The Journal Star named these county athletes to their 1997 All-Staters for winter sports.
Thursday, April 7, 2022
1997 Clay County Junior High Track Meet
Sutton's Junior High kids won the Cay County Track Meet in 1997.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
The 1947 County Assessors Go To Work
The April 3, 1947 issue of The Clay County News described the work and the guidelines for the county assessors as they prepared to evaluate county property.
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.
Have fun.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
1950 Census Enumeration Districts for Clay County
The 1950 Census data will be released on April 1, 2022. Staff at various companies including genealogy websites will begin indexing the date and releasing searchable data bases over the following weeks.
Raw data will be available quicker, accessible by Enumeration District (ED) which you must know to find data by location.
ED's for Clay County data in the 1950 census are as follows:
18-1 Town of Clay Center
18-2 Town
of Edgar
18-3 Edgar
Twsp
18-4 Eldorado
Twsp
18-5 Town
of Spring Ranch
18-6 Town
of Fairfield
18-7 Fairfield
Twsp
18-8 Town
of Glenvil
18-9 Glenvil
Twsp
18-10 U.S.
Naval Ammunition Depot
18-11 Town
of Harvard
18-12 Harvard
Twsp
18-13 Inland
Twsp
18-14 U.S.
NAD
18-15 Town
of Trumbull
18-16 Leicester
Twsp
18-17 Town of Saronville (Lewis Twsp)
18-18 Town
of Saronville (Sutton Twsp)
18-19 Lewis
Twsp
19-20 Town
of Ong
18-21 Logan
Twsp
18-22 Lone
Tree Twsp
18-23 U.S.
NAd
18-24 Lynn Twsp
18-25 U.S.
NAD
18-26 Marshall Twsp
18-27 School
Creek Twsp
18-28 Sheridan
Twsp
18-29 Spring
Ranch Twsp
18-30 Town
of Sutton (East)
18-31 Town
of Sutton (West)
18-32 Sutton Twsp
Dr. Martin V. Clark, Sutton Pioneer, Died March 22, 1922
The Sutton News carried this story of Dr. Martin Clark in their March 31, 1922 issue. Dr. Clark and his brother Isaac Clark came to Sutton in 1871 in the first months of the settlement. They were on the short list of early movers & shakers in the founding and development of our town.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Clay County Draft Board Shut Down April 1947
This item in The Clay County News on April 3, 1947 announced that the Clay County Draft Board was shut down.
Ninety-three county inductees were still in the army on April 1, 1947.
The draft board processed only one conscientious objector's application during WWII.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Sutton Won the Class A State Championship 100 Years Ago This Week
The Sutton High basketball team won the Class "A" championship in 1922 beating Crete in the finals after disposing of Fremont, Omaha Commerce, and Grand Island in the tourney.
This account of the games appeared in The Sutton News on March 17, 1922.
Visit here for The Rest of the Story.
Col. Wenzlaff's 1972 Article about German Colonies in Ukraine, Crimea, Bessarabia, and Caucasia
Col. Ted Wenzlaff wrote this article that appeared in the Clay County News on March 16, 1997.
Legion Post #61 Honored Vets in 1997
The Sutton Legion Post honored these vets at their 78th anniversary banquet in 1997.
The article appeared in the Clay County News on March 20, 1997.
Helen Detwiler Nominated for WWII Women's Military Memorial
Sutton's American Legion post nominated this sutton woman to be recognized on the memorial wall in Arlington, Virginia for women in WWII.
The article appeared in the Clay County News on March 20, 1997.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Johnny Griess - Sutton Cleaners Ad - 1947
Sutton Cleaners was around for many of us. It was located on the northwest corner of the intersection south of Sutton Lumber.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Sutton Publisher Ronald Furse Died - 1972
Mr. Ronald L. Furse was one of several publishers in the roots of today's Clay County News.
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