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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1955
Page
6
Local residents report hospital stays in Cedar Rapids and Maquoketa, with Harriet Lamey nursing a fractured shoulder and broken arm. Other notices include Mrs. Mayberry undergoing surgery in Jackson county hospital and several families planning trips, visits, and celebrations across Iowa towns and parks.
Mrs Alva Hinrichs Mrs Alva Freese and Mrs Paul Barrack led the July Lutheran Women's guild program at St Matthew Lutheran church. The playlet Witnessing for Christ in Our Homes by Mrs Schlue ter highlighted Christian home life with music pictures and TV programs. Books donated to the guild library included A Man Called Peter The Silver Chalice The Greatest Story Ever Told and The Saracen Blade. The group planned cash gifts to Lutheran homes in Muscatine Iowa and Sterling Nebraska. Social hour followed with hostesses listed.
Funeral services for John C. Beeks who died Sunday morning were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. from Goettsch Funeral home with Rev. R. V. Porter officiating and Oakwood cemetery interment. Military honors were provided by V F W Post 1683. Casket bearers included Herman Hoffman Harry Hoag Paul Schuetz Albert Hackbarth B C Hall and Winfield Hartman. Survivors include wife a son John C. Beeks Hinsdale a daughter Beverly Mrs Milred Claus Monticello three grandchildren two brothers C O Beeks and C A Beeks Bettendorf Iowa and five sisters Mrs Cora Beebe Bain
Monticello neighbors Mrs Albert Heeren Mrs Paul Arduser and their sons and Mrs Emma Zimmerman left Monday for Lehr North Dakota due to the illness of their father G F Aman. Mr and Mrs Robert Bishop and two children of Flagstaff Arizona visited Saturday in the home of Mr and Mrs A N Strittmatter.
Commissioners invite the public to vote on September 8 1955 at Balster's Implement Store Scotch Grove Jones County Iowa. Polls open 8 am close 8 pm. Question: Shall the proposition for incorporation be adopted. Description begins at North line of the public highway and outlines town limits.
Legal notice describing a complex metes and bounds description running through multiple parcels in Section 17 Town 86 North Range 2 West with references to public highways rail lines and town plots. Proceeding ends at a beginning point after a lengthy survey description dated August 18 by Balster Balster Bohlken Naylor Royden and commissioners.
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