The favored Ong Red Devils took the 1946 Clay County Basketball Tournament held at the Sutton High School Auditorium.
See the Story of the 1946 Ong Basketball Team Below.
Cute tournament trivia: The winner of the tournament and the winner of the losers' bracket received plaques. "Runner-up received nothing."
This account of the 1946 Ong Red Devil's Basketball Team is taken from the Ong Centennial Book 1886-1986.
This item in the February 14, 1946 issue of The Sutton News announced the expansion of phone services to Clay County farms.
In February 1946 two local men who had been listed as missing in WWII were re-classified as deceased. Families then held memorial services.
Dr. John W. Thompson was a doctor in Sutton in the early 1900's. His daughter-in-law wrote this biography of him which was serialized in The Sutton News in early 1946.
This announcement in The Sutton News on February 28, 1946 welcomed Mr. Paul V. Woller to Sutton High as the new math, science, and history instructor.
Mr. Woller's tenure at Sutton High endured for many years.
Edgar and Clay County made national news in an Associated Press news
story about an Edgar meeting of 216 farmers led by V. Hubert Johnson, a local
farmer. Johnson proposed a national “strike against strikes” with farmers
withholding products from the market in protest of the numerous strikes in
various industries.
Two weeks later this follow-up story appeared in The Sutton News on February 14, 1946
A
new Gamble Store owned by Clarence Clouse opened in Edgar in the old J.G.
Walley building on the First of February 1946. Mr. Clouse was an Edgar resident since 1932. The first Gamble
store opened in St. Cloud, Minnesota in 1925 (Bert Gamble) and there were 513
company owned stores, 1487 authorized dealer stores, 14 warehouses in 24
states.
Doc Nuss to the rescue.
Sallie (Matteson) Barbee and her parents escaped from a very serious situation in their farm home in January 1946.
We stumbled upon this story while researching the 75-years-ago segment of our weekly newspaper column in the January 10, 1946 issue of The Sutton News.
I think we surprised Sallie when we told her we had found this.
From the January 7, 1971 issue of The Clay County News - 1970 Census report for the county.
Lillian King was the wife and mother of the long-time publishers of The Clay County News. She died in 1971
4-H honors have been perennially news for the whole county. This story is from January 14, 1971.
The Clay County News on January 14, 1971 speculated that the 8-1 Mustangs were soon to be rated.
