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...rained for 62 days. The crops around Clarissa, Minn. (pop. 645) had withered away to almost nothing. In the village park the pines had lost their green vigor and the dry earth was dust brown. But everyone, as Reporter George Grim of the Minneapolis Tribune noted, had gathered nonetheless for the community service that features Clarissa's annual harvest festival. They joined in singing...
...morning." A thin sun broke through the haze. Tanned farmers, assembled from their parched fields, looked silently up at it. "We thank Thee for Thy goodness," said a voice from the platform. Children romping on the brown grass were shushed by their parents. George Etzell, editor of the Clarissa Independent, took notes on the sermon, sitting near the war memorial bearing the names of Clarissa citizens who fought in two wars. Three families at the service were thinking of their sons in Korea. The benediction was given and the congregation sang My country, 'tis of thee...
That night a soaking, life-giving rain came to the farms of Clarissa, Bertha and Eagle Bend...
Missing: $39.60 belonging to Clarissa Churchill, Winston's niece, now visiting Manhattan for the first time. Clarissa looked at the meter in a cab, saw the figure 40, handed $40 to the driver, who softly thanked her and quickly drove away...
When the call came through to her Louisville home last week, Emma Clarissa Clement was off at a district church conference in Springfield, Ky. Her daughter took the message. Mrs. Clement had just been elected American Mother of 1946 by the Golden Rule Foundation. Said the citation: "A mother of children who are devotedly serving their country and their people, a partner in her husband's ministry in his lifetime, a social and community worker in her own right...