Sumner Gazette Official Paper Rates and Notices
The Sumner Gazette lists subscription details, advertising rates, and notice policies. It notes two thousand two hundred twenty five weekly circulation, pricing for cards of thanks and condolences, legal notices, and postage through Bremer and surrounding Iowa counties.
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Primary contest shapes Town state races for September
The Town Republican party faces open primary battles as endorsements lag behind the opposition plan. A key race pits state senators Joe Flatt and Max Mills for Lieutenant Governor. Flatt, a Winterset businessman and chief of staff of the Town-Nebraska National Guard, has led Memorial Day observances and helped secure guard equipment for local ceremonies, prompting local Republicans to back his candidacy as best qualified.
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Joe Flatt
Winterset
Max Mills
Marshalltown
Town- Nebraska National Guard
Sumner
National Guard
Whitmire Memorial Pool Heat Consideration Across Budget
Budget hearings note strong summer demand for Whitmire Memorial Swimming Pool as hot humid weather drives attendance while water temperatures challenge early season use. Discussion suggests a pool heater could extend season and prevent opening delays, though funding appears unlikely this year.
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Whitmire Memorial Swimming Pool
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Ridiculous Parade Highlights a Summer Friday in Sumner
A Sumner Weekend column recalls Friday’s Ridiculous Day parade with record Kiddies division turnout and inventive costumes. Volunteers from the Sumner Volunteer Fire Department staged water fights that drew spectators and showcased firefighting hoses, with beginners learning the challenges of handling high water pressure and maneuvering the hose.
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Campaign tempo quickens in Iowa race for governor
Primary pace rises with a swath of statements from candidates including Robert Johnson urging McNamara and Freeman resignations and Richard Turner criticizing the attorney general as an errand boy. Other items note watershed delay bills, anti one man rule calls, tax double taxing claims, crime rate spikes, liquor store revenue, studded tires legality, and a proposed statewide educational TV network. Local civic notes cover a 83rd wedding anniversary, pancake feeds, and farm community events.
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Robert McNamara
Agriculture
Orville Freeman
John R. Hansen
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Freeman
Richard C. Turner
Bert Bandstra
Pella
Wiley Mayne
Charles Sloca
State Tax Commission
Robert K. Beck
William Murray
General Assembly
Harold Hughes
Warren Kruck
Boone Democrat
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Our Readers Write Harsh Reflections On Love And Senses
A reader recalls childhood joys and a mother’s photo while exploring vivid sensory memories. The piece contrasts primal appetite and energy with enduring beauty and intangible realities beyond physical cravings.
Babson notes booming business despite busts in auto sector
Babson Park Mass July 21 Even with auto production and sales down general business hits new all time highs while home building lags. Little sectors like home furnishings television textiles and mining rise pushing production to new peaks as the largest capital goods up swing continues. The piece discusses the Full Employment Act of 1948 and the role of boosting demand to sustain jobs, tracing efforts from Roosevelt to postwar policy amid worries about the duration of the boom.
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From the Files Half a Century Ago in Sumner
Notes from July 29 1965 and July 24 1941 items include landscaping plans at Hillcrest Home construction of drive and parking area. minor injuries in a Pennington road accident. business closure of Chris Service Center. family visits to Puerto Rico. Aug 1 80th anniversary of Hope Lutheran Weargate. Sumner council proposing 282305 for next year. 1941 items cover hospital discharge updates boiler installation weather damage storms bride O D Green wedding. local social visits. weather impacts on crops. baseball injury. parade winners. engagement announced. PBYP tour. eye injury update. various visits and band cooperation.
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Hillcrest
Mel Harms
Home Board of Trustees
Joe Mangan
Sumner
Pennington Road
Gordon Tegtmeier
Chris Hay
Chris
Max Hill
Steve
Don
Puerto Rico
Hope Lutheran Church of
Weargate
Fred Hoepfner
Baby
Mercy Hospital
Oelwein
Clair Baker
West Union
Sumner Creamery
Wm. Hoeger
Westgate
Misa Faythe Ellison
Claude Ellison
Fredericksburg
O. D. Green
Staten Island
Fr. Fischer
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Burnett Waskow
Jack of
Waverly
Fred Waskow
R. J. Allenstein
Claude Heyer
Koeberle-Heyer
Second Street
Rochester
Minn
G. H. Hammetter
Claire
South Dakota
Bertha Muir
Jessie Geyer
Walter Carpenter
V. F. Cass
Waterloo
Tripoli
Berger
Headlyn
Fred Moser
Poet Lillian Dirkgen featured in Sumner Gazette notes
Poet Lillian Dirkgen, a noted Sumner writer and Midwest poet laureate of the Chaparre Poetry Society, has her poems featured weekly in the Sumner Gazette. The fragment traces her prominence and includes a broader excerpt on economic policy and postwar prosperity.
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Demand, inflation, and the need to balance growth
The Sumner Gazette discusses Vietnam pressures and the risk of inflation from rising demand for arms, labor, and capital. It argues prosperity rests on men, machines, and money, but warns that excessive demand raises wages and interest, boosts production costs, and risks rationing credit, calling for cycles of demand adjustment.
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Vietnam
Summer Community Prods Local Home Living Appeal
The Hee Haw News notes the first of August starts a whole new home living adventure, inviting readers to consider a new home built by W. H. Heyer Sona, a Sumner-based builder since 1899. It also recaps Ridiculous Day parade humor, ice cream social plans, and light quips about roof leaks, corn storage, and local humor.
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Sona
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