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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1956
Page
2
Advertisement lists several houses for sale a 3 bedroom near hospital a 4 bedroom with double garage and breezeway a 3 bedroom on north Cedar plus a small home and two paving lots all priced to sell price 4500 dollars buyers for lots in Monticello or nearby Leonard Boos contact Anamosa phone 717.
The Scotch Grove Cornhuskers 4 H club meets April 9 at Leroy Dorothy and Judy Kruitz home with roll call naming a piece of machinery needed most at home. Enrollment blanks due May 1. Nile Husman John Holst Willard Price and Jim Wright present a program on Soil Insects and Appearances with a demonstration and talk.
The Cass Corner Chums hosted a March 8 dinner for parents at the Farm Bureau building in Anamosa. The girls prepared the meal without mothers and decorated tables with a St Patrick's day theme. Joy Weber and Pat McQuade delivered readings.
The Olin Hawkeyes met at the Olin school house to discuss road signs and contributed 15 to the county 4-H road signs project. Bernard Hay and Lynn Babcock demonstrated crop judging and weed control. Janice Weseman spoke on A Boy I Would Like to Know. Lunch was served by Mrs. Levsen and Mrs. Story.
The club donated 4 to the 4-H Builders for roadside signs at the March 24 meeting held at Rita Griswold’s home with eight members two leaders two mothers and two guests present. Demonstrations on Casserole Dish Cooking Variety Meats and How to Prepare Vegetables were given by Mary Jo Ehlers Darlene Steffen and Sandee Chandlee. Washington Tigers held a regular meeting March 27 at Jeanne Carroll’s home with twenty members present and seed identification and oats and corn judging conducted.
The list shows candidates for state and national offices with March 31 filing deadline. Incumbents face Republican and Democratic challengers across U S Senate, U S House, and multiple state senate and House districts including Linn, Dubuque, Delaware, Buchanan, and Scott areas with names like Hickenlooper, Evans, Wilcox, Talle, Muzumdar, Wolf, Ford, Byers, Hullinger, Lillies, Long, Swift, Eldred, Stimpson, Duffy, Frommell, Hatch, Mahoney, Ely, Hauskins, Martin, Kosek, Novak, Elthon, Nicholas, Pendleton, O Malley, Bartley, Synhorst, Davey, Akers, Eischeid, Abrahamson, Hansen, Spry, Ohlson, Erbe, Hise, and others.
The recall spans Monticello area notes including the Burrichter family moving to Will Burrichter farm east of Monticello, Archie Bender’s sudden heart attack death, Marjorie Frances Lawrence fatally burned, and Oliver Harford’s heart attack. Henry Von Sprecken announces Monticello sales barn opening. Wahl family visits from Akron, Ohio. Ernst Wahl to move to Monticello. Shaffer family returns from Los Angeles. 25 years prior notes a barn fire on Gerd Null farm. city firemen officers listed and four retirees. Henry Hagen Sr gardens. a group declamatory contest results. J H Klostermann buys Owl lunch goods. Lena Balsiger and John Binggell wedding. Lizzie Turnis dies. Lena Rieken and Gerd Behnken wed. Dirks hauling bee seeds new barn lumber.
The text lists candidates by party and city narrowing to a five in the primary. Republicans Edward R. Fitzgerald Des Moines William H. Welch Logan and Don Wilson West Des Moines are joined by H M Reed Panora B M Richardson Des Moines Ray H Thompson Newton and Walter A Vaughn Clinton as Democrats.
Center Junction held an Easter egg hunt on Saturday at the schoolhouse lawns with about 60 children accompanied by mothers. The event was sponsored by the local Woman's club. Several social visits and small gatherings are listed, including birthdays and family visits in Anamosa and nearby towns.
Cascade city council warned residents about dumping garbage on rural property in violation of a city ordinance. A $25 fine was noted as rats and pests increase on nearby farms. In other business the council approved the purchase of a new police car to replace the old vehicle, to be delivered in about 30 days.
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