County Board Awards Culvert Bid and Sets Salaries
The Board of Supervisors oftones County Iowa met to open bids for culvert setting and approved Armco Drain Co Wheeling Corrugating Co and M J O Conner as low bidders with base bid 1 10 90. Salaries for county officials and staff were confirmed including Leigh Lint Dean Nerzberger Rosene Easterly Martha Rawson and others with monthly and annual figures. The chair was authorized to sign a deed for Oxford Town in Tones County to convey specified real estate.
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Board of
Tones County
Towa
Iaw
Harm
Dirks
Adams
Bailey, Crain
Rickels
Clinton Culvert
Clinton
Minois Culvert & I. K Co
Peoria
Arico Drain, & Metal Products Toe
Des Moines
Wheeling
Leigh Lint
Dean Nerzberger
Eleanor Mulvihill
Rosene Easterly
Alene Easterly
Tlome
Matson
Martha A. Rawson
Re. Net
Joe Chaloupka
Court House
Louisannuan
Betty Boyles
Netty Smith
Phila Hinrichsen
Meta Alferts
Crain
Adaing
Board of Supervisors
Tones
Oxford
Town
Tlarm J. Duke
Adams, Gailey
Bailey
Blanche HY
Corwin
Jones County
Lown
State Highway Commission
NE Corner
SE Corner
Oxford Milla
Ho Te
Hopkinton Creamery Holds Annual Meeting
Hopkinton Iowa Hopkinton Co operative Creamery Association held its annual meeting Feb 4 with 200 patrons served lunch at the Legion hall guest speaker Chuck Worcester of Cedar Rapids and a program for the ladies at the Community hall. Directors Art Melchert William Beitz Harold Wilson were elected for three year terms. The report shows 474039.56 in business for the year 391401 pounds of butter produced and 262321 pounds of cheese produced. The average butterfat price was 66.82 cents per pound and whole milk price 3.10 per hundredweight. Eugene Cross is creamery operator with assistants Emil Schwandt Durward Winch C J Kehoe Roger Wilson. other staff include Mrs Gertrude DeShaw and Burdette Wilson.
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Hopkinton
Eugene Cross
Emil Schwandt
Durward Winch
C. J. Kehoe
Roger Wilson
Gertrude DeShaw
Burdette Wilson
Silver Wedding Dinner For Mr And Mrs Charles Thing
Mr and Mrs Charles Thing celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a family dinner at their South Hopkinton home. The couple wed February 4 1931 at Golden Congregational church west of Hopkinton. They have a son Curtis who works in Cedar Rapids. they attend the Methodist church.
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Perry R. Wheeless
Ella Campbell
Hopkinton
Wheeless
Randall Morgan
Minneapolis
Minn
David Martin
Cedar Rapids
Presbyterian Church
Masonic Lodge
Charles Thing
Leone Aldrich
Golden Congregational Church
South Hopkinton
Thing
Johnson Feed Mill
Methodist Church
Curtis
Iowa City
Lawrence Porter
Mike
Orville
Maud Joseph Smith
Monticello
William Aldrich
Ward Walston
Austin Jones
William Wendt
Pauline Tutton
Manchester
Chris Christensen
Chauncey Kemp
George Goodrick
Palo
Lux
Leghorn
Doran Flannagan
Flannagan
John W. Downs
Raymond Downs
Waterloo
Charles Reggentine
H. J. Welter
Bonnie
Margaret Grolinger
Charles Oeschger
Cascade
Valentine Party at Alexander Kenny Home With Oread Club
Members of the Oread club entertained their husbands at a Valentine party held Saturday evening at the Alexander Kenny home. After a 7 p.m. pot luck supper, guests enjoyed various games.
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Oread Club
Alexander Kenny
Kensington Club Hosts Friday Afternoon Meeting
Mrs. Forrest Lamont served as hostess at her mother Mrs. B M Ferguson home for the Kensington club gathering. Roll call featured current events and Mrs Lyla Allen led a program on Scouting.
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Forrest Lamont
Kensington Club
B. M. Ferguson
Lyla Allen
Obituary Notice for James Michael Hedge cock
The body of James Michael Hedgecock, 59, of Muscatine, son of Mrs. Mary Dunn Hedgecock, a former resident of Hopkinton, was brought to Hopkinton Jan. 30 and interred in the family lot in Hopkinton Cemetery.
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James Michael Hedgecock
Muscatine
Mary Dunn Hedgecock
Hopkinton
Residents honor Mrs Ray Payne at 86th birthday
Relatives and friends from Manchester Cedar Rapids Monticello Anamosa and nearby towns gathered to celebrate Mrs Ray Payne's 86th birthday. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Walter Haigh Mr and Mrs William Milroy Mrs Jennie Pearson Mrs Nettie Ratcliff and others. The event featured open house and well wishes across multiple households.
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Ray Payne
Walter Haigh
William Milroy
Manchester
Jennie Pearson
Anamosa
Nettie Ratcliff
Atha Davis
Central City
Elmer Heeren
Sand Springs
Henry Bleacher
Cedar Rapids
Emil Balsiger
Chester
S.D
Charles Vernimont
Monticello
Andy Smith
Leonard Clow
Monticello Hospital
Birthday Milestone Marked for 95th Anniversary
The record notes a 95th birthday celebration on February 6 with Mrs. Susan Staner of Monticello accompanying them.
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Susan Staner
Monticello
Temple Hill Church Party Draws Parish Gathering
A large crowd attended a St. Peter s School hall social party in Temple Hill Sunday evening with entertainment and lunch served by parish circles. Prizes went to John Felton Mrs Loras Stoll Francis Keating and Gary Wieneke marking a seasonal close to activities until fall. Mr and Mrs Nicholas Kremer attended the State University of Iowa winter commencement in Iowa City where Nickie s niece Miss Joan B Nickel earned a B A. Annette Strang visited from Mercy school of nursing, Dubuque. Rose Mary and Jimmy Finn from Cedar Rapids stayed with Clarence Finn over the weekend.
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Temple Hill
St. Peter’s School
John Felton
Loras Stoll
Francis Keating
Gary Wieneke
Nicholas Kremer
State University of Iowa
Nickie
Joan B. Nickel
Annette Strang
Mercy School of Nursing
Dubuque
Rose Mary
Jimmy Finn
Cedar Rapids
Clarence Finn
Jones County Receipts Top $2 Million in Half Year
Jones County report shows receipts totaling 2,467,688.37 and disbursements of 1,752,606 for the six months ending December 31, 1955. The balance at year end stood at 717,062.37 with breakdowns by tax, gas tax, licenses, and other funds.
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I County Auditor
Sthoul Dist
State Treas
Tlomestead
TONG
Adama
Rickels
Earl E. Bessel
Tones
Sid
Crain
M. Miles
Justice of Peace
Batley
Jones County
Blanche E. Corwin
Board of Supervisors
Mrs Ed Gross Named Cascade Correspondent
Cascade residents learn Mona Gross will succeed Loretta Kraus as Express Cascade correspondent Publisher Johnny Jones announced Kraus resigned last week Mona an active community member with four children aged seven months to eight years Ed her husband works at Till Hardware Cascade Contact number 211 for news tips
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Cascade
Ramona) Gross
Loretta Kraus
the Express
Johnny Jones
Alan
Till Hardware
Mona
Auxiliary of the ‘Knight
American Legion Auxiliary
The
Rosary Society
St. Mary's
Sunday Visitors Form Monticello Social Roundup
Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ireland included Ed Beebe and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Litts from Mt. Vernon and Mr. and Mrs. George Albright and family from Lisbon.
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Lee Ireland
Ed Beebe
Kenneth Litts
Mt. Vernon
George Albright
Lisbon
Car stalls on Northwestern tracks near Bancroft
An automobile carrying Lakota farm women stalled on the Northwestern tracks near Bancroft. The women jumped out moments before an approaching train. The car rolled forward a few feet and avoided damage by inches as the locomotive passed. Mrs. Charles Gutknecht drove the car.
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Bancroft
Charles Gutknecht
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Wasco, TJ
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Strawberry Point
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E. A. Dunlap
James B. Aitchison
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Earl Beisel
Dean Herzberger
Roscoe Easterly
Merrill A. Rawson
Louis Hannan
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William Thompson
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