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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1956
Page
7
Fern Coward was elected president of the Monticello Business and Professional Women's club Thursday succeeding Kathryn M. Loop. Officers reelected include Ellen Eilers Abbie Nelson and Florence Heims with committee members and a program on International Relations.
Schreiner chapter 226 of the O E S conducted its regular Monday meeting led by Worthy Matron Mildred Arduser. A social hour followed in the dining room with Margaret Jones as chair and a social committee including Doris Long and Dick Long.
A roster of individuals includes Maude Eggiman Claire Eggiman Florence Clark Leigh Clark Jean Balster Les Balster Hattie Savage Anna Hicks Beulah Keyes Gertrude Mullen and Laura Wenger. The fragment appears as a names-only item without context or event.
Funeral services for Clara Marie Runger aged 54 who died Friday night at John Mc Donald hospital after a long illness will be held today at 2 in Goettsch Funeral Home. Interment in Oakwood cemetery. Rev. W Russell Hunter will officiate. She lived in Monticello and Buck Creek for 35 years and was a housekeeper for Tom Shaver.
St John’s Lutheran church ladies aid announced a Lutheran Women's Missionary League rally will be held in Delaware on May 3. Rev. A K Stenzel led devotions on the second commandment. Mrs Albert Heeren presided over the business meeting.
Anamosa Iowa residents of Rome No 6 school district presented a petition to the Jones county board of education seeking annexation with Mechanicsville consolidated school. The board received the petition Monday night and deferred action. Both Jones and Cedar counties must act before a vote can be scheduled. Rome district has about 20 students currently tuitioned to Mechanicsville.
The First Presbyterian Co operative parish of eastern Iowa held its regular quarterly meeting at Peniel church on Monday April 2 with Rev Reuben Tjaden presiding. Twenty one members attended along with Dr Frielie Conaway of Des Moines who discussed roga tion speaker plans and parish youth and education needs.
Bob Norris of Scotch Grove and the couples Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kromminga Mr. and Mrs. Reuel McColm and Mr. and Mrs. Delmar King of Peniel are listed in the readable fragment of a local social notice.
Canton area social notes list visits among Cranes from Volga Monticello and Delmar, with Bearingers hosting relatives. Other entries include Sweeney and Wasoba gatherings, care of children at Bud Douglas residence, and plans for Sgt Robert Beranek's June furlough.
Brook and relatives visited, Richard Delarm recently called his grandmother Mrs. Mary Delarm in Maquoketa, Antone Beranek of Oxford Junction was a dinner guest in the Tom Bearinger home on Sunday.
Onslow W Somerville, hospitalized at St Luke's in Cedar Rapids after his car left the road and overturned between Springville and Anamosa. Altrurian club held its first meeting of the year at Mrs Ruth Jansen's home with Mrs Jeri Hoenshel assisting and Easter verses read during roll call.
Mr and Mrs John Paulsen attend confirmation services for their niece Lois Sandra Rickels at St John s Lutheran Church and Willis Rickels home in Monticello.
Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. James Lindsey at the J. S. Lindsey home in Cedar Rapids and Mrs. Margaret Kerr at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Warren in Woming. Republican women leaders chaired by Mrs. Strawman and Mrs. Ida Rawson met delegates from Oxford Junction Center Junction and Scotch Grove at Mrs. George Paulsen’s home. S/Sgt Don Juilfs new address listed at Forbes AFB Topeka Kansas. Card party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Martens with high scores by Will Doll and low by Edyth Norton and Larry Jensen. midnight lunch served. Connie Vicki and Janeal Paulsen visited grandparents. Mrs. Walter Holtz hosted a pinochle club with prizes to Martens Jensen and Hicks. Easter dinner at Marvin Thomsen home near Prairieburg with John Hinrichs and family and Walter Holtz attending.
Easter Sunday dinners brought families together with the Denniston Moenk and Orr households visiting in Clinton and Charlotte. Gordon Wherry spent time with grandparents in Oxford Junction. Ava Bramer Elva Hall and Mary Juilis attended a Legion Auxiliary meeting in Wyoming. James Chaplin of Cornell College vacationed in Onslow. George Paulsen and family vacationed in Biloxi Mississippi. Harold Heidemann Jr called on Reinhart Helmrich in Manchester. Mrs Max Hamilton and Mrs Fred Jensen visited Mrs Jeanette Orr in Anamosa.
The Twentieth Century club of Olin hosts eight Jones county Federated Women’s clubs for their annual convention in Olin on Tuesday. Registration opens at 9 a.m. at the Methodist church with speeches by Mrs. Elmer Taylor of Traer and Mrs. Willard Ingalls of Monmouth.
Jones County Farmers Union to hold an educational meeting tonight in Wyoming at 8 p.m. Harold Larson president and Maurice O'Reilly Fort Dodge organizer will speak, with Jackson and Dubuque county members invited to attend in the Community room.
Seven Sacred Heart high school students earned certificates of acceptance for the Annual Anthology of High School Poetry. The recipients and their poem titles are Susan Staner "The Poor Little Boy" Jeanne Hennessey "My Poem" John Chapman "A Summer Night" Ruth Manternach "Night Time" Rosemary Barron "Snow Time" Allan Westhoff "Spring" and Phyllis Manternach "The Stars."
About 25 school boys attended a Monticello Community Conservation league meeting at the American Legion building. President Alvin H. Bleadorn announced plans for a monthly program for young people, with a movie on outdoor life and a talk by Bob Mineck, Cedar and Jones counties conservation officer.
Neighbors Mr and Mrs James Nelson and family spent the weekend in Mason City with their son and relatives. Guests at Easter dinner in the McLaughlin home included Cleo P Casady and family from Iowa City along with Cedar Rapids visitors.
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