Four 18 year olds register with Selective Service at Anamosa
Four youths aged eighteen registered with the Selective Service in the basement of the Anamosa courthouse this week. The registrants listed are Monticello George L. iHangsen Anamosa Wendel G. Heiken George E. Blair Edward Hinz. The board will meet next at 10 30 a.m. January 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selective Service Office
Court House
Anamosa
Monticello
George L. iHangsen
Wendel G. Heiken
George E. Blair
Edward Hinz
Selective Service Board
County Treasurer Licenses Cars and Truck in Anamosa
The county treasurer’s office at Anamosa licensed two passenger cars and a truck this past week. Names include George Tobiason with a 1946 Ford and Harold Egger with a 1946 Ford and Anamosa Feed Mill with a 1946 Chevrolet truck. By 11 o’clock yesterday the office had issued 1192 car licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
George Tobiason
Ford
Harold. Egger
Rotary and Lions clubs miss meetings then set January dates
The Rotary and Lions clubs in Monticello did not meet this week and will not convene next week. The Rotary meeting is scheduled for January 7 and the Lions meeting for January 14, per their respective secretaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Rotary
Lions Clubs
Rotary Club
Lions Club
Marriage License Issued for Edgar West and Louise DeVasser
The district court clerk's office issued a marriage license last week to Edgar H. West 27 of Onslow and Louise DeVasser 365 of Chicago Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Cupid
District Court
Leigh Pearson
Edgar H. West
Onslow
Louise DeVasser
Chicago
Births at John McDonald Hospital This Week
The superintendent reports three births this week: a girl to Mr and Mrs Rudolph Ortgies of Monticello on December 22 a girl to Mr and Mrs Cyril Staner of Cascade on December 22 and a boy to Mr and Mrs Alvin Hobert on December 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McDonald Hospital
Rudolph Ortgies
Monticello
Cyril Staner
Cascade
Alvin Hobert
Red Cross Rooms Closed Next Tuesday for New Year
The Red Cross announces that its rooms will be closed next Tuesday due to New Year's Day. No public services will be available on that day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Local College Students Home For Holidays
Monticello and nearby students take up to two weeks off from college with 45 students listed from universities including Iowa City and Ames. The roster covers Arlene Balster to Richard Sutherland and notes most can return for Christmas.
Charles Hayward Dies in Perry Hospital
Charles Hayward former Milwaukee Road mail clerk died November 3 in a Perry Iowa hospital after two operations. His routes included Cedar Rapids to Calmar and Monticello to Davenport. He was a member of the Masonic lodge. His wife had died years earlier.
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Charles Hayward
Perry
Milwaukee Road
Monticello
Cedar Rapids
Calmar
Davenport
Masonic Lodge
Minor Fire at Curttright Home in Monticello
Fire units responded to an early Thursday alarm at the George Curttright residence on 8th Street Monticello. A poorly insulated stove pipe started a small blaze igniting wood and paper. damage described as slight.
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Hoth City
George
8Th St
Monticello
Grand Jury Names For January 1946 Term
Clerk Leigh Pearson drew the grand jury kites for January 1946 with Judge G K Thompson to preside. Petit jurors report January 21 at 10 o'clock in Monticello Anamosa Oxford Junction Onslow Scotch Grove Morley and Wyoming areas with a separate grand jury to report January 14 at 10 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leigh Pearson
G. K. Thompson
Monticello
Clara Benson
Paul Black
Donald Clark
Jennie Condit
Freda Eilers
George Good
Tobias Hanken
John H. Hagen
Len Hein
Helen Hoag
Albert L. Holub
Teresa I. Kane
Stella Kephart
Evaline Lambert
Louis Leonard
Wilfred C. Schatz
Katherine White
Carl Zimmerman
Olin
Zula Alexander
Herman Holtz
Carl L. Levsen
Carl Rohwedder
Lila Stivers
Omar Vrooman
Marvin Westphal
Martelle
G. J. Armstrong
H. H. Cummings
Wyoming
Elmer Bahnsen
Mable Bramer
Lorenz Broderson
Henry Rohwedder
Anamosa
Clyde Chipman
Edith Coddling
Mary Dirks
Alfred Etten
Ralph Gilmore
Belle Johnson
Ed Joslin
Louise Kellogg
Everett Koppenhaver
Roy Larsen
W. H. Lohr
Leo Machart
Harl Newhard
Ray E. O’brien
Melvin ’Connell
Lulu Weighels
Bert ‘Wink
Clifford O’brien
Melvin O’connell
Bert Wink
Clifford Zimmerman
Oxford Junction
Clara Clausen
Raymond Mizaur
Marjorie McGuire
August Steffins
George R. Volk
Scotch Grove
Howard Cook
Emil Paulsen
Onslow
George Dirks
Elise L. Holst
Garret Juilfs
Morley
Laura Switzer
Grand Jury
Lawrence Burlege
George Seehusen
Howard Hart
Revel O. McColm
Frank Pillard
Clarence Tenley
Coretta Hod
Tire Rationing Ends January 1 But Shortage Persists
OPA says all tire purchase restrictions end January 1 1946 yet enough tires remain scarce. Production will reach an estimated 65 million passenger car tires this year but many motorists must still wait to avoid excessive wear. Bowles warns continued restraint while retailers sell in order of tire ration certificates on file.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Tire Distributors
OPA
Chester Bowles
Superintendent Lists Jones School Changes
Two county rural schools have new teachers this week and one is without a teacher according to County Superintendent Joseph Beavo. Pleasant Hill school in Clay township needs a teacher with a county certificate. Applicants for the $150 monthly position may contact the county office in Anamosa. Marilyn Herzberger has replaced Lavina Inglis at Hale No. 3 and Shirley Manternach took Irene Wieneke at Washington No. 4, both earning their county certificates this month. Lights have been installed in Spencerville school in Wyoming township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Beavo
Pleasant Hill
Clay Township
Beavo
Anamosa
Marilyn Herzberger
Wyoming
Lavina Inglis
Hale No
Shirley Manternach
Irene Wieneke
Washington No
Spencerville’ School
Wyoming Township
City Dog Tax Due January 1 in Monticello
Monticello voters face annual dog tax due January 1 per city clerk Rose Hines. The assessment lists $2 for male dogs and $0.5 for female dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Rose Hines
Janitors Take On Christmas Work At Monticello Public School
Fred Kreeb head janitor with George Swanson and Mrs. Fred Aldrich plan a heavy Christmas cleaning schedule at Monticello Public School. They will scrub floors in gym and classrooms, wax surfaces, seal terrazzo, wash windows, and perform daily upkeep on boiler, chairs, desks, doors, windows, locks, and lighting, with dusting over 1000 seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Swanson
Fred Kreeb
Express
Monticello
Kreeb
George A. Swanson
Fred Aldrich
Free Want Ads In The Express January 10
Free want ads in The Express for the January 10 issue offer to farmers and others excluding business ads. Ads limited to 15 words with fines 10 cents per extra line. mail now and they will be held for January 10. Sub scribers and new subscribers may use the chance to list surplus furniture equipment machinery or livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Express
Christmas School Program Delighted Local Audience
Over three hundred people attended the annual Christmas musical at the public school last Thursday. Sponsored by the PTA, the program featured the concert band boys and girls glee clubs mixed chorus and verse speaking choir directed by Miriam Hansen with Ross Greenley leading the verse choir. The boys glee club impressed with While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks and So How a Rose Eer Blooming while the mixed chorus performed The Childe Jesus. Mrs Greenley’s verse speaking choir presented The Legend of the Christmas Rose and Cecil Goettsch accompanied the vocal groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teachers Association
Iane Smith
Miriam Hansen
Ross Greenley
Praetorius
Clokey-Kirk
Leigh Clark Improves at St Luke's Hospital
Leigh Clark, anticello, a patient at St Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, shows improvement though remains in a delicate condition and not yet out of danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leigh Clark
Anticello
St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids
Christmas Seal Returns Near in Monticello
Monticello reports 414 Christmas seal returns with 86 envelopes still unreturned. Mrs Rex Rickless, returns chairman, notes 52 returns since last week and expects higher weekly totals. Proceeds fund tuberculosis sanatoriums and public health efforts in Jones County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Rex Rickless
Rickless
O'Rourke Receives Bronze Star For Luzon Service
Francis J. O'Rourke, son of Mrs. Alice G. O'Rourke, is awarded the Bronze Star Medal by Major General C. E. Hurdis for meritorious achievement during operations against the Japanese on Luzon from July 12 to July 20. He served with the Red Star 6th Infantry Division, which logged 219 consecutive days of combat on Luzon before taking occupation duty in southern Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S/Set
Francis J. O’rourke
Alice G. O'Rourke
Monticello
C. E. Hurdis
6Th Infantry Division
Luzon
P. L
O’rourke
Red Star 6Th Infantry Division
Korea
Floyd Davis Returns Home From Army in Hopkinton
Floyd E. Davis, brother of E. J. Davis of Monticello, arrived at his Hopkinton home on Christmas Eve after being discharged last week from European service. He plans to live with his wife and four children in Hopkinton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Davis
Floyd E. Davis
E. J. Davis
Monticello
Hopkinton
Europe
Davis
Rites Held For Jacob Arduser In Monticello
Funeral services for Jacob Arduser a Monticello resident who died at home in December were conducted at Goettsch funeral home with Rev. Wm J Grossheim presiding. Burial followed in Oakwood cemetery. Arduser born February 17 1867 in Dubois Switzerland came to the U S at six and settled in Monticello thirteen years later. He married Nellie Kiburz April 11 1898 and had four daughters Lucille died in 1918. Surviving are widow three daughters Mrs Louis Hoag Chicago Mrs John Schweitzer Cedar Rapids Miss Maude Arduser Monticello two brothers Casper Hopkinton John Monticello and Myre James Thompson and Mrs Charles Schweiter Monticello three grandchildren and one great grandchild. Pallbearers were Donald Arduser Frank Schneiter Paul Arduser Charles Schneiter Jr James and Lloyd Thompson.
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Jacob Arduser
Monticello
Goettsch
Wm. J. Grossheim
Oakwood Cemetery
Mr. Arduser
Dubois
Switzerland
Casper
Ursula Arduser
Arduser
Nellie Kiburz
Lucille
Louis Hoag
Chicago
John Schweitzer
Cedar Rapids
Maude Arduser
Hopkinton
John
Myre James Thompson
Charles Schweiter
Donald Arduser
Frank Schneiter
Paul Arduser
Charles Schneiter Jr
James
Lloyd Thompson
Earl Luensman injured in Sunday auto wreck near Cedar Street
Earl Luensman a recently discharged veteran, was seriously injured in a Sunday morning car crash two blocks north of Cedar Street. He received 20 stitches for scalp lacerations after the vehicle, crowded to the curb, struck a tree. his wife Maxine Nordmann and other occupants suffered facial cuts and internal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Luensman
John McDonald Hospital
Maxine Nordmann
George Nordmann
Don Nordmann
Dorothy Himebaugh
Cedar Street
Local records show seven Monticello area military discharges
Recorder Bess Sherman reports a slowdown in weekly discharge tallies as seven men from Monticello and nearby areas were discharged in the past week. Details list Pvt. William H. Wennekamp with 88 points and service in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Luzon. other separations include Navy and Army personnel with medals and theater ribbons.
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Monticello
Armed Services
Bess Sherman
the Express
William H. Wennekamp
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
7Th Cavalry
Bismarck Archipelago
New Guinea
South Philippines
Luzon
Nicholas F. Clement
Navy
Lido Beach
Long Island
N. Y
Wyland Clay Bone
Minneapolis
Minn
Cpl
Felix H. Picray
Army Service
Camp Grant
Ill
Cpl. Picray
Rhineland
Central Europe
Pfe
Ernest A. W. Schmidt
Harold J. Dunn
Jefferson Barracks
Rex R. Campbell
End Rationing of Newsprint December 3
Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small announced newsprint rationing will end December 31 with all government restrictions lifted. A continuing paper shortage remains as publishers seek profitable grades, while the New England Plan helps some weeklies stay in business by sharing up to 3 percent of annual newsprint tonnage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Small
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee
Congressional Committee
New England
Wahl Uninjured In Train Wreck
Earl LeVerne Wahl USNR son of Mr and Mrs Ernnest Wahl of Monticello escaped injury in a train wreck that killed several passengers last week. He was traveling from Gulfport Mississippi to Norfolk Virginia when a freight rammed a standing passenger car. The wreck occurred about 75 miles northeast of Atlanta. Wahl was thoroughly checked by navy and railroad doctors and found not injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl LeVerne Wahl
USNR
Ernnest Wahl
Monticello
Gulfport
Miss
Norfolk
Atlanta
Wahl
Navy
Dr Robert E Savage New Veterinarian Joins Seaton Practice
Dr Robert E Savage a former U S Army Captain and veterinary inspector of foods at Fort Knox Ky has taken over the late Dr George Albery building remodeling it for his office He and his wife Josephine Ricklefs will reside in Emma Ricklefs residence Iowa State College graduate previously practiced in Seaton Illinois Phone lines 50 W and 60 R
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E.savage
U. S. Army
Ft. Knox
George Albery
Iowa State College
Seaton
Ill
Allan Kline Elected To National Office
Allan B. Kline of Vinton was elected vice-president of the American Farm Bureau Federation at the 27th annual convention. He is president of the Iowa Farm Bureau and runs a 440 acre farm near Vinton specializing in hogs and hybrid seed corn. He holds degrees from Morningside and Iowa State and has served as a guest of Britain’s agriculture ministry and as an advisor at the San Francisco United Nations conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan B. Kline
Vinton
American Farm Bureau Federation
Kline
Iowa Farm Bureau
Morningside
Iowa State Colleges
Great Britain
Ministry of Agriculture
San Francisco
Monti Cello Residents To Receive 806 Water Bills
Eight hundred six water bills will be mailed this week to Monti Cello residents. Bills are mailed quarterly and processed eight times before mailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Four Injured in Friday Anamosa Crash Near Mt Vernon
Francis Payton 36 Anamosa charged with failure to yield defective equipment after a car truck collision injured five Anamosa students en route to a basketball game. Jerry Swanson seriously hurt with facial head cuts as others suffer cuts bruises and knee or rib injuries. Payton uninjured. truck had one headlight and no tail light. court filing by Justice Raymond Coding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Payton
Anamosa
Mt. Vernon
Jerry Swanson
Joe Miller
Roma Lee Porter
Harold Wink
Leo Gerst
Payton
Justice of the Peace
Raymond Codling
Charles Rigby Funeral Rites Held Saturday
Funeral services for Charles Simon Rigby 70 were held Saturday at Goettsch Funeral Home with Rev. V Grant officiating. Burial followed in Oakwood cemetery. Born July 18 1875 at Monticello to Joseph and Mary Rigby he was a carpenter by trade. He married Clara Quaintance August 9 1899 and they had nine children. Surviving are his wife, two sets of grandchildren and great grandchildren, and several siblings. He died December 20 at his home after years of declining health and a stroke earlier this year.
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Goettsch
Charles Simon Rigby
V. ©. Grant
Oakwood
Rigby
Joseph and
Mary Rigby
Monticello
Clara Marie Quaintance
Anamosa
Clara
Mary Chapman
Rachel Grifith
Joseph Appleby
Louis
Arthur Rigby
Mae Merchant
Eva Roberts
Royal Town
Albert Rigby
Rockford
Ill
Eva Rigby
County Farmers Plan To Join Cooperative
Thirty five Jones county farmers met December 18 in the Monticello community building to discuss joining a 68 county cooperative seed corn venture. Louie Hanken would head Jones county efforts to raise hybrid seed corn in 1946 for sale as 1947 seed, with subscribers saving about 19 dollars annually. The cooperative, chartered November 22 1944 by the secretary of state, already runs a seed plant at Pella. The venture is led by farm bureau members but is not endorsed or sponsored by county or state organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Monticello
Louie Hanken
Wanken
Secretary of State
Pella
Farm Bureau
Rev S G Gutensohn Leads Antigo Rotary Fifth Year Pastor
The Gutensohn family of Antigo Wis. is featured in a Christmas note from Rev S G Gutensohn who is serving his fifth year as pastor at the First Congregational church and president of the Antigo Rotary club with 46 members. Helen is a Beloit College freshman. Sylvia, a high school sophomore, sang Beethoven concerto No 3 with organ at a December 11 Wausau concert. Gerry is in second grade. He plans to build a new church in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
S. G. Gutensohn
Antigo
Wis
Express
Beethoven
Gerry
Gutensohn
First Congregational Church
Jones County Tops State in Victory Bond Drive
Jones County in the Victory Bond Drive marks a strong finish with total sales reaching 457 371 25 dollars and a county tally at 119 percent of the 765 000 quota. County buyers exceed state targets while Jones County holds 61st in rank after earlier weeks. Frank Stimson reports weekly bonds by series E F G and tax notes with E leading at 509 343 50 and overall progress toward the December 31 close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Frank Stimson
Cedar
Jackson
Linn
Clinton
Delaware
Dubuque
Stimson
iSeries
District Court Hears Three Divorce Trials in Jones County
Judge J. F. Heiserman heard three divorce actions last week in Jones County District Court. Wilma Winans was granted a divorce from Thomas Winans with no alimony. Thomas to pay $50 monthly for two minor sons. Augusta Melsha was granted a divorce from Joseph Melsha with no alimony, no attorney fees, and Joseph to pay $5 weekly for their minor son. Lulu Capron versus Clark C. Capron sought an injunction. main action pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County District Court
J. F. Heiserman
Wilma Winans
Thomas Francis Winans
Kenneth Winans
Lulu Capron
Clark C. Capron
Augusta Melsha
Joseph Melsha
Heiserman
Brownie York Lost Christmas Stay Locked In Express Office
One Monticello resident reports her dog Brownie York spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day locked in the Express printing office. The dog was not found until late Tuesday evening. The dog had habitually spent cold days in the warmth of the office, but this Christmas proved to be a lonely one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
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