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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1955
Page
9
John McDonald hospital records report two births Wednesday morning. On December 18 Mr and Mrs Vincent Seibold Monticello welcomed a son. On December 20 Mr and Mrs Donald Husmann Langworthy welcomed a daughter.
Robert Schuetz resigns as city clerk with final day this Saturday to become bookkeeper at Farmers Mutual Creamery replacing Emma Heiken. Mayor A P Lambert notes several applicants and pending vacancies including custodian John Husman. Informal meeting set for Wednesday to plan rehiring and transition to reorganized council taking office Jan 2 with new members E B First and Paul Hearn. park commissioner Jake Rohr reelected.
Twelve area churches plan Christmas programs over Friday Saturday or Sunday. The Nazarene church hosts a children’s program on Christmas day at 10 a.m. Other venues include Peniel Presbyterian Wayne Zion Lutheran Buck Creek Methodist St John Hopkinton SS Peter and Paul Evangelical and Reformed St Matthew and St John Lutheran for Christmas Eve. Additional services listed for Friday evening.
Funeral services for Mrs. Herman W. Hanken are held at 2 p.m. at Goettsch funeral home in Monticello. She died Tuesday at Straub nursing home after a long illness. burial is at Oakwood Cemetery with Rev. August K. Stenzel officiating. Born Anna Marie Tobiason in 1880 near Monticello, she married Herman W. Hanken in 1899 and lived on a Monticello area farm until 1951. Survivors include son Tobias, daughter Edna Carpenter of Sioux Falls, three grandsons and four great granddaughters. Pallbearers: Milton Tobiason, Learon Hanken, Raymond Eby, George Hoffman, Lawrence Heeren, William Behrends.
Most Monticello trade area residents enjoy a long Christmas weekend with many stores open late through Monday. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve closings affect Monticello State Bank and local offices. post office and Jones County courthouse also close on Dec 26 and Jan 2.
Christmas Day services at St. Peter's church Temple Hill will be held at 6 7 and 8 30 a m Confessions are scheduled for Thursday morning at 9 Friday evening at 7 p m and Saturday at 3 p m
Shirley Shelley of Monticello hosted Gladys Erdman a missionary from Lovelock Alaska for several days. Erdman, born in Canada, travels with eight Alas kan Evangelization society missionaries and has visited Monticello in 1950 and again this month. The correspondence includes Polish family letters and a Polish exchange.
Readers are wished a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year by local merchants and professionals in the Christmas edition. The 16 page issue features greeting card advertisements, parade pictures, children’s letters to Santa, multiple picture pages, and church Christmas programs across sections B pages 2 and 3.
G J Haag a Monticello post office carrier for 34 years shows pre holiday mail surge as clerks and drivers were added. Postmaster Paul Bender notes activity on the Monday before Christmas matching prior years with Dec 12 to 21 cancellations at 78 450 vs 81 230 last year.
Center Junction cold weather slows the telephone improvement program. John Gray says dynamite is used to start holes for new poles by Charles Keller of Maquoketa and crew. All new poles in the area are in the ground and 27 miles of wire will be strung. Dial conversion costs 26 000 to 28 000 dollars and will assign five digit numbers with Hunter prefix. Direct connections to Onslow Wyoming and long distance calls through Anamosa.
Michael F. Brady of Monticello was charged in police court with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested Sunday by Policeman Carl Gudenkauf and released after posting a $350 bond.
In Jones county Hale area, Laverne Von Sprecken and Jackie McCammant died in a truck train crash near Hale at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. The pickup struck by a Union Pacific Milw. streamliner at a private crossing. both were pronounced dead, funeral services held Tuesday.
Irvin D. Von Sprecken arrived in San Francisco on furlough after a voyage home from overseas service in Korea. The earlier tragedy involved his brother Laverne Von Sprecken of Hale who was killed Saturday.
A page of letters to Santa Claus from Monticello and nearby readers is published in this issue. Children request items such as a record player a tiny tears doll a Jack in the box and a television for Mrs Lamont as they message their wishes to the North Pole.
Several Jones county farm group members attended a livestock committee meeting in Cedar Rapids last week. Attendees listed include George Slater and Leo Bonjour of Quin, Max Specht of Monticello, Floyd Hodgden of Oxford Junction, William Reade of Onslow, and Milton Grosenbach and Russell Eldred of (incomplete).
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Laverne Marvin Von Sprecken 31 of Hale and Jackie Keith McCammant 24 of Olin, victims of a truck train crash near Hale on Saturday. Von Sprecken is survived by his wife and three daughters and other relatives. McCammant, son of Harold and Nona Glick McCammant, is survived by his parents five sisters and a brother. Both services were conducted by local pastors with burial in Wyoming and Olin cemeteries.
Ivan Benedict of Monticelo is a member of the Adrian Singers a group with a busy pre Christmas schedule at the University of Dubuque. The article notes multiple Yuletide singing engagements by the university ensemble.
A Sunday morning wreck on South street involved Malcolm E. Prewitt and Robert J. Vesey of Monticello and a parked 1951 two door owned by Dillon G. Streets of Wyoming. Prewitt backed from a driveway, Vesey’s car eastbound struck him, Vesey swerved and hit Streets’ car, totaling about 185 in damage with 35 to Prewitt, 50 to Vesey, and 100 to Streets.
Mrs. Carl Vander Hamm died at her Platte home on December 13 after an eight week illness. She was 88. Funeral services were at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church with Rev. Gerald Free officiating. Interment followed in Platte Cemetery. Born May 23 1867 in Monticello she married Carl Fredrick Vander Hamm June 24 1888 and had four sons and a daughter. The family moved to Platte in 1910. Survivors include daughter Emma and four sons John Henry Fred Louis plus eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Relatives from Monticello and Rockford attended the service.
Donald Morey, a Monticello volunteer fireman for 23 years and assistant chief for two years, was elected fire chief by the local department. He succeeds Paul Hearn who will resign January 1 due to a regulation barring firefighters over age 50. Fred Kreeb is set to be assistant chief and Larry Goodyear secretary treasurer pending city council approval.
Funeral services for Thomas P. English 80 will be at Devaney funeral home Cascade to St. Peter's church Temple Hill burial at St. Peter's cemetery He farmed in Temple Hill all his life born December 21 1874 son of Patrick and Bridget English He was a bachelor survived by sister Mrs Kathryn Lambe Bernard and many nieces and nephews predeceased by two brothers and three sisters
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