Jones County Fair Opens August 25 Monticello
The 1936 Jones County Fair runs August 25 to 28 at Monticello city park. It features livestock exhibits, a seven ride carnival, evening bands and vaudeville shows, harness racing six heats daily, and a Merry Whirl Revue with Flying Fishers and noted acts. Monticello band, Koe actor acts, and local matches Oxford Junction versus Cascade and Monticello versus Bernard are planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
M. F. Hogan
Dick Beall
Oxford Junction
Cascade
Bernard
Eugene Byers
Koban
Yamamoto
Ming
Toy
Monticello Tops Oxford Junction to Lead League
Monticello baseball team remains first in the league after a 12 to 2 victory over Oxford Junction. Bailey led Monticello with four hits including a homer and double, as Monti built their lead with runs in the first through sixth innings. Mizeur led Oxford Junction with three hits, and next Sunday Monticello faces Dyersville at Dyersville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Oxford Junction Club
Monti
Bellevue
Bailey
Thenhaus
Oxford Junction
Mizaur
Crumbrogh
Shedek
Mizeur
Thenhaas
Kehoe
Kreeb
Dunn
Dyersville
Oxford
Anamosa Farmer Seeks Reward For Captured Thief
Anamosa farmer Jim May will receive a $100 reward for capturing chicken thief Herbert Wilson after turning him over to authorities. Wilson was convicted in Jones County district court. May’s farm, protected by Farm Bureau and the Wallaces' Farmer, would also gain $50 from each, though he has had about 200 chickens stolen in two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim May
Anamosa
Herbert Wilson
May
Wilson
Jones County
Farm Bureau
Wallaces
Jones County Corn Crop Rated At 64 Percent
Iowa crop report for August 1 places Delaware and Jones counties at 64 percent of normal, tying for third among 21 eastern counties. Cedar leads at 70 percent. state average is 37 percent. Other eastern counties above 60 percent include Clinton 67 and Linn 63. Across the state, corn production is the lowest in 42 years, with 1894 as the previous low. old corn is being depleted by feeding.
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Iowa
Delaware
Jones
Cedar County
Clinton
Linn
Jackson
Three Men Sentenced in Jones County Court
Bill Miller, 39, pleaded guilty to unlawfully entering Langworthy Farmers Creamery and stealing funds and items. He received an indeterminate sentence up to ten years at Ft. Madison. Herbert Wilson, near Anamosa, pled guilty to chicken stealing and drew up to five years. Carl Miller, CCC worker, faced wife desertion charges and was jailed six months or until medical bills are paid, with a $1000 bond set.
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Bill Miller
Jones County
Langworthy Farmers
Ft. Madison
Miller
Roy Pearson
Monticello
Anamosa
Ellison
Herbert Wilson
Wilson
Jim May
May Farm
Carl Miller
CCC
Boone
Rural fire truck called to pasture blaze on county line
The Farmers Mutual fire truck responded Friday to a pasture fire at the E. Hicks farm on the county line near Henry Renk. Neighbors kept the fire in check and it was extinguished before the truck arrived, burning about three acres.
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Farmers Mutual
E. Hicks
Henry Renk
Sledge Hammers Break Slot Machines
Mayor Fred J. Mc Laughlin and two constables used sledge hammers to wreck two confiscated slot machines in front of onlookers. The devices, once under lock, yielded 47.55 in nickels and a beer slug. The machines had been seized from a smoke shop and a cafe in city limits. Photographer Henry Helms captured the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hastile
Fred J. McLaughlin
Roy Pearson
Bill Null
Sim
Nickles
Fluckiger & Kiburz
City Club Cafe
Carl Winkler
Henry Helms
Mercer Sentenced To Hang For Killing Tipton Vigilante
John M. Mercer, 27, pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the killing of Tipton vigilante Robert G. Sproat. Judge F O Ellison imposed death by hanging after witnesses identified Mercer and the gun used. The crowded court room gasped as the sentence was read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton
John M
Jack) Mercer
Robert G. Sproat
Mercer
F. O. Ellison
Christian
Ray A. Potter
Arthur Lund
Buell Maxwell
M. C. Hamtel
Ellison
Robert Moore
Mercers
Wain S. Kile
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Kile
Sproat
Cedar County
California
Barbara Cross To Wed Orval Wigger Jr
Miss Barbara Cross of Inglewood California will marry Orval Leslie Wigger Jr tomorrow August 14 at Glendale at five o'clock. They will reside in Hermoss California where Mr Wigger owns a large apartment house. Miss Cross is daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Cross formerly of Monticello. Mr Cross was an Inglewood high school instructor and plans to teach in San Luis Obispo California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Cross
Inglewood
Calif
Orval Leslie Wigger, Jr
Glendale
Hermoss
Wigger
Miss Cross
Harry Cross
Monticello
Cross
California
San Luis Obispo
Two Local Men Are County Jail Boarders
Two local men Pat Launtman and Ennis Connelly appeared before Mayor McLaughlin after arrest on intoxication. They received 15 days in the county jail each. The mayor warned that drunkenness on the streets will not be tolerated regardless of disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McLaughlin
Pat Launtman
Ennis Connelly
Death Claims John H. Hayen At Monticello Home
John Henry Hayen, one of Monticello's oldest residents, died Monday August 10 at 12 50 AM after an earlier hip fracture and a July 26 hernia operation. Born October 23 1851 in Moens Ostfriesland Germany, he emigrated in 1870 and lived in Jones county for 66 years. Survived by two sons eight daughters twenty two grandchildren and ten great grandchildren along with two sisters. Funeral services were held August 12 at the family home and Zion Lutheran church Wayne township with burial beside the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
John Henry Hayen
Mr. Hayen
Jones County
Germany
Moens
Ostfriesland
John Henry and
Gesche
Oltmanns) Hayen
United States
Gesche Harris
Hayen
John Hayen
Amber
Herman Hayen
Wayne Township
Meta Hedden
Elise Tobiason
Mary Thuman
Alma Siebels
Gesine Rieken
Katherine Doden
Wea Behrends
Mary Rieners
Hagen
J. Willms
Zion Lutheran Church
Iowa State Fair Promises Massive Exhibit Layout
Des Moines reports the Iowa State Fair will open August 28 and run through September 4, featuring the National Livestock Show with over a million dollars in prize stock from twenty states, Iowa farm exposition, women's exposition with contests and shows, a farm machinery display, Iowa art and photography salons, and a mid season auto and rock show as part of the largest farm and livestock fair in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
A. R. Corey
Iowa
United States
Iowa Farm Exposition
Farm Bureau
Towa Women's Exposition
Women's Farm Bureau
Public Sing in Monticello draws large crowd on Wednesday
The first Monticello public sing on Wednesday night drew a large turnout at First and South Sycamore. Directed by Mrs Frances Leeper and Miss Mary Burrichter with Gene Byers at the piano, performers sang old and new songs. A second session is planned for Wednesday night August 19 in peers.
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Monticello
First
South Sycamore
Frances Leeper
Mary Burrichter
Gene Byers
Reverend James F Delay Promoted to Vinton Parish
James F Delay formerly assistant pastor at St Martin's Cascade is promoted to pastor of St Marys Vinton. The Cascade family man is praised as worthy and trustworthy, bringing a strong religious and personal record to the Vinton parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Delay
St. Martin's Church
Cascade
St. Mary's Church
Vinton
Father Delay
Castle Grove Township
Eastern Iowa Golf Tourney Set At Tipton Country Club
The 27 hole Eastern Town Golf Association tournament will be held at Tipton country club west Sunday August 16 with ten man teams from Mount Vernon Tipton West Liberty Monticello Maquoketa Marion Anamosa and Manchester. Monticello players schedule begins 7:00 a.m. and runs through 8:35 a.m. A dinner for participants will follow at 11:30 a.m. at the Tipton club house.
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Eastern Town Golf Association
Tipton Country Club
West
Mount Vernon
Tipton
West Liberty
Monticello
Maquoketa
Marion
Anamosa
Manchester
Royal Rodman
Ralph Bone
Ben Roberts Sr
Gene Byers
Ben Roberts Jr
Ben Cotton
Edgar D. Vernon
Francis Shimanck
Bill Shaffer
William Laude
Tipton Club
Death of Horatio Nelson Curtis at Atlantic
Horatio Nelson Curtis aged 72 died Sunday morning August 2 at a hospital in Atlantic after surviving injuries from a horse accident eighteen years prior. He was born December 18, 1864 near Monticello and lived on farms near Cumberland and Atlantic. He is survived by his widow Jessie and six children, a stepdaughter, a sister, and a sister, with funeral August 5 in Atlantic.
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Monticello
Horatio Nelson Curtis
Atlantic
Curtis
Cumberland
Atlantic Cemetery
George Curtis
Jones County
Jessie McDonald
Curts
Cora Preston
Anamosa
Arch v. Curtis
Des Moines
Fred Curtis
Chicago
George N. Curtis
Los Angeles
Robert R., Burton
Eugene Curtis
Ruth Huggins
Glen Ellyn
Martha Starks
Fullerton
Cal
Florence Chamberlain
Earlham
Montigello
Cornerstone Laying Ceremonies For Jones County Court House
Jones county residents gathered at Anamosa last Sunday for the cornerstone laying of the new Jones county court house. The gray brick building with Bedford stone trim carries a $165000 price tag with $71700 from a federal grant and the remainder from a bond issue. Speakers included Judge F O Ellison and Warden Morse, with remarks by local officials and dignitaries as a crowd of about 1500 looked on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Anamosa
Board of Supervisors
Court House
S. B. Locher
Monticello
M. H. Morse
Wyoming
H. Haun
William Jacobsen
Clinton
Eighteenth Judicial District
H. C. Ring
Atherton B. Clark
Cedar Rapids
F. O. Ellison
J. J. Peterson
L. J. Chiodini
N. C. Holst
Jones County Board of Supervisors
Former Monticello Man Goes To Europe
Prof and Mrs Roy Petersen of Orono Maine and their daughter plan a year's trip to Europe starting next week Thursday August 20. Petersen heads the Romance Language Department at the University of Maine and will take a sabbatical leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Petersen
Orono
Maine
Europe
Petersen
State University of Maine
Farm Yields 95 Bushels of Oats on One Acre
Lorenz Allamand of Monticello in Bowen's Prairie reports a field producing 95 bushels per acre this summer the highest oats yield recorded. Harvesting completed last week with weights confirming the record and praising soil and seedbed preparation.
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Lorenz Allamand
Allamand
Monticello
Bowen's Prairie
Allamande Farm
Remembering Days Past in Our Tiny Town
A nostalgic recap of bygone days in East Monticello with mentions of doctor relays by horse, lantern lit sermons, wooden sidewalks, a four room schoolhouse, Fletcher Barnight’s wood and fires, the East Monticello mill supplying flour, a $100 monthly high school principal, weekly mail, Jeffersonian roots in town naming, and a southwest tornado that injured one man and damaged several buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher Barnight
East Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Hense
Monticello Golf Team Wins Local Tourney
Monticello Country Club edged Mt. Vernon and others 80 to 230 in a Sunday match with nine foursomes. Eddie Heiserman led Monticello with 79, while Blaine of Mt. Vernon posted 74 as the low score. Monticello plans to travel to Tipton next Sunday for the Eastern Town tournament featuring eight towns including Amamosa, Mt. Vernon, Tipton, Maquoketa, West Liberty and Marion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Seme
Monticello
Mt. Vernon
Eddie Heiserman
Ube Monti Club
Blaine
Plathe
Lowe
Blaine Wea
Edna Vernon
Carl Hodson
Francis Shimanek
Monti Golfriench
Monti
Tipton
Cent
Amamosa
Matc Thester
Timber Fire Destroys Acreage on Ladehoff Farm
A fire of undetermined origin burned through five or six acres of timber on the August Ladehoff farm near Scotch Grove last Tuesday. Mr Ladehoff and his sons fought it at first before summoning the Monticello fire department and neighbors who helped extinguish the flames. It is the first timber blaze in Jones county in several years.
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Ladehoff
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Jones County Fair
L. E. Hoag
EB. Locher
Night Fair
Wilfred Mae
Bailey Iits Homer
Ilar
Orval Wigger, Jr
George Bonjour
Olin
George Maire
Robert Maire
John H. Hayen
U Hayen
Iowa State Fair
Jas. F. Delay
Eastern Iowa Assn
H. N. Curtis
Mr. Curtis
Geo. Curtis
Wapsipinicon State Park
Frazer
State Board of Control
Nellig Morey
J. D. Kemler
Miss Morey
Kemiler
Iowa Highway Patrol System
Harriet Cunningham
Carl Smith
A. R. Embree
Hannah Herrest
18Th Judicial District of
Old Court House
J. J. Locher
Jones County Court House
Edinburg
Scotch Grove
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