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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1965
Page
3
Second District Congressman John Culver tours the Maquoketa River corridor east of Monticello on November 24 as a hiking party surveys the proposed Indian Bluffs recreation area. Mike leads the group across the trail with an aerial map in hand.
From the official docket of justice of the peace C F Shimanek speeds listed include Leroy Ziegler of Iowa City fined 10 dollars plus costs and others such as Hodgkin Zumwalt Grom with varying fines. The piece notes a November 7 double fatality at a T road intersection near Fairview involving Mark Weber and Lawrence Pearson of Anamosa and cites multiple bond forfeitures and costs.
Monticello postmaster Paul Bender offers tips to speed holiday mail, emphasizing complete addresses with street numbers and ZIP codes, securing labels on parcels, and using extra labels inside gifts. Cards should be mailed by Dec 10 for distant states and Dec 15 for locals. wrapping, insulation, and proper labeling improve delivery. Post office adds Saturday hours Dec 11 and 18 with extended parcel help. The bulletin also notes Jones County public assistance totals for November.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. J V Mullen 84 at Sundberg Madrid and for Mrs. Neil Tasker in Wyoming with burial at Perry and Cady cemetery. Shirley A Wear 37 of Central City died November 18 and was survived by husband Kenneth, daughter Linda, son Larry, and multiple siblings.
Farmers Mutual Co op Creamery Co offers a free five pound ham with the purchase of a ton of Rath feed. Manager Ray Stange announced today. See ad on page B 6 for details.
Six new civil suits were filed and six heard in Jones county district court. Murph y Finance Co. seeks 511.88 from Adrian and Janet Wilken in three counts. Anamosa Lumber Co. sues William and Wilma Himebaugh for 475.79, plus interest and costs. Anamosa Lumber also sues Dean and Irene Betzer for 17.41. Two divorce actions were filed, Anna Mysak versus Donald Mysak and Kathryn Paulsen versus Marvin Paulsen, with custody provisions requested. A jury awarded William Laughlin 710.42 against Big Bill’s Feed Inc. and Sommerville. Jane Laughlin’s suit was dismissed.
A long list of relatives and friends gathered for Paul DeShaw’s graduation from Iowa State Ames, with dinner hosted by Merle and family. Attendees included DeShaw relatives from Webster City Hopkinton Cedar Rapids and Dubuque, plus Norwood Rex Stoffel and another families. Several Thanksgiving dinners and family visits are noted alongside wedding anniversary celebrations and other social events.
Forrest Lynn Voss 24 of Cedar Rapids escaped injury when his 1965 Ford Mustang left a curve on Highway 151 near Anamosa and he was charged with failure to have his vehicle under control. Damage estimated at 150 dollars. A second incident near Anamosa involved Glen Dale Bromley 51 of Clinton who failed to stop at a sign and struck a semi driven by Donald Horton 34 of Adell Wisconsin. Bromley charged with failure to stop. Bromley’s Chevrolet and the truck suffered damage estimated at 590 dollars. No injuries reported. Dorothy Allen White and Harold A. White decree modified to allow remarrying. original grant December 1, 1964.
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