Local group buys CCC Camp site near Monticello Iowa
The Jones County Fair association funds a 11.7 acre parcel south of Monticello between Highways 151 and former 118 for a CCC camp. Land from John Schneider and Frank Richardson is acquired for 1750 dollars with 500 paid by the Fair association and 250 by Farmers Mutual Creamery directors, the rest by citizens. The site will be deeded to the city as park land after the camp ends, with Monticello State Bank acting as trustee for lease to authorities.
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CCC
Monticello
John Schneider
Monticello Pours Schools
Y Frank Richardson
Schneider
Jones County Fair Association
Farmers Mutual Creamery Board of Directors
Board of Livertata
Iowa
Warvel
Montice Town
City of
Varvel
Towa
Monticello State Bank
Rogram
Premium List For The Fair Updates And Entries
The Great Jones County Fair premium list has been issued from Monticello Express. Copies mailed to rural boxholders. extra copies available at Jones County Fair association office. Minor additions include cross stitch, colored embroidery, home made candy, and new bird house entry. Some items removed from manual training and school work division. Also notes on fair votes and a patient recovery at John McDonald hospital.
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Monticello Express
Monticello
Jones County Fair Association
Jones County Bank
Home ‘Economica
Esther Sinclair
New Car Registration at Treasurer's Office Next Week
An item notes that a new car will be registered in the treasurer's office during the next week. The brief mentions the registration process and the office handling the matter.
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Regisinessnet i
Fire destroys farm buildings on Powers tenancy
A fire of spontaneous origin wiped out the barn, corncrib, and granary on Austin Powers farm along highway 18 near Ryan Saturday evening. About 1,000 bushels of corn and 1,600 bushels of oats were lost. Neighbors saved the machinery. Insurance partially covered the estimated 2,800 dollar loss. The farm is owned by the Aetna Life Insurance Company of Des Moines. The house had burned four years earlier and was rebuilt.
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Austin Powers
Highway
Ryan
Powers
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Des Moines
Hospital Installs New Gas Ironer
The John McDonald hospital laundry now has a gas ironer weighing 425 pounds. Zimmerman Electric Shop completed the installation last Saturday. The machine is described as the latest advancement in ironing.
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John McDonald Hospital
Zimmerman Electric Shop
City Accepts Sewage Plant in Waterloo
A city council resolution approved the 61 280 sewage disposal plant located one half mile east of town. E B Spencer Construction of Waterloo contracted the project with architect Howard R. Greene and J P Hey as superintendent. Greene cited 92 percent pollution removal in summer and 82 percent in winter. The primary clarifier removes 45 percent, aided by a flocculator due to dairy waste. The secondary stage and trickling filter remove 85 percent of remaining waste. Plant electricity costs run about 45 dollars monthly and Roy Pearson will operate the plant with no extra city salary expenses.
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E.B. Spencer Construction Company
Waterloo
Spencer
Howard R. Greene
J. P. Hey
Tthey
Uiger Greene
Greene
Roy Pearson
Street Commission
Jones Co Corn Highest in Years
Jones County leads Iowa in corn yields per acre with forecasts approaching record highs based on normal August temperatures and rainfall. Leslie M. Carl says July gains and favorable weather have boosted corn condition, with second ears forming and potential higher per acre yields. Soybeans are excellent and livestock generally good. hay deteriorates from wet weather and fall plowing begins earlier than usual.
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Jones County
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural
Mr. Carl
Carl
Painter Ruben H Daveny Sentenced in Delaware County Case
Ruben H Daveny 52 of Earlville received a three year sentence at Fort Madison penitentiary after pleading guilty to lascivious acts with a seven year old Earlville boy in Delaware county district court at Manchester. A WPA project approved this week allocates 784 dollars to regenerate Stanwood public school buildings.
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Ruben’ H
Daveny
Earlville
Fort Madison
Delaware County
Manchester
Wood
Stanwood
Wayne Township Education Board Protects Standardized Schools
Wayne township supports eight standardized rural schools with new buildings except district No 9 Amber two room, two teachers. Secretary H R Jacobs receives $341 for school supplies across eight schools and eight teachers earned varied state funds to uphold high standards. Tuition for Wayne students attending Jones county high schools totaled $1,777.50 from the township.
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Wayne Township
Amber
H. R. Jacobs
Wayne Schools
Ae Solow
Wayne
Irene Heiken Wayne
Emil Pruit Wayne
Ella. Rickels Wayne
Kate Hanken Wayne
Geraldine Ne- Wayne
Ruth Craig
Mabel Juitis
Malinda Neilsen Wayne
Iola Folkerts
Board of Education
Henry Doden
Rhinehart Doden
Herman Helgens
Arnold J. Jacobs
Ed Zirkelback
William Martin
Will Dirks
John Oltmanns
H.R. Jacobs
Jacobs
Jones County
Iowa
Community Building Construction Milestones 1938 89
The Monticello project timeline covers front page editorials in Express urging a federal funded building, a $25 000 repair need, a $25 368 PWA grant, bond issue approval, bids rejected, contract awards, razing, first federal payment, and 70 percent completion with contractor completion in 1989.
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Monticello
Express
B.p.w’s
PWA
Rotary and Timber of Commerce
Paulson Construction Co
Cedar Rapids
New Express Foreman Starts Second Week
The Express hires Fran cis Cochrane as foreman with 18 years in newspaper and commercial printing. He worked at Fairfield Ledger Shenandoah Sentinel and Denison Review and is known for speed and ad appeal. He and his wife live with the Gessies on Main street. Mrs Ferring and family visited daughter Virginia in Des Moines.
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The
Express
Francis Cochrane
Cochrane
Fairfield Ledger
Shenandoah Sentinel
Denison Review
Jake Gessie
Main Street
Jones County Fair dates set for late August in Iowa
The 86th Jones County Fair will run from August 22 to 25 on what are described as Iowa's most beautiful grounds. In other news, James T. Remley, son of James F. E. Remley, was admitted to the bar, becoming the third generation of Remleys to practice law in Anamosa. He recently graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law and joined his father in Remley and Remley.
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Jones County
Iowa’s
James T. Remley
James FE. Remley
Remley
University of Iowa College of Law
Anamosa
Remley and Remley
H. W. Remley
Marriage Licenses Issued At Clerk’s Office Last Week
The clerk’s office issued marriage licenses to Frank Clay age 29 of Galena and Dorothy West age 21 of Minneapolis and Vernon Shedek age 22 of Oxford Junction and Maria Jorgenson age 18 of Lowden during the last week.
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Frank Clay
Galena
Dorothy West
Minneapolis
Vernon Shedek
Oxford Junction
Maria Jorgenson
Lowden
Degrees Awarded at Iowa Summer Convocation
Jones county graduates joined others in a record 494 students at the University of Iowa summer convocation in Iowa City. Dr. John A. McGeoch addressed graduates in the Memorial Union lounge. Notable local recipients include Charles W. Gray Zelma I Grimm Amamosa Mary Tudor Olin Hetbie L Franks William R Ferguson and Margaret L Porter. Kenneth A Fuller also earned a master of arts and plans to pursue a doctorate at Cornell University in Ithaca New York.
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Jones County
University of Iowa
Iowa City
John A. McGeoch
Memorial Union
Charles W. Gray
Zelma I. Grimm
Anamosa
Mary Tudor
Olin
Hetbie L. Franks
Wyoming
Monticello
William R. Ferguson
Margaret L. Porter
Hopkinton
Kenneth A. Fuller
Fuller
Ithaca
New York
Cornell University
Monticello Opens New Sewage Treatment Plant
The 61 280 dollar plant began operation last Thursday. A 2,500 foot pipe feeds a by pass, bar screens remove large waste, and two 3 hp plus one 5 hp pumps move liquid to the primary clarifier. solids are digested, dried in a sludge bed, and the treated effluent flows 970 feet to the Maquoketa River.
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Maquoketa River
Jones County Fair at Monticello Sets 1926 Schedule
The Jones County Fair runs August 22 to 26 on the Monticello fair grounds. Highlights include ten free platform acts by the Art Thomas company, 4-H Club baby beef and dairy events, cattle judging, and a Merry-Go-Round Revue with aerial and wire performances. Horse racing features three days with purses, plus midway rides and free amphitheater access for most attendees. Contact secretary Harry J. Rodman for details. mark August dates.
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Monticello
Art Thomas Company
M. F. Hogan
Oxford Junction
Dyersville
Coggan
Worthington
Cascade
Hhe Thomas Company
Harry J. Rodman
City awaits reply on funds for Monticello building equipment
City officials await a decision from the PWA on a formal June application for 3390 to cover equipment for Monticello’s community building. The request lists chairs tables curtains lights shades kitchen and office furniture and lounge items totaling 3390 with prior reallocations noted.
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City
PWA
Monticello
New School Heads Named for Jones County Districts
Miss Nelle V. Morey announces new superintendents taking duties next month. Earl Phillips becomes head at Qlin school replacing H E Irons. F A McCoy moves to Martelle replacing Theo Ressler. Franz Charbonneaux leads Center Junction replacing C F Lindsey. Ezra Jansen becomes Oxford Junction principal and coach. Other counties keep Supts Grimes Anamosa Kinser Greenawald Pottie Tidman.
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Jones County
Local Creamery Pays 26 Cents for Cream
Patrons of the Farmers Mutual Creamery Co. received 26 cents for a pound of butterfat from sweet cream for the semi monthly period ending July 15. The No. 1 cream price was 25 cents and No. 2 cream 23 cents. Checks were mailed the first of the month.
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Farmers Mutual Creamery Co
Rural students arrange textbook exchange and buys
Miss Nelle Morey superintendent of schools sets a Wednesday window from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the courthouse office for rural students to buy or exchange textbooks. New language books for grades 3 5 and 7 will be available from listed stores. a book list was sent last year. Wilma Mae Wright returned to Iowa City hospital for observation.
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Nelle Morey
F. J. Kay
C. A. Palmer
Monticello
W. B. Skinner
Anamosa
Miller’s Drug Store
Wyoming
G. B. Macomber
Olin
L. C. Hodeval
Oxford Junction
J. Ramm
Cascade
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Max Palmer
John McDonald
Council
Wayne’s
Alice Kiburz
Ruth Bennen Frederick Faust
Evelena Rickels
Berniece Tobiason
Dorothy Prult Howard Zirkelbach
George Freese
Sterbert Herren
Robert Heyen Delores Fenpe Verna Stutt
Milo“Tobiason
Dean Zirkelbach
Beverly Hanken
Violet Butschi
Dorothy Heyen
Edna Hinrichs
Mildred Jacobs Rosalind Kiburz
Vernon Stahlberg
Ex Alana
H. R. Jacobs Helms Photo
New Express
Foreman
F. W. Ferring
Virginia
S. A
Danzling Acrobatics
Silver Wire
Williams & Bernice Company
Bobbie
Russia
Gordon
Micky
Fly
Mitzie
Silver
Tiny
Vivian
Spirola
Marvel
Abe Goldstein
Abe
Micke
Ike
Bicke
Bozo
Miss Morey
Wilma Mae Wright
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