Monticello High School “M” Club Dinner Delights Guests
The Monticello High School “M” club held its annual dinner at the community building with faculty and school board members as guests. Miss Merrill and Mr. Shannon directed the ranch themed evening, featuring a menu of tomato cocktail Swiss steak mashed potatoes and a strawberry sundae. Speakers included Janet Howie and Dr Millington Carpenter with music by Hal Foreman’s orchestra. new officers Janann Schweitzer Stan Schrader and Arline Balster were announced.
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Monticello High School
M” Club
Miss Merrill
Shannon
Bar M
Janet Howie
Janet
Kay Woodall
Stan Schrader
Mr. Moore
Yola Rodman
Janann Schweitzer
Arline Balster
Hal Foreman
Monti High Athletes Mix Track And Baseball Seaso n
The G A A girls buy rackets and shuttlecocks for play day while track sprinters dashers and jumpers train. The first meet was Monday at Iowa City and the squad looks strong early in the season. Baseball practice has started and some boys play both sports amid growing spring sports support.
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Iowa City
Monti High
Monti
Ninth Grade English Debate at Junior High
Last Friday Miss Mueller's ninth grade English debated topics on gender roles teaching ability and gum in school. Monday's class under Miss James performed parodies of The Merchant of Venice including Lil Abner takes and a Wild West scene featuring Portia's suitor riding off on a $45.50 saddle from Montgomery Ward with a double-your-money back offer.
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Portia
Montgomery Ward
Utility Demonstration Given for Seniors
A March 26 demonstration in the senior high auditorium showed telephone progress from Bell to modern phones. Mr Pope of Northwestern Bell Telephone Company Cedar Rapids explained early phones and contrasted them with current instruments using live demonstrations of parts.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Pope
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Cedar Rapids
Staff Editor-in-Chief Janet Howie and Editors List
A roll of staff editors and reporters is printed with names including Janet Howie as editor in chief and Virginia Clark as associate editor. The list names reporters Shirley Hobert Ruth Reuter Beatrice Long Betty Adams Betty Otten Katherine Woodall and others.
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Janet Howie
Virginia Clark
Shirley Hobert
Ruth Reuter
Beatrice Long
Betty Adams
Betty Otten
Katherine Woodall
Gertrude Ortgies
Eileen Appleby
Janann Schweitzer
Robert Eggers
Wilma Grossheim
Elizabeth Lee Byerly
Rebecca Grimes
Kathleen Adams
Betty Clark
Herbert Bere
Eleanor Cooper
Mary Lou Uett
Stand tall and think tall motto for youth health
Wilma Grossheim urges youth to adopt four mottos to combat temptation and improve health. Stand tall improves posture and presence, think tall sharpens clean thoughts, smile tall fosters friendliness, and live tall motivates leading by example.
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Wilma Grossheim
Practice Teaching Among North Texas Girls
Normal training girls begin a three week practice teaching period. This year a new system has each prospective teacher observe all grades and teach one day in each. This week junior high classes were taught by several students across geography history English general science and arithmetic.
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Iane Bender
Eleanore Cooper
Kathleen Rieniers
Hileen Appleby
Ruth Richardson
Virginia Wright
Alberta Husman
Jeanette Lubben
Maxine Rynerson
Ruth Reuter
Roberta Helgens
Mock Election Highlights Class Government Debate
An American government class held a mock municipal election on March 22. Winners include Mayor Baty, Treasurer Schuetz, Assessor Byers, Ward winners Keyes and Ferring, Beek, Stott, Brashaw, Matthiessen, Childress, and Park Commissioner Zubler. Girls volleyball teams were selected for intra-murals with class winners advancing to the tournament.
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Baty
Seeee
Srd
BeekSoo
Wrkier
Brashaw
J. Matthiessen
Childress
Zubler
Henry Aldrich as Favorite Radio Program Among Students
At the P T A meeting last Thursday the group surveyed students on preferred radio programs. Most pupils had radios or listened via others. Henry Aldrich topped the list, with Lone Ranger The Shadow I Love a Mystery and Jack Benny also popular. In junior high I Love a Mystery stood out, while seniors favored dance bands like Kay Kyser. Overall, stories on radio beat music.
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Henry Aldrich
Jack Benny
Kay Kyser
Whimsical Classifieds and Student Notes From A Then And Now
A mixed page features a joke line about a wholesale murder job with mock rewards, playful letters about class schedules, a senior president mix up, and notes about students Yola Bea and a shared book pile. A Lost item notice seeks a healthy cactus with no questions asked and a Miss James contact.
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James
Poems and Projects Highlight Lower Grade Activities
In kindergarten Marlene Bartlett celebrated her sixth birthday with treats for all. Fourth graders welcome Arthur Jurgensen from Miles Iowa boosting class size to thirty six. Fifth graders study parks and irrigation in the West with Rita Randolph presenting related pictures and poems.
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Marlene Bartlett
Holland
Arthur Jurgensen
Miles
Iowa
Miss Searles
Rita Randolph
Capital Stock and Surplus Funds Declared in Company Ledger
The ledger lists Capital Stock common shares and additional amounts for Surplus Fund Undivided Profits and Deposits. Notes indicate capitalization and reserve allocations within the corporate balance sheet.
Lois Lane and Her Pony Career Ended by Rainy Spill
David Hamilton reports on Lois Lane and her pony. Lois Lane's corkscrew curl hair and red hair with pearls accompany the tale of a spill at the hill bottom. The horse fell ill after the rain and the incident ends the pony's career, as Marjorie Thomas notes.
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David Hamilton
Lois Lane
Wind Damages Hopkinton Hangar and Plane
A severe early wind demolished an airplane hangar on the Joe Swanson farm west of Hopkinton, leaving the plane in the field damaged and the hangar wrecked. The incident occurred as Ed Swanson’s aircraft was housed there.
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Hopkinton
Joe Swanson
Ed Swanson
Hopkinton News Highlights and Local Obituaries
The report notes long time Hopkinton carrier service and later farming and garage work with S N Bixby before a 14 year move to Manassas Virginia. Surviving family includes wife a foster daughter Edith Byrd sister Mrs Charles Brown and brothers Harry Wilfong and Earl Wilfong. Also covered are a basketball banquet with team letters to Jim Kirby Gilbert Klaren Phil Himebaugh Cletus Bike Norman Landers Billy Jo Stanger and honorary captain Stanger and the election of R A Mecklenberg as Hopkinton superintendent. Other items mention the death of Frank H Howard in Cosmos Washington and a Red Cross history program. A pigeon release by Virginia Carolina Fertilizer employees at St Louis invites local guesses on flight time.
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Hopkinton
S. N. Bixby
Manassas
Edith Byrd
Charles Brown
Delaware
Municipal Hall
Leonard Gibbs
Doran Beitz
Will
Carl Sherman
Richard Smith
Ray Steele
Jim Kirby
Gilbert Klaren
Phil Himebaugh
Cletus Bike
Norman Landers
Billy Jo Stanger
Stanger
R. A. Mecklenberg
Rutland
Mecklenberg
Beels
W. S. Beels
Frank H. Howard
Cosmos
Wash
Herman Junge
Roy Porter
Minnie Mackintosh
Belle Milroy
Red Cross
Florence Nightengale
Clara Barton
Mabel Boardman
Hopkinton Glee Club Members Host Post-Performance Party
Hopkinton high glee club members and helpers enjoyed a party at the Lenox gymnasium on Friday evening. The item lists several visiting relatives and guests from Otterbein Indiana, Marion, Cedar Rapids, Clinton, and Quincy Illinois visiting Hopkinton residents this period.
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Hopkinton High
Lenox Gymnasium
Maud Thompson Moore
Otterbein
Ind
Charity Thompson
Hopkinton
Thompson
Moore
Thomas Edgar
Stanley
Dora Morgan
James Fairley
Marion
Earl Landis
Greeley
Frank Irish, Jr
D. F. Winters
F. U. Winters
Cedar Rapids
Dillon
Robert Thm
Clinton
B. W. Humphrey
Cloyd E. Caskey
F. B. Allen
Reformed Presbyterian Church
O. W. Hepker
Quincey
Everett Wright
Lee Marolf
Hopkinton Visitors and Illness Reported
The daughter Lois of Independence was a caller in Hopkinton on Monday. Elmer E. Lux, residing north of Hopkinton on highway 138, is seriously ill with pneumonia in a Manchester hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Don Johnston and daughter of Thompson vacationed several days at the home of Mrs. Alice Johnston, the former’s mother.
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Lois
Independence
Hopkinton
Elmer EE. Lux
Highway 138
Manchester
Don Johnston
Thompson
Alice Johnston
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William Wooner
Bert Wooner
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Matthias Funeral
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Hopkinton Cemetery
Yetta Jewett
Waterloo
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Methodist Ladies’ Aid
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Arthur F. Wilfong
Arthur Wilfong
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