Thursday Night Three Game Series Sets Local Championship
August 19 opens a three game series to decide the kit tenball league title with DeMolays and Farmalls vying after split halves. Aug 20 features Stahlers and DeMolays against two out of town teams. Aug 21 Monticello heads to Anamosa for hardball in a busy weekend schedule. Scouts note Whitewater trip memories and upcoming fall troop plans with new recruits and tenderfoot formalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeMolays
Farmalls
Stahlers
Cedar Rapids Post Office Boys Take Two Wins in Local Games
The Cedar Rapids Post Office team defeated Niles 3 to 1 with Hibben earning the win after allowing 1 run and 6 hits while Reynolds took the loss. Dyler was named outstanding for Cedar Rapids and Oltman for the Farmalls. In the second game Cedar Rapids shut down Anamosa to one hit and one run as Hibben struck out 12. Turner noted as an outstanding Niles player.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa
Hibben
Turner
Niles
Kehoe
Stuhler Boys Halt Niles Win Streak In Key Game
The Stuhler brothers stopped Niles as Farm-alls clinched first place by beating DeMolays 10 to 8. Larson allowed four hits for the Farm-alls with Kehoe giving up five. Johnny Warner homered as outstanding players Warner and Lee Lint starred in short field. Reynolds won for the Farm-alls and Scherrer took the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuhler Boys
Niles
Farm-alls
Anamosa Boys
Larson
Kehoe
Johnny Warner
Lee Lint
DeMolay
Stuhlers Forbid Substitutes In Fight With Floyd Team
Floyd squad battles hard but is stifled as Stuhlers refuse substitutes from other teams. Larson gets the win over Kula as Niles 10 Franklin 9 thriller ends with Niles taking lead in 6th. Rhatigan and Kehoe stand out. poll runs through fair with a Class B tournament planned after the Jones county fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuhlers
Floyd
Flodys
Kula
Eden
Larson
Jones
Hanken
S. Rhatigan
Niles
Franklin
Boy Scout Overnight Hikes Through Friday the Thirteenth
A pack of thirteen Scouts plus leaders endure a rough yet joyful overnight in a cave and on a rocky dam. Misadventures include a broken flashlight, a dead man sighting, glasses damaged, blankets slipping into water, and rain at 4 30 a m. The night yields two prepared meals and stargazing under the open sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bud Burris
Bud Bader
Moore
Bill Thomas
Reed Family Trims Costs on West Coast Vacation
Mrs E E Reed, her daughter and two Wa pello teacher friends traveled by auto from July 15 to August 13, visiting Catalina Island and Pike's Peak. They spent 46 dollars each, enjoyed shelter camps, cooked their own meals, and reported no accidents while praising service. Mrs Reed visited Redwood City while the girls went farther west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. Reed
Wapello
California
Catalina Island
Pacific Ocean
Alice
Pike's Peak
Rural Teachers In Jones County 1937 38 List Continues
A continuation lists rural teachers across Jones County from Onslow Pleasant Hill and Anamosa to Monticello Olin Wyoming and Oxford Junction. Entries include Hazel Hill Emma Dorman Leona Gierhart Florence Sexter Ione Benesh Marie Widmer Rosa lie Abrams O. A. Hunter Esther Tabor and others with school names and townships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones Co
Onslow
Pleasant Hill
Maxine Clark
Maquoketa
Greenfield Township
Hazel Hill
Emma Dorman
Mechanicsville
West Corner
Helen Ward
White Oak
Eldora Koppenhaver
Jackson Township
Black Oak
Geraldine Ireland
Anamosa
Center
Leona Gierhart
Hazel Green
Erma Lincoln
Wyoming
Midand
Nelda Strawman
Newport
Clara Walderbach
Monticello
Edna Osterkamp
Madison Townsnin
Muriel Hospers
Olin
Leah Allen
Pine Grove
Helene Smith
Hopkinton
Oxford
Augusta Behnken
Jean Davenport
Oxford Junction
Rosalie Abrams
Blanche Balichek
O. A. Hunter
Hildred Nerhus
Calamus
Vera Ireland
Wyoming Township
Baldwin
Melvin Leslie
Fence Ridge
Esther Tabor
Pleasant Ridge
Helen Roh- Wwedder
Wyomine
Spenceryilte
Helen Wyrick
Greatest Circus Size and Spectacle Arrives in Dubuque
Ringlings Bros and Barnum & Bailey bring India as a key new spectacle to Dubuque on Tuesday August 31. The elaborate show features 170 horses with jeweled blankets, 1009 animals, seven rings, and 1600 people across 109 double-length rail cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ringlins Bros
Barnum & Bailey
Europe
Asia
India
Dubuque
Sam W. Gumpertz
Ringling Bros
Rene
Public School To Open August 30 In Monticello
Monticello public school opens August 30 with fifteen minute high school classes on opening day. Enrollment rules vary by grade with junior high reporting August 23 and senior high on August 28. Book sales, new texts, and course offerings across grades seven to twelve outlined, plus new vocational agriculture and staff updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Jesson
Jones County
Grimes
Shannon
Stull and Hatch
Pearson and Kirchwey
Strayer-Upton
Asia
Latin America
United States
Rugg
Carpenter
Wood
Tanner
Greer
Caldwell and
Curtis
Gray and
Jenkins
Betz
Wilson and Warburton
Durell
Arnold
Hughes
Gray
Plumb
Craig
Pullerton
Cross-Smith-Satuffer
Smallwood
Reveley
Walker
Future Farmers of America
Local Social Notes Include Visitors and Travels
A string of visits and greetings highlights Monticello area social life. Mrs. Fred Welter and friends from Sand Spring and Hopkinton visited Mrs. J. W. Appleby and relatives, while others called on Mrs. Nancy Adamson and Mrs. James Lahey. Several residents from Cedar Rapids Milwaukee Center Junction Elk Grove and Savanna planned auctions or returned from work in Kokomo Indiana. J
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Welter
Sand Spring
Perry DeShaw
Marlene
Donald
Hopkinton
J. W. Appleby
Robert McAleer
Cedar Rapids
James Lahey
W. H. Shaffer
Milton Langer
Community guests fill homes around Jones County fair
Sunday evening guests from near and far visited in the Lightfoot Perrine and Stam baugh households. Families from Maquoketa Clinton Cedar Rapids Marion Anamosa Davenport Davenport San Diego toured or stayed for the week as well as out-of-town relatives. The Jones County Fair amphitheater is free with boxed seating at 3.00 per box on sale Friday at Monticello State Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Adams
Harry Maire
Marvin
Oelwein
Ray Snell
Cedar Rapids
Merle Knight
Merleen
Marion
Harlan
Minn
Jones County
Monticello
John Perrine
B. T. Perrine
Margaret Hall
George Waite
Nancy
Anamosa
EF. G. Maring
San Diego
Calif
Avon specials and coal bids in Monticello notice
Avon customers advertise two large boxes of face powder for one dollar and Minnie Izer of Monticello offers to call and show her line. The city of Monticello lists coal bids for boiler and steam coal delivery in bin at city hall with August 21 1937 bid opening and Iowa preference policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AVON
Minnie Izer
Monticello
Iowa
City Hall
Ray Echternacht
Public notice of executor for Blanche W Jackson Higgins
The district court of Jones county Iowa appoints and commissions Co E Fothergill as executor of Blanche W Jackson Higgins estate. Claimants must file sworn statements with the clerk within legal time. debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Anamosa August 13 1937. Locher Locher attorneys for the estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Jones County
State of
Iowa
Blanche W. Jackson Higgins
Anamosa
A. D
Co. E. Fothergill
Locher & Locher
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Schneider
Ahe
Monti
Whitewater
Buds
Bader
Burris
McNeill
Ralph Bender
Chuck Ross
George Coxsee
Duane Dick Landis
Philip and
Rollo Harford
Dean Morey
Roy Moore
Bud McNeill
Billy Marsh
Jack Stuhler
Floyd's
C. R. Post Office
C. RB
Cramer
Reynolds
Ed Scherrer
Hoag
Hutton
E. Scherrer
Null
Johnny Smith
Boy Scout
West
Miss Bremm
Sloan
Atlas Walters
Miss Kurts
Dale McConnell
Fort Dodge
Hulda Peet
Mount Vernon
Miss Peet
Miss Kurtz
Miss Walters
Monticello High School
George DeWald
Elizabeth
Waterloo
Nancy Adamson
Gus. Grey
Sam Dreibelbis
W. S. Webster
Sam
Milwaukee
Gus
Grey
Center Junction
W. Ray Appleberry
Kokomo
Ind
Earle Harper
Elgin, Il
John van Bockern
Savanna, Il
Robert Harper Bae Ray Hearn
Miss Olena Zimmerman
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mrs
Ralph Zimmerman
Martin Fitzpatrick
Helen Seigel
Greeley
Harry Quinn
Strawberry Point
John W. Appleby
Art Silka
Hazelton
Glenn Bancroft
Billy
Bancroft
S. E. Day
Sabula
W. K. Hodgson
John Hoult
Long Beach
John
Harry Smith
Ailan, Sark
Canada
Josephine McNeill
A. J. H. McNeill
John McDonad Hospital
Jo J
James Bort
John ‘J
James
Ein Anamosa
Iowa State
Marion Alcorn
K. R. Schmidt
Vinton
Maude Light
Ben Starks
Walter Hall
J. G. Nichols
M. E. Buckner
John Conrad
Bernard
Towa
Scotch Grove
F. M. Benedict
C. L van Meter
Orvin Yeoman
Farley
Chris Wenger
Palmer's Walgreen Drug Store
Arend Balster
H. H. Seehusen
Richard Besak
Farmers’ Chain Company
Benjamin Moore
Palmer's Drug Store
Maude Lithtfoot
North Cedar Street
Alcorn
Fern Lightfoot
Elizabeth Schmidt
Ernest
C. C. Little
Clinton
Peter Prahm
Earl DeShaw
DeShaw
Pauline Prahm
Grant Stambaugh
Chicago
Stambaugh
D. R. Webb
William H. Spear
Oakdale
August Schlimmer
Davenport
William
Schlimmer
Henry Schummer
Robert
J. W
John Appleby
Walgreen
Palmer’s Pharmacy
Ray Rop
Payton
McCormick-Deering
Paul Petersen
Tay
Chester
Shorty
Cascade
Russell E. Lux
Hopkinton, Owns
Frank’ ‘Brady
Henry
Balster
Etd Sleuth
AGN Rand Cta
Goes MY Girl
Wen
Barrymore
Avalon
Union
Harry Carey Duncan Rinaldo Gan
RUN AL
Matthiessen
Auto & Supply Co
Dionne
Quins
Listan
Kaltenmeyer
McBeg
Diamond Bros
Ikgs
EAS
Miller’s Barn
Ira Peaches
ORC
O.K
Secial Tika
Tess
L.W.B
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