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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1955
Page
13
Monticello hosts a multi day fair with 4-H FFA judging exhibits and concerts. Baseball games feature Monticello, Anamosa, Dyersville, Worthington, and Clarence with harness racing and crowd attractions nightly. Fireworks and car awards cap the evenings as schools hold band performances and demonstrations.
More than 600 head of livestock will be shown with increases across 4-H and FFA divisions led by beef. About 350 county 4-H youth have entries including 32 purebred heifers 123 dairy heifers and 51 market swine litters. Baby beeves 209 head will be housed in the new barn. beef heifers and dairy animals in the old barn. sheep and hogs in the hog barn. Judging schedule runs Aug 27 with events led by Charles Cottrell of Van Horne and experts Wendell Vrinxe and William Horr.
Ward R. Hamilton will speak at the local Rotary dinner starting at 5 p.m. Registration at Buck Creek school. A county rural teachers meeting is set for 9 a.m. in the Community room at the courthouse in Anamosa. Fourth 4-H workout at the swine arena at the fairgrounds.
Four births were reported by John Mc Donald hospital on two days in August. A Cascade couple welcomed a daughter on August 17, another Cascade couple a daughter on August 17, a Cascade couple a son on August 18, and a Dyersville couple a son born at Xavier hospital in Dubuque on August 14 weighing six pounds four ounces. Grandparents are listed for several families. A Wyoming couple welcomed a boy on August 18 at Jackson county hospital. they have two other children Beverly and Michael.
Aug 12 listings include Loren C Betzer 43 and Leona Irene Blessing 31 both of Cedar Rapids. Aug 15 entries name Quinn Mangan legal DeWitt Ruth Kurt legal Monti cello Charles C Sutton legal Anamas a and Mabel Kula legal Ana masa. Aug 17 shows Glenn Roger Aldrich 20 Monticello and Marjorie Carolyn Broneman 16 Monticello.
Aug 17 Otis W. Babcock Olin Mercury George G. Sampson Wyoming Plymouth Aug 18 Herschel R. Drury Monticello Dodge Raymond or Doris Anton Center Junction Chevrolet Samuel E. Reyner Monticello Buick Moody W. Tredway Scotch Grove Plymouth Francis M. Miller Jr Monticello Ford Aug 19 Leo Henry Weseman Olin Ford Coon's Corner Oxford Junction International truck Austin Spahr Monticello International truck William J. Bailey Anamosa Pontiac
The Iowa highway commission invites sealed bids in Ames by 9 a.m. August 23 on multiple Jones county erosion control and surfacing jobs including 4.148 miles on Highway 38 and 3.167 miles on Highway 136 with $500 bids required, plus 6.512 miles on Highway 136 to the bridge with a $1,000 bond. In Dubuque County bids cover 11.077 miles of grading on county road G from Cascade to Farley with three reinforced box culverts, plus 2.832 miles Sageville area and 2.684 miles from SW Section 17-89-2W to the center.
Monticello’s city council at a special meeting approved buying a Cuckler steel building for city equipment storage and a new pump for a 600 foot well near the reservoir. The city sold adjoining lots for 4000 dollars and awarded signal and crossing light installations totaling 1016 dollars.
Approximately 700 entries are anticipated for the 4-H girls achievement show at the Great Jones County fair. Exhibits cover foods and nutrition with growing garden displays. Twenty clubs total about 360 members. Senior demonstrations Wednesday and junior Friday, with a special Thursday exhibit on Cookery from Other Lands.
Rural teachers were to meet this morning at 9 in the Community room of the courthouse. Joseph A. Beave, county superintendent of schools, was to preside over the meeting.
Robert E. Hall of Manchester and William Litwiller of Cedar Rapids named as judges for the county 4 H demonstration contest at Great Jones County Fair. Hall oversees senior division. Litwiller handles junior. Top senior teams advance to the Iowa State Fair.
Jones county second graders who had first polio doses earlier will receive the second shots Sept 12 to 24. About 807 children who had May vaccinations at Monticello Wyoming and Anamosa centers will be covered with vaccine orders sufficient for all. The schedule will be released late this month or early September and no polio cases have been reported.
Anamosa hosts the 8th annual Maquoketa Valley Rural Electric Cooperative meeting on Tuesday August 30. Registration starts at 10 a.m. at the RE building, lunch served 11 to 12:30, business meeting at 1 p.m. in the high school auditorium with director elections and prizes including a Kelvinator range and numerous giveaways. About 1,200 attendees are expected.
Genealogy tracing 138 years shows 641 living relatives in 300 Laude and 341 LeClerc lines. Sirs. Mo J. Cass led the project since 1941, collecting records from Monticello, Iowa, with final reunion Aug. 14 at the Community building drawing relatives from Iowa, Dubuque, Des Moines, and beyond.
Boyd Warner Wasson an 18 year old of Onslow had a 10-year hard labor sentence in the Anamosa men s reformatory adjudged and then suspended for good behavior after pleading guilty to breaking and entering Schmidt s Phillips 66 station in Monticello. He was paroled to state custody and had admitted a series of other break ins across Jones Linn and Jackson counties with most stolen goods recovered and only a small amount of money taken.
Preliminary reports by Rev. Eugene P. Lorenz show nearly 300 students expected at Sacred Heart. A total of 295 students registered last Monday with more expected before classes begin on Sept. 6. High school enrollment stands at 79, with 716 students registered in the grades.
The 4-H junior dairy judging team from Jones County took first place at the All Town fair in Cedar Rapids. Team members include Leonard Monck Langworthy high man Don Mackey Olin and Duane Mallicoat from Wyoming.
Monticello hosts a five day fair August 23 to 27 featuring livestock judging sports and grandstand shows. Daily events include 4 H F F A demonstrations concerts by Monticello high school band harness racing pig contests and prize drawings such as a 1955 Ford Ford Fairlane and a 1955 Oldsmobile Super 88. Admission covers most exhibits with free parking for all ages under 14.
A buyer from Meur ken Monticello acquired the registered Brown Swing bull Ler Rose Ella's Bob from John F L fie vers of Anamosa. The purchase involves Leonard and B H Bohikern and confirms a transfer of ownership for the livestock asset.
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