1945 Happy New Year from the Paris Cafe & More

75 Years Ago - New Year's Greeting from the Paris Cafe

Ruben A and Erna Mae (Ehly) Griess

and more following...

Erna Mae Griess - Everybody's 8th-grade teacher.

Was the "Please bring your own Bobby Pins" a war year's consideration?

End of 1944 Football Season

Sutton High took it on the chin in the final football game of the 1944 season as described in this article from The Sutton News on November 16, 1944.

We do get a full list of the 1944 roster. 

1944 - Weber Bros Mill sold to a Denver Man

The Weber Bros. Mill on the north side of the tracks west of Saunders Ave. was sold to a Denver man in November 1944.

As I recall, the mill was called The Sutton Mill in the '50's until it burned down one Sunday morning in a blaze that generated a huge black cloud of smoke that covered the whole southeast sky from our farm northwest of town.

Off the top of my head, I'd date the fire to about 1950, give or take.

Two Sutton Men Met in POW Camp - 1944

The story on the right describes how 2nd Lt. Morris Bauer met his former school mate in a German POW camp. Locals in Sutton figured out the school mate was Sgt. Paul Schwarz - Bauer was restricted from identifying the other POW.

From the November 16, 1944 issue of The Sutton News. 

American Legion buys their current building - 1969

This item appeared in The Clay County News on November 11, 1969 announcing the purchase of the current Legion building in downtown Sutton.