1901 Clay County Teachers' Institute, Edgar. List of 123 Teachers

The 1901 Clay County Teachers' Institute was held in Edgar.

 The article includes a list of 123 county teachers who attended.

City and County Officers - 1899

 These were the Clay County and Sutton city officers at the beginning of 1899.

1997 SNC All-Conference Football & Volleyball Selections

The 1997 Southern Nebraska Conference All-Conference selections in football and volleyball were:

1922 Citizenship Applications for 20 County Men

The Clay County Sun newspaper of November 30, 1922 listed these gentlemen as candidates for citizenship in Clay County.

1997 Sandy Creek Volleyball Champs

The Sandy Creek Lady Cougars won the Class C-2 State Volleyball Championship in November 1997.

This article appeared in the Clay County News on November 20, 1997, page B2.

 

1897 History of Clay County from The Harvard Courier Newspaper

This major history of Harvard and Clay County was published by The Harvard Courier newspaper on November 20, 1897.

The Ong Methodist Church Centennial was in November 1972

The Ong Methodist Church celebrated its centennial 50 years ago. 

The article about the occasion included a brief history of the church.

This article appeared in The Clay County News on November 2, 1972, page 2.

1947 Fairfield Neighborhood Corn Picking Crew

Neighborhood crews helping in harvest and other farm work for neighbors in some kind of stress was a common story throughout the history of the county.

This item, a reprint from the Hastings Tribune, appeared in The Fairfield Auxiliary newspaper on November 11, 1947.

Ong Methodist Church 75th Anniversary - 1947

The Ong Methodist Church celebrated its 75th anniversary in October 1947. This article appeared in The Edgar Sun newspaper.

 

1972 County Fair 4-H Winners

The 1972 4-H winners were listed in The Clay County News on August 10, 1972.

Kipp Erickson of Saronville on the left won the Clay County Centennial Fair Plaque in the Halter Division, Steve Gemar on the right was the reserve winner.

Harvard Banker Visited Inflation-Plagued Germany in 1922

Herman Wellensiek, Harvard banker, visited relatives in Germany in 1922 and observed the economic climate in the early months of Germany's inflation crisis. About a year after this article appeared in The Harvard Courier, the U.S. dollar was worth more than 4 trillion marks. Prices were doubling in less than every four days.

This article was in The Harvard Courier on August 10, 1922.

Clay County Teachers in 1897

The annual Clay County teachers institution received a full story in the Edgar Post on July 30, 1897. The article lists teachers who attended, which likely is a list of the teachers of Clay County in 1897, or at least nearly all of them.

The article about the institute follows our list.

March 1947 - End of WWII Draft Program

The Selective Service Program - the DRAFT - for World War II ended on March 31, 1947. This is the recap of the draft in Clay County during WWII.

This article appeared in The Clay County News on June 5, 1947.

1997 Clay County Track Athletes to the State Meet

 1997 Clay Co. Track Stars

The story of Clay County track athletes at the state meet appeared in the Clay County News issue of May 22, 1997

Ten Teams Competed in the 1997 Sutton Invitational Track Meet

This article appeared in the May 15, 1997 issue of the Clay County News.

Henderson took the boys division; Superior won the girls. Sutton and Sandy Creek girls tied for second.

1947 Clay County Track Meet

The 1947 Clay County Track Meet was held on the Hastings College track and won by Harvard.

This article appeared in The Clay County Sun newspaper in Clay Center on May 1, 1947.

Sutton Girls & Boys Won the 1997 Clay Co. Track Meet

The April 10, 1997 issue of The Clay County News covered the county track meet won by the Sutton girls and the boys.

1997 Academic All-State Winter Sports Athletes from Clay County

The Journal Star named these county athletes to their 1997 All-Staters for winter sports.

1997 Clay County Junior High Track Meet

Sutton's Junior High kids won the Cay County Track Meet in 1997.

 

Release of the 1950 Census

The 1950 census is available at the government's census archive at:   https://1950census.archives.gov/  accessible at no cost. Read on for some guidance to use the archives.

The 1950 census was released on April 1, 2022, 72 years after the official date of the '50 census. The delay is prescribed by law.

The census is not indexed so can not yet be searched by name, or other data information. Private enterprises, ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, etc, have teams interpreting the handwriting of the enumerators to build digitized data bases that will be searchable.

In the meantime, the raw data is available at the government archives. At the archives website you can select a state or county and some breakdown within the county. A list of "Enumeration Districts (ED) will appear that are chucks of the county you can browse.

It may be cumbersome to find the ED you need. This website will help: https://stevemorse.org/census/arc1940-1950edmaps.html?year=1940  But be careful to select 1950 then follow the links to maps that are marked with ED names (numbers). For instance, Sutton is divided into ED 18-30 (east of Highway 5) and ED 18-31 (Sutton city - west of Highway 5). (For those under a certain age, Highway 5 was a state highway that went from Highway 41 through downtown Sutton and on to Henderson. Sometime when I was living elsewhere, the state must have taken those signs down and turned the road back to the counties.)

Outside of town, School Creek Township is ED 18-27 and Sutton Township is ED 18-32. 

Grafton Township (Fillmore County) outside of Grafton village is ED 30-21. Grafton village is ED 30-20. 

All Clay County ED's are listed HERE.

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