State Auditor blasts Bremer County Auditor over records
The State Auditor Lloyd Smith delivered a critical report on Bremer County Auditor’s office at the Board of Supervisors meeting. He cited slow fund reconciliation, a $1,500 warrant misrecorded as $1,050, lack of a monthly outstanding warrants record, and a missing 20 year old claim register. He noted a new payroll timing change and a late federal tax payment tied to a revised computerized warrant system. The board acknowledged shortcomings but considered them not serious amid broader county administration findings.
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Bremer County
State Auditor’s Office
Board of Supervisors
Lloyd Smith
Smith
Jerald Fuerstenberg
Fuerstenberg
United Fund drive to start week of October 11
The Sumner United Fund drive runs the week of October 11 with a goal of 5875 dollars. Participating organizations include Bremer County Retarded Children's Association Salvation Army Red Cross Iowa Children and Family Services Arthritis and Rheumatism Iowa Chapter Winnebago Boy Scouts Sumner Youth Recreation Sumner Swim Sumner Girl Scouts Conestoga Council of Girl Scouts Sumner Boy Scouts and Sumner Cub Scouts. The United Fund Board urges generous giving when solicitors call or packets are handed out. The board meetings at City Hall are set for 7:30 p.m. Monday October 18 to receive packets. bring donations if you already offered.
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Sumner United Fund
Bremer County Retarded Children's Association
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Iowa Children and Family Services
Iawa Chapter
Arthitis and Rheumatism
Winnebago Boy Scouts
Sumner
Sumner Girl Scouts
Conestoga Council of Girl Scouts
Sumner Boy Scouts
United Fund Board
Sumner Ceramic Show Heads to American Legion Hall
The fourth annual Sumner Ceramic Show runs Saturday and Sunday October 9 and 10 at the American Legion Hall Sumner under Warner Heyer's The Studio. Local artisans exhibit along with Artcraft Studio Waterloo The Studio Sumner and works by L A Skieries. Phyllis of Artcraft Studio leads classes. Visitors vote in hobbyist categories. FHA serves food at snack bar. Saturday hours 1 PM to 7 PM Sunday 10 AM to 4 30 PM.
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Sumner
American Legion Hall
Warner Heyer
the Studio
Artcraft Studio
Waterloo
L. A. Skieries
Phyllis
FHA
Farmer Survives Chain Saw Accident Near Sumner
Benjamin Smith, local farmer, suffered severe lacerations requiring 90 stitches after a chain saw slipped while cutting trees on the county line road south of Sumner. He was hospitalized at Mercy Hospital Oelwein and has since returned home. Cal Milnes has joined Emerson Milnes Funeral Service as an apprentice after completing mortuary studies in Chicago.
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Benjamin Smith
Smith
County Line Road
Sumner
Mercy Hospital
Oelwein
Cal Milnes
Emerson-Milnes Funeral Service
Sumner and
Hawkeye
Milnes
Sumner Community High School
University of Iowa
Worsham College of Mortuary Science
Chicago
Katy
Sumner Community Memorial Hospital
Hello World Hall Born to Howard and Hawkeye Parents
Penny Hall was born September 29 at St. Francis Hospital in Waterloo to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hall of Hawkeye. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Heidt of Cedar Falls and Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Heiser of Victory Wisconsin. GEHRKE Girl Born October 5 in Lebanon Missouri to Skip and Mrs. Gehrke. Grandparents Orson Kauffman and Bernard Gehrke of Lebanon and Sumner. Thelma Dickman fractured her right leg in a fall and underwent surgery at Allen Memorial Hospital. She is in a leg cast from hip to ankle and faces at least eight days in hospital and about 12 weeks in a cast.
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Thelma Dickman
Pleasant St
Allen Memorial Hospital
Miss Dickman
Attorney files suit for $1 million in Ward case
Earl Fosselman an attorney from Sumner filed a Bremer County District Court suit September 22 against Montgomery Ward & Co. of Cedar Falls seeking one million dollars alleging his late wife died after alleged harassment by Ward officials during recovery from major August 1975 surgery. He claims warranties on a 1971 washer dryer freezer and range were extended to 1975 via oral agreement and separate charges paid. Fosselman says repairs in 1974 and ongoing appliance failures show the extension was invalid or inadequately honored. He is a former Bremer County magistrate and Iowa lawyer with 13 dependent children.
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Earl Fosselman
Sumner
Montgomery Ward & Co
Cedar Falls
Bremer County District
Fasselman
Wards
Fosselman
Bremer
Waterloo
Sumner Schools Conduct Bus Evacuation Drills
Supt Donald Gasch announces fall bus evacuation drills across the Sumner school system. James Lahmann, elementary principal, leads drills for all students from kindergarten through grade twelve on every bus to ensure preparedness in emergencies.
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Sumner
Donald Gasch
James Lahmann
Durant Elementary
Durant Benton
Pranksters Cause Serious Injuries Near Postville
Mrs. Herb Blaschke of Sumner was seriously cut when a 10-pound ice bag was thrown from a passing car, shattering the windshield near Postville. She received facial and neck lacerations and was treated at Postville hospital. The incident, west of Postville on Highway 52, is under investigation amid other recent similar events in the area.
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Herb Blaschke
Sumner
Blaschke
Postville
Bremer County Women Clara Sell Dies at 90 in Sumner
Clara Sell 90 lifelong Bremer County resident died Wednesday Sept 29 at Sumner Community Memorial Hospital after two days admitted from complications of age. Funeral Saturday Oct 2 at St John American Lutheran Church officiated by Rev. Alpers and Rev. Sorenson. Burial in church cemetery. She married Carl Sell in 1905, farmed Dayton Township over 30 years, retired to Summer in 1938. Surviving: son Leslie. grandchildren Virgil Veryl Ledyce Ruby. great grandchildren. nieces and nephews. Emerson-Milnes Funeral Home in charge.
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Clara Sell
Bremer County
Sumner Community Memorial Hospital
St. John American Lutheran Church
Kenneth P. Alpers
John H. Sorenson
Dayton Township
Carl K. Sellat
St. John Lutheran Church
Buck Creek
Schedtler
Sell
Leslie
Sumner
Virgil
Denver
Veryl
Chicago Heights
Ill
Ledyce
Marvin Buhr
Humboldt
Ruby
Marvin Cram
Emerson-Milnes Funeral Home
Benefits of 4-H for youth by Bremer County leader
Janet Martin of Bremer County Extension highlights 4-H as an educational program from Iowa State University offering life skills. Projects build knowledge confidence and public speaking, while leadership citizenship and democratic club operation develop among members through officer elections programs and community service. Additional activities include recreation camping and social events. contact Janet Martin for more. Mr and Mrs Bernard Buhr hosted Sunday guests near Westgate.
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Janet Martin
Bremer County
Co- Operative Extension Service
Towa State University
Manin
Miss Martin
Tripoli
Statesmanship and a family of Woolstock roots
Gladys Claude of Woolstock, born there and educated locally, married Cedric Yoder in 1937 at Webster City and lived in Woolstock. She was part of a larger Claude family with a son Cedric and five daughters, siblings Archie and Harold, and 12 grandchildren spanning Woolstock Sumner Hawkeye Ankeny and Webster City.
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Cedric
John
Red Oak
Darrell Sebring
Sumner
Clifford Malaise
Louis Abbas
Woolstock
Dennis Salmon
Hawkeye
Raymond Martin
Ankeny
Archie
Harold Claude
Gladys Claude
Cedric Yoder
Webster City
Rummage and Bake Sale at Stapleton Lutheran Church
The ALC Women of Stapleton Lutheran Church host a parish rummage sale and bake sale on Saturday October 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. In a separate item the Sumner Community Schools Board of Directors will meet at 8 p.m. on Monday October 11 in the Office of the Superintendent at the junior high school building.
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ALPHA
ALC
Stapleton Lutheran Church
Sumner Community Schools
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Melvin Judisch
W. D. Stevens
Ross Wood
Milton Leach
Roger Huebner
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Ken Kasemeier
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Mutual Aid
George McDonald
Furnace
Matt Leyh
Albert Erhardt
Country Club
McAloon's
Jon Proctor
Bernard Nolte
Jim Voss
Eat Fosselman
Bill Eckenrod
Wenthe Carpet
Harms Insurance
McAloon
Sumner Volunteer Fire Department
Larry Fritz
Bill Narholz
Sumner Fire Department
Steve Reuter
Ames
Rural Association Board
Fritz
Nauholz
Reuter
Duane Behrens
Allan Bock
Wendell Bohle
Merlin Borcherding
Jim Duhrkopf
Bob Duhrkopf
Herb J. Forsman
Fred Heller
Ken Henniges
Don Hoth
Marlowe Hoth
Dave Jaschen
Ken Karsten
Walter Kent, Jr
Phil Kuepker
Lavern Lampe
Jim Lande
Lawain Meier
Tom
County Auditor's Office For Public Inspection
United Fund
Durant School
FFA Chapter
Future Farmers of America
Vocational Agriculture Building
Sumner Ffa
County Auxiliary Meeting
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Darlene Miller
Durant West
Isaac Monnahan
Emerson-Milnes Funeral
Alpha Cemetery
Monnahan
Springfield
Lucille
Trinity Regional Hospital
Fort Dodge
United Methodist Church
Eagle Grove
French Cemetery
Kastler-Babcock-DeYoung Funeral Home
Bernard Buhr
Wm. Buhr
Westgate
Plato
Wendell Chapin
Tom Kersch
Chevrolet Olds., Inc
Formby
Formbys
Best
Sumner Building Supply, Inc
Iona
Harms Furniture
Fairbank, Iowa
Mum
Carolyn Karsten
Marle Wilson
Eva Bierman
Letha Paden
Lydia Aschbrenner
Shirley Westendorf
Fairbank
Dorothy Buckendal
Irene Yearous
Arlington
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