Licenses Issued and Local Club Meeting Report
Four licenses were issued to couples including Elden Brashaw and LaVon Lambert of Monticello Rae Ann Lahey Hopkinton John Shock Anamosa and Ann Salzwedel Monticello Edward Harms Amber and Kathleen Seibold Monticello Lions International members met in Monticello for a county fair update with Rev Dr Wm J Grossheim reporting on a San Francisco conference. Four births were recorded at John McDonald hospital August 21 to Dewey Harbaugh Monticello a girl August 25 Louis Moore Hopkinton a girl August 27 Monticello to I Monticello Marileigh Clark daughter of Lee Clark Rotary club musical program featured Deep Purple Prelude in C sharp Minor and Stormy Weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Anamosa
Elden
Brashaw
Legal
Monticello
LaVon Lambert
Ray
Wickman
Masonville
Rae’Ann Lahey
Hopkinton
John Shock
Ann Salzwedel
Edward
Lions International
Wm. J. Grossheim
San Francisco
University of Town
Scottish Highlanders
John McDonald Hospital
Dewey Harbaugh
Louis Moore
and Helgens
Scotchgust
Marileigh Clark
Lee Clark
Licenses Issued by County Treasurer This Week
Don Ruhl Jones county treasurer reports eight new vehicle registrations including 1930s Chevrolet models for Robert Benhart of Oxford Junction Plymouth and Paul Guyan of Monticello Mrs Amil Laurence of Anamosa registered a Cushman motor scooter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Ruhl Jones
County Trasurer
Mosa
Chevrolet
Robert” “Benhart
Oxford * Junction
Plymouth
Paul Guyan
Harness Racing Winners Listed Money Winners in Jones County
The article lists money winners from Jones County harness events with multiple race results. It records pace and trot winners along with owners and locations, noting consistent placements and outcomes across the day’s races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Vevent
Jewel “Tramp
Friscoville
Wis
Charley
A. L. Bradley
Waterloo
Hasty Queen
M. B. Murphy
Minneapolis
Peggy June
W. L. Curtis
Columbus Jet
Patsy Makin
Carl N. Hein
Tony Lee
Frank’Bell
Lancaster
May Axworthy
William Tuetken
Monticello
Highland Corbett
J. R. Parnell
Fennimore
Dalton
Ed Duffey
Fairmont
Minn
Lee Earl
V. L. Altizer
Oskaloosa
Bold Miss
John Sweeney
Dubuque
Say
Tom Eden
William French
Harold Dennis
Strawberry Point
Marathon Abbe
J. L. Altizer
Stanley Holden
Cedar Rapids
Connie.p
Dr. Willam Marquis
Wannakee
Bravo
H. BY
Bellari
Beloit
Mr. Fi
Monticello to Open 1947 48 School Year Under Shannon
Monticello public schools start the 1947 48 year Monday under Superintendent Boyd Shannon. Classes will be brief long enough for roll and assignments with buses leaving at 7 15 a m and returning by 11 30 a m on opening day. The district adds six new teachers including Louis Morf principal and Donald Henry senior English and dramatics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Public School
Boyd Shannon
Monticello
Louis Morf
Donald Henry
VaLara Maiden
Kathleen Barnhart
Marian Peck
Lucille Sievers
Shannon
Z. Science
Helen Guyan
County Fair Stirs Suspicion of Stolen Car Return
At the Great Jones County Fair in Monticello a roadside car parked near Pete Stahler’s home drew notice. Sheriff Henry Eichhorn investigated after the fair ended and traced the vehicle to John T. Toomey of Oak Park HI, returning it to the rightful owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Pete Stahler
Monticello
Pete
Stizhaler
Henry Eichhorn
Eichhorn
New Manager For Diamond's Arrives In Monticello
Max McCullough has taken over the Monticello Diamond Brothers grocery store branch after Loren Oakley resigned. McCullough, married with a family, previously worked for Diamond Brothers in Webster City and Mason City and has not yet found a residence in Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max McCullough
Monticello
Diamond Brothers Grocery Store
Loren Oakley
McCullough
Diamond Brothers
Webster City
Mason City
Pearl McLees Injured in Fall at Home
Pearl McLees, chief telephone operator, suffered injuries in a fall at her home on Tuesday. She was taken to John McDonald hospital where X rays showed a broken left wrist a fractured nose and other bruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl McLees
Pearl McLess
John McDonald Hospital
Fat Steer Show winner at Jones County Fair crowned
Black Angus steer entered by Robert Mills and owned by Mills and Hansen brothers of Monmouth Illinois won first prize of 1000 dollars in the Fat Steer Contest. Second prize went to J K Mommsen of Mills Iowa. other prize winners include Schmidt Brothers Delmar Iowa Hoffmann Ida Grove. Dwight Smoker Wanatah Indiana. Tabke Moville. Lippold LeClaire. Al Strang Cascade. Auction prices noted for top steers. Judges named Charles E. Lee Ray Spain Ernie Bruckner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Praia
Steyr
Jones County
Robert’ E. Mills
Jerry
Gene Hanson
Monmouth
A. D. Bradshaw
Smithshire
Gene
Jones County Fair
Robert Mills
Mill
Hansen Brothers
Mommsen
Mills
Iowa
Lippold
Angus Tattle
Colby
Shada
Anamosa
Dubuque Packing Company
Tim Pierce
Creston
Ill
Billy Gene Hill
Sanderson
Texas
Hill
Jones
Pecos County
Charles E. Lee
Central Co-op
St. Paul
Ray Spain
Wilson and Company
Chicago
Ernie Bruckner
John Harvey Company
Sioux City
Grossheims Return Home From West Vacation
Dr and Mrs W J Grossheim Wilma and Paul return home after a month long vacation through the West. Dr Grossheim president of the Monticello Lions Club served as a delegate to Lions International in San Francisco California. The family visited Yosemite San Anselmo the Redwood forest Crater Lake and Yellowstone before stopping to visit Mrs Howard Merritt in Hastings Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redwood Forest
California
Crater Lake
Ore
Yellowstone
Jones County Offices to Close for Labor Day
All Jones County government offices in Anamosa will close on Sept. 1 in observance of Labor Day. The courthouse and related departments will resume normal hours the following business day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Jones County Court House
Anamosa
Sam Clark's Truck Crushed by Milwaukee Locomotive
Sam Clark's Model A Ford, long a Monticello street fixture, was crushed when it was squeezed between a Milwaukee freight locomotive and a box car while Clark unloaded at the north freight dock. He barely escaped as the train moved rapidly, the truck damaged beyond repair though the locomotive and boxcar sustained no harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Clark
Monticello
Clark
Monticello Brothers Win Poland China Prize at Iowa State Fair
Brothers from Jones county were the only local farmers to place in the Poland China competition at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Their Junior Yearling Boar entry placed third, behind entries from Worthington Minnesota and Oakland Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Jones County
Des Moines
Worthington
Boosters Prepare Three Game Cascade Series
The Monticello Boosters lost to Dyersville 5 3 and to Cascade 3 1 at the Jones County Fair. A three game set begins Sunday with Cascade, then Reformatory nine Monday and Dyersville Tuesday. A September 7 playoff is possible if standings favor Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boosters
Cascade
Reformatory Nine
Dyersville
Monticello
Wyoming Horse Show Marks 13th Annual Event
The Wyoming horse show runs Thursday and Friday August 28 and 29 featuring 24 classes of premiums sponsored by local merchants. This 13th annual celebration offers two full days of evening shows with rides games concessions kiddie parades pet shows and various entertainments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Jurors Named From Jones County For Next Term
The district court clerk released a list of 60 residents from Monticello Anamosa Oxford Junction Center Junction Wyoming Lisbon Cascade Morley Stone City Onslow and surrounding areas ordered to report for jury duty at 10 a.m. on September 29 at the district court house in Anamosa under Judge Floyd Philbrick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Clerk of the District Court
Monticello
Anamosa
District Court
Court House
Floyd
Philbrick
L. ¥. Balster
Emma Coyle
Margaret E. Fegan
Louis Heeren
Lawrence Hosch
Herbert Kelly
Evaline Lambert
Florence Manternach
James W. Morrissey
James W. Nelson
Minnie Hasler Rickels
James Skelley
Rudolph
Lydia Windsor
Oxford Junction
Ahrendsen
Howard Barto
Mildred Cram
Dovie Kotlinek
Janice Lasack
Michael Souhrada
Olin
Anna Andressen
W. E. Bixler
Eva Fisher
Ethel Mae Gordon
Lara Stingley
Robert Swartzell
Center’ Junction
Pete Chase
Belle Dodson
Ben Paulsen
Hazel Reese
A. A. Serbousek
Wyoming
John H. Eichhorn
Gerald Mader
John Radloff
Lisbon
Lyal Béighle
Cascade
Henry Doud
N. J. Smith
Morley
Leon .Gilmore
Stone City
Bernard Patnode
Onslow
Alva Streeper
Florence Wherry
Leave For California Planned By Rex Ricklefs Couple
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Ricklefs plan a month long visit to California starting next Sunday. They will first go to Los Angeles to see their son Roy and Mr and Mrs James Ricklefs, then travel to Mount Varmel to visit Mr and Mrs Emil Rickless, and hope to see Mr and Mrs Nastry Cross in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Rex Ricklefs
Los Angeles
Roy
James Ricklefs
Mount Varmel
Calif
Emil Rickless
Nastry Cross
San Francisco
Monticello Plans Recreation Center Bond Sale
The $40,000 Monticello recreation center bond issue was sold this week. Two Davenport firms Quail and Company and Beyer Rueffel Company bought the bonds, paying a $405 premium for bonds yielding one and one half percent interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Quail and Company
Beyer Rueffel Company
Davenport
Henry Wismeier Dies at 54 in Monticello Township
Henry Wismeier 54 died August 20 at John McDonald hospital. Funeral at Monticello Presbyterian Church August 23 at 2 pm. Born February 21, 1893 in Richland township to Leonard and Matilda Wismeier. Survived by wife Margaret Hein, three children Mary Ellen Richmond Joyce Max, a sister Margaret, and his three living children. Burial at Oakwood cemetery with pallbearers Forrest Ely Paul Guyan Ralph Crimm Hans Hoffman Carl Schneiter Vincent Balear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Wismiier
John McDonald Hospital
Monticello Presbyterian Church
Henry Wismeier
Richland Township
Leonard
Matilda Hanken Wismeier
Margaret Hein
Mary Ellen Richmond
Advance
Joyce
Max
Margaret
William J. Grossheim
Oakwood Cemetery
Forrest Ely
Paul Guyan
Ralph Crimm
Hans Hoffman
Carl Schneiter
Vincent Balear
Wismeier
Monticello
Top prices paid for swine at Jones County Fair auction
The 88 head 1-H baby beeves averaged 32.30 per hundred with grand champion George Tobiason’s sale at 58 per hundred. Buyers included Lions Club Monticello and Clark Bros Monticello. 4-H swine averaged near 336 with top 50 per hundred. Thomas Siver’s 12 pig litter sold for 39 per hundred totaling over 1 000. Last year top was 45. Five 4-H exhibitors outdid that price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Fair
George Tobiason
Lions Club of
Monticello
Monticello Implement and Truck Company
Clark Bros
Devaney of
Cascade
Don Anderson
Thomas Siver
Jones County
Beavo Names 48 Rural Teachers in Jones County
Jones County Superintendent Joseph Beavo announced the 1947 48 rural teaching placements covering 48 schools with several positions still undecided. The list names teachers by district and town including Anamosa Monticello Cascade and Wyoming among others, with several schools awaiting final decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Joseph Beavo
Beavo
Cass
Mary Ann Schemmel
Monticello
John Boyles
Anamosa
Doris Gorius
Bertha Page
Celena Siebels
Marcella Reese
Castle Grove
Dorothy Jacobs
Langworthy
Ella Rickels
Edna Kray
Elaine Behrends
Cedar Rapids
Fairview
Thelma Pillard
Earl Caspers
Lenor Randolph
Richland
Madonna Martin
Cascade
Norma Jean Sullivan
Marilyn Hosch
Winona Strang
Erma Hamil
Scotch Grove
Donna Lea Heiken
Washington
Rosalia Fahs
Harriet Stanton
Bernard
Dorothy Skahill
St. M. Daniel
Shirley Manternach
Wayne
Maxine Poppe
Emil Prult
Lois Tobiason
Maxine Taylor
Robert Husman
Leona Gierhart
Lenore Hladek
Helen Rickels
Clay Sutton
Ray Heideman
Onslow
Jackson
Antioch
Malinda Nielsen
Black Oak
Shirley Siebels
Midland
Grace Sief
Oxford Junction
Bernice Brynscheen
Wyoming
Grace Vrooman
Erma Clapp
Oxford
Junction
Spencerville
Hazel Bearinger
Monmouth
Stores Plan Closing Monday Afternoon
Downtown businesses will close Monday afternoon September 1 in observance of Labor Day with all shops open in the morning for shoppers.
Infant dies after illness in Fairfield Iowa
Marilyn Pattie Joyce Hay infant daughter of Mr and Mrs John Hay of Fairfield Iowa died after a two weeks illness from whooping cough and pneumonia She was born April 20 1947 in Jefferson county The funeral was at the Presbyterian church Fairfield with Dr C L Douglas officiating She leaves a sister Judith Lea and grandparents Mrs Augusta Farley Washington DC and Mr and Mrs Joe J Buckingham Fairfield
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marilyn Pattie Joyce Hay
John Hay
Fairfield
Iowa
Presbyterian Church
C. L. Douglas
Jefferson County
John W
Aletha Buckingham Hay
Judith Lea
Augusta Farley
Washington, D. C
Joe J. Buckingham
Zion Lutheran Church Plans New Building Project
The Zion Lutheran Church council in Wayne township forms a building committee to extend the east side for an organ chamber sacristy and basement rest rooms. Louis Barrack, Monticello contractor, is expected to supervise the construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Council of Zion Lutheran Church
Wayne Township
Louis Barrack
Monticello
Locals Held Over For Space Shortage
Local society items and additional locals will be carried next week due to space constraints in this week's issue.
Monticello High to Open Season Under Lights Behind School
Superintendent Boyd Shannon announced that all five home football games will be played at 7 45 pm behind the public school building since the new field south of town will not be ready. The field will have 32 lights after adding three more, with bleachers for over 1 000 and a snow fence with three gates to control attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyd Shannon
Monticello
Shannon
Iowa
Monticello High School
Infant Gary Voss Funeral Held at Oakwood Cemetery
Private funeral services were held Monday afternoon at Oakwood cemetery for Gary Lee Voss infant son of Mr and Mrs Aloyus H Voss born Sunday August 17 at John McDonald hospital The baby is survived by his parents grandparents Mr and Mrs Jake L Bader of Monticello and Herman Voss of Edgewood
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakwood Cemetery
Gary Lee Voss
Aloyus H. Voss
John McDonald Hospital
Gary
Jake L. Bader
Monticello
Herman Voss
Edgewood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lions Clu
Ome
School
Cass Townships
Vernon Eilers
Arthur Geisie
Dick Lange
Scotch, Grove
Ray Stumbaugh
Gertrude Smith
Donald’ Marston
Susanne Bush
Leslie Linn
Dorothy Adams
Caryl Ross
Esther Nicoll
Ruth Cram
Raymond Adams
Delmar
Cram
Virginia White
Laverna Coyle
Jean’ Groteboer
Naomi Humke
Lois* Shover
Marjorie Odell
Mildred Orr
Diamond's
Illinois
Angus
Donna Lange
Glenn
Denmother
Albert
Beah
K.l9ald
Roger
Gerald Lange
Albert Hutton
Monticella
James Husman
Express Photo
Zion Lutheran Church
Maquoketa
Wamac
Manchester
Marion
Tipton
University High
West Branch
Mt. Vernon
West Liberty
WaMa
Linn
Art Jurgensen
Dean Willworth
Dick Williamson
Grant Adamson
Mil Claus
Don Skelley
Bob Lubben
Don Hagen
Dwight Gerdes
Rodney Rieken
George Schneider
Bob Luett
Bob Gusan
John Paulsen
Don Schrader
Paul Schneider
Roy Dreibelbis
Willis Harms
Gene Seehusen
Stanley Bell
Loren Hayes
Stuart Sutherland
Stanley Buel
Ralph Marolf
Eugene Hanken
Jim Robinson
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