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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1951
Page
6
The Young Farmers will hold a meeting Monday evening February 12 at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Temple Ag room. Guest speaker Elden Brashaw will discuss Farm Law.
Valentine timing, marriage permit for Martin L. McAuliffe and Theola Ann Davis. Induction notices issued to 10 Jones County men. New car licenses list projected owners in Monticello Anamosa Wyoming and others. Eight births announced at John McDonald hospital with local families named and dates.
About 400 Farm Bureau members from across the county attended a victory party last Monday night February 5 at Monticello. The event featured a musical program dancing and refreshments for guests.
A Monday night charity basketball event at Monticello public gym raised over 187 for the polio drive. Rotarians defeated Lions 22 to 15 in the opener with Bud McNeill and Arch Edwards leading the effort. A second game pitted an albuni team against the public school faculty, 23 to 13, as entertainment from the Hungry Five complemented the action.
A sequence of farm and business closings listed with dates and page references. Feb 17 Rollie Mc Bride farm ad on page 6, Feb 12 Muller Bros Closing Out Sale, Feb 14 Herman Carstensen Closing Out Sale on page 8.
Albert Lee pled not guilty to a Jones county indictment for sale of property with a landlord's lien before Judge Charles Penningroth. The case may be assigned next week as Lee is held in the county jail. Walter Balster sues Martha Balster for an accounting of a Wayne and Scotch Grove farm, alleging mismanagement and improper disbursement of livestock, grain, and proceeds since 1950. Eileen W. Miller sues John Miller for divorce alleging cruel treatment and seeks alimony and joint gifts. Galena Glove & Mitten Co. sues Donald B. Goodman for a $60.86 unpaid account.
Monticello Post No. 1683 VFW and Auxiliary hold regular business meeting on Wednesday February 14. They will discuss plans for entertaining the Second District Department of Iowa meeting in Monticello and urge full member cooperation for success.
The Monticello Pythian Sisters schedule their regular business meeting for Monday February 12 in the K of P rooms. Plans for the School of Instruction will be discussed and all members urged to attend.
Eleven Jones county Boy Scouts conducted county offices in Anamosa in observance of the 41st annual Boy Scout week. Officials listed include John Dusanek sheriff, Dean Rickels deputy, Louis Wunder auditor, Gary Arthur recorder, Stephen Hyde clerk of courts, Roger McCreight superintendent of schools, George Williams treasurer, Robert Che engineer, Ronnie Rathigan overseer of the poor, Ronald Stahlberg assessor, and Richard Fishwild board of social welfare.
Five vehicles were involved in separate crashes last week. Ernest W. Purcell, a Springdale teacher from Anamosa, suffered serious injuries in a two mile southeast of Olin collision and is hospitalized with multiple fractures. A Wyoming crash near three miles east of town involved Melvin Snyder and John Burgett among others. conditions were blamed on bad roads.
Monticello escapes Anamosa 38 37 at Anamosa to stay second in WaMaC. Schuester and Seehusen key second half as Monticello overcomes a 14 7 first quarter deficit. Schneiter clutch late layup seals win for Panthers over Raiders.
Lowell Tiger Lange of Waterloo a Cornell College 1950 graduate and newly named wrestling coach for the 1951 season will address the Rotary Club Monday evening. Lange, a seven time national amateur champion, succeeds Edwin Hitchcock who died of a heart attack prior to the season.
City Clerk Kenneth Webber releases a February agenda for the Monticello Community Building. Events include Rotary meetings on Feb 12 and 19 at 6:05 p.m. in the auditorium, a Lenten concert, a Conservation League Fish supper, Milton Bader wedding dance, an FFA dinner, a free party sponsored by George C. Schoon Implement Co, and a room rental on Feb 21 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Miss Berniece Dunn of Anamosa named clerk in the county auditor’s office. No deputy auditor named. January salary schedules include Miss Margaret Carmichael county superintendent at 2500 dollars yearly and Miss Jacqueline McCurdy in the assessor office at 2280 dollars yearly. Eleanor Mulvihill clerk in county engineer’s office paid hourly. Acting county engineer Howard Porter earns 4800 dollars annually.
The Tomkiya Camp Fire Girls will collect waste paper and other excess paper on Saturday February 24. Please have paper on porches by 9 am and watch for further particulars.
Monticello City Council named Ray Marolf and Henry Harms as new fire department members and added Vic Mowrey to the waiting list. Bills totaling 4 779 70 were approved, beer permit applications granted, and Turner's Majestic Cafe received a 37 50 refund. Fay Haeussler resigned. Albert Hackbarth named water and sewer superintendent at 200 monthly. Mayor authorized to inspect water channeling sites.
Radio sports director Tait Cummins will host the annual Community Conservation League fish supper in the Monticello Community Building. The event starts at 6 30 p m with musical numbers by Ray Stumbaugh and Hungry Five and talks by Les Pike and Louis Lemke. Proceeds fund local conservation and wildlife protection projects.
A two-car collision on state highway 136 one half mile south of Dyersville killed Gilbert Claussen 39 and Ann Claussen 39 of Goose Lake and Ralph Orr 47 of Onslow. Eight others injured as cars struck a culvert wing and one car then hit another. Ralph Orr and his wife Helen injured. Edgar Wolf 24 of Worthington and family also hospitalized. Ralph Orr to be buried in Frozen Hill cemetery after services in Onslow.
Infant Leeann Agnes Feldmann daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry C Feldmann of Delhi died Monday evening at John McDonald hospital. Services were held Tuesday at 2 pm from Devaney funeral home Monticello to Sacred Heart cemetery with Rev Eugene Lorenz officiating. Survivors include parents and grandparents Anton Newhouse Hopkin ton, Mrs Feldmann Worthington and Mr Feldmann Worthington.
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