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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
5
The notice lists ration stamp groups and their validity periods for meats fats processed foods sugar gasoline fuel oil and shoes. It specifies indefinite validity for several stamps and gives expiration dates for canning sugar coupons and certain gasoline and fuel oil periods.
Three new cases filed in the Jones County district court include Peterson Barrel Company versus Anamosa Poultry and Egg Company seeking 358.40 for goods sold. Oliver Kiburz and Amelia Kiburz versus Bert Kiburz seeking 9,070.42 with 7 percent interest in real estate foreclosure. Kenneth Humpal and Lydia Humpal versus Flossie Wolfe seeking 951.31 on a note and 1,439.84 on property sold. The Monticello Lions Club met in regular session at the American Legion hall with President B C Hall noting the Monastery project near Dubuque and landscaping contract plans. Proceeds from Lions Club stand at the fair will fund the swimming pool fund.
The past week shows Dubuque Packing shipping six hog cars to Dubuque. Union Stock Yards in Chicago received three cars from named consignors Chris Reiter George Manternach and Lawrence Burlage all sent in one car increments.
Recent births include a girl to Mr and Mrs Clarence Schmidt on August 2, a boy to Mr and Mrs Harold Conley of Scotch Grove on August 8, and a girl to Mr and Mrs Frank Zangerle of Hopkinton on August 8.
Leigh Pearson issued a license to Henry Tobias Oltmanns 21 Anamosa and Helen Rose Kernen 17 Monticello to marry, during the past week.
An 18 year old registered with the selective service in Anamosa last week. The registrant is Ervin George Stutt of Monticello.
The American Legion post in Hopkinton announces a carnival to be held Wednesday afternoon and evening August 16. A full public program will be offered and all profits will fund smokes for armed forces at home and abroad.
Mayor Ray C Hoag asks for additional service men and women from Monticello to be added to the local honor roll. Submit names to the city clerk’s office by August 15.
George Stuhler son of Mr and Mrs Riess Stuhler caught a three pound bass in Silver Creek west of Monticello recently It was the largest bass caught in that creek for some time George spent the past week in Rochester Minnesota with Dr and Mrs Louis Stuhler and shared his fish tale with his uncle Dr Stuhler
Mrs. Robert Stutt, formerly assistant to Dr. Erekine, is named head of the x ray department at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids. She begins the new post September 1.
Jones County Fair presents ten acts in front of the amphitheater plus a band, a $4200 racing program, and ball games. Notable acts include Mayme Butters troupe a five person wire and tumbling act. Merediths dogs a lively animal act. Carl Thorson juggle and joke act. Millerettes aerial butterfly ballet. Nelson Thomason hand balancing celebrated by Ripley's Believe It Or Not. The Dixie Kids a five member jam and jive musical group. Merrill Duo balancing perch and slack wire. Cushings and their Piccadilly Puppets with singing and puppets. plus Glyde Snyder dancers and Harold Morgan orchestra each night. Fat steer show opens Aug 24 featuring 78 head with $1,445 in prizes across six places.
Frank Brown who escaped from the men's reformatory at Anamosa on New Year’s day and who pled guilty to larceny of a motor vehicle July 31 appeared before Judge J. E. Heiserman Saturday. He received an added sentence of ten years on the larceny charge.
L F Hauss proprietor of Buds Grocery Center Junction announces a complete closing out sale through the Express. Hauss citing poor health and desire for rest as reasons for closing the business.
Delegates from Jones county gathered Saturday morning to select representatives for the district judicial convention in Cedar Rapids. Floyd Philbrick was nominated to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Guy P. Linville and has been appointed by Gov. Bourke B. Hick enlooper to serve until the fall election, taking office August 1. Members chosen included C A Coxsee E G Heiserman E W Bras haw Monticello B E Rhinehart W S Frazier Glen J McLaughlin George C Lawrence J E Remley Warren J Rees Foss Davis A N Trevarthan and Bess E Sherman Anamosa delegates F H Shimanek and Henry W Mowry Oxford Junction.
James Sloan a 23 year old painter from Galesburg Illinois is missing from the men s reform atory at Anamosa He is believed to have escaped after the ten oclock count Tuesday night from Farm No 6 He walks with a limp and will likely be picked up by publication time Farm workers are supervised by a guard but supervision is insufficient to watch all men at all times.
George C. Doxsee a pharmacist's mate third class from Monticello won $40 in a Dr. I. Q. radio contest in Minneapolis last Monday night. The biographical quiz focused on Alexander Hamilton. Doxsee returned home yesterday for a nine day leave from his post at the Naval Air Base in Minneapolis.
The United States Employment Service announces need for 40 men and 40 women at the J LeRoy Farmer Canning Company in Monticello to operate a sweet corn canning plant starting around August 71 weather permitting. A representative will clear workers at the company office. The effort aims to feed troops overseas and urges farm workers not needed in late August and September to help without affecting draft status.
Mrs. G B Kinser of Anamosa reports a telegram from the Foreign Communications Service stating her son Staff Sgt Donald Fred Pilcher is listed as a prisoner of war in a Berlin broadcast. Postal cards from across the nation confirm the broadcast and Pilcher's status after his May 7 bomber mission. He served as a ball turret gunner on a B 17.
Hopkinton native William Edward Reed 76 died Aug 4 in Long Beach California after a long illness. He operated Reed & Reed in Hopkinton and Reed & Moulton at the Leader building corner, later moving to Manchester and then California where he owned apartments. Survived by wife Mertie Graham Reed, sister Mrs. A T Wheeless, and brothers Frank Reed and Cliff Reed. Funeral in Long Beach.
A pre-school conference will be held in the Monticello public school building on Friday August 11. All mothers and their pre-school children are urged to attend between 1 pm and 4 pm.
Members of the country club and their families are invited to a pot luck supper at 6:30 this evening at the club. A social evening will follow.
Funeral services were held for William H. Schlimmer at his home with Rev. Fr. Stoll officiating due to Rev. Dietz’s illness. He died at John McDonald hospital after a fall from a rotten-rooted tree caused fatal injuries. Born February 8, 1885 in Monticello, he is survived by his wife Mary Ellen Redmond, nine children, and his father August. He had worked as caretaker for the Carpenter and Halstead Carpenter families since 1910.
Sheriff Henry Eichhorn went to Sioux City Tuesday and brought back James Bride on a charge of false pretenses. Bride, a former cattle buyer in Jones County, posted a $1,000 bond and waived to the September grand jury.
Jones County home in Wayne township houses 64 inmates on a 300 acre farm with 30 acres of timber in Scotch Grove. Roscoe and Mrs Easterly manage clean facilities, stable crops, and animal care aided by inmates and a few civilian helpers.
Mrs J D Dirks suffered a slight stroke August 4. Relatives are concerned about her condition.
A report warns of a serious lumber shortage as essential industries and military needs consume the majority of supply. In Monticello dealers can sell about 100 board feet daily for homeowners unless WPB allotments apply. August and September demand is forecast at over 10 billion board feet for essential users, with only 9 billion produced, risking a shortfall of 1 billion board feet or 40 000 carloads.
Mrs Lillie S Hearn died Thursday night August 8 at 9 at her son Raymonds home in Monticello after a yearlong illness. Funeral at the Methodist church Sunday at 2 pm with Rev Glenn McMichael presiding and Oakwood cemetery burial. Born December 24 1856 at Colesburg she married John T Hearn June 23 1878 and left four sons Clarence deceased Daniel Lester and Raymond and a daughter Neva Repstein. Her husband died in 1899 and her eldest son in 1904. She leaves six grandchildren and nine great grandchildren and a half brother Charles Landis of Manchester. She was a Methodist for 42 years and the family moved to Monticello 50 years ago.
David Walker among five Vocational Agriculture boys in Town awarded scholarships to the American Youth Foundation camp at Shelby Michigan for a two week program August 14 to 27. The Christian Youth Leadership training features a large staff and about 600 attendees from across the United States and abroad. The program emphasizes physical, mental, religious and social development.
Lord C. R. Byland, editor of the Bellevue Herald for 18 years, bought the paper last week from Mary V. Brandt who published it since her husband Anthony Brandt died in 1921. Mrs. Brandt had 50 years with the Herald.
Cedar Rapids woman Mrs. Robert Leonard Stutt receives a telegram confirming her husband Sergeant Stutt was killed in action with U S troops in France on July 4. Stutt, a paratrooper, trained at Fort Benning and Camp Mackall and lived in Monticello before settling in Cedar Rapids. He was born in 1920 near Anamosa and married in Hannibal Missouri in 1942. Survived by wife Jeanne, his parents, and a sister. Also noted is Tech Sergeant Edwin E Craig of Hopkinton, killed in Italy July 10 after wounds on July 6. Craig joined June 27, 1941, served in the Italian campaign, and left behind wife Mary Catherine and daughter Catherine Ann, plus parents and siblings.
County superintendent Nellie V. Morey reports eight rural schools in Jones County lack teachers. Listed schools include Cass No. 6 Albert Schrader Anamosa Richland No. 4 Harry Guyan Scotch Grove No. 6 Harry Paulsen Scotch Grove Scotch Grove No. 7 L. J. Tomlinson Center Junction Fairview No. 2 Onias Hurt Fairview No. 4 Louis Zimmerman Anamosa Hale No. 1 Luther Inglis Hale Hale No. 2 Louis Schladetsky Olin.
Judge J. E. Heiserman issued two district court judgments this past week. One quieting title land in Jones county for Orman K. Alden and Lettie Alden against Roy O. Bullock et al. The other granted a divorce of Madeline Emmerich from Andrew Emmerich per decree on file.
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