4 H Way Recaps County 4 H Events and Awards
Jerry Schneiter holds the record for most Massachusetts trip reports with eight servings of places visited and Berkshire county. Hale Wapsie Wanderers girls demonstrated conventional cake making followed by judging butter cakes. Builders club report notes 17 clubs represented and a lively Texas Star square dance. 4 H Leaders Recognition Day at Ames drew large attendance. beef producers honored Thomas McCormick and Jim Murray with Hereford billfolds for home raised champions. Weigh-in dates for junior cattle feeders are Feb 18 and 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Schneiter
Massachusetts
Berkshire County
Garth Grafft
Don Mackey
Phyllis Darrow
Hale Wapsie Wanderers
Ames
Lyle Strong
George Dusanek
Jay Burds
Cletus Goodken
Jones County
Thomas McCormick
Jim Murray
Beeves
Thomas
Iowa State College
Wyoming Fish Fry Feeds 400 At Memorial Hall
Wyoming Community Club served 575 pounds of pike fillet to more than 400 people at Memorial Hall on Wednesday evening in one of its best fish fries in years. Fred Petersen presides over the club with Roy Miller and Donald Brunscheen as officers. Arthur Wallace and Adra Lane hold secretarial and treasurer duties. Directors include O C Bowman Ernest Reitz John M Petersen and others. Kitchen workers listed among club members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Wyoming Community Club
Memorial Hall
Fred Petersen
Roy Miller
Donald Brunscheen
Arthur Wallace
Adra Lane
O. C. Bowman
Ernest Reitz
John M. Petersen
Ralph Orth
Melvin Will
A S C Changes Wool Incentive Plan for Lambs
A.S.C. announces changes to wool incentive payments for lambs marketed with wool starting April 1 1956. Unshorn lambs may receive payments based on weight gained during ownership with full weight used for original purchasers. Current year payments unchanged. Ownership of 20 days required and accounting of head and pounds to be filed.
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Jones County
Richard QO. Hartwig
A.S.C
Hartwig
Lumber Contract Awarded to Des Moines Firm for Bridge Needs
Pioneer Lumber of Des Moines won a Jones county bid to supply lumber for bridge construction. The low bid was 18 731 52 dollars for 30 000 board feet of untreated Douglas fir 59 431 board feet of treated Douglas fir and 2 580 lineal feet of treated timber trestle piling.
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Jones County
Pioneer Lumber Company of
Des Moines
Jones County Board of Supervisors
Prult and Owen
Langworthy
Kennedy Lumber Company
Center Junction
Eclipse Lumber Company
Anamosa
Century Bridge and Lumber Company
Lincoln
Neb
Youth Loses Sight of Eye in Arrow Accident
Kenneth Burda 11, son of Mr and Mrs Burda of Oxford Junction, lost an eye Sunday when a metal tipped arrow struck him. The injury occurred while he and Richard Schoop, sons of Mr and Mrs Schoop, played with bow and arrows at the Schoop home. The eye was removed at St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids. Details of the incident are not known.
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Oxford Junction
Kenneth Burda
Francis Burda
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Young Burda
Richard Schoop
Fred Schoop
Schoop
Arrest AWOL Soldier Here
Francis Busher a 19 year old AWOL soldier was turned over to military police at the county jail by Sheriff Lewis Dreibelbis. He was arrested February 9 in Monticello on no driver's license and later caught driving a car without plates or registration and with an expired license. Busher said he recently bought the car in Wisconsin. He was fined ten dollars and five days in jail but lacked funds and was held at the county jail where it was learned he is AWOL for the second time. His father is listed as Cedar Rapids and his mother in Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Busher
Lewis Dreibelbis
Monticello
Busher
Wisconsin
Justice Court of C. F. Shimanek
Kenneth Carter
Cedar Rapids
A.W.O.L
Wyoming Church Plans Property Purchase for Parking Expansion
The Zion American Lutheran Church congregation voted overwhelmingly on February 5 to buy the Schoff property east and north of the church parking lot. The plan calls for improving the site to add parking. Church women will meet to quilt for home of mercy, with the first session February 14 in the activity rooms.
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Wyoming
Zion American Lutheran Church
Schoff
of Mercy
Lenten Breakfast Opens Weekly Series at Congregational Church
The first of seven weekly Lenten breakfasts will be held Wednesday at 7 am in the Congregational church basement. The public is invited to all faith breakfasts through March 28. Rev. Charles Ellett hosts with Rev. Sterling J. Baldwin delivering the sermonette this Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Charles Ellett
Sterling J. Baldwin
St. Luke’s Methodist Church
Cadet Band to Open Monticello Midwinter Concert
The cadet band opens the Monticello public school midwinter pop concert on Friday February 17 at 7 45 p m sharing the program with the mixed chorus and the concert band A march overture waltz and cornet number highlight the cadet set with six cornet players and a featured horn and drum section including named performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Public School
Doreen Streeper
Brad Dirks
Maynard Lang
Mary Egger
Leona Folkers
Karen Harms
Four Horsemen
Judy Sutherland
Shirley Hanken
Lyda Lehman
Jeanne Morey
Dorothy Baldwin
Phillip Shelley
Joyce Schoenbeck
Jeff Podhaski
Judy Hollar
Linda Steiner
Lynn Baldwin
Mary Jo Goodyear
Monticello Family Returns Home After Illness
Mrs Claude Husmann and family return to their Amber area home after three weeks with Mrs Husmanns parents Mr and Mrs Max Burns as she recovers from a serious illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Husmann
Amber
Landis and Poock Earn Eagle Scout Awards at Coe College
In Cedar Rapids on Sunday February 12 1955 Dr William Eddington addressed about 45 Boy Scouts including Ronald Landis and Gary Poock of Monticello who received the Eagle rank during a ceremony at Coe College chapel The event honored the 1955 Eagles class named the Charles T Hickock class President Dr Howell H Brooks presented a diploma of achievement Landis and Poock belong to Explorer post 66 led by W J Studer The Coe brass choir performed music tailored for the occasion
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Eddington
Coe College
Ronald Landis
Gary Poock
Monticello
Cedar Rapids
Eddington
Howell H. Brooks
Charles T. Hickock
Coe Brass Choir
Stanley Wesley
Landis and
Poock
Explorer Post 66
W. J. Studer
Farm Bureau Sets Soil Bank Session
Anamosa hosts a public meeting to explain the national soil bank plan. Floyd Hodgdon, Jones County president, announces the event with Harry Storey leading the discussion at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Farm Bureau building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Iowa Farm Bureau
Jones County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Floyd Hodgdon
Three Wild Hours Prompts Busy Shopping Spree
The three hour promotion drew strong demand across vendors. Freese Motors sold four 1949 model cars at 149 dollars each while Smitty's Super-Valu reports a quick sellout in 90 minutes. Stock at Rickless dry goods and Edwards Department Store also moved briskly with nylon hose, plisse crepe, and other specials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freese Motors
Louie Freese
Carroll Vaughn
Smitty
Rickless
Stahler
Arch Edwards
Edwards Department Store
Johnny Jones
the Express
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Phone No
Western Auto Associate Store
DODGE
Chevrolet
BUICK
Oldsmobile
Mercury
Hudson
FORD
Vivian
Vivian Hamilton
Hampshire
Wilfred Kramer
Rt. 1
Coggon
Iowa
Raymond Holub
Prairieburg
Monticello Express
Eunice Appleby
Western Auto Associate
Johnson
Gene Taylor
Ben Hankemeier
Herman Welter
Cascade
North Dakota
Grimm Alfalfa Association
Fargo
Washington
Urban Hageman
Coggan
Pete Wolf
Lux
Poland
John G. Dirks
Milton Bader
Pontiac
Huerter
John F. Huerter
Kuriger Bros
Subie
Davidson
Letz Mill
My Place
Worthington
Gilbert Knipper
Hillbrunner Music Company
Wilbur Cartano
Rem Electric
Clarence Acker
Middleton
Wise
Seven State Oil Co
Eclipse Lumber Co
Glen Caraway
Mon
Louie Hanken
Durward Gohl
Mann
The
Express
Lorance Wilken
Indekofer
COLE
F.O.B
Lloyd P
Monticello Express Steel
Walter Eby
Gene Byers
John Brokens
Edwards Dept
Seslal
Jerry Parsons
Helen M. Tucker
County
Home Economist
Builders Club
Texas Star
Marielle Club
Ben Bahnsen
Doc Romer
John Holmes
Myron French
Ray Griswold
William Brodersen
Merle Kitmiller
Melvin Petersen
America
Wyoming Church
Landis, Poock
Harry Storey
I.F.B. F
County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Jack Hoffman
Farm Bureau Insurance Services
Monticello, Iow
Farmers Union
Kenneth Shuman
F.U
Topeka, Kan
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