Community Weekend Visits and Gatherings Hit Fremont Area
Fremont residents and neighboring towns enjoyed a busy weekend with multiple family visits, birthday observances, picnics, and meals. Families from Readlyn Shell Rock Fairbank Sumner Waverly and elsewhere joined locals at homes in Fremont and nearby communities for socializing and celebrations.
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Robert Rathbone
Wm. Hurmence
Clinton Burrow
Clear Lake
R. O. Wikner
Ray Dirksen
Fredericksburg
K. H. Hoppenworth
Wendell Brase
Sumner
Kenny Miller
Evansdale
Joe Miller
Glennis Dettmer
Karen
Leslie Dettmer
Leonard Dettmer
Walter Lohmann
Larry Buchholz
Clara Dettmer
LaVern Dettmer
Richard Hunemuller
Herman Moeller
Fairbank
Lloyd Moeller
Herbert Judisch
Readlyn
Vernon Kirchhoff
Eldo Moeller
Brenda
Jerry Snelling
Lawrence Snelling
Minor Schuldt
Shell Rock
Edwin Biermann
Dale Steere
Ernest Brase
Barth Steere
Waverly
Ray Brase
Lester Peters
Lawrence Heinemann
Merwin Meier
Arnold Brunscheen
Ervin Fortsch
Henry Seelhammer
Brent and
Dorsey
Arnold Stromer
Reveal Welfare Payments in Bremer for June
The Iowa State Department of Social Welfare reports Bremer county June welfare totals of 291 beneficiaries and 23 ADC cases. Old age assistance paid 13 622, medical and nursing grants 5 541, ADC 3 472, blind 426, disabled 404, totaling 23 049 for Bremer in June. Statewide public assistance expenditures reached 4 822 868 for June.
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Iowa
Bremer County
State of Iown
44-Pound Catfish Tops the 1964 Big Fish Records
A 44 pound flathead catfish topped the 1964 big fish records listed by the State Conservation Commission. William Marsh of Farmington caught the monster in the Des Moines River at Bonaparte on June 12. The fish measured 44 inches and is the largest of any species this year, ranking second in all-time flathead records.
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State Conservation Commission
William Marsh
Farmington
Des Moines
Bonaparte
Iowa Birth Rate Shows a Decline in 1963
Iowa birth figures show a drop from 61,003 in 1962 to 57,840 in 1963. Illegitimate births rose by 140, totaling 1,777 in 1963 versus 1,637 in 1962.
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Iowa
Bremer County ACP Progress in 1963
Agricultural Conservation Program activities were reported in Bremer County with 202 farms under ACP in 1963, led by Dalton Meyer of the Bremer County ASCS. The county saw about 2,381 acres treated, compared with around 640 farms in 1962. Nationwide ACP participation exceeded one million farms, with Iowa at 67,870 farms. Bremer farms accounted for a total investment under the 196% program.
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Bremer County
Dalton Meyer
Bremer Committee
Iowa
Bremer
Two Sumner Grads Enlist in Army at Fort Leonard Wood
Two Sumner High School graduates enlist in the regular army under a buddy plan. Darwin N. Poock and William K. Murray, both 18 and from Sumner, train together at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. Poock chosen auto repair at Aberdeen Proving Ground for three years. Murray enlists for four years in the army security agency. The agency handles communications security for the federal government and involves ACP cost sharing. The ACP program year 1964 proceeds with Bremer county farmers seeking cost sharing for conservation work.
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Sumner High School
Army
Darwin N. Poock
Sumner
William K. Murray
Fort Leonard Wood
Darwin
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Maryland
William
Army Security Agency
Bremer County
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Ceagnee Soong Gio
Antelopes
U.S
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Bisquick
Betty Crocker
Cheerios
Ackley
Hillsdale
Boston
California
Rath
Oscar Mayer
Esquire
Lan-L White
Sumner Grads
Chase
GOOD
Mae Good Business
Tripoli
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