Cooking School Draws Strong Attendance in Monticello
The Monticello Express hosted the third session in a week long cooking school led by Miss Gladys Looney with assistent Mrs. Nettie Slauson. Attendance rose from 110 to 182 and is expected to top 325 today due to a meat cutting demonstration. Prizes include $40 credit toward a Hotpoint range and other GE and Hotpoint items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Express
Gladys Looney
Miss Looney
Opera
General Electric
Nettie Slauson
The
Express
Iowa Electric Company
Monticello
Anamosa Girl Wins County Spelling Bee
Mildred Arthur, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Arthur of Anamosa, won first prize in the Jones county spelling contest held at Anamosa Public School. Loretta Specht of Castle Grove township took second on the word promis sory and Glenn Butler of Madison Center school earned third. County Superintendent Nellie V Morey awarded prizes and the top entrant advances to the Des Moines state contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Anamosa Public School
Mildred Arthur
Charles Arthur
Anamosa
Loretta Specht
Castle Grove Township
Glenn Butler
Madison Center School
Nellie V. Morey
Des Moines
Scarlet Fever Claims Life Of Marton Five-Year-Old
Master John Rollins, son of Mr and Mrs Celan Rollins of Marton, died after a week of scarlet fever. Burial planned at Oakwood cemetery in Monticello. The boy had been visiting his maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs John Wenger. illness worsened despite medical call. Mrs Rollins formerly Burdena Wenger. Sympathy extended to both families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rollins
Celan Rollins
Marton
Monticello
Oakwood Cemetery
Carl Dempsey of Castle Grove Dies at Age 10
Funeral held last Tuesday at Immaculate Conception Church Castle Grove township for Carl Dempsey son of Mr and Mrs John E Dempsey. Born October 5 1915 near Worthington, he had been an invalid for eight years with Rev John Hennessy officiating at mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Dempsey
John E. Dempsey
Castle Grove Township
Immaculate Conception
John Hennessey
Carl
Worthington
Neighborhoods That Interest Oxford Junction Sound Picture Show
Oxford Junction plans a sound picture show. D. C. Atkins, long active around Manchester and Hopkinton, is under arrest in Wisconsin awaiting extradition to Dubuque for alleged bad checks. George Huckins faces an indefinite sentence after a Cedar Rapids conviction for obtaining property under false pretenses. News notes include the Rorick family in Iowa and the death of Mrs. Elia Blocklinger in Dubuque, wife of Rear Admiral Godfrey J. Block linger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford Junction
Sidney E. Rorick
Dallas E. Rorick
Monticello
Oxford Mills
Rorick
Iowa
Franklin County
Ohio
D. E. Rorick
D. C. Atkins
Des Moines
Manchester
Hopkinton
Boscobel
Wisconsin
Dubuque
George Huckins
Cedar Rapids
Roter
Supreme Court
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company
Warner Brothers’ Pictures, Incorporated
Warner Brothers
Brunswick
Key City
Elia Weigel Blocklinger
Godfrey J. Blocklinger
Finley Hospital
Admiral Blocklinger
Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Luke’s
United States Navy
Blocklingers
John Hubbard Dies After Illness At Monticello
John A. Hubbard died at John McDonald hospital after ten days of illness from a severe cold that became pneumonia. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:00 PM at his Monticello home and 2:30 PM at the Presbyterian church, with Rev. Leonard Duckett officiating. Interment at Oakwood cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Hubbard
John McDonald Hospital
McDonald Hospital
Presbyterian Church of
Monticello
Leonard Duckett
Oakwood Cemetery
Staff Automobile Case Settled Out Of Court
The $30,000 damage suit filed by J. T. Staff as administrator of Alice A. Staff died in the Christmas Day Cedar Rapids collision has been dismissed. Tony Campagna named as defendant. out of court settlement reached though amount not disclosed. The accident occurred at First Avenue and Crescent Drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Staff
Monticello
Alice A. Staff
Cedar Rapids
Tony Campagna
Camagna
First Avenue
Crescent Drive
Old Sand Pit Leased For Propagation Of Fish
The OC M S Paul and Pacific right of way sand pit has been leased and will be stocked with small game fish. Fish raised to adequate size will be placed in the river. Local game wardens warn that all fishing in the sand pit is forbidden under penalty of the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OC. M. St. Paul & Pacific
Twenty-Five Years Ago in Monticello and Surroundings
Recap of local life notes including home remodels, births and deaths, marriages, and school events. Highlights: E. E. Reed remodels on Gil Street. births to the Glass and Heeren families. multiple marriages in Castle Grove and Scotch Grove townships. John B. Foster reelected Monticello schools superintendent. notable obituaries including Andrew Nimmo and Mrs. Pauline Hosford. librarian Mary Marvin resigns with 2,611 books in the Monticello public library. students at state university and Shattuck Military School. a murder in California of Bert Yousse. and local anniversaries and celebrants in Wayne and Richland townships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. Reed
Gil Street
Hall
W. 8
Glass
Lizzie Poppe
Alfred Laude
Castle Grove Township
J. B. Zimmerman
John B. Foster
Monticello
Louis van Buren
W. BE. van Buren
Edna Freeman
Farley
Andrew Nimmo
Diamond Creamery Company
Chicago
Pauline A. Hosford
Daniel S. Hosford
August Schlemme
Richland Township
Minnie Eggers
Mary Marvin
Edward Heeren
Elmer Hubbard
Louis Stuhler
John Pond
State University
Mary Balster
George B. Balster
Scotch Grove Township
John Woellert
Bert Yousse
Samuel Yousse
California
Alta M. Lloyd
John H. Perrine
Oakwood Cemetery
C. W. Brown
Sarah E. Brooking
Fester Smith
T. T. H. Dunn
Wayne Township
James McKeever
Fred Voorhees
Lewis Lang
Harry Stuhler
Shattuck Military School
Faribault
Minnesota
Ethel George
Ray George
Wisconsin State University
Madison
City Bakery Introduces Montana Sapphire Bread
Miss Caroline Schoenhut owner of City Bakery announces exclusive local baking rights for Montana Sapphire bread. Floyd West joins as lead baker bringing twenty years of experience and a new superior loaf in a fresh wrapper. West plans to relocate his wife and twelve year old daughter to Monticello and seek a small furnished home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Schoenhut
City Bakery
Montana
Miss Schoenhut
Floyd West
West
DeMolay Initiates Three New Members at Washington Chapter
George Stott Fred Kreeb and Charles Eby received the initiatory degree at a George Washington De Molay meeting last Monday. After the ceremony sandwiches and coffee were served cafeteria style in the kitchen. The chapter has expanded rapidly in recent months with two weeks earlier Bill Bowen Elmer Aebi and Raymond Coyle also receiving De Molay degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Stott
Fred Kreeb
Charles Eby
George Washington
Bill Bowen
Elmer Aebi
Raymond Coyle
Fred S Stuhler Conducts Bermuda Islands Program
Fred S Stuhler presented a talk on the Islands of Bermuda before the Monticello Rotary Club and the Anamosa club last week. He delivered the main address and displayed Bermuda pictures via stereopticon, with nearly the entire Monticello club in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Islands
Bermuda
Monticello Rotary Club
Anamosa Rotary Club
Fred S. Stuhler
Monticello Club
Monticello Scores Five Firsts In District Music Contest
Monticello earned five first places at the Northeast Iowa District Music contest held at Waterloo's West High School. Edna Schoon won soprano solo, Rodman Schoon Stickford and McLaughlin won boys small vocal group, and the Monticello glee clubs swept class B. The orchestra placed second in class B.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Schoon
Glee Club
Orchestra
Monticello
Iowa
West High School
Waterloo
Eugene Rodman
Raymond Schoon
Howard McLaughlin
Billy Stickford
Monticello Orchestra
Rose Wilcox
Monticello Public Schools
John G. Schoon
Miss Schoon
Mildred B. Paddock
Walter Leon
University of Town St Tows. Cit
Grinnell
Pierce
Bertha Mae Goldin
Dike
Messrs. Rodman
Schoon, Stickford
McLaughlin
George Richard Guyan
John Peel
Monticello Boys
Town Falls
Oelwein
Nashua
LaPorte City
Russell Hughes
George Harris
Milton Langer
Berkeley Curtis
Curtis Moncrief
James McLaughlin
Leonard Schoon
Billy Kettlitz
Tim George
Stewart Curtis
Raymond Siebels
LeRoy Schoon
Miss Wilcox
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Estherville
State Teachers’ College
Waverly
Teachers’ College
Mary Preston Beaven
Cedar Rapids
Wilcox
Marion Public
Iowa City
American Legion Post of
Monticello Bay Lands WMT Post for Burrichter
Donald Burrichter has become a control operator for radio station WMT in Waterloo. He works 3 to 11:30 p.m. daily after five months at Dodge Radio Institute Valparaiso Indiana and successful civil service exams including Morse code and wireless Continental code tests. He graduated Sacred Heart school Monticello and is son of Mr and Mrs Edward Burrichter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Burrichter
WMT
Waterloo
Donald
Dodge Radio Institute
Valparaiso
Ind
Great Lakes
Sacred Heart School of
Monticello
Edward Burrichter
Protestant Churches Set Holy Week Services in Monticello
Four Monticello churches announce a Holy Week series led by Reverends Cully Tendick Porter and Duckett. Services run Sunday April 13 at 7 30 p m Congregational Church, Tuesday April 15 Presbyterian, Thursday April 17 Reformed with communion, and Good Friday February 3 at Methodist Episcopal church with special music. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Congregational Church
R. C. Cully
Armin Tendick
Presbyterian Church
Roy V. Porter
Reformed Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Leonard Duckett
Oxford Mills Man Is Sentenced To 5 Years For Car Theft
Myles Robinson of Oxford Mills pleaded guilty to the theft of an automobile at Maquoketa and received a five year sentence in the reformatory. He previously defied Deputy Sheriff Purcell when pursued in Jones county last summer on a similar charge. The owner of the car, allegedly stolen, disappeared and Jones county charges were dismissed. Also noted is the twentieth anniversary of William Schlimmer’s employment as caretaker for Henry M Carpenter, starting April 4, 1910, with eight children born to the Schlimmer family and hopes to remain in the job through 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myles Robinson
Oxford Mills
Maquoketa
Reformatory
Robinson
Purcell
Jones County
William Schlimmer
Henry M. Carpenter
Bill
Mr. Carpenter
E J Lightfoot Celebrated On 77th Birthday
A family dinner honored E J Lightfoot on his seventy seventh birth anniversary last Sunday. Family members present included Miss Beth Lightfoot a stenographer in a Vinton law office and Edwin Lightfoot a student at the university in Iowa City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. Lightfoot
Beth Lightfoot
Vinton
Edwin Lightfoot
University At
Iowa City
Edward Sargent Dies in Chicago Accident
Word arrived of the death of Edward Sargent in Chicago. Reared in Monticello, he was the son of Edna Thompson sister of Frank Thompson of Cedar Rapids. Sargent wed twice but left no children. Monticello residents know no details of his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Sargent
Chicago
Monticello
Edna Thompson
Frank Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Sargent
Doctor Puleston Pens Africa Memoir African Drums
Dr. Fred Puleston formerly of Monticello now in Florida has published African Drums by Farrar and Rinehart. The book recounts his teen years in Africa with chapters on cannibalism crocodile fights and a harem quest. A New York Herald Tribune Books review calls it lively simple and occasionally hard boiled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Puleston
Monticello
Florida
Farrar and Rinehart
New York
Africa
New York Herald-Tribune
Trader Horn
Puleston
Jungles
Cow Testing Report For March Shows Strong Milk Output
The 400 cows on test produced 274 822 pounds of milk and 10 439 6 pounds of butterfat in March. Average per cow was 506 pounds milk and 21 3 pounds butterfat. Highest herd average came from 19 purebred Holsteins owned by Shover & Orcutt with 1125 pounds milk and 38 9 pounds butterfat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shover & Orcutt
J. E. Ahlrichs
N. F. Kleitsch
Len Buol
W. D. McLaughlin
M. R. Tobiasson
Betty
George Specht
Wyman Fulton
Many Young People In Confirmation Classes
List of youths from St. Matthew's Reformed and Wayne Zion Lutheran churches slated for confirmation on Sunday April 13. Names include Leroy Schoon William Peters Diedrich Collman Willard Schatz Wilfred Schatz Walter Bartels Rudolph Zimmerman Wil lie Mardorf Mable Juilis Edna Peters Hattie Prull Lucile Scheele Marie Helgens Lorna Gerdes Frieda Rink Minnie Luck Irene Burrichter Margaret Behrends Wini fred Rohr Violet Meyer Roland Buel John Sahli Elmer Aldrich Clarence Aldrich Alvina Stutt Helene Theilen Evelina Freese Edna Dirks Lorena Herren Emma Renken Clara Bodeker Conrad Monck Leslie Toenjes Gerke Bohlken Lawrence Folkers William Otten Lawrence Otten Vernon Helgens Mahion Seehusen John Luerkens Herman Harms Affen Siebels Robert Schoon John Bunting Alvial Freese Robert Dirks Irene Bennen Jennie Sievertson Anna Wennekamp
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Matthew's Church
Leroy Schoon
William Peters
Diedrich Collman
Willard
Wilfred Schatz
Walter Bartels
Rudolph Zimmerman
Willie Mardorf
Mable Juilis
Edna Peters
Hattie Prull
Lucile Scheele Marie Helgens
Lorna Gerdes
Frieda Rink
The
Reformed Church
Minnie Luck
Irene Burrichter
Margaret Behrends
Winifred Rohr
Violet Meyer
Roland Buel
John Sahli
Elmer Aldrich
Clarence Aldrich
Wayne Zion’s Lutheran Church
Alvina Stutt
Helene Theilen
Evelina Freese
Edna Dirks
Lorena Herren
Emma Renken
Clara Bodeker
Conrad Monck
Leslie Toenjes
Gerke Bohlken
Lawrence Folkers
William Otten
Lawrence Otten
Vernon Helgens
Mahion Seehusen
John Luerkens
Herman Harms
Affen Siebels
Robert Schoon
John Bunting
Alvial Freese
Robert Dirks
Irene Bennen
Jennie Sievertson
Anna Wennekamp
Scout Executives Dine at Maples Inn Gathering
More than fifty Cedar Rapids area Boy Scout directors attended a dinner at Maples Inn last evening. Attendees hailed from Vin ton Belle Plaine Blairstown Marion Anamosa and Monticello. Martin V. Kehoe presided with Scout Executive Carroll Thomas present. A high school boys quartet sang two numbers before the meeting led by area council president Kehoe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scout Organization
Cedar Rapids
Maples Inn
Vinton
Belle Plaine
Blairstown
Marion
Anamosa
Monticello
Martin V. Kehoe
Area Council
Carroll Thomas
Messrs
Rodman
Schoon
Stickford
MecLaughlin
George Richard Guyan
Minard Stout Joins Monticello Hole in One Club
Monticello high school instructor Minard Stout joined the Hole in One Club after a Monday afternoon round with Eddie Heiserman John Finlay and James Laude at the local course. The 140 yard ninth hole provided the remarkable shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticelo
Cesty
Minard Stout
Monticello High School
Eddie Heiserman
John Finlay
Monticello
James Laude
Rockford
Ilinois
Stout
Colin G. Thomas
Dubuque Rotary Hosts Monticello Club Paraguay Program
The Dubuque Rotary club hosted a Monticello meeting featuring a Paraguay country program arranged by the visiting Eleventh Iowa district group led by William B. Galloway. A. A. Morr then spoke on Paraguay’s history and government with Leonard Nordin detailing its resources and utilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic of Paraguay
Rotary
Dubuque
Rotary Club
Rotary Club of
Monticello
International Service Committee
William B. Galloway
Iowa
Rotary International
Marshalltown
Paraguay
A. A. Morr
Howard McCoy
Will Galloway
Leonard Nordin
Arthur Marr
Wayne Johnston
al Maley
Ed M. Healey
Frank Sullivan
Ed B. Lyons
Leslie FitzGerald
H. M. Willits
Earl Michel
Ed Fairfield
Mrs T A King Sr to Celebrate 90th Birthday
Mrs Thomas A King Sr of West Union will mark her ninety ninth? birthday on Saturday April 12. The first white female child born in Jones county she was born in Richland township near the German Presbyterian church. She has shared memories of early life in a newly settled country and now lives with her son Dr T A King in West Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. King
West Union
King
Jones County
Richland Township
German Presbyterian Church
T. A. King
Castle Grove 4-H Girls Elect Officers
The Castle Grove township 4-H girls elected officers for the coming year at Mrs. C. A. McLaughlin's home on April 5. Freda Balster was chosen president with Leona Behrends as vice president, Kathryn Gerdes as secretary treasurer, Elizabeth McLaughlin as historian, and Pauline Cramer as newspaper reporter. The group installed the officers and designated the president and vice president to represent the club in Ames at the four day 4-H convention, hoping for positive reports to assist club work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Grove Township
C. A. McLaughlin
Freda Balster
Leona Behrends
Kathryn Gerdes
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Pauline Cramer
Ames
Miss Ursula Clark Weds Harry Petersen in Monticello Area
Miss Ursula S Clark of Hopkinton and Harry P Petersen near Monticello united in marriage at 3 pm on Wednesday April 2 at the pastor Haun’s home. The groom is the son of Mr and Mrs Paul Petersen. after a brief wedding trip they will live on the Petersens farm north of Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ursula S. Clark
Hopkinton
Harry P. Petersen
Monticello
Haun
T. B. Clark
Coggon
Paul Petersen
George Goos
Census Taker To Begin Second Ward Next Week
Mrs. Bernice Byerly, appointed to take Monticello census, aims to finish the first ward this week and start the second ward in the early part of next week. She asks residents away from home to leave necessary information with a neighbor or in-house contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Byerly
Monticello
Interesting Events Of Iowa News
Iowa reports highlight a record girls basketball tournament income of 550 dollars with 60 percent for visiting teams 25 percent for officials and expenses and 15 percent for the local school. Des Moines leader Mrs S Joe Brown will attend the International Council of Women in Vienna representing the National Association of Colored Women. Logan Harrison county records the 730 foot Lincoln highway viaduct with a 93 000 cost and 890 000 pounds of steel. State parks employ 20 custodians year round to build trails feed birds and safeguard wildlife. roads in several parks use convict labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audubon
Girls’ Athletic Union
S. Joe Brown
Des Moines
Vienna
Austria
International Council of Women
Lady Aberdeen
Dublin
Ireland
Brown
National Association of Colored Women
International Council
Logan
Harrison County
F. H. McCabe
North Western Railway
Illinois Central
State Board of Conservation
Backbone
Bellevue
Bixby
Devil's Backbone
Lacey
Keosauqua
Lost Island
Palisades
Pilot Knob
Wapsipinicon
Towa
Botany Project Aims to Preserve Wildcat Den Flora
Professor Bohumil Shimek of the State University of Iowa will catalog the flora in Wildcat Den state park in Muscatine county this spring. The effort seeks to make native park varieties recognizable to daily summer visitors. L. H. Pammel of Iowa State College has conducted similar work in Ames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bohumil Shimek
State University of Iowa
Wildcat den
Muscatine
L. H. Pammel
Iowa State College
Ames
Hoover proclamation marks Covered Wagon centennial
President Hoover announces a nationwide observance of the Covered Wagon centennial from April 10 to December 29, 1980. Miss Samuelson urges participation by the nation and especially schoolchildren in celebrating the first wagon train’s start and the century milestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Samuelson
Hoover
Mary Eiben to be Crowned Queen of the May at Monello
Miss Mary Eiben of the class of 1930 will be crowned Queen of the May at Monello High School’s May Fete on campus Thursday. The selection honored her for character personality scholarship school spirit and extracurricular involvement. She attends five courses and works part time in the Supt. Grimes office and in Balster Farm Equipment. Her parents Mr. and Mrs. E F Eiben live west of Monticello in Castle Grove township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monello High School
Mary Eiben
Wtill
Miss Eiben
A. B. Grimes
Balster Farm Equipment
E. F. Eiben
Monticello
Caste Grove Township
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May
Mont! High
Heimi Photo
Tiu-Ait_ Gui MARY EIBEN
John Hubbard
the Express
Montana Sapphire Bread
DeMolay
Decorah
Grundy Center
F. E Kendrie
D. E. Peck
H. W. Matlock
Monticello Bay
Boy Scout
Minard Stout I8
T. A. King, Sr
Castle Grove
Clark-Petersen
Iowa News
J. W. Jarnagin
Hawkeye State
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