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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The Sutton Register newspaper vanishes - 1942

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Multiple newspapers in a town was common in the early days. Sutton lost that distinction 75 years ago this week when Ronald Furse of The Su...

Last Mail Train in Clay County - 1967

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The Burlington railroad played a big part in the siting and the development of Sutton. Mail service and passenger service were crucial to...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Letter from Harvard Man Gassed in WWI

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We included this item in our column for the December 13th issue of The Clay County News with the note that we'd have the complete artic...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Lyric Theater went dark, 50 years ago

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From The Clay County News, December 14, 1967:
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1942 9-State Blackout Test

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Nighttime bombers posed a huge threat to Britain and their answer to protect cities was to institute "blackouts" to hide the citi...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Donald Burns wounded in Africa - 1942

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Donnie Burns of Sutton took a bullet in the arm in action along the Moroccan coast north of Casablanca. He was with a crew of five Coast G...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

1942-1950 Sutton Wedding Clippings

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The recent Shirley Wach donation included a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of Sutton weddings from about 1942 - 1950. The note insi...
Friday, November 24, 2017

1917 Sutton Red Cross Report

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We mentioned this story in the Clay County News column of November 29. Mrs. A. W. (Mayme) Clark reported on items sent from the Sutton Chap...

WWI Embalmers in the Trenches

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Insight into conditions for our predecessors, 100 years ago. The Harvard embalmer/furniture store owner ran this ad in 1917 calling for s...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Honored by the French, but Why?

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Excuse the "inside baseball" post here, but it's interesting, I guess, but in any case, certainly curious. Among the serv...

Ong Methodist Church 70th anniversary in 1942

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Our weekly column in The Clay County News obviously has a focus wider than Sutton. Our sources include past newspapers from Harvard, Clay C...

Sutton Men in Service - November 1942

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Newspapers in 1942 during the first year of World War II ran the list of local man in service each week. The Army drew its recruit...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Program for the 1917 Farmers Institute in Harvard

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The Farmers Institute was an annual event in Harvard celebrating agriculture and home economics with a variety of competitions. 
Monday, November 13, 2017

Sutton Opera House Scene

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This intriguing photo was among the items from Shirley Wach's donation to the Sutton Museum. The photo is identified as a scene from th...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Did Sutton Once have a Chinese Laundry?

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It is unlikely that anyone has set out to find out if Sutton once had a Chinese laundry. That’s something you have to stumble onto. And ...
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