Ridiculous Days Parade and Shopping Expo Arrives in Monticello
Monticello hosts the fourth annual Ridiculous Days with twenty four or more stores offering specials Friday and Saturday. A parade of merchants in comic costumes is moved to Saturday at 1 15 p.m. with a new West First street route. Kids prize money totals 80 dollars for best entries in age groups up to 8 and 9 to 12, including bikes trikes pets wagons and other entries. Stores listed include Ace Hardware Coast to Coast Gambles and Monticello Express among others.
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Monticello
Armin Jacobs
Central School
West First Street
Monticello State Bank
West First
Jacobs
Ace Hardware
Stahler’s Clothing
Made O'Day
Monty Surplus
Schultz Bros
Gambles and Shaffer Clothing
Rem Electric
Hetzter- Copley Agency
Edwards Dept
Western Auto
Eilers Furniture
Pam's Style Shop
Stuhler’s Shoes
Long’s Royal Blue Food
Schoon Implement
McNeill Hardware
K & P Chevrolet~ Olds
Long Drug
Bud’s
Nelson’s Jewelry
Hi-Way Market
Great Plains Supply Co
Monticello Express
First Street
Lacock Hoyman Show Champion Reeves at Olin
About 750 people attended Olin's Beef Day at Hefflefinger show grounds. Forty six calves were exhibited by 4 H and FFA members. The grand champion Angus was shown by John Lacock and George Hoyman. Ronnie Beck won the champion showman award. Gary Achenbach earned the reserve showman prize.
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OLIN
Hefflefinger
4-H
FFA
Angus
John Lacock
George Hoyman
Ronnie Beck
Gary Achenbach
Reatha Rix
Birth notices from McDonald hospital list several newborns
Births reported from John McDonald hospital include July 31 entries for Ketelsen Center Jet a girl and McElmeel Monticello a girl and Fiedler Hopkinton a boy. August 2 Hoerner Zwingle a boy Green Cascade a girl. August 3 Ostercamp Anamosa a girl Rockwell Cascade a girl, Welter Cascade a girl Lauser Cascade a boy Payne Monticello a boy. August 7 Petrick Central City a girl. An additional birth reports Earl L Eilers at McHenry Illinois an 8 lb 4 1 2 oz girl born August 4 named Lynne Michelle with brother Lane.
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John McDonald Hospital
Donald Ketelsen
Center Jet
Thomas McElmeel
Monticello
James Fiedler
Hopkinton
Paul Hoerner
Zwingle
Paul Green
Cascade
Ivan Osterkamp
Anamosa
Gerald Rockwell
Herman Welter
Joseph Lauser
Kenneth Payne
Joseph Petrick
Central City
Civil cases filed in Jones county district court expand
Fifteen new civil suits were filed since last Wednesday in Jones county district court with five actions on Tuesday August 6 and four on Monday August 5. The docket includes claims for money due on promissory notes and for merchandise and services, with several defendants named such as the Kleis family Monticello O'Brien Dubuque and Derby. Damages range from hundreds to thousands with interest and costs, plus maintenance and custody actions. A separate injunctive order was granted in a maintenance case involving Laurita Oldfather and Keith Oldfather following a June 1953 marriage. A motor vehicle collision case seeks 197.22 in damages from Alvin Kovars. The report notes one injury case from a June 1962 accident and a final suit for 242.20 in damages against William E. Derby.
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Jones County District Court
Francis E. Till
Cascade
Kleis
Till
John Patrick O’brien
Perfection Oil Co
Dubuque
O’brien
Wiliam Rickels
LaVern Husman
Center Jct
Rickels
R. F. DeWald
Vernie Michels
Jerald Chapman
Stambaugh Motors
Darrell Ashby
Ashby
Laurita Oldfather
Monticello
Keith Oldfather
Carl Willms
Clarence Willms
Leonard Meader
Manchester
Highway 38
Montcello
Meader
Willms
Jack McLaughlin
William E. Derby
Voters to Decide Tuesday on Terms for Councilmen, Mayor
Onslow area voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide terms for town officials including the mayor and councilmen. The county race reflects local governance questions as residents consider leadership futures ahead of municipal decisions.
Two SCS Queens Named for Davenport Contest
Bonnie Balichek and Karen Allen will represent Jones county in the regional Soil Conservation Queen contest at Davenport on August 9 after winning the county crowns at the Center Junction supper. Balichek, 17, a 1963 Oxford Junction graduate plans pre med at the State University of Iowa. Allen, 19, a junior at Iowa State University, Ames. The event drew about 1,250 attendees and featured 4 H contests and musical numbers.
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Bonnie Balichek
Oxford Jct
Karen Allen
Onslow
Jones County
Davenport
Center
Miss Balichek
George Balichek
State University of Iowa
Miss Allen
Paul Allen
Iowa State University
Ames
Kenneth Howie
SCS
Paul Lumpa
Monticello
Irving Sievers
Wyoming
George Britton
Martello
Oxford Jet
Queens of Soil Conservation
Jones County Sheriff and Deputy Resign Effective Sept 1
The Jones County board of supervisors accepted the resignations of Sheriff Lewis Dreibelbis and Deputy Ralph Albaugh, effective September 1. Dreibelbis, in office since 1951, will join United Fire and Casualty Co. Cedar Rapids, and Albaugh, deputy since 1962, will pursue unspecified plans after leaving his Anamosa studio. The board will appoint a new sheriff to serve the unexpired term. the deputy will be appointed by the new sheriff with board approval.
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Jones County
Russell Orr
Onslow
Cedar Rapids
Orr
Alcohol and Tax Division
U. S. Treasury Department
Lewis Dreibelbis
Ralph Albaugh
Kenneth Carter
Jones County Sheriff's Office
Board of Supervisors
Albaugh
Dreibelbis
Anamosa
United Fire and Casualty Co
Home Office
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Center Jct
Henry Eichhorn
Board
Jones County Board of Supervisors
Monticello Votes on Four Year City Term Plan in Ward Election
Monticello voters go to the polls Tuesday Aug 13 from 8 am to 8 pm to decide on four year staggered terms for city officials. Four wards will host polling places at local sites including Presbyterian church basement Great Plains Lumber Matthiesen’s garage and the Monticello Community building. If approved councilmen and the mayor in wards two and four plus the at large seat would seek four year terms in November while wards one and three would also elect four year terms in November 1965. The change follows a city council action last March after a League of Women Voters petition.
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Monticello
Montcello
Firee Street
South Cedar
Presbyterian Church
First Street
North Cedar
Great Plains Lumber Co
Matthiessen
League of Women Voters
4 H Boys Demonstration Entries Due by Aug 9 at Fair
4 H boys demonstrations for the Great Jones County Fair must be entered by Friday August 9 says county extension assistant Varlyn Fink. A demonstration schedule must be drawn up the following Monday detailing the deadlines.
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Jones County Fair
Varlyn Fink
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Zany
Lacock
Hoyman
Reeves
Amber
Temple Hill
Vaees
Wyoming Eoeene
Burda
Roger L. Tucker
Raymond Kleis
Tonie Burda
Phillip Clampitt
Monticello, Iowa
Onslow Farmer
C.J
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