Monticello Community Calendar Highlights Feb 11–15
Monticello notices list weekly club meetings at the Community building and Legion hall including Rotary Lions combined session 6:30 p.m. and Boy Scout 7:10 p.m. Also Pythian Sisters and other events. Birth announcements cover Starks Dotterweich Feldman Weber Hudrick Douglas with related family details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary and
Lions Clubs
Iowa State College
Ameg
Legion Hall
Pythian Sisters Meeting
K.P. Hall
Feb 5 Pairings and Ages in Cedar Rapids
Dennis B Williams 23 of Cedar Rapids and Wilma Louise Dirks 19 of Monticello listed with William Mor row 19 of Martello and June Isabel Moyer 24 of Central City in a four person entry dated February 5.
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Dennis B. Williams
Cedar Rapids
Wilma Louise Dirks
Monticello
William Morrow
Martello
June Isabel Moyer
Central City
WaMac Conference to Elect Officers at Anamosa Dinner
WaMac school conference officers will be elected for 1957 at a dinner meeting February 18 at Strawberry Hill elementary school Anamosa. Current officers include Ralph Gamback president and Vance Stead secretary treasurer. A principals meeting at 3 p.m. precedes dinner at 6 30 p.m. Monticello to receive basketball trophy and spring track plans to be discussed. Reports on the Activities party March 29 at Anamosa honor 24 students from each WaMac school and Career Day at Cornell College in April.
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Anamosa
Strawberry Hill
Ralph Gamback
Tipton
Vance Stead
Monticello
WaMac
Cornell College
Free Vacation Contest Eligibility Emphasized
Sponsors clarify eligibility for the free vacation contest on Coon Lake near Aitkin Minnesota. Almost everyone qualifies except owners managers partners or operators of businesses or professional men with a Monticello address and their families. More details on page 8.
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Monticello
Coon Lake
Aitkin
Minn
Four students seek Iowa Farm Bureau teaching scholarships
Four applicants from Jones County schools seek the Iowa Farm Bureau annual teaching scholarship for high school seniors. County winners advance to Des Moines for state selection after Feb 15, with 18 scholarships awarded yearly. Also noted: Vernon Company sues Robert F. Gilmore in Jones County District Court for $49.18.
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Farm Institute
Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau
Jones County
Karen Hartwig Biere
London
Esther Sinclair
Scotch Grove
Miss Sinclair
Vernon Company
Newton
Iowa
Robert F. Gilmore
Olin
Jones County District Court
Sixth Graders Form Iowa Club At Carpenter Elementary
Sixth graders at Carpenter Elementary form an Iowa club with officers a constitution and a yearlong program led by Mrs. Les Linn. Officers elected include Glenn Toblagon president Larry Meier vice president Patricia Bunting secretary Janet Wahl treasurer Steven Balster sentinel and Betty Hinrichs song leader.
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New Town Club
Carpenter Elementary School
Patricia Bunting
Steven Balster
Sentinel
Glenn Tobiason
Larry Meier
Betty Hinrichs
Janet Wahl
Iowa
Carpenter
Les Linn
Iowa Club
Glenn Toblagon
Rotary and Lions to Honor Industry Guests
Monticello manufacturers are to be guests of honor at a joint Lions and Rotary dinner tonight in the Community Building auditorium. Howard Hicks will MC and supervise dinner, Dick Long will lead a song, Marvin Chevalier handled invitations, with Dave Duckler and Irving Hintz serving as club presidents.
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Monticello
Lions and
Rotary Clubs
Howard Hicks
Lions Club
Dick Long
Rotary Club
Marvin Chevalier
Dave Duckler
Lion Irving Hintz
Monticello Cub Scouts to Hold Blue and Gold Banquet
Monticello Cub Scouts will host their Blue and Gold Banquet on Tuesday February 12 at 6 30 p m in the Community building marking the fourth anniversary of the local Cub Scout program A trophy will be given to the den with best attendance and neatest uniforms Judges are Frank Williams Frank M Hilers and Don Schlimmer Webelos graduation will be conducted by Orvin Yeoman with invocation by Rev Arnold Schlueter Mrs Lumpa will lead opening and Mrs Schlueter will close with den mothers and committee members introduced and recognized including Dr Robert Savage Vic Richardson Paul Lumpa Ed Brokens Warren Studer A K Jones Marvin Chevalier and others
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Monticello
Paul Lumpa
Den
Frank Williams
Frank Mhilers
Don Schlimmer
dJervice
Orvin Yeoman
Boy Scout Organization
Arnold Schlueter
St. Matthew Lutheran Church
Lumpa
Schlueter
Yeoman
Vic Richardson
Webelos
Ed Brokens
Warren Studer
A. K. Jones
Marvin Chevalier
Frank Wilers
American Legion Post
Les Balster
Operetta Tryouts Held At Monticello High School
Tryouts for Love Goes South by Hadley and Wilson are underway at Monticello public high school led by vocal instructor Clay Dawson. The romantic musical comedy will be staged by students in the auditorium on April 6 featuring music in a popular vein rather than semi classical.
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Hadley
Wilson
Monticello Public High School
Clay Dawson
Monticello Seeks Gas Service From Peoples Natural Gas
Northern Natural Gas of Omaha Nebraska plans an FPC application to serve several communities including Monticello. The letter from Ray K Harrison notes approval depends on FPC action material availability and pipeline work. Monticello previously approved a non exclusive franchise in 1954 for natural gas sales and distribution.
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Peoples Natural Gas Division
Northern Natural Gas Company
Omaha
Neb
Federal Power Commission
Monticello
Ray K. Harrison
Harrison
Ter
Dyersville
Manchester
Waterloo
Dubuque
Farley
Epworth
Cascade
Anamosa
Four Monticello Eagle Scouts Honored at Coe College
Four Monticello youths earning Scouting's highest rank in the past year were named Baden-Powell Eagle Scouts and honored at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. John Fraser of troop 66, plus John Baty Joe Mullen and Allen White of Explorer post 66, were part of the 3 p.m. Sunday ceremony as General Louis D. Burkhalter Jr. spoke, marking Baden-Powell's 100th birth anniversary and the 50th year of the Boy Scout movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Coe College
John Fraser
Scout Troop
Rotary Club
Robert E. Savage
John Baty
Joe Mullen
Allen White
Explorer Post 66
Lions Club
Warren J. Studer
Louis D. Burkhalter, Jr
Hagle
Coe
Baden- Powell
Robert S. Baden-Powell
Boy Scout Movement
Organization
Methodists Begin Basement Work at St Luke's Church
Rev. Sterling J. Baldwin announces basement excavation under St Luke's Methodist Church to serve as Sunday school and recreation space. Cement work to start today. volunteers assist with digging. Project cost about $6,000 with a plan for a kitchen and dining area later. By July total church improvements may reach $10,000 over ten months, including stained glass windows and a new furnace.
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St. Luke’s Methodist Church
Sterling J. Baldwin
Leigh Clark
Baldwin
St. Luke’s Church
Free Pancakes and Machinery Show Sponsored by Onslow Implement
Onslow Chaplin Motor and Implement company will sponsor a Case Farm Progress show in Onslow on Friday February 15. Attendees receive free pancakes syrup sausage and coffee from 10 30 a m to 1 p m. A display of the latest farm machinery is planned with a show at 1 30 p m and door prizes.
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Onslow Implement Firm
Onslow
Chaplin Motor and Implement Company of
Legion Members Remodel Hall Kitchen Plan
American Legion members, led by Commander Ed Brokens, approve remodeling the Legion hall kitchen with a new sink cabinet lights and woodwork refinishing. A February 4 meeting at 8 p.m. in the hall covered the Des Moines Adjutants conference and Iowa Soldiers home building and equipment plan.
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American Legion
Legion Hall
Ed Brokens
Des Moines
Iowa Soldiers Home
Boy Scout Fund Drive Promoted By Local Sponsors
A full page message in the Monticello Express urges Monticello area residents to donate time and money to the Boy Scout movement. Sponsors include Baty Hoffmann Insurance Eclipse Lumber Freese Motors Ferrell Drugstore Kephart Body Shop Great Plains Lumber Iowa Electric Light and Power Jones County Oil Kuriger Brothers Plumbing and Heating Ray Adams Long's Royal Blue Monticello State Bank Stuhler's Clothing M and J Service Monticello Express.
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Monticallo
Boy Scout Movement
Today
Stuhler’s Clothing
M and J Service
Monticello Express
Camp Fire Group Tours Express Plant
Wetomachick Camp Fire group and leaders Mrs. Vernon Wirtner guardian and Mia James Robinson assisted toured the Monticello Express last Wednesday. The group included Donna Buckner Donna Gatewood Judy Schmidt Janet Wirtner Trudy Mil ley Sheila Winkler Patricia Bunting Carol Miller Joanne Stiffler Nenoy Landis Mary Copley Cerena Barnts Juanita Tel Marjorie McChrity Tanya Eden and Mary Myers.
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Wetomachick Camp
Vernon Wirtner
Guardian
Mia
James Robinson
Monticello
Red Cross Plans Local Campaign Start March 1
Monticello and northern Jones county Red Cross launch its annual fund drive on March 1 with a two week solicitation window. Chairman Rev Sterling J Baldwin aims to meet a $2378 quota matching 1956 levels while adding 171 to aid eastern flood areas. The board also discussed burn out cases and assigned workers to assist fire victims.
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Red Cross
American Red Cross
Masonic Temple
Sterling J. Baldwin
Monticello
Jones County
Boyd Shannon
Forrest Deischer
Louis Mors
Howard Hicks
Clark and Helgens File Petitions for Re-Election
Leigh Clark and Herman Helgens of Monticello filed petitions for re election to the Jones county board of education. Helgens is director at large and Clark represents the northwest. Filing deadline is February 19. District and county elections set for March 11.
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Leigh Clark
Herman Helgens
Monticello
Jones County Board of Education
Joseph Beave
Helgens
Clark
Louis Morf
Ed .Cox
Cox
Morf
Jim Maurice
Telephone Service Restored After Cable Damage
Telephone service in Scotch Grove was restored late Thursday after a cable fault caused an outage earlier in the day. Monti cello office crews of Northwestern Bell Telephone repaired the line, working all day and into the night to resume service.
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Scotch Grove
Monticello
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Cartoonist to Perform at Conservation Dinner in Monticello
Tom Kelly, a cartoonist and humorist, will headline a Jones County Soil Conservation district dinner March 7 at 6 30 p.m. in Monticello. John Shover, chairman, said Kelly will illustrate his remarks with colored crayons. The Greater Monticello committee and Extension Service cooperate to bring him. A banquet precedes the program and tickets go on sale after Feb 14.
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Tom Kelly
Jones County Soil Conservation District
Monticello
John Shover
Kelly
Shover
Greater
Husmann Named New Walnut Grove Representative
Ralph Husmann of Center Junction is appointed as a new dealer representative for Walnut Grove feed manufacturing in the area.
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Ralph Husmann
Center Junction
Walnut Grove
Fairfield Pastor Douglass to Speak at Men’s Banquet
Dr Curtis R Douglass pastor of the First Presbyterian church Fairfield and father of Mrs Elmer Anderson Monticello has been selected as speaker for the annual First Presbyterian men s banquet to be held Feb 14 in the church activity rooms Tickets are on sale for the Shanquet served from 6 30 p m He previously led the Iowa City church serving University of Iowa students and spent 14 years as college pastor in Wooster Ohio He is a trustee of Parsons College Fairfield and of Millikin University Decatur Illinois
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Curtis R. Douglass
First Presbyterian Church
Fairfield
Elmer Anderson
Monticello
First Presbyterian
Douglass
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Wooster
Ohio
Parsons College
Millken University
Decatur
Food and rummage sale announced by Monticello BPW
The Monticello Business and Professional Women's club announced a food and rummage sale for February 28 to raise funds for a district BPW meeting on April 7. Members plan to attend a state board meeting in Des Moines February 16 and 17.
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The
Monticello Business and Professional Women’s Club
B.P.W
Ruby Kopp
Emma Heiken
Fern Coward
Des Moines
Monticello
Jane Edwards
Augusta Melsha
Helen Schlueter
Elnora Husman
Miss Heiken
Ruth Copley
Louise Field
Helen Guyan
Margaret Wismeier
LaBreda Kuriger
Freda Rilers
Emma Stadtmueller
Beef Banquet Set With Talks by John C Milton
MARTELLE John C Milton of Chicago chairing the American Meat Institute will speak at the Jones county beef producers banquet in Martello schoolhouse at 8 30 p m on Thursday Feb 21 Roughly 450 attended last year Tickets available from beef board banks county extension office or the Anamosa office Meat from Protein Blenders Iowa City Dinner served by Martello Methodist ladies Big Bills Feed Wyom ing and county beef association co sponsor entertainment A Cedar Rapids troupe will perform Prizes to two 4 H beef winners Gordon Eberhart and Loren Hartwig and market forecasting contest winners announced Master of ceremonies Dale Adams Monticello association president Other officers and directors listed
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Martelle
John C. Milton
Chicago
American Meat Institute
Jones County Beef Producers’ Association
Joe B. Legg
Martello
Theanquet
Beef Board
Anamoa
Legg
Protein Blenders Company
Iowa City
Martello Methodist Church
Big Bill's Feed Store
Wyoming
County Beef Association
Cedar Rapids
Gordon Eberhart
Clarence W
B. F. Schnier
Monticello
M. L. Davis
Marvin Holst
Center Junction
Also Mentioned on This Page
League of Women Voters
Will Corbin
W. B. Clark
Royal Neighbors
Maxine Harms
State Employment Service
Court House
V.F.W
Alcoholics. Anonymous
Monticello State Bank
John McDonald Hospital
Robert W. Starks
Andrew Dotterweich
Raymond Feldman
Sand Springs
George Seibold
Bud Weber
Prairieburg
Weber
Veronica Seibold
Oxford Junction
Howard Hudrick
Maquoketa
Jackson County Public Hospital
Ed Hudrick
Canton
Charles
Bud) Douglas
Jackson County Hospital
Senor
Bureau
Alice G. Larkey
Onslow Consolidated School
Dorothy Schwendinger
Sacred Heart School
Patricia O’shea
St. Martin’s School
Mary+ Ben
Reid
Pasadena
Calif
Rotary
Lions
Eugene Barnts
Eugene DeWitt
Clarence Hosford
Floyd Kephart
Jim Read
Harold White
Robert Savage
Orvin
University of Dubuque
Luther College
Neil Bleghorn
Ron Lang
Maynard Lang
Alvin Albertus
Lang
Bill Johnson
Peoples Natural Gas
Legion
Camp Fire Group Tours Express Plant
Marion
Mary Jo Goodyear
Tom Rhatigan
Betty Butschi
Don Franklin
Marion Sentinel
Conservation Area
Husmann New Dealer
DR. C, Br, Douglass
BPW
Mildred Griffith
Valantas Beauty Shop
Olive’s Beauty Shop
Lorna's Beauty Shop
Frada’s Beauty Salom
Catherine's
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