Monticello Public School Lists 1962 Staff Changes
The Monticello Iowa school system releases staff listings for the upcoming year. High school teachers include Marston and McCaustland among social studies staff and several coaches. Junior high and elementary sections name continuing teachers by grade level, including Kindergartners Harms and Stead and first graders Meyer Schoon Robinson Reade.
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Donald Marston
Earl McCaustland
Ronald Curtis
Paul Beck
Audrey Stumbaugh
Mildred Griffith
Darold Albright
Keith Lubbock
Elmer Anderson
Helen Harms
Anna Stead
Mildred Meyer
Mildred Schoon
Marilyn Robinson
Hazel Reade
Irene Wittengle
Elnora Marston
Margaret Overgaard
Gladys Rickels
Ida Cass
Lucille Warner
Veryle Purcell
Scrapbook names listed for Kendalyn Peterson event
A long list of individuals including Naomie Ruth Huebner Marlyn Schaffer David P Bohlken Rosemary Haas Connie Hoots Daniel Specht Janelle Sue Lehmann Dan Schoon Debbie Jean Crow Michael Mc Neill Gloria Ricklefs Karen Schneiter Jean Edwards Danny Eby Lynn Tedrow Susan Rigby Judy Lahr Linda Milroy Vicki Fizsimmons Sally Eby Sandra Heiken Nancy Tuetken Janet Sue Lambert Warren David Rieniers Martin Wade Jr Susan Janssen Phyllis Sanford Carl Willis Linda Nagel Linda Ahlrich Jerry Behrends Barbara Leggett Jean Keating Donna Ehlis Diane Tedrow SCRAPBOOKS Kendalyn Peterson Jean Bartels Daniel Bohlhen Karen King
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naomie Ruth Huebner
Marlyn Schaffer
David P. Bohlken
Rosemary Haas
Connie Hoots
Daniel Specht
Janelle Sue Lehmann
Dan Schoon
Debbie Jean Crow
Michael McNeill
Gloria Ricklefs
Karen Schneiter
Jean Edwards
Danny Eby
Lynn Tedrow
Susan Rigby
Judy Lahr
Linda Milroy
Vicki Fizsimmons
Sally Eby
Sandra Heiken
Nancy Tu
Midland School Hosts State Music Contest This Weekend
Midland high school in Wyoming will host the state music contest for 16 area schools on Friday and Saturday April 6 and 7. Principal William Foy announced the event on Wednesday morning. Judging of small vocal and instrumental groups begins at 5 p.m. Friday and runs through Saturday. Other participating schools include Calamus Comanche Mount Vernon Miles Lost Nation Lincoln Stanwood Springville Alburnet Bennett Lisbon Central City Coggon Northeast Community Goose Lake Linn Marr and Olin.
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Wyoming
Midland High School
William Foy
Midland
Calamus
Comanche
Mount Vernon
Miles
Lost Nation
Lincoln
Stanwood
Springville
Alburnet
Bennett
Lisbon
Central City
Coggon
Northeast Community
Goose Lake
Linn
Marr
Olin
Local Library Weeks Theme Highlight New Books
National Library Week opens April 8 with the theme Read and Watch the World Grow. Monticello Public Library promotes the week with new fiction titles Anya Sekton Devil Water and My Life In Court by Louis Nizer plus a new English Bible. Each checkout earns a week themed bookmark.
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National Library Week
The
Monticello Public
Obituary notices from Monticello and area
Funeral services for Edna Kay Ahrken a former area resident were held at Goettsch Funeral Home Monticello with burial at St Johns Lutheran Cemetery. She taught 36 years in Indian service retiring in 1961. Died in Arkansas City Kansas. Survivors include sister Emma Lang and brother Lou Ahrken. James Gray of Baldwin Park California former Hopkinton resident died March 25. Mrs George Herington Hopkinton died March 28 after a heart attack. Della A Miehe Sr of Scotch Grove died after illness. services at First Presbyterian Monticello burial Oakwood. She taught 35 years and held teacher’s group posts. Anna Mills of Rock Island died March 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Edna Kay Ahrnken
Goettsch
C. C. Gutekunst
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Miss Ahraken
Scotch Grove
Henry
Anna Poppe Ahraken
Montcello
Town State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Indian Service
Department of the Interior
Chilocco
Oklo
Arkansas City Memorial Hospital
Arkansas City
Kan
John
Emma) Lang
Lou Ahraken
Clinton
Alva Zimmerman
Paul Gerdes
Frederick Rieniers
Victor Mowrey
Dale Ladehoff
L. J. Schlemme
James Gray
Wadena
Omaha
Nebr
Calif
Baldwin Park
Richard
Bernice Meek
Covena
California
George Herington Hopkinton
George Herington
John Hall
Hopkinton
Sarah Kenny
William and
Alda Tibbitts Kenny
Delaware County
Della A. Miehe
R. G
Della A.) Miehe
John McDonald Hospital
First Presbyterian Church
Gideon J. Krein
Oakwood Cemetery
Miehe
Farley
Virgil
Ella Wilson Bevan
Raymond G. Miehe
Peosia
Farley High School
Epworth Seminary
University of Dubuque
University of Iowa
Dubuque
Delaware
Jones County
First Presbyterian Church of
Dean
Betty) Jacobs
Marengo
Raymond G. Miehe, Jr
Bevan
Marvin Rickels
Larry Rickels
John Wright
Jimmy Jo Wright
James Heiken
Dennis Hoyer
Memorial Park
Rock Island
Roy Walters Onslow
Roy Collimer Walters
Wallace
Wyoming
Wayne Norris
Myron Bartlett
Mary Emmanilus Tippett Walters
Clay Mills
Catherine Hanna
Mildred
J. H.) Robinson
John Perry
Paul Alvin
Roy Myron
Carl Albert
James Maurice
Kathryn
W. W.) Porter
Edna Mae Strong
William Bartlett
Donald Collimer
St. Olaf
Walters
Moyer
Arizona
Anamosa- Onslow
United Seed Corn Company
James
Howard
Purl
Wilson
Herman
Ada) Henningsen
Harry
Sybil) Smith
Cantata to Be Given April 15 at First Presbyterian
The Monticello Community chorus presents The Man of Nazareth Easter cantata at 8 p.m. April 15 in First Presbyterian Church. A 30-voice choir directed by Coleen Taylor will perform with soloists Arlon Duit, Mrs. Ray Stumbaugh, Mrs. James Hubbard, and Harland Hetzler. Free will offering invited. admission is free. Graveside notices follow for local families.
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Monticello
First Presbyterian Church
James Rogers
Coleen Taylor
Arlon Duit
Ray Stumbaugh
James Hubbard
Harland Hetzler
Frank Straub
Monticello students excel at state speech contest
Four Monticello Community High School students led at the state speech gathering held Friday at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids. Superior ratings went to Sarah Sue Zollar in oratorical declamation Scott McLaughlin Janet Wahl in humorous declamation Sharyl Eden in interpretive prose and six others earned top marks in various events. Area victors included Suzanne Milder Olin Don Somerville Wyoming and others in categories like oratorical declamation humorous declamation interpretive poetry and interpretive prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Community High School
Washington High School
Cedar Rapids
Sarah Sue Zollar
Scott McLaughlin
Janet Wahl
Sharyl Eden
James Martinsen
JoAnn Ballou
Cerena Barnts
Liz Fraser
Janet Wirtmer
Nancy Krein
Suzanne Milder
Olin
Don Somerville
Wyoming
David Mizaur
Oxford Jet
Linda Sharon
Brian Reade
Carroll Podhaski Dies of Gunshot Wound
Carroll Edward Podhaski 52 of Monticello died April 3 at home from a self inflicted chest wound with a 410 shotgun. Funeral services were held at Goettsch Funeral Home Monticello with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Survivors include wife Ruth Kasper and five daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll Edward Podhaski
Monticello
Goettsch Funeral Home
J. P. Willms
Oakwood Cemetery
North Sycamore
L. D. Caraway
Podlaski
Sam Rhatigan
Claude Appleby
Murtlo
5. D
Edward
Myrtle Allen Podhaski
Ruth Kasper
Anamosa
Galena
Ill
Janice
John Brokens
Joan
Billie Barton
Shirley
Sharon
Mary Ann
Monticello Post Office
28 Men Tour Doughboy Feed Plant at New Richmond
Paul Eiben a Doughboy salesman and Ralph Hatcher district manager led 28 men from the Monticello Prairieburg area on a tour of the Doughboy feed plant in New Richmond last Thursday. Attendees included Emil Holub Earl Holub Elmer Suit Jr Ernest Cooper Virgil Offer man Bob Offerman Richard Tjaden Melvin Marek Jim R Baker Art Hildebrand Ron Dolan Fay Pillard Leo Donov an Barney McGovern Kenny Holub Ardian Korte Bernard Kula Clarence Prull Steven Weber Wesley Lawrence Dean Bowman Al Himes Wilfred Kramer George Smith Eugene Holub Louis Holub
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Eiben
Ralph Hatcher
Monticello-Prairieburg
Ares
Doughboy
New Richmond
Emil Holub
Earl Holub
Elmer Suit, Jr
Ernest Cooper
Virgil Offerman
Bob Offerman
Richard Tjaden
Melvin Marek
Jim R. Baker
Art Hildebrand
Ron Dolan
Fay Pillard
Leo Donovan
Barney McGovern
Kenny Holub
Ardian Korte
Bernard Kula
Clarence Prull
Steven Weber
Wesley Lawrence
Dean Bowman
al Himes
Wilfred Kramer
George Smith
Eugene Holub
Louis Holub
Hargrave Cleaners Offers Free Stuffed Poodles Promotion
Hargrave cleaners will give away ten free stuffed poodles during a ten week math proofing campaign starting this week. Owner Glen Hargrave notes details of the prize in the firm’s ad on page B5 of this issue.
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Hargrave Cleaners
Glen Hargrave
the Express
Murder Trial on Stage at MHS April 13
The Mon cello Community high school speech department presents The Night of January 16 a courtroom drama at 8 p as a three act play Friday April 13. Mary Myers plays the defendant with Dave Specht and Jerry Cowen as the lawyers.
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Moncello
Mary Myers
Dave Specht
Jerry Cowen
Cathy Hall
Bev Wynn
Tom Greenawald
Bill Balsiger
Paul Specht
Sarah Sue Zoller
Scott McLaughlin
Bob Be
Smorgasbord to Feature Dance by Monticello Lions Club
The Monticello Lions Club hosts an April 12 smorgasbord at the Youth Center from 5:30 to 8 p.m. with chicken or beef, salads, mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetables, rolls, desserts, coffee and milk. Entertainment includes Bob and Bobby of Strawberry Point, Cedar Rapids studio dance, Lions clown acts, and a 9 p.m. dance with Monticello Community high school band. Tickets available from club members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Lions Club
Bob and
Bobby
Strawberry Point
Cedar Rapids
Lions Club
Monticello Community High School
Honesty at Naylor Seed Co. Helps New Customer
Delbert Smith of West Liberty alerted Scotch Grove's Naylor Seed Co. after an $18.50 bushel was omitted from a several hundred dollar seed order for Delbert and Alfred Smith. The Smiths, new customers, requested a corrected bill once home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Naylor
Naylor Seed Company
Scotch Grove
Delbert
Alfred Smith
West Liberty
Naylors
Smiths
Delbert Smith
Jerry
Cars Grow More Complex As Knopp Credits Buyers
Rotary club heard Jack Knopp explain auto parts warehousing and distribution. He argued future autos combine custom features with mass production prices, citing catalog growth from 2300 parts in 1912 to over 70000 today, and belt counts rising from nine in 1954 to 92 plus 185 eliminated recently. Three new members Rex Ricklefs Jack Grant and Cliff Wears were welcomed. meeting at St Luke's Methodist Church was presided by V P R E Savage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Knopp
Rotarians
Knopp
Knapp
Rex Ricklefs
Rickless Dry Goods
Jack Grant
Georgia-Pacific
Cliff Wears
Wears Implement
R. E. Savage
St Luke's Methodist Church
Mystery Guest Revealed as Woman in Minstrel Show
The mystery guest turned out to be Mrs. Jim Bender revealed after disguise. Bender wrote the script for the Wyoming Lions minstrel show presented Friday evening at Center Jet, traveling incognito.
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She
Jim (Bette) Bender
Wyoming Lions
Center
Bette
Flame Cultivation School Set for Friday
A flame cultivation school for area farmers will be held at 7 30 p m Friday April 6 at the Monticello Gun club. The event will feature movies and a lecture sponsored by Home Gas Co to educate farmers on safe flame cultivation practices.
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Monticello
Clothes To Be Left At Churches By April 8
The Jones county clothing committee will accept wearable clothes until Sunday April 8. Items left at local churches will be packed Monday and sent to First Presbyterian Church for Church World Service.
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Jones County
First Presbyterian Church
Church World Service
Midland Wyoming Kindergarten Roundup Set for April 6
Kindergarten roundup and fall registration scheduled for Midland Community School District. At Wyoming Attendance Center from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Onslow Attendance Center from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Parents should bring birth certificates and a child must be five by Oct 15, 1962.
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Wyoming
Midland
Shannon White
Serbousek
Onslow
Kinderten
Monticello issues permits for new houses and additions
Building permits in Monticello cover two new houses, plus renovations and additions. New homes go to Spahn and Rose for the Gus Rickels residence at 108 North Maple and the Wally Reis home at 606 Hillcrest Drive, costs 13 000 and 14 200 respectively. Additional permits include a 20000 extension for Super Valu at 120 North Sycamore and a 1000 smoke house addition at the locker plant. Other permits list porch, roof reshingle, garage construction, and more houses along North Sycamore toward Locust street.
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Monticello
Spahn and Rose
Gus Rickels
North Maple
Spahn
Rose
Wally Reis
Hillcrest Drive
Joe Messerli
North Sycamore
John Drucker
Angie Oswald
Frank Kiburz
Bert Aylsworth
Locust Street
Social Welfare Disbursements Reported for Jones County
A March report from the state department of social welfare shows Jones county paid 27 924 to residents. The old age assistance program distributed 16 847 to 210 people, aid to dependent children 9 939, 71 cases involving 283 persons. Six received 704 for aid to the blind and seven 408 for the deaf. 1 057 individuals received public assistance and 17 164 pounds of surplus commodities were distributed including meat 1968.4 lbs and butter 1046 lbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
State Department of Social Welfare
Nellie Rummell
County Republicans Will Meet Friday in Anamosa
County Republicans announce a general caucus Friday at 7 30 p m in the Anamosa courthouse community room Rex Schrader of Monticello says a State Central Committee representative will attend and discuss the victory information program recently begun.
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General County
Anamosa
Rex Schrader
Monticello
State Central Committee
Minor Traffic Accident Report in Jones County
One minor accident reported in Jones county last week. A car driven by Harry O. Gerrets of Route 3 Monticello struck the rear of another vehicle about 10 miles west of Monticello on a county road. No injuries reported. Patrolman Kenneth Carter received the report.
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Jones County
Harry O. Gerrets
Monticello
Kenneth Carter
Fire Extinguishers For Home On Sale
Monticello firemen begin a week long sale of home and boat extinguishers as a public service and fund raiser. American-LaFrance dry chemical extinguishers are approved and may be re charged locally at nominal cost. ad in this issue lists details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Scout Exposition Saturday at Marion
Monticello Boy Scouts plan to attend the Exposition at Marion Saturday Meet at the Legion hall at 10 a.m Scoutmaster Bud Harrs said Tuesday A board of review will be held at 7 30 p.m April 17 at the Community building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Marion
Legion Hall
Bud Harrs
Selective Service Office In Anamosa To Close For Conference
The selective service office in Anamosa will close Tuesday and Wednesday April 10 and 11 to allow Mrs. Catherine Doolittle to attend an official conference by order of the state director. The office will reopen at 8 a.m. Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selective Service
Anamosa
Catherine Doolittle
Monticello Area Weekend Social Roundup
The notice lists numerous weekend visits and gatherings in Monticello and nearby towns. Families including the Himebaughs Becker Rogers and Feltes hosted or visited relatives and friends from Farley Cedar Rapids Manchester Delhi and Cascade with multiple Sunday dinners and overnight stays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Smith
John Besler
Manchester
John
Jim Nefzger
Delhi
Shirley
Darlene
Dick DeShaw
Betty Smith
Cedar Rapids
Walter Kraus
Monticello
Lou Ehrismann
John Feltes
Bill Feltes
Robert Schuster
Dean Cooper
John Rickless
Anamosa
Peggy Cooper
Linda Chaplin
Irvin Becker
Cedar Falls
American Martyrs Retreathouse
Dyersville
Terry Recker
Cascade
David McNally
Marvin Recker
Dave McNally
4-H Club Meetings Across Communities March Events
A series of 4-H club meetings from Wayne and Greenfield to Scotch Grove and Oxford featured demonstrations on writing checks growing bulbs baking pies and desserts plus talks on nutrition milk and good manners. Members shared projects including crafts sewing gardening and cooking during March gatherings with guest speakers and new officers announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotch Grove
Sunshine Girls
Sara Paulsen
Beatrice Brock
Pat Weers
Darlene Ostrander
Mary Hanken
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dale Greenawald
Lois Shover
Iowa
Patricia Kaiser
Eliza Shannon
Sally Edwards
Eleanor Yeoman
Ruth Welch
Selma Schlimmer
Bertha Page
Emil Prult
Florence Kenny
Bernice Meier
Ruth Copley
Leona Gearhart
Wally Sander
Andrew Cubit
Jo Ann Wiltse
Charles Kissick
Helen Guyan
Marjory Stubbe
Dean Nelson
Richard Brickley
Maxine Taylor
la Verna Coyle
Thelma Pillard
Evelyn Greenawald
Robert Husman
Kathryn Thompson
Caryl Ross
Kendalyn Peterson
Jean Bartels
Daniel Bohlken
Karen King
E. Kay Ahrnken
Methodist Church
Sunbeam Chapter
Kill Kare
Don
Alice) Cruise
William
Robert
Anna Mills
Caroline Schoenhut
Rock Island, Ill
Lawrence Ulferts
Lawrence William Ulferts
Oskwood Cemetery
Gideon L Krein
Carlene
Becky
Louis Lange
John Alferts
MHS
C. Podhaski
Hargraves
Alfred Melchert
Phil Himebaugh
Jan Himebaugh
Mickie Stadtmueller
Florence Bacon
Kenny Becker
Urban Ludwig
Jerry Gruss
Ann Fitzgerald
Jack Digmann
Katherine Ann
Frank Digmann
Carrie Miller
al Hildebrand
Verna
Durango
Robert Hildebrand
John Rogers
Louis Billmeyer
Wayne Wranglers
Wayne Center School
John Savage
Cindy Dierks
Stan
Richard Wolken
Greenfield Lucky Lassies
Clyde Newell
Cindy
Phyllis Port
Becky Robertson
Pat Beighle
Ruthann Miller
Barbara Plattenberger
Cindy Newell
Marilyn Plattenberger
Jackson Wise
Jackson Wise Owls
Linda
Jo Anne Sievers
Jo Anne Linstrom
Linda Sievers
Linda Merfeld
Gayle Grafft
Judy Lubben
Anne Morning
Nancy Knapp
Donna Mardorf
Farm Bureau
Karen Hartman
Judy
Janet Lubben
Patricia Peters
Jean Ann
Jo Ann Lindstrom
Diane Hinz
Greenfield
Janice Miller
Mary Ann Tjaden
Rell
Debra Hopper
Janet Middlekauff
Fairmor Lively
Morley
Lorraine Barger
Mary
Denise Hanna
Oxford Happy Hustlers
Oxford Happy Hustler
Leeanne Barnhart
Nancy Steffens
Sandra von Essen
Julie Barber
Wendy Law
Mary Jo Benischek
Linda Hansen
the Legion Auxiliary
Diane Hodgdon
Nebraska
Diane Romer
Roxana Duncan
Molly Koranda
Cathy Rehmke
Connie Pegorick
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