Sprague Hosford A Lifetime Of Community Service In Monticello
Sprague Hosford of Monticello has spent 47 years in the same sphere. Born on a Castle Grove farm, he became a noted farmer and stockman and a prolific rural correspondent under the pen name Magic. He married Kathryn Irene Brown in 1900 and now lives in Monticello with their children and grandchildren. He led the Castle Grove Mutual Fire Insurance Association as its first secretary for decades, served on the Castle Grove No 2 district school board for 19 years, and holds life memberships in historical and agricultural groups.
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Sprague Hosford
Monticello
Hosford
Castle Grove Township
Gladys Mauppin
Inglewood
Calif
Kenneth
Rowley
Lyle
Clarence
Castle Grove Mutual Fire Insurance Association
Castle Grove No. 2
Iowa State Historical Society
Jones County Farm Bureau
Farmers Community Fire Truck Association of
South Fork Happenings From Easter Visitors Gatherings
The South Fork column lists Easter dinner and Sunday visits across Cascade Dyersville Monticello and surrounding areas. Families including the Murrays Beavers Hirtzs Feltes and many others share meals and greetings with relatives and friends over the holiday weekend. Rex Martinsen also visits relatives in Manchester after spending time with his mother in Salina Kansas.
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South Fork
Monica ‘Murray
Clarke College
Dubuque
Louis Murray
Ervin Becker
Lawrence Kurt
Cascade
Alphonse Ries
Earl Tegler
Dyersville
Billy Ries
Frank Smith
Kathy
Diane
John Glant
Bill Lang
John Feltes
Wilfred Schuster
Monticello
Wilfred
Frank Turnis
Ruth Ann
Mary Frances
Philip
Walter Sherlock
Worthington
Ed Pins
Mercy Hospital
Roseann
Bill Turnis
Harold Hosch
Matt Holub
Louis Weber
Prairieburg
LaVern Husman
Olin
George Turnis
John Welter
Bernard Feltes
Wilfred Kenny
Maurice Richardson
Newton
Clyde Blount
Graydon
Bernard
Coggan
William Shott
Janesville
Wis
Frank Helms
Mike Gudenhauf
Vince Seibold
Rex Martinsen
Smoky Hill Air Base
Salina
Kansas
Frieda Martinsen
Otto Rittmer
Manchester
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Blanche Moser
Sand Springs
Ed Cox
Albert Hartman
Linda
Olaf Anderson
Clinton
Walter Heath
Mrs
Raymond Tuetken
Herman Helgens
Hamilton
Ohio
Dorothy
Frank Martin
J. S. Wolfe
Galena, Ill
Glidden
Jb Anau
Oon
Orc
Japalac
Mac
Iowa
Roto-Ealer
Allis-Chalmers
Allis‘ Chalmers Sales and Service
National Farm and Home Hour
NBC Geo. C. Schoon Implement Co
John Gadlient
Mike Takes
Albert Green
Medford
Minn
Charles
Monica
Mary James
O.S.F
St. Mary’s
Joe Catlett
Bert Freeze
Acel Catlett
Wyoming
Donald Gearhart
Ernest Gearhart
Mildred Streeper
Onslow
Charles Keller
Chicago
Ada Gearhart
Keller
Russell Guthrie
Nick Wilgenbusch
Watt
BATH
Face Hardware
Express
Anamosa, Iowa
Willie’s Sinclair
Monticello, Iowa
Peter Pan
Peter Ma the
Polkad
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