Dairy Dairy Products Highlight In Express Cooking School
Men of Jones county gain nutrition tips from the Monti cello Express Cooking School focusing on dairy products. The event praised butter milk cheese and milk for flavor and health, noting Jones county creameries produced 3 190 697 pounds of butter in 1939 valued at 796 961 59 and urging household use to support local farming.
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Jones County
Monticello
Home Economist
Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Monticello Hosts 1100 Music Contestants From 34 Towns
Monticello and Supt A B Grimes hosted last week to more than 1100 music contest ants from 34 towns in eastern Town. The event showcased numerous firsts in solos, quartets and ensembles with Lyle McMullen and Hulda Peet receiving praise for guiding the Monticello schools.
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Monticello
A. B. Grimes
Lyle McMullen
Huldah Peet
Iowa General Assembly ends with retrenchment plan and vacancies
The forty-ninth Iowa General Assembly closes amid unfinished business mainly in conference, with large bills stalled on the floor. A $5.5 million annual operations appropriation is reconciled, and a $1 million state office building is approved with two-year discretionary planning. An interim retrenchment and reform committee will control emergency funds, while many senators face expiring terms and potential re elections. Governor Wilson seeks standardized accounting, with $6,000 for review, as visits by notable figures mark the session’s end.
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State University Library
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Zeigler
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April Fools and Music Contest Pranks at Marion
A lively Marion scene features chatter about April Fool jokes at a music contest and the Buck Creek gigs near Monticelly. Students laugh and tease, with remarks about make up, birthdays, and shy performers while biology crackers become a classroom joke.
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Johaney
Don C
Buck Creek
Monticelly
Philomonte Editor in Chief and Staff List
The Philomonte publication names Don Howie as editor in chief and Elizabeth Lee Byerly as sports editor with Ruthe Anne Hoag and Wally Schneider as sports reporters. Assistant editors include Exchange Editor Chuck Ross and Don Leggett. A long roster lists editors, reporters, readers, and typists such as Becky Grimes Betty Adams Gail Huibregtse Lorraine Jacobs Anne Husman Bette Patterson Eloise Timmins Betty Podhaski George Cox Rose Marie Albers Helen McLaughlin Vernona Vernon Wilma Yount Dorothy Bartlett Paul Messerli Jack Naylor Robert Eggers Arthur Husman Lola Barrack Duane Yousse James Mann Bee Buol Mary Lou Luett Betty J Otten Johnney Messerli Kenneth Ahl-Belt and Rose Marie Albers.
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Don Howie
Elizabeth Lee Byerly
Ruthe Anne Hoag
Wally Schneider
Dick West
Chuck Ross
Don Leggett
Becky Grimes
Betty Clark
Betty Adams
Gail Huibregtse
Lorraine Jacobs
Anne Marie Husman
Bette Patterson
Eloie Timmins
Betty Podhaski
George Coxsee
Rose Marie Albers
Helen McLaughlin
Vernona Vernon
Wilma Yount
Dorothy Bartlett
Paul Messerli
Jack Naylor
Robert Eggers
Arthur Husman
Lola Barrack
Duane Yousse
James Mann
Bee Buol
Mary Lou Luett
Betty J . Otten
M Club Banquet and Dance Planned for April 18
The M Club will host a banquet and dance at the community building on April 18. The event features Hal Foreman’s full band, with a nine o’clock start and admission at twenty five cents per person. Invites are extended to all in the area. A Bellevue bridge disappeared without explanation.
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Hal Foreman
Student Teachers Try Rural School Set-up
Gertrude Wenger and Yvonne Lange taught first to third grades in a single rural classroom. Seven third graders, six second graders, and ten first graders were placed together with student-created teaching units. Next week Arline Balster and Mabel Caspers lead the room, followed by Robert Eggers and Juanita Shover with fourth to sixth graders.
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Gertrude Wenger
Yvonne Lange
Arline Balster
Mabel Caspers
Robert Eggers
Juanita Shover
Monti High Selected for University Research Tests
Monti High School participates in educational trials conducted by two universities. Seventh and eighth grade geography and sophomore history classes join experiments, while ninth grade English tests are from Iowa University. The May program measures improvement across sets, with Monti ranking high among 18 state schools and Melvin Hein noted among top individuals.
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Monticellians
Grimes
Iowa University
Iowa City
Ated Tong
Melvin Hein
Monti High
Bits About Em Stan Schrader And Local Athletes
A playful column profiles Stan Schrader as an all state football center and longtime catcher with a .361 batting average last season. It highlights Marvin Seehusen track success, Nick Clement’s vault, Bob Liddy’s busy defense, and a humorous gallery of teammates while noting a tragic electrocuting accident involving Reuben Nelson.
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Stan Schrader
Stan
Explosion Hurts Grinnell Garage and Nearby Stores
An air compressor in a Grinnell garage exploded sending the tank through the roof and shaking nearby stores for blocks. No serious injuries reported as firefighters checked the scene and secured the area.
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Grinnell
Future Baseball Stars Prepare For Season
Monticello park has hosted two weeks of batting, infield, outfield, and pitching practice as Monti baseball gears up. An inter-squad game on April 6 featured the Van Nigan scrub team winning. Captain Siebels Boss Howe Rieken Budl and Abel lead pitching, with newcomer Milt Rieken challenging the infield and Haenassler Griffith and Gesse among developing players. The outfield remains strong with returning players.
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Hickory
Monti
Monticello Park
Van‘nigans
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Howe
Rieken
Budl
Abel
Milt Rieken
Haenassler
Griffith
Gesse
Monti High Praises Staff For Music Contest Efforts
The article credits Superintendent Grimes and Mrs Pulver for their tireless work on the music contest. It highlights English classes studying poetry, student poets composing limericks, and annual staff finishing the book with Mr Shannon praised for most of the work and pictures. It notes well behaved guests and favorable judge comments for Monti High.
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Midale
Shannon
Monti High
Easter Pre In Grate Dominant n Grades
During the week before Easter the kindergarten room keeps two tame rabbits in constructed pens. First graders decorate eggs while planning to visit a store for eggs to boil and paint. Second graders adorn their room with Easter posters. Sixth graders study a western history unit and perform James Sechusen’s play The Overland Stage with stage couches illustrated on their blackboard border.
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James Sechusen
Overland Stage
Real Estate Transfers and Deeds Across Multiple Parcels
A compilation of real estate transfers and deeds from various grantors to multiple grantees in Jones and nearby counties. Transactions include corrections of previous deeds, mortgage assumptions, joint tenancies, and conveyances of subdivisions, with parcel details in sections 34 85 1 31 84 2 and others, sums largely nominal. Numerous estates and guardianships participate, with note of unpaid taxes, easements, and life estates.
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John H. Byerly
Eli Edwards
Gladys Edwards
August Weseman
Olga
Henry A. Weseman
Fed Land Bank
Land Bank
Mtgs
Willard Yeoman
Iva G. Schneider Yeoman
Orlando Null
Ruth Null
Varvel
Monticello
Eugene McCormick
Delores
William
Audrey Fullerton
Northwestern Mutual Life, Insurance Company
William Fullerton
W d Sama Dese
Equitable Life Insurance Company
Maude E. Platner
R. W. Feehan
Eva
Irene Wells
Harry
Hus
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Sid
Hua
Florence Rhinehart
Rhinehart
Shaw
Anamosa
Katharine Kasper
Thomas M. Redmond
W. H. Crain
Josephine
Lawson
J. L. Lawson
Elizabeth
Dannie L. Baker
Ciara A. Nabstedt
Edieman
Towa Standard Telephone Company
Central Iowa Telephone Company
County of
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F. W. Leinbaugh
Edith
N. C. Moore
Billiaon
Martelle
Jennie A. McDonald
James
Klaude D. Dick
Grace Day Dick
CM & St P Ry
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Ray G. Meredith
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Fisher
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East Anamosa
Virginia Livery Barn Sale Revives Town Memories
Old residents recall memories as D. D. McClintic planned selling the historic livery barn building. The sale includes a horse drawn bus that McClintic used to meet trains for decades, a relic about 40 years old.
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Virginia
D. McClintic
McClintic
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