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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1955
Page
2
An Express classified pitch claims more bidders by offering guaranteed coverage along with free insurance sale bills market arrows and a free listing in the auction calendar to attract attention for sellers.
The Wyoming JuWomo club met at Mrs. William Walters Now 21, with assistance from Mrs. Kenneth Heeren Mrs. Harlan Jacobsen and Mrs. Royal Snyder. The group voted to donate to Community Christmas Areas fund and to split gifts for Cedar Jones Association for Retarded Children. New member Mrs. Gordon Hall joined while Mrs. Heeren resigned due to moving. Twenty-nine members attended.
A pre nuptial kitchen shower was hosted November 8 at Mrs. Melvin Willey’s home for Helen Fritz who will wed December 3. Assisting hostesses were Mrs. Reggie Morse and Mrs. Lester Breunig. Guests included neighborhood friends.
Silent Workers will meet on Wednesday November 30 at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church. Hostesses are Mrs Earl Mallicoat and Mrs Ronald Davis. Mrs Grace Dick will lead the lesson.
The Band Boosters sponsor a Fun Night on December 3 with a 7:30 to 8:00 p.m. concert followed by an 8:00 p.m. program including An Educated Horse Clown Corner Acrobats and Baton Twirlers Tumbling Jolly Janes Indian Dance. Afterward adults dance to the Stardusters with a fish pond side shows and refreshments.
Boy Scouts place boxes in Wyoming stores to collect toys that can be repaired. Repaired toys will be distributed to needy children for Christmas with surplus given to an orphanage.
Angie Allen, 98, Onslow's oldest resident, died Sunday November 27 at Kleineck nursing home. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Wallace Funeral Home Wyoming with burial in South Mineral cemetery. Survived by two sons Otto and Leo, two grandsons Millard and Lyle, four great grandchildren. daughter Millie died in infancy.
Mrs. Robert Thurow of Milwaukee visited her mother during Thanksgiving weekend. The Yeomans hosted several guests including Orvin and Harold Yeoman and families, with Mrs. Boss staying over. Other gatherings included Mrs. Anna Stead with Victo Steads, Frank Kiburz’s guests Manville Welch and family, Herman Welch and family, and William Welch with Kenneth Kiburz family. Montezuma and Cascade residents joined relatives in Cedar Falls area gatherings.
Castle Grove Glen King was guest of honor at a surprise farewell party at Penne Presbyterian Church on November 21 as the congregation gathered before his departure November 30 for armed services. The event featured TV show games hosted by parishioners and a panel of “I've Got a Secret” with local members acting as famous panelists.
Castle Grove School No 6 presented a Thanksgiving program featuring students Connie, Cathy Shelley, David Peck and others performing readings poems and science experiments under Mrs Doris Reddin. The event closed with a school song and parents toured student projects amid festive refreshments and a long list of Thanksgiving visitors and gatherings across the community.
Thanksgiving dinner and weekend visits are listed for numerous families across Suck Creek Buck Creek and surrounding towns. Guests include Laningham Truak Porter Beitz Supple Huggins Tschantz Tobinson Mardorf Kehoe DeShaw Dufoe Lange and Lange families with extended relatives from Ryan Manchester Waterloo Cedar Rapids Winthrop Center Point and Anamosa.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hunt and family were Wednesday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Hunt. The Hunt family and others joined Thanksgiving meals with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Oswald. Mr. and Mrs. Loras Kehoe hosted guests including Mr. and Mrs. Leo Donovan of Coggon and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grieser of Monticello.
A Cascade group marks the John Grosses tenth wedding anniversary at their home with a 6 p.m. pot luck dinner and games. Attending were George Gross Sr Louis Wilfred Leo Ed Albert and Frank Gross and Mrs Francis Till, all of Cascade, plus the honorees children Tommy and Gary.
Mr and Mrs Morris Barger of Monticello toured the Watkins company facilities in Winona Minnesota. They visited the experimental farms printing plant cosmetic and household manufacturing plant farm products plant and the Winona bank owned by the company.
Mrs May Himebaugh celebrated her 83rd birthday with a family dinner at the C B Casron home in Hopkinton. Guests included Mr and Mrs Paul Darting of Wilton Junction, Mr and Mrs Paul Paulsen of Scotch Grove, and others. Frank Himebaugh could not attend due to wintering in Hollywood Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Jacobs hosted a Saturday evening anniversary gathering for friends and relatives. Card games at four tables awarded prizes to Mrs. John Monk and J. H. Hinrichs for high, and Mrs. Tena Alferts and John Oltman for low. Guests included numerous local couples, and refreshments were served.
State of Iowa Jones County notices appointment of executor for the estate of Mrs. Margaret Kurt deceased of Jones county. Creditors must pay debts or present claims authenticated to the undersigned for allowance and file at the district court clerk’s office. George Kurt Frank W. Less Attorney dated November 28 1955 deputy clerk Gertrude Polkerts.
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