Don't Leave Them Stranded Monticello Urges Public School Access
An Our View column from Monticello Iowa urges sustaining public education for students from parochial districts like Cascade and Dyersville. It notes Dyersville’s closure proposal due to funding and enrollment, the need for transport and tuition for out-of-town pupils, and Monticello’s commitment to offering education to regional students seeking public schooling.
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Monticello
Iowa
OUR
Dyersville
Cascade
Dubuque
Uing Monticello High School
Monticello Public School Board
Boyd Shannon
View Compliment for Cooking School Sponsorship Expressed
A reader thanks the sponsor for a delightful cooking school event. The note mentions attending the Wednesday session and acknowledges Mrs. WML McEvoy of Route 2 Central City.
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Wml McEvoy
Central City
Your Views Welcome to The Express Editorial
The Express invites readable opinions for the Your View department. Send comments on any subject that are not obscene or in unprintable taste to the newspaper in care of Your View.
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the Express
Monticello Express Official Monticello and Jones County Paper
The Monticello Express is a weekly Monticello Iowa newspaper established July 10 1865. It is published Monday and Thursday and mailed as second class matter under the act of March 3 1852. Advertising is through Newspaper Advertising Service Inc Chicago and Iowa Press Advertising Service Des Moines. Subscription rates are $4.50 in local counties and $5.50 elsewhere in the United States.
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Monticello
Iows
Monticello Express
Iowa Press Association
National Editorial Association
Newspaper Advertising Service, Inc
Chicago
Iowa Press Advertising Service
Des Moines
Iowa
Jones
Clinton
Cedar
Delaware
Dubuque
Jackson
Linn
United States
Monticelia
Jones County
Prairie Hill 4H Club Hosts Grooming Contest Tea
At Saint Peter and Paul Lutheran in Prairie Hill the 4H club held a good grooming contest and a mother and daughter tea on Sunday afternoon April 20. Judges were Mrs. Streeter and Mrs. Poppe of Anamosa. Guests included Mrs. Hunt and others from Onslow and Anamosa. Winners were Joyce Kintzle in junior and Grace Kromminga in senior divisions. Seventeen attendees plus seven mothers and 15 girls attended.
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Prairie Hill Be Natural
SS. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church
Prairie Hill
Gun Club Re-elects Shaffer President in Monticello
Clarence Shaffer was re-elected president of the Monticello Gun club at a recent meeting. George Hoult becomes vice president, with Sam Rhatigan as secretary and Paul Schuetz as treasurer. New directors include George J. Harms Joe McAleer August Husman. Hold-overs: Otto Hubbard Henry Harms Paul Ladehoff Ray Leytem.
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Clarence Shaffer
Monticello
Social notes from Center Junction area scattered visits Apr
Center Junction area residents report visits and hospital news across April weekends. Lewis accompanied by the Himebaughs to Iowa City for a hospital stay. numerous family dinners and Sunday gatherings noted in Maquoketa, Monticello, Olin, Stanwood, and Cedar Rapids. Marine corps veteran Lynn Serbousek returns from San Diego after completing three years. Local hospitalizations include Gunther Steiner at University hospital Iowa City with leukemia.
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Center Junction
Emma
Langworthy
Richard Andreesen
Anamosa
Carl Reuter
Reuter
Loras Kehoe
Lester
Coggan
Norbert Hunt
Monticello
Robert von Spreecken
Dean Bowman
Maquoketa
Lynn Serbousek
San Diego Calif
Marine Corps
Don Hasty
Keith Koch
John Gray
Olin
Barbara
Hinz Steiner
Gunther
University Hospital
Iowa City
Steiner
Buck Creek social notes describe visits and guests
Buck Creek life notes record visits across families and friends. Raymond Porter and family host in Monticello with Roscoe Porter and Ryan residents. other guests include the Applebys, Beltzs, Janssens, Merfelds, and Mardorf family. Des Moines travel for Nancy’s typing contest and various dinners round out the week.
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Buck Creek
Raymond Porter
Donald Tobiason
Monticello
Roscoe Porter
Ryan
Raymond Porters
Norman Appleby
Everett Beltz
Johnny Janssen
Art Janssen
Stone City
Jake Merfeld
Lester Merfeld
Notice of Closure for Lawn Medical Shop
Due to ill health I am forced to close my lawnmower shop until further notice.
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Shaffer
Highway 52
Cuckler Manufacturing Company
Free Nite School
Cockler Manufacturing Company
Jack Stingley
Laverne Keil
Lavern Crowley
Vicki
Ernie McDonough
George Huber
Pat Huber
Don Zimmerman
Kenneth Hosch
Jake Mangold
Ralph Wilson
Blayne Maring
John Wilson
John King
Claudia
Stanwood
Blayne
Walter Richardson
Walter McCorkle
Virginia
Independence
John Ratcliff
Glenn Lange
Lawrence Alferts
Louis Lange
Orville Underwood
Melanie
Lance
D. E. Worthman
Flora Crissinger
Onslow
Isle Winchell
Rock Island
Jan Moulton
Cedar Rapids
Gene Moulton
Mildred Kehrif
Gene Moultons
Dorrance Donovan
Maurice Thompson
Express
Herman Dolley
Bill Mardorf
Nancy
Suzanne
Marcia Robinson
Don Mossberry
Don
Floyd Wilson
Hazelton
Do.e.s
Harvey Bacon
Harold Taylor
Archie Beitz
E. J Supple
Winthrop
Doris Supple
Manchester
Mary Supple
Gibson
Freezer
Vhane
Mel
Ervin Poppe
Roy Miller
International Harvester
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