Rival papers unite to avert missed issue
Anamosa Journal staff aided the Express when its publisher fell ill in Rochester. Thomas Powell and Joe Kelley left work daily to help, with a team including Gene Bulkley Nelda Von Sprecken and others ensuring the Express could publish on time for nearly 8000 issues. Public thanks were sent to all who helped and to supporting advertisers and news sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Anamosa
Express
The
Journal
Anamosa Journal
Rochester
Thomas Powell
Joe Kelley
Gene Bulkley
Nelda von Sprecken
J. J. Rhatigan
Leamon Scott
John Howard
John Orris
Emma Stadtmueller
Walt Brainerd
Milton Peterson
Kenneth Ahlrich
Paul Kurt
Communism warned at Iowa press convention banquet
Des Moines hosted nearly 600 Iowa publishers and families as R H Markham of the Christian Science Monitor warned of a Communist World Drive Against the United States. He described dangers to Europe Asia and potential impacts on American life urging informed voters and caution against supporting officials linked to the Communist movement.
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Iowa
Des Moines
R. H. Markham
The
Christian Science Monitor
Boston
United States
Europe
Asia
America
Markham
Sacred Heart and area churches schedule Sunday services
A church listing notes Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Mass times 8 and 10 am Sundays and 7 am weekdays, confessions Saturdays 3:30 4:30 and First Fridays 3 4 pm. Other congregations include Presbyterian Westminster and Evangelical and Reformed with services, sermons, Sunday schools, and Gideon messages, plus youth fellowships and guild meetings through April 28 and a Luther League banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart
Catholic Church
Eugene P. Lorenz
Presbyterian Church
William J. Grossheim
Westminster Fellowship
Anne Shelley
Musical Program At Monti High Delights Students
Mr. Parkinson and Richard Schultz from Omaha presented a yearly Monti High program featuring cello selections by Mr. Parkinson with Schultz on cathedral chimes. Schultz performed three piano pieces, notably boogie woogie, to an attentive audience. He explained cello tones and introduced musical terms, while inviting mechanically minded boys to chat about his field after the performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Parkinson
Richard Schultz
Omaha
Monti High
Parkinson
Richard
Several Honors Won In Marion Track Meet
Monti High track men earned multiple honors at the Marion Relays on April 10. The 440 yard relay team of Rodney Rieken Ray Eiben Roy Dreibelbis and Bob Guyan finished second. The 880 yard relay with Rieken Schneider Eiben and Guyan also took second. Don Hagen placed eighth in the shot put. Roy Dreibelbis cleared 5 feet 2 inches in the high jump and Bob Guyan set a pole vaulting mark by breaking the pole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monti High
Marion
Rodney Rieken
Ray Eiben
Roy Dreibelbis
Bob Guyan
Paul Schneider
Don Hagen
Bob
School Lunch Menu for the Week
Monday features meat loaf mashed potatoes buttered beans bread and butter milk and apple. Tuesday offers macaroni and cheese cabbage and apple salad muffin milk prune whip. Wednesday serves beefburgers scalloped tomatoes carrot celery stick milk apple pie and cheese. Thursday includes kidney bean salad deviled eggs nut bread milk and peach upside-down cake. Friday presents Creole spaghetti tossed green salad peanut butter sandwich milk and ice cream.
Three Winners in Dairy Heifer Contest Named
The Monti FFA Chapter awarded three five dollar prizes in the Dairy Heifer Contest. Winners are Dale Hetn Donald Aldrich and James Conley. The first prize heifer went to an FFA student at Waverly. Banquet set for April 24 at the Roosevelt Hotel Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monti F.F.A
Dale Hetn
Donald Aldrich
James Conley
F.F.A
Waverly
Roosevelt Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Monticello Music Contest Preparations For State
Monticello prepares for the State Music contest in Vinton on April and May 1. Miss Maiden will lead the girls trio and sextette in the vocal division. The instrumental side, under Mr. Stumbaugh, features the band soloists and ensembles including woodwinds brass and percussion groups.
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Monti
Vinton
Miss Maiden
Monticello
Mr. Stumbaugh
Donna Beth Aitchison
Miriam Young
Karl Behrends
Anna Diers
Beverly Hanken
Marvin Jacobs
Bob First
Minnie Otten
Monti High Students Chronicle 1930 Class Highlights
February 12 1930 marks the Luett home birth of Bob bie who attended Monti High kindergarten and rose to high school. Chas led WaMaC champs basketball in 47 as he balanced theatre and glee club. Evalena Harmsie played cornet in bands and captained Harms Hoosier Hotshots while teaching Sunday School. Carlene Winkler joined Monti High bands glee club and baton majorette with acting roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luett
Litttle Bobbie
Monti High
Chas
Panther
Bob
Evalena
Evalena Harms
Harmsie
G.A.A
Sharp
Harms’ Hoosier Hotshots
M Club
Wayne Luther League
Carlene Winkler
Wink
Carlene
Panthers Start Baseball Games
The Monticello Panthers opened the season with Hopkinton on a cold Friday April 9 on the home diamond. Hopkinton won 2-0 as Monticello pitcher Gene Oltman allowed four hits. Dean Willworth had two hits and Loren Hayes one for Monticello.
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Monticello Panthers
Hopkinton
Gene Oltman
Monti
Dean Willworth
Loren Hayes
Panthers
Manchester
Onslow
Martelle
Xavier
Oxford Junction
Monti High students share joys from sports and band
Polls reveal student favorites at Monti High with praise for sports, gym class, band, study halls, and educators. Highlights include Homecoming queen Wink and top girls sextette member Carlene, plus remarks on teamwork and a cheerful atmosphere.
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Monti High
Mon. High
Jo Ann Tjaden
Treva Heiken
Velma Simmons
Shirley Lubben
Miss Smith
Marjory Hoffman
Athlet
Wink
Carlene
Lucky Guy
How to Propose One-Act Play Delights Student Body
On Wednesday afternoon April 7 the 11 00 speech class presented a one act play How to Propose to the student body. The performance featured Willis Harms as lecturer teaching proposals and a cast including John Paul sen Dale Mardoff Marjorie Behrends Joan Ireland Wayne King and others. The audience applauded and laughed as scenes moved from caveman courting to the Gay Nineties and Brooklynite weddings.
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Willis Harms
John Paulsen
Rodney Rieken
Margaret Steiner
Caverman
Knight
Dale Mardoff
Marjorie Behrends
Joan Ireland
Wayne King
Robert Marugg
Roma Hoult
Ralph Marolf
Dwight Gerdes
Betty Lou Bebee
Mary Reyner
Willis Harris
Mr. Henry
Mrs Cram Organizes G A A Softball Teams
Mrs. Cram has formed two G A A softball teams for after school play. Miriam Young’s team defeated Clara Kehren’s 20 to 1 on Monday noon, and won a close 7 to 6 game on Thursday. The season’s champion will be the team with the most victories.
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Miriam
Freshman Girls Advance in Garment Work Progress
Freshman girls finish skirts after weeks of effort and choose aprons for some students. They gained experience with bound buttonholes last week and now plan to sew blouses, marking continued progress in the sewing class.
Plans Under Way for May 7 Banquet At Community Building
Preparations are progressing for the big junior-senior banquet set for May 7 in the community building. Committees are working hard to ensure a successful event.
Wayne Zion Ev Lutheran Church Services and Nuptial
Evening service window from 6 to 9 with attenuation notes. Sunday schedule includes Sunday school at 9, Bible class, 9 45 English divine service and 11 German service. Tuesday April 27 Ladies Aid all day from 10. Wednesday April 28 nuptial of Leanna Mae Wehling and Virgil Paul Hinz at 1 30 with reception in church parlors.
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Evangelical and Reformed Church
John F. Baumann
P. W. Dykhuizen
Gideon
Gideons
Women’s Guild
Oswald Sandbach
Post High Methodist Youth Fellowship
Junior Youth Fellowship
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
H. L. Adix
Congregational Christian Church
A. Mast
Women's Society
Castle Grove Lutheran Church
H. A. Diers
Luther League
Prairieburg
St. John’s Lutheran Church
R. P. Young
Wayne Zion
Lutheran Church
Ladies’ Aid
Leanna Mae Wehling
Virgil Paul Hinz
Scotch Grove 4-H Club activities and meetings noted
Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls 4-H members hosted by Etta Marie Reuter with hands nails patterns talk and bake sale plans for next Saturday at Zimmerman clothing Monticello to fund a Cedar Rapids business house tour. Achievement Day featured township women clubs with talks on International Relationship and packing boxes for foreign needy.
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Scotch Grove
Etta Marie Reuter
Sunshine Girls
Joyce
Helen Postel
Joyce Oeschger
Yvonne Wacker
Caila Wacker
Jean Heisey
Zimmerman Clothing Store
Monticello
Cedar Rapids
Meier
Olin
Wayne Township
W. B. Clark
Scotch Grove Women’s Community Club
Louie Hanken
Farm Bureau
Welcomer
George Harms
Monticello Local Notes and Visits Highlight Week
Weekend visits and travel mark Monticello life with several residents at home with family in Iowa City Cedar Rapids Paynesville and Onslow. Local women prepare for a Presbyterian meeting while Miss Delphia Balster returns from Valparaiso. A birth is noted in Monticello and students attend a regional music festival in Cedar Rapids.
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Iowa University Hospital
August Schrader
John Otten
Cedar Rapids
St. Luke's Hospital
Monticello
Frank Royden
Marion
Paynesville
Ohio
Merlin Kuehl
Leuth
Howard Kuehl
Elkader
Lesley Kuehl
Leslie Himebaugh
S. G. Thompson
Center Junction
Roy Ralston
John
Henderson
E. L. Himebaugh
Lions Club
Fred Lange
Carrol Lightfoot
Herman Lightfoot
Baby
Onslow
Carol Edwards
Herman Lange
Edward Morton
Hopkinton
Ruth
Joyce Lange
Dave Hansen
Junior
Helen Wacker
Maquoketa
Delphia Balster
Fire damages hog house at Holstein farm
A hog house at Albert Henrichsen's Holstein residence caught fire one night recently, likely from a defective brooder. Three hogs and twenty piglets were killed in the blaze, and freezing rain iced the Cushing fire siren delaying firefighters reaching the scene.
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Albert Henrichsen
Holstein
Cushing
Executor's Notice in Jones County Estate
Public notice states the district court in Jones County Iowa has appointed 8 Be Locher as executor of Ernest McGrane deceased. Creditors must file sworn claims with the clerk within legal time and debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Anamosa Iowa April 10 1948. Lochner and Locher attorneys for estate.
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District Court
Jones County
Ernest McGrane
Anamosa
Iowa
A. D
BE. Locher
Locher
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Ruth Ann Kuntz
Joyce Jurgensen
Dave Cox
Janet Goodyear
Mrs. Adams
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Audrey Egger
Ray Ejben
Rex Rickels
Lyle Behrends
Phyllis Cox
Willis Harm
Harms
Etta Reuter
Aternoon
Alpha Gamma Sorority
Jack Naylor
Esther Sinclair
N.C.C.W
Epworth
Dianna Lynne Balster
Audrey Schrader
H&s Tire
Goodyear Tires
Della Anway
Washington State
John Wright
McDonald’ Hospital
Joanne Wright
Anna Linda Kiburz
Ail City
Coliseum
Maynard Klein
New Orleans
Alvin Edgar
Ames
Hogs
Dairy Industry, Commission
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Posto
Sentiente
Monticeliol Prea
Adv Inc
Chicago
Banja
Junior Chamber of Commerce
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