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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 11, 1957

Page

3

Lions Club Benefit Minstrel Show in Olin Feb 21 22

The Olin Lions club will present a benefit minstrel show at the Olin school gymnasium Feb 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. The two hour performance features skits pantomime and songs with a full lineup of named participants and a Monticello director.

Lions Club OLIN Olin Lions Club Olin School Howard Campbell Willard Hoyman Pambo Dr. N. R. Waggoner Bones Wayne Simmerman Sad Sack Clyde Taylor Peanuts Ira Kearns Wirebug Richard Wyestone

Sunday Visitors Reported in Cedar Rapids Area

Cass Baker and Earl Barker of Marion visited Gene Bray and were grandparents to Mrs Bray. The Bray home hosted dinner guests the Bohiken family from Scotch Grove. Stoffers and Zimmerman crews dropped by Emil Zimmerman’s place. Ortgies family entertained Caspers in Cedar Rapids and were visited by Colaric of Cedar Rapids. Judy Becker of Ryan spent the weekend with the Machart household.

Elias Williams O. H. Story Anamosa Bill Williams Jean Williams Iowa City Merle B. Arp Davenport William Reese Paul Kubu Cedar Rapids Stacy Kubu Charles Ball Dennis and Terry Ployd Groth Joe Becker Stanley Zimmerman Raymond Machart Leo Machart John Miller Cass Earl Barker Marion Gene Bray Mrs. Bray Lea Bohiken Scotch Grove Fred, Stoffers Fred Stoffers Louie Zimmerman Emil Zimmerman Alvin Ortgies Carl Caspers Robert Colaric Judy Becker Ryan Raymond Poppe Tom Bavis Jerry DeLarm and Sons Ralph Franks Delmar Clifford DeLarm Center Junction George R. Smith George Smith Ralph Christiansen Clarence Jack Buol Learon Tobiason Carl Gerdes Glenn Goldsmith Marvin Glenda Susan Eddie

4-H News Highlights January Meetings and Activities

Clay Busy Bees 4-H members meet January 28 at Jerilyn Jansen home with 12 members and one mother present. Club fund donates 38 dollars to polio fund. Members give talks on Winter and What Is Beauty and discuss design elements. Wayne Willing Workers meet January 21 at Wayne Center school with 25 members and two leaders. New members Carol Bohiken and Agnes Oaken join. Greenfield Good Luck club guests include Mrs. Maxine Hunt who discusses frames. Multiple demonstrations and talks on color, home convenience, and picture framing. Hillcrest Helping Hands meet January 26 at Farm Bureau building with seven members and officers installed. Various picture studies and demonstrations by members Rose Rathbun, Judy Davidson, and others. Hale Wapsie Wanderers pack clothes for Hungarians and discuss chili supper dates. Castle Grove No. 3 honors National Dental Health Week with students on the dental honor roll and deck tennis champion Lester Stahlberg and progress trophy winner Linda Stahlberg.

Clay Busy Bees 4-H Club Jerilyn Jansen Ruth Ann Paul Alice Larkey Wayne Willing Workers Club Janice Mortensen Rose Portewig Wayne Center School Carol Bohiken Agnes Oaken Janet Postel Sharon Jean Bilers Maxine Hunt County Extension Home Greenfield Kahler Hileen Parks Alice Kuntz Georgia Kost Marcia Mallie St. Francis and the Marjorie Tjaden Hillcrest Helping Hands Farm Bureau Greenfield Good Luck Greenfield Lucky Lassies Rose Rathbun Judy Davidson John Marin Castle Grove School J. Hollar Janet Donovan Gail Bader Sharon Bader Johnny Monk Lester Stahlberg Carol Bader Diana Howie Larry Stahlberg Johnny Bader Dorothy Bader Jane Heiken Linda Stahlberg

Langworthy 80th Birthday and Farewell Notices

Langworthy honors Gerd Prull at 80 with afternoon and evening visits while neighbors join in card games and slides. The issue notes school vacation and creamery meeting, plus other local birthdays, farewells, visits, and a dissolution notice for Stuhlers Shoe Store Inc. with stockholders distributing assets.

Gerd Prull Ardisers Langworthy Carl Gerdes George Smith George Hoult Raymond Poppe Robert Gerdes John Rieken Stuhlers Shoe Store, Inc Iowa Monticello Jones County Dusiness Virgil D. Hunt F. S&s

Appointment of Executors in Brockhohn Estate

State of Iowa Jones County No 7497 reports Lovell, R J Bone appointed as executors of Herman D Brockhohn deceased. Creditors urged to pay and present claims for allowance to the district court clerk. Dated January 1957. W A Pearson, clerk, with Gertrude Folkerts deputy.

State of Iowa Jones County Herman D. Brockhohn W. AL. Pearson Gertrude Folkerts

Public Affairs Meeting Planned in Jones County

Jones County community leaders and others are invited to a public affairs meeting on Wednesday evening February 13 at 7 p.m. at the Farm Bureau building in Anamosa. An informal buffet dinner is planned with speaker Walate Ogg from Iowa State College presenting Agricultural Adjustment Problems.

W. E. Williams Olin Jean Merle B. Arp E. J. Arp Route 3 Davenport Miss Williams State University of Iowa Iowa City Delta Zeta Sorority Arp Iowa University Delta Phi Alpha Jones County Extension Service Farm Bureau Anamosa Joe Legg

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