Iowa
Old Press
Clermont Enterprise
Clermont, Fayette co. Iowa
June 9, 1932
Local News
-Alfred Gunsten is working for Theo. Kjosa on the farm
-Mr. and Mrs. Anson Priest drove to Oelwein Sunday, taking Gene
Gordon back to his home.
-W.A. Kneeland and family were dinner guests Sunday of his
sister, Mrs. Alfred Miller at West Union.
-Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wells of Hazelton, spent the first of the week
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Washburn.
-Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Kneeland and the Bernard Waters family were
dinner guests Saturday evening of Dr. and Mrs. George Berry at
West Union.
-Elizabeth Priest returned last Friday from Oelwein where she
visited the past two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Hillary Gordon. Gene
Gordon returned home with her for a short visit.
-Mrs. G. Koland returned last Thursday from Des Moines where she
visited her daughter, Mrs. Herbert Moeller. Viola Koland also
visited there with her sister and mother. Miss Koland returned to
Cedar Rapids where she has temporary employment.
-Margaret and Bernadine Boyle and Etta Wicke of Cedar RApids,
were guests at the Dan Burke home last Monday and Tuesday.
-Ezra Dibble, accompanied by his daughters, are expecting to be
in Ames next Sunday where they will attend the baccalaureate
services for the graduating class at the State College. Phyllis
Dibble, who is completing her work at Ames this year, is a member
of the graduating class.
-Melvin Nelson, the new proprietor of the Clermont meat and
grocery market, is getting well settled in the business circles
of the town, and his neatly conducted place of business seems to
be drawing a nice trade. Mr. Nelson's family is expected to
arrive in Clermont for permanent residence some time this week.
-Dan McGreevey has been spending the past couple of weeks in
Oelwein, a guest of his nephew, Hillary Gordon and family.
-The C.B. Wetherby family have moved in the Anna Knudson property
just across from the high school building. They came from West
Union.
-Esther Carlin, who is attending college at Cedar Falls, spent
the spring vacation at her home west of Clermont.
-Mrs. L.L. Carr and Mrs. Wm. Larrabee were hostesses to the
P.E.O. Chapter of West Union Tuesday afternoon of last week.
-Carol Wander, a son in the Philip Wander family who lived in
Clermont some years ago, is a member of the graduating class in
the law department of Iowa State University this year.
-Mrs. Emma Gunderson has moved back into her own home recently
vacated by the Oscar Reierson family. Mrs. Gunderson lived with
her father for a number of years and kept house for him until his
death, with occurred over a year ago.
-Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Johnson are here from Chicago spending the
week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Miller. Mr. Johnson is
taking time off from his work with the Artgyle printing company.
-Prof. D.R. Cottrell, newly elected superintendent of the
Clermont public schools, has rented the Ernesta Pringle estate
residence as a home for himself and family during their stay in
Clermont.
-Mrs. Emmett Tyne, of Volga City, and Josephine Tyne of
Strawberry Point, were guests last week at the Dan Burke home.
-Elsie Lindgren, Lillian Meyer, Etwina Belschner and Myrtle
Amundson left last week to take summer work in college at Cedar
Falls.
-Ellen Bilden drove to Forest City to get her sister, Myrtle
Bilden, who had been attending Waldorf College the past year, and
was a member of the noted Waldorf college choir.
-Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Anderson visited the first of the week with
their daughter, Mrs. H.A. Lubke. Mr. Anderson was here helping at
the polls in the election Monday. They are making their home with
their daughter, Mrs. Will Starkey, on a farm near Postville.
I want to close out all my window box and potted flowers. Some
are rare and new varieties. Sharp reductions on all stock now on
hand. Grace M. Cooley.
East Clermont Lutheran Church
The editor of the Clermont Enterprise had the pleasure
of accompanying Rev. G. Gunsten out to his East church Sunday
evening, May 29. The experience proved quite a surprise as well
as a pleasure. It was the writer's first visit to that well
organized religious center and we found that not only have the
Lutherans out in that settlement formed a very substantial
organization but they have erected a church building that might
be a credit to many big city congregations. The church is a large
and well appointed structure having an auditorium capable of
seating perhaps 400 people, equipped with adequate seating
facilities, a modern pulpit and impressive decorations. Beneath
the auditorium is a large and commodious lecture room and dining
hall nicely fitted up with kitchenette and cooking utensils in
which the members of the Luther League served a delightful
luncheon to all those in attendance at the exerciese that evening
after the meeting. At frequent intervals the ladies of the church
use the dining hall in serving community feasts, which are always
well patronized. The services at the church on the Sunday evening
the writer visited there consisted of a very creditable program
of religious songs and readings, chief amont which was a sermon
by T. Gabrielson of St. Paul, who had been called by Rev. Gunsten
to take his place in the church work during his absence at the
convention in Minneapolis. The church was built over 50 years
ago, Mr. Gunsten said, and is one of the oldest in the county,
yet it remains in excellent condition.
Lutheran parochial school in Clermont began last
week with Louise Amundson as teacher. Those enrolled are: Louis
Amundson, William Burrow, William Belschner, Verla Belschner,
Loretta Belschner, Lavanda Smith, Gladys Olson, Verla Gunderson,
Edwin Olson, Gladys H. Olson, Leslie Olson, Norman Erickson,
Harold Gress, Wayne Durscher, Harley Swenson, Margaret Moen,
Irene Erickson, Doris Landsgard, Esther, Gunsten, Gretchen Rolfs,
Julia Olson, Elmer Joe Houg, Glynn Paulson, Alice Frederick,
Robert Burrow, Arthur Amundson, Leonard A. Olson, Vinc Gress,
Norman Gilbert, Clarice Paulson, Phyllis Gress, Janet Olson,
Bernice Stray, Clarence Amundson, and Leonard Olson. School is
held in the Larrabee building.
Vacation school under the auspices of St.
Peter's parish here was opened Monday morning. The two sisters
from the Presentation convent in Dubuque, arrived here Saturday.
The enrollment up to the present writing is as follows: Robert
McSweeney, Daniel Rounds, Walter Becker, Darlene Wetherbee, Paul
Cahalan, Francis Kneeland, Donald Brenner, Richard Crowe,
Lawrence Wetherbee, Leo Griebenow, Francis Rounds, Sheldon Kohls,
William Crowe, Elizabeth Cahalan, Mary Agnes Paulson, Anna Crowe,
Joseph Leehey, Margaret Crowe, James Rounds, Lawrence Horan,
Robert Kneeland, James Cahalan, George Rounds, Ruby Boyle, Zella
Boyle, Rita Rounds, Joseph Paulson, Louis Bigler, Jane Fahey,
Mary Killerlain, Catherine Wetherbee, Viola Marie Joyce, Clara
Wanita Joyce, Laverne Wetherbee and Clarence Brenner.
Death
Blanche Kelleher, who has been ill for several weeks, died at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Kelleher, Tuesday morning.
The funeral is being held at St. Peter's church in Clermont this
(Thursday) morning. Interment will be made in the Catholic
cemetery at Elkader.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2009]