. 4
Iowa No
Sumner Scouts Eye Waste Paper Recycling Plan
In Sumner the Gazette reports scouts in Troop 45 under Walter Kent Jr are studying a return to regular waste paper collection to raise funds, reviving a prewar effort abandoned when markets vanished. The City Council also weighs newspaper recycling, urging residents to save paper while awaiting a formal announcement within weeks.
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Sumner Gazette
Walter Kent, Jr
Sumner Scout
Sumner
Snowmobile permits offered to reopen North Woods Park areas
Snowmobile permits for operating in North Woods Conservation Park are now available at five Sumner stores and from some Sumner Jaycees. The pilot permits cover the 1975-74 winter for 3.50 per machine and may lead to broader reopenings if successful. Sweets Marsh at Tripoli is designated as a State Recreation Area open to snowmobile use with caution.
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North Woods Conservation Park
Sumner
Sumner Jaycees
First National Bank
Nauholz Insurance Agency
Tipho & Tiedt, Inc
Sumner TV
Sumner Sports Store
North Woods Park
Bremer County
Jaycee
County Conservation Board
Here
Sumner Jaycées
Sweets Marsh
Tripoli
State Conservation Commission
Iowa State Conservation Commission
Iowa
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Donat
Chad Marshal
Allen Memorial Hospital
Waterloo
Ray Donat
Cayton
Kelly Lynn
Emmetsburg Hospital
Mark Cayton
Whittemore
Hiliott Schroeder
Summer
Heller
Tonja Marie
Ronald Heller
Arlington, Iowa
Interstate Producers Livestock Association
IPLA
Chicago
K. W Hoppenworth
Harold DeVries
Prairie City
Gordon Vick
Decorah
Frederika
Pire
Town Conservation Commission
Sumner Volunteer Fire Department
Durant Elementary School
Tom Meighan
Larry Bruch
Ernie Meyer
John Sorenson
Dean Jacobson
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