Easter Prize Hunt details and local obituaries arise
Visitors from Australia and South America visited the Museum in the past year. Daryl Milton Jones and Jeffrey Ronald Hack were born in 1967 at Sumner Community Hospital. The Bremer County Historical Society board discussed membership drives and repairs to the Waverly museum roof. Christina Karsten died at Hillcrest Home in Sumner, with funeral services held at St. John American Lutheran Church. Other items note kindergarten enrollment, bake sales by 4 Her Club and Rainbow Girls, courthouse hours, and Easter vacation for Sumner schools.
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The
Bremer County
I Waverly
Christina Karsten
Sumner
H. M. Karsten
Hillcrest
St. John American Lutheran Church
John Mohr
Emerson-Milnes Funeral
Christina Koch
Henry C. and
Justina Tegtmeier Koch
Randalia
Fayelie County
Iowa
Herman M. Karsten
Waverly
Karsten
Order of the Eastern Stars
H. H. Karsten
Myra
B. H. Doyle
Omaha
Nebraska
H. H. Koch
Florida
James J. Miler
Snow Clearing photographed on West First Street
A county snow removal unit works to clear wet slushy snow from West First Street near Sumner Community Memorial Hospital as a weather system lingers through Monday.
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West First Street
Sumner Community Memorial Hospital
Albert Borcherding Dies at Fredericksburg Dairy Owner
Albert Borcherding 71, former Sumner area resident and Borcherding Dairy operator at Fredericksburg, died after a heart attack at his farm home near Fredericksburg. Funeral Friday at Peace United Church with Rev. Wilmer Grunwald. interment Rose Hill Cemetery. Survived by Ruth, his wife, two sons James and Jack, daughter Brenda, three grandchildren, and three sisters. Also survived by extensive farming history. services arranged by Chenoweth & Son.
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Albert Borcherding
Sumner Area
Borcherding Dairy
Fredericksburg
Peace United Church
Wilmer Grunwald
Rose Hill Cemetery
Chenoweth & Son Funeral Home
Fred
Dora Wiebcke Borcherding
Ruth McConkey
New Hampton
Borcherding
Sumner
Ruth
James
Des Moines
Jack
Mabel
Minn
Brenda
Roger Hinders
Waterloo
Tina Borcherding
Scott
Gene Hinders
Clara
Wm. Mueller
Ella
Alvin Hucke
W. A. Meyer
Edwin
Man
Martha
Activities Banquet Set for Tuesday at Legwa Hall
Bernie Saggan, assistant to the Executive Secretary of the Towa State High School Athletic Association, will speak at Sumner High School Activities Banquet Tuesday March 28 in Legwa Hall. The event honors students for extracurricular achievements with about 150 attendees including students faculty School Board members Rotarians and guests. Dinner will be served starting at 6 30 p.m.
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Bernie Saggan
Towa State High School Athletic Association
Sumner High School Activiies
Legwa Hall
Sumner Rotary Club
Sumner Club invites youths to Foster Prize Hunt event
The Sumner Commercial Club invites all area youths to a March 25 prize hunt. Tickets go out at 2 p.m. at the Legion Hall with a letter and number matching window prizes. Hundreds of prizes, token awards, and remote displays promise broad participation. no duplicates exist and prizes stay on display until claimed.
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Sumner Commercial Club
Foster
Jim Bradford
Commercial Club Board
Legion Hall
Richie's European tour begins after Peace Corps service
Richie Haupt of Sumner departs for an extended European tour after completing two years with the Peace Corps in Panama. He flies Chicago to New York then to Glasgow, plans no set schedule, and will visit Belfast Dublin London Stavanger Oslo Stockholm Copenhagen and major European nations with possible Morocco. He signs off noting the trip may last two months to two years and invites visits.
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Peace Corps
Richie Haupt
Sumner
Haupt
Panama
Chicago
New York
American Airlines
Glasgow
Scotland
BOAC
British Overseas Airlines Corp
Europe
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Dublin
Irish Sea
England
London
Stavanger
Bergen
Norway
Oslo
Stockholm
Sweden
Copenhagen
Denmark
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Luxembourg
France
Switzerland
Austria
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Morocco
North Africa
Sumner Gazette
United States
Sumner Memorial Hospital reports yearloss and board changes
The Sumner Memorial Hospital reported a loss for the past year, with occupancy down from 75 to 68 percent and births and admissions declining. The board election included Leon Reimler L Elm er and Kenneth Sowers joining. construction costs for a new wing and facility upgrades totaled 84 268 75. Community Club banquet and council meeting updates were also noted.
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Legion Hall
Sumner Cominy Memorial Hospital
American Legion AY
Leon Reimler
L. Elmer
Kenneth Sowers
Ha Financial Report
J. W. Hit
Wi Tt Sport
Sexton
Gomeco
Sumner United Fund, Inc
Wayne Bergman
Robert Ribbeck
Richard Smith
Sumner Community Club
Max Platte
Paul Kammeyer
M. M. Rogers
Sumner
Farmers withhold milk as NFO action enters eighth day
Area farmers join National Farmers Organization milking withholding in eighth day seeking $1.00 per hundredweight raise. Local dumping not confirmed though some members keep milk for livestock. Major dairies report about 1 percent drop in daily intake, roughly 5,000 pounds less per plant daily. Nonparticipants sympathize but cannot join.
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National Farmers Organization
NFO
Meinerz Creamery Co
Farmers Butter and Dairy Co-op
Fredericksburg
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Australia
South America
Jones
Daryl Milton
Sumner Community Hospital
Milton Jones
Hawkeye
Hack
Jeffrey Ronald
Ronald Hack
Waucoma
Durant Elementary
Donald Gosch
Durant School
Bake Sale
Clover Teenerettes 4-H Club
People's Natural Gas
Rainbow Girls
Sumner TV & Appliance
Sumner Community Schools
Bremer
Oncom
Bremer County Historical Society
Towe
Chicago Great Western
North Railroad Street
Shop Humner Stores
Save
Ed Anderson
Lincoln St
Anderson
American Legion Hall
Pinewood Derby
East Seventh Street
John Frahm
Rich Haupt
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