Jones County Fair Opens with Innovations and Prize Cars
The Great Jones County Fair in Monticello Iowa runs Aug 7-12 now featuring two stock car race days and corn belt championship coon dog water races. An open steer show offers 1465 dollars in prizes and three new cars will be given away on select nights with tax and license paid.
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Jones County
Iowa
Swan Lake
Monticello
Jimmy Nelson
Cathy Rigby
Clementis
Dwight Moore
Rock Smith
Saturnaires
Miss Patricia
Fearless Bauers
Great Jones County Fair Highlights and Roster of Events
Birth notices list several families in Cascade Anamosa Monticello Hopkinton Manchester Langworthy and Langworthy welcoming girls and boys. Marriage licenses record five couples from Appleton Kimberly Madison Wheatland and Marion. New cars and trucks registered in multiple towns. The fair schedule features stock car races harness racing 4 H judging bands rodeo stage shows and stars like Pamela Eldred Cathy Rigby and Eric Weissberg with free seats and parking for 10 000 and a one ticket pass.
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Pamela Eldred
Danny Davis
The
Nashville Brass
Don Rice
Cathy Rigby
Jones County Fair
Ecology club scouts clean Monticello area building ecology tree
Fifth and sixth graders from the Congregational church picked up debris along railroad tracks and in an alley near Monticello. Participants include John McNeill Kevin Kurth Cary Behrends Donna Bergman Jane Green LuAnne Lubbock teachers Carol Lubbock Barb Tobiason and Scott Eversman.
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Congregational Church
Monticello
John McNeill
Kevin Kurth
Cary Behrends
Donna Bergman
Jane Green
LuAnne Lubbock
Carol Lubbock
Barb Tobiason
Scott Eversman
Monticello School Registration Set for August 16 to 19
Registration for the 1973 74 Monticello Community schools runs August 16 19 from 8 am to 4 pm. Junior and senior high register at Central school office, elementary at their building offices. Seniors Monday juniors Tuesday sophomores Wednesday and freshmen Thursday preferred. Lock purchases 2 dollars or 2 dollar lease with 1.50 refund. Book rents and lunch fees listed. hot lunch 40 cents daily. Insurance by Mutual of Omaha via H C H Insurance. Time rates by grade level and sport fees noted. Rotary club dinner speaker Ray Kleinow presented a film on vacation forgetfulness.
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Central School
H-C-H Insurance
Monticello
The
Mutual of
Ray Kleinow
Baby injured by glass in Monticello rock incident
Police report a rock threw through a windshield in Monticello on Monday near highway 151. Eric Petersen and family were traveling when their 10 week old daughter Jenny was struck in the eye by flying glass and treated at John McDonald hospital. Investigators pursue leads.
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Monticello
Eric Petersen
Hollywood
Petersen
Jenny
John McDonald Hospital
Petersen Auto
Hearings Set for Two School Budgets This Month
Monticello Community School schedules its budget hearing for 7 30 p m on August 13 while the Jones County Board of Education sets a hearing for 8 p m on August 21. Monticello proposes 1 668 702 total budget with 1 581 926 in the general fund and 86 776 in the schoolhouse fund. Tax needs include 921 279 of the general fund and the entire schoolhouse fund. Tax rate is 47 812 per thousand, down about five mills from the current budget, according to Supt. John Messerli. The county proposes a 270 000 budget with millage at 5 046 per thousand.
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Monticello
John Messerli
Drennan Named Executive Director of Hoover Health Council
Dr. Robert H. Drennan of Coralville has been chosen as executive director for the Hoover Health Council. Dr. Earl DeShaw of Monticello was on the selection committee, with other local board members including Michael Goettsch and R. D. Larimer.
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Robert H. Drennan
Coralville
Hoover Health Council
Earl DeShaw
Monticello
Michael Goettsch
R. D. Larimer
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Kenny Lyons
Cascade
Richard Merritt
Anamosa
Robert Duschner
Robert Lamont
Hopkinton
Larry Sheppard
Manchester
Roy Nelson
Langworthy
Leroy Stanley Johnson
Appleton
Wis
Jeanette Siebels
Kimberly
Ronald Micheal Flach
Fr. Madison
Jennifer Norma Reiter
Lowell Dean Horner
Wheatland
Wendy Sue Slouha
Oxford Jet
Dennis Lee Hartwig
Diana Rae Schlagel
Marion
Micheal Leon Walker
Teresa Evelyn Eilers
Cecil L
Bertyce H. Goettsch
Oldsmobile
Kenneth R. Walters
Wyoming
Chevrolet
Ross S
Marie Emerson
International Truck
Kenneth A. Brunscheen
GMC
John J
Kathryn L. Supple
Plymouth
Paul E
Dianne C. Brady
Schulz
Robert M. Peet
Duwayne Schneiderman
Shirley A. Hugh
Pontiac
Paul D. Or
Marlene A. Flory
Ford
Eugene F. Or
Maxine E. Boffeli
Mercury
Charles A. Or
Barbara Tietze
Trailstar
Robert J. Or
Linda J. Hagen
Victoria E. Seibold
Alan F
Karlene J. Groth
Olin
Larry W
Gloria A. Hunt
Toyota Truck
Statler Brothers
Guy Marks
Frank Avalon
Marty Allen
Eric Weissberg
Deliverance
Hanneford Circus
Omaha Insurance Company
Kleinow Presents Film
Baby
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