Two Jones County Marriage Licenses Issued This Week
W Leigh Pearson county clerk reports two licenses issued this week. Donald August Prult 29 and Mary Elizabeth Gravel 23 both of Monticello obtained licenses, and Russell Norris from Center Junction along with Bette Jordan of Everett Washington, both of legal age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
W. Leigh Pearson
Donald August Prult
Mary Elizabeth Gravel
Monticello
Russell Norris
Center Junction
Bette Jordan
Everett
Wash
Jones County Weekly Vehicle Licenses Report
Cars licensed include Mervin Chamberlin Olin Mercury Myrl Morrison Cascade Ford Alva E Barber Anamosa Chevrolet Joe B Pieper Olin Buick Arthur Baker Henry Leona Kennedy Ana mosa Pontiac Paul E Opstad Monticello Ford Daryl Jansen Onslow Buick Trucks licensed include William English Anamosa Chevrolet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Mervin Chamberlin
Olin
Mercury
Myrl Morrison
Cascade
Ford
Alva
E. Barber
Anamosa
Chevrolet
Joe B
Pieper
Buick
Arthur Baker
Henry J
Leona P. Kennedy
Pontiac
Paul E
Opstad
Monticello
Daryl Jansen
Onslow
William English
Rotary Banquet Ends 1951 District Conference in Cedar Rapids
More than 35 Monticello Rotarians and Rot ary Anns attended the final banquet of the 1951 District 191 conference in Cedar Rapids. Harold Thomas of Auckland New Zealand spoke as Rotary International director. Adams will report on the conference at the next Monticello club meeting. Birth announcements from John McDonald hospital list four births including two girls and two boys with dates in April at Cedar Rapids Hopkinton Casc...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Bill Doxsee
Raymond E. Adams
John McDonald Hospital
Harold Zumbrunnen
Cletus Feldman
Hopkinton
Clifford First
Cedar Rapids
Bill Kauder Jr
Cascade
Donald Arduser
Onslow
Daryl Jansen
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
Shirlee Ann
Jansens
Wyoming
Richard Eichhorn
Eichhorns
Two Fined In Justice Court By Echternacht
In Ray County Justice Court Judge Echternacht ordered two fines. John Yousse paid 10 dollars plus costs for disturbing the peace. Mary Hayes of Cascade paid 10 dollars plus costs for intoxication on a public highway as a passenger in Raymond Benton’s car, Benton facing an operating while intoxicated charge.
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Justice Court of
Ray
Echternacht
John Yousse
Mary Hayes
Cascade
Raymond Benton
Jones County farmers urged to boost corn plantings
A Jones County War Board meeting with PMA Extension and Soil Conservation Service leaders urged farmers to raise corn acreage by about 10 percent, about 9423 extra acres over 1950. They noted corn shortages threaten livestock feed and that enrollment and deferment policies may affect farm labor availability. A scrap metal drive was also discussed.
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Midwest
Jones County
Jones County War Board
Anamosa
Production and Marketing Administration
Extension Service
Soil Conservation Service
Future Farmers of
Commodity Credit Corporation
Streeper
War Board
PMA
County Selective Service Board
County X-Ray Program Underway In Jones County
The Jones County Tuberculosis and Health association held a meeting on Friday April 20 in the courthouse to promote a county wide mass x-ray program offering free chest x rays to adults and school age children. Two mobile units will tour the county starting in early June for about three weeks with Monticello hosting four days and local organizers named. Frances Robinson of the state health department is assisting the county nurse to organize the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Tuberculosis and Health Association
Jones County Health Council
Frances Robinson
State Department of Health
the Express
Jones County
Monticello
E. H. Huibregtse
Margaret Wismeier
Monticello To Hold Pre School Clinic May 4
Monticello plans a pre school clinic for children entering kindergarten next fall. Eligible are those five by November 15, 1951. Exams will be given by Jones County Nurse Marion Serbousek. Parents should bring children to the first floor of the public school May 4 from 9 to 11 15 a.m. and 1 to 3 15 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Boyd Shannon
Jones County
Marion Serbousek
Jones County Board Lets Road Contracts
The Jones county board of supervisors approved county road contracts totaling more than 185000 dollars. Prime work went to B L Anderson Company of Cedar Rapids for 148280.60 dollars. Burch Construction received 26295.30 dollars and Weaver Construction of Iowa Falls was awarded 11503.80 dollars. The board also corrected errors in homestead credit and soldier's exemption tax figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Board of Supervisors
George F. Specht
B L. Anderson Company
Cedar Rapids
Burch Construction Company
Weaver Construction Company
Iowa Falls
Easy Method Lets Fay Haeussler Move House To New Address
Fay Haeus sler leverages a three man Cedar Rapids moving crew and local electric and telephone workers to relocate the former Sacred Heart parsonage from North Sycamore street to 424 East 3rd street. The 2 story home was moved over seven days with three actual moving days and will receive brickwork before settling onto its new foundation.
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Fay Haeussler
Fay
Sacred Heart Parsonage
Sycamore Street
East 3Rd Street
Cedar Rapids
Haeussler
Heaussler
Paul van Dusen
Express
Alumni Banquet Planned May 18 At Monticello Community Building
The Monticello public school's alumni association plans the traditional banquet honoring classes including 1951 and several earlier cohorts. James Maurice says committees are finishing plans with more details to appear in upcoming Express issues.
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Monticello
James Maurice
Alumni ‘Association
Ordination of Rev Keating Set for May 3
Reverend Thomas W. Keating son of Mr and Mrs Bernard Keating of Onslow will be ordained to the Catholic priesthood next Thursday morning May 3 at 10 oclock in the Chapel of Christ the King at Loras college Dubuque. Public ceremony. first solemn mass May 9 at 10 in St Peters church Temple Hill. Several clergy named to assist and deliver sermon. Keating born May 28 1927. educated at St Peters School Temple Hill Sacred Heart Monticello and Loras College Dubuque. studied at Kendrick Seminary St Louis. Friends invited to Temple Hill ceremonies on May 8.
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Thomas W. Keating
Bernard Keating
Onslow
Christ the King
Loras College
Dubuque
Father Keating
St. Peter's Church
Temple Hill
Herman N. Ginter
Thomas Currier
St. Patrick’s Church
Cedar Rapids
James Greene
St. Ambrose College
Davenport
John Moran
Cascade
Moran
Eugene P. Lorenz
Sacred Heart Church
Monticello
Keating
Rev
St. Peter’s School
Sacred Heart School
Kendrick Seminary
St. Louis
OMVI Charges and Traffic Citations From Anamosa Patrol
Joe Wheelock of Anamosa was arrested for operating while intoxicated and released on 350 dollar recognizance bond after a preliminary hearing by Justice George C. Lawrence. Glenn Frick of Mechanicsville was fined for intoxication on a public highway. Others, including Dickinson and Begley, faced driving without proper plates. Streets paid a small fine. Wiese and Rorah charged with improper passing. Rorah paid. all charges filed in Justice Lawrence's office in Anamosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Wheelock
Anamosa
Highway Patrol
George C. Lawrence
Wheelock
Glenn Frick
Mechanicsville
Robert P. Dickinson
Cedar Rapids
James J. Begley
Springville
Office of
Justice
Lawrence
Saddle Club to Meet May 3 in Woodhaven
The Monticello Saddle Club schedules its regular meeting on Thursday May 3 at Woodhaven. A committee of men is in charge of refreshments.
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Saddle Club
Monticello
Jurors Rule for Defendants in 5148 Dollar Suit
A Jones county district court jury found for defendants Nick and Wilfred Kleitsch of Cascade in a damage suit filed by Charles Oeschger of Dubuque over an auto crash on highway 151 near Monticello on April 3, 1948. damages set at 5128.70. Foreman August Luckstead signed the verdict. Judge J E Heiserman presided. A new divorce action was filed by Mary Ellen Haas against Leonard E Haas seeking divorce for cruel and inhuman treatment with custody and alimony for their daughter Susan Marie. The petit jurors are ordered to report Monday May 7 to Judge Heiserman.
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Petit Jury
Jones County
Nick
Wilfred Kleitsch
Cascade
Charles Oeschger
Dubuque
Highway 151
Monticello
August Luckstead
J. E. Heiserman
Mary Ellen Haas
Leonard E. Haas
Anamosa
Freeport
Susan Marie
Heiserman
Echternacht Recites Wide Range Of Small Court Penalties
Justice Ray Echternacht disposed of many cases recently from intoxication to no license and leaving the scene of an accident. Individuals listed include Donald Cookey fined 10 dollars and costs for no license and 1 dollar and costs for leaving the scene. Robert Retz paid 5 dollars and costs for no muffler on his vehicle. Robert Gesse paid 2 dollars and costs for a broken tail light. Albert Schoenbeck received two days in jail for license issues. Alva Oaken paid 25 dollars and costs for reckless driving. Carl Steiner fined 10 dollars and costs for no 1951 car registration tag. Merlin Barnes pled guilty to disorderly conduct and paid 10 dollars and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Echternacht
Donald Cookey
Cascade
Robert Retz
Manchester
Robert Gesse
Monticello
Treasury
Albert Schoenbeck
Alva Oaken
Highway Patrol
Carl Steiner
Merlin Barnes
Board Of Review Examines 5000 Jones County Assessment Ledgers
The Jones county board of review begins Monday May 7 reviewing about 5 000 assessment rolls. County Assessor Lorenz Lorenzen expects a session of three weeks or more. Board members include W B Clark James Moran C B Miles H E Levsen and Clayton Hartman.
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Jones County Board of Review
Jones County
Lorenz Lorenzen
W. B. Clark
James Moran
C. B. Miles
H. E. Levsen
Clayton Hartman
Sheriff Investigates After Collision In Poweshiek County
Sheriff John F. Cochran of Montezuma was sideswiped on Highway 151 five miles southwest of Anamosa by H. E. Sorensen of Omaha. Sheriff Lewis Dreibelbis of Jones County investigated. Cochran was en route after delivering a prisoner to a reformatory. Damages to both cars were listed at $300 each.
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John F. Cochran
Montezuma
Poweshiek County
Cochran
Anamosa
H. E. Sorensen
Omaha
Lewis Dreibelbis
Jones County
Poweshiek
Reformatory
Monticello Band Queen Candidate At Cedar Rapids Festival
Jean Lois Barnts daughter of Mr and Mrs George Barnts will represent Monticello High School at the Eastern Iowa Band Festival in Cedar Rapids on May 12 She is a senior and has five years in the concert band playing French horn plus French horn quartet brass sextet woodwind quintet and choruses She is National Honor Society member treasurer of Future Homemakers of America Student Council member and Philomonte reporter.
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Jean Lois. Barnts
George Barnts
Monticello
Girls’ Glee Club
National Honor Society
The
Future Homemakers of America
Philomonte
Jean Barnts
Sid Blair
Charles Hagen
Ken Lang
Don Martin
Chauncey Dirks
Jane Mardorf
Elizabeth Young
Jane DeShaw
Joyce Jurgensen
Dottie Hollar
Elnora Schoon
Carol Leytem
Noel Henderson
Janis Gottleaber
Joyce Clark
Linda Hargrave
Sara Hayden
Peggy Albers
Rose Stadtmueller
JoAnn Morning
Donna Morey
Lorna Lehman
Nancy Schneider
Rural teachers listed for next school year in Jones county
County Superintendent Joseph Beave reports signing of contracts by many rural teachers across Jones County for the coming school year. The list includes teachers from Cass No 4 to Lovell Nos and various Castle Grove Richland and Wayne districts with several remaining reports yet to arrive.
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Jones County
Joseph Beave
Cass
Lenor Randolph
Selma Schlimmer
Frances Brady
Marcella Reese
Castle Grove
Mary Jane McDonough
Irene Wittengle
Ella Rickels
Bertha Page
Elaine Behrends
Richland
Jane Rogers
Winona Strang
Ruth Hosch
Erma Hamil
Washington
Myra Morrison
St. M. Daniel
Janette Gavin
Wayne
Gladys Rickels
Emil Prull
Elfriede Behrens
Velma Winkler
Robert Husman
Wilma Linn
Leona Gierhart
Celena Siebels
Helen Rickels
Antioch
Malinda Nielsen
Midland
Rosalie Luett
Lovell
Eliza Shannon
Laura Hinrichs
Mary Ann Schemmel
Ruth Young
Center Junction
Robert Yankee
Marietta Stanton
Oxford
Grace Vrooman
Erma Clapp
Spencerville
Hazel Bearinger
Tredway and Steiner Cars Involved In Damaging Crash
Cars driven by Alvin Dudley Tredway of Scotch Grove and Jacob Gilbert Steiner of Monticello collided near the schoolhouse on East Grand street causing about 290 dollars in damage. Officer Reynolds reported the Tredway vehicle pulled from a curb into Steiner's path. Henry Schuette of Monticello paid a 1 dollar fine plus costs for overtime double parking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin Dudley Tredway
Scotch Grove
Jacob Gilbert Steiner
Monticello
Reynolds
Tredway
East Grand Street
Steiner
Henry Schuette
Swan Lays Egg Excitement in Monticello Busiest News
Monticello residents thrill to a swan on Swan Lake laying an egg at the zoo project site. Early reports suggest a possible second egg with two swans protecting their nest. Authorities urge caution to keep dogs and children away while a fence blocks access to the nest.
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Monticello
MacArthur
Swan Lake
Zoo
Kenneth C. Anderson
Clinton Memorial Park Cemetery
Monticello Leads State Finals With 31 Entries at Grinnell
Monticello public high school tops the state with 31 entries in the Grinnell finals of a large music contest. The list covers solo and small group entries across woodwinds, brass, percussion, and vocal categories, with Monticello’s ensembles and choir set to perform in Monticello on May 5 before more than 1,000 students from 12 schools.
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Monti
Grinnell
Monticello
Ray Stumbaugh
Maquoketa
Patsy Ambuehl
Elizabeth Young
Don Martin
JoAnn Morning
Rose Stadtmueller
Noel Henderson
Sid Blair
Bruce Appleby
Shirley Lubben
Elnora Schoon
Janis Got
Hopkinton Woman Fined for Reckless Driving
Esther Clark of Hopkinton was fined $25 and costs on a reckless driving charge. She was arrested the previous night by Special Officer Donald Howard and the case was heard by Justice of the Peace Ray Echternacht.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther Clark
Hopkinton
Donald Howard
Justice of the Peace
Ray Echternacht
Two Monticello FFA Members Earn State Degrees at Sioux City
Six Monticello FFA members and advisor attended the state Future Farmers of America convention in Sioux City. Jim Heiken and James Conley received the State Farmer degree, the highest state honor. Delegates included Glen Cass and Jim Heiken. sightseeing tours and a Shriners patrol event accompanied the sessions. Other locals Dale Ahrlich James Zimmerman and Ivan Benedict joined about 1,000 youths. Margaret Truman appeared in Sioux City with Jim Heiken noting he rode in the same elevator as her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello F.F.A
Future Farmers of America
Sioux City
Jim Heiken
James Conley
Glen Cass
Shriners White Horse Patrol
Dale Ahlrich
James, Zimmerman
Ivan Benedict
Margaret Truman
Miss Truman
Accident Report Near Eclipse Lumber Company
Officer Ivan Reynolds investigated an automobile-truck collision in front of Eclipse Lumber Company last Monday noon. Involved were Marvin Boysen’s car driven by Roy G. Boysen of Monticello and a truck owned by Elsheimer Meat Products Co and driven by Clarence Junior Hanson of West Union. Damage estimated at $100.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivan Reynolds
Eclipse Lumber Company
Marvin Boysen
Monticello
Students Tour Monticello Plants Guided by Mrs Dirks
Wayne No 3 students and teachers visited three Monticello plants last Thursday. They toured Monticello Express seeing a linotype and Little Giant cylinder press used for the yearbook, the large in-house pressroom, Hoag Duster Company’s feather duster factory, and Midway Sweet Shop. Participants included Meta Ulf Schafer Loren Dirks Dale Atwood Colena Alferts Winifred Poppe and Jeri Be.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne No. 3
Emil Prult
Monticello
Harry Dirks
Monticello Express Office
Victor Richardson
Express
Hoag Duster Company
Midway Sweet Shop
Iere
Meta Ulf Schafer
Loren Dirks
Dale Atwood
Colena Alferts
Winifred Poppe
Jeri
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Board of Supervisors
OMVI
J. P
Board of Review
Jean Lois Barnts
Faith Board
Fair
Claude Appleby
Appleby
Brass
Art Burrichter
Jack Thoeni
Dave Martin
Carol Reuter
Carl Egger
Judy Podhaski
Janet Nickel
Noel
Henderson
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