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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1954
Page
7
Boyd Shannon, superintendent of Monticello public schools, joined seven other WaMac conference superintendents in Maquoketa for a tour of the local elementary building. The gathering highlighted district leadership and educational outreach.
Sunday guests filled multiple homes across Castle Grove including the Weber and Tschantz families with visitors from Dyersville Hopkinton and Anamosa. Church and civic events noted with locals attending the Arlington church dedication Lions Club dinner and Sacred Heart school Christmas program in Monticello.
Local notes detail Mrs. Donna Harms visiting her mother Mrs. Emil Harms who is hospitalized in St Luke's Cedar Rapids after a heart attack. Several families host and visit relatives across towns including Dubuque Iowa City Anamosa Cedar Rapids and Maquoketa. Wilma Wright undergoes surgery after university hospital stay. Ivan Benedict returns from college for vacation.
Mrs Susie Handshew Miss Alice Handshew and Mrs Robert Veitch of Iowa City were Tuesday dinner guests at J L Bader. M J Cass left to visit sisters in Nebraska. Mrs Anna Gerdes visits daughter in College Park. Carl Schneiter family from Monticello visit Ontario California with Ronald Burns family. Ralph Billings family return to Lubbock Texas after death of his mother. sister A L Kirby returns to Denver.
The Mary Ann Hughes Estate and Cletus Hughes livestock sale on December 2 in Cascade drew a good crowd and strong bidding. Fall pigs topped at 24 dollars, spring calves at 91, corn at 1.31 per bushel. Col. J. C. Herard sold the entire estate for 18,500 dollars in two hours and twenty minutes.
Monticello residents Robert Lubben Raymond E Adams Clifford Helgens and Loren Freese joined about 300 farmers from the region visiting Purina’s Gray Summit Missouri research farm for a week. They then toured the company's mills and laboratories in St Louis. The 738 acre site focuses on live stock and poultry feeding and management research with thousands of farmers visiting yearly.
Personnel of the social welfare office in Jones county courthouse Anamosa will hold their Christmas party at noon Thursday December 23, announced last week by Mrs Nellie Rummett director.
Corrected entry lists Joseph Melsha with serial numbers and unit designations: SR 324 70 10, U S N T C Co 312, 10 Regt 103 Bn, Great Lakes Illinois.
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