Fiddlers and hog callers set for Monticello home talent contest
The Opera House in Monticello will host an all talent show on February 22 featuring fiddlers hog callers dancers and various acts. Five prizes totaling fifty dollars will reward top performers chosen by four audience judges. Open entry is free by contact with Ernest Landis theater manager or at the venue around 7 pm. The program starts with pictures at 7 pm, contest at 8:30 pm, and last year’s crowd overflowed with 300 people aiming for seats.
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Opera
Monticello
Ernest Landis
Ice Jam Destroys Bridge North of Olin
The Wapsie River ice jam broke last Saturday morning, taking out the first bridge north of Olin. A 100 foot wooden span hung on a center column with cables restraining it. Blasting began Friday under County Engineer F S Vetter and continued Saturday. Traffic on state highway 38 was cut off. Officials anticipate salvage or replacement as the highway commission plans a new bridge and river course change.
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Wapsie
Olin
F. S. Vetter
State Highway Commission
Buick Dealers Hold Sales Conference in Cedar Rapids
Burton McLaughlin of Monticello joined twenty four Buick dealers from northeastern and central Iowa for a dinner and sales conference at the Hotel Roosevelt Cedar Rapids last Friday. The meeting was led by W. E. Hasting Buick Motor Co Chicago H. F. Banks Waterloo district representative and arranged by T. L. Hughes Davenport. Dealers reported strong year to date results and optimism for Buick’s outlook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton McLaughlin
Monticello
Buick
Iowa
Hotel Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
W. E. Hasting
Buick Motor Company
Chicago
H. F. Banks
Waterloo
Wisconsin
Illinois
T. L. Hughes
Davenport
Republicans Call Caucus For Monticello March Delegates
The Monticello Republican committee issues a caucus call at the Legion Hall next Tuesday evening February 21 at 7 30 to select delegates for the county convention in Anamosa February 25 The county delegates will go to the state convention to nominate delegates for the Republican national convention for president and vice president.
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Republican Party of
Monticello
Legional
Anamosa
Sacred Heart School Notes Highlights Week Activities
Sacred Heart notes record a Monday St Valentine party at the school auditorium fundraiser for the missionary society with games and dancing. Third to fifth graders enjoyed a Valentine party Tuesday with games and a light lunch. Sacred Heart lost to St Martin's at Cascade but won 24 to 14 in the rematch, led by Monticello. Bob McAleer led scorers. Tom White and Jean Ann Liddy were ill but improving at home.
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Sacred Heart School
The
Missionary Society
Sacred Heart
Cascade
St Martin's
Monticello
St. Martin's
Bob McAleer
Tom White
Jean Ann Liddy
Monticello High Girls and Boys Basketball Roundup
Monticello High defeated Wyoming High 37 to 11 on home court Monday night. Winners of the Feb 10 home declamation include Evelyn Eby Lucia Schoon and Ayelda Hanssen with sub district at Monticello Feb 29 featuring Monticello Anamesa Hopkinton and Buck Creek.
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Monticello
Wyoming High Cagers
Evelyn Eby
Lucia Schoon
Ayelda Hanssen
Anamesa
Hopkinton
Buck Creek
Danke
Scout Exhibit Highlights Club Effort and Hikes
Notes describe a first scout exhibit with mixed success and credit to Scouts Stickford Langer Kay Rickless George Rodman and Dickey for the display. Plans call for a better spring exhibit and an upcoming hike day with more contest stunts. The update thanks the public library poster and the scouts book list.
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Stickford
Langer
Kay
Rickless
George
Rodman
Dickey
Weather Wet Enough To Satisfy Ducks This Week
Last Sunday brought a sunny spring day before a steady rain Monday, making roads slick. Mail carriers could reach few side roads as state primary 161 grew treacherous and two cars slid into ditches near Monticello on the Amber turn, muddy shoes the result.
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Lincoln
Monticello
Amber
Train Schedule for Monticello C M & P line
Public timetable shows arrival and departure times at Monticello station for C M and P trains including passenger Nos 22 31 27 23 32 25 26 28 and freight Nos 96 94 93 95 97 with connections at Delaware Oxford Junction and directions to Chicago Davenport Dubuque and Omaha.
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C. M. & Pacific
Monticello
A.m
C. R
Oxf. Jet
Chi
Oases
Calmer
North
iNo
Cedar Rapids
Farley
Dubuque
Calmar
Pts
Norts
Delaware
Oxford Junction
Chicago
Marion
Omaha
Scotch Grove Notes on Health Relocation and Roads
Scotch Grove reports families returning from Monticello hospital after illness, with updates on hospital stays and recoveries. Local moves include the Rathbuns to Monticello and Sackett to the Carr place, amid road conditions affecting travel and farm meetings. County health actions gain approval, including a health nurse program and Jones County Health association formation.
Real estate transfers noted including sales near Franklin factory
Over the past week Herman Schneider sold his house and lot near the Franklin factory to Elmer Coon for 3000 dollars. A. M. Maurice bought five lots owned by Rev. A. P. Walton opposite two houses built by Dr. Maurice. E. C. Hughes of Scotch Grove bought a house and lot south of the public school and plans to move to Monticello soon.
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Herman Schneider
Franklin Factory
Elmer Coon
A. M. Maurice
A. P. Walton
Maurice
E. C. Hughes
Scotch Grove
Monticello
Thumb Injury on Fire Engine Workman
Bill Corbin fractured the first joint of his right thumb while working on the new fire engine. The bone broken and flesh cut. Doctor Gibson set the break and sewed the wound, with hopes it will unite. He is expected to recover, after careful treatment.
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Bill Corbin
Dr. Gibson
Newfoundland eyes Labrador sale over privy council award
The piece notes Newfoundland’s vast Labrador resources and asks who would buy. It outlines proposed sales to Canada or the United States, mentions the privy council award, and cites varying price estimates from 30 to 50 million dollars while Quebec and Ottawa stay silent.
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Toronto
Labrador
Newfoundland
Privy Council
U. S
Canada
United States
Uncle Sam
Alaska
Quebec
Ottawa
St. Lawrence
Taschereau
Judge Upholds Girls Right to Kiss After Bike Ride
Judge F Brad ley of Lytham ruled that a sixteen year old girl could kiss a boy after a bicycle ride without shame. A mother and daughter charged a neighbor with assault after a man passing by commented that the kiss was disgraceful. the neighbor was fined as several youths watched in the street.
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London
Bradley
Lytham
Marry Schnepp joins Iowa youths abroad with Marines
Forty Iowa youths in the marine corps are sent abroad for foreign service in January. Marry Schnepp, 21, of Olin, travels from Quantico to Nicaragua, after joining the Marines last April. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Schnepp of Olin.
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Marry Schnepp
Olin
Iowa
Marine Corps
Schnepp
Nicaragua
Quantico
Marines
J. R. Schnepp
Straw Hat Tragedy Sparks Apartment Outburst
Chicago man J. Murray of the Valeglen apartment tosses a straw hat to a cab window then later to the street. A series of confrontations ends with police, a collapsed flat, and Murray’s estranged wife in fear as the hat vanishes and a fire results.
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Chicago
Pater J. Murray
Valeglen
Edgewater
Murray
Thomas Gordon
Mr. Murray
Giordon
Gordon
Women Ill More Often Than Men in Angerstown Study
Washington reports a U S Public Health Service study by Dr Edgar Sydenstricker using two years of illness records from Angerstown Maryland. It finds overall female morbidity at 1.8 times male with lower rates in external causes but higher rates in respiratory infections.
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Washington
Edgar Sydenstricker
United States Public Health Service
Angerstown
Sydenstricker
London producer’s rehearsal room ducking curtain advice
A famous London producer hands the orchestra a final rehearsal tip saying when the curtain falls on the last act they should duck. The anecdote suggests his skepticism about the show’s success.
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London
Potash Search in U S Yields Good Results
Washington reports early tests by Commerce and Interior departments show encouraging potash findings despite limits. Core drilling in Eddy County New Mexico found about 50 beds with 2 percent or more potash between 838 and 1770 feet depth.
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Washington
Commerce and Interior Departments
United States
Interior Department
Eddy County
New Mexico
Cranke Faces Claim as Town's Worst Crank
A writer in the American Magazine calls Cranke a crank who knows exactly what he wants and insists until he gets it, labeling him the worst crank in town.
Amiable People Reflect Sunshine In Appreciative Hearts
The text portrays amiable people as kind and generous in social contact, often enduring imposition yet radiating warmth that earns them widespread appreciation and admiration from others.
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Fiddlers
Opera House
Donald Burrichter
John Sanford
Boy Scout
Fritz Schlemme
Fern
Mr. Schlemme
C. B. Carson
Carson
Lee Rathbun
Alta
Carr Place
Rathbun
Amos Sackett
Jones County Health Association
Trinity
Presbyterian
Farm Bureau
Himebaugh
Carl Hammer
Danbury
J. N. Kiburz
J. L. Prouty
Edinburg
Texas
Carl Rickels
Onak
Lester Gearhart
Ed Brazelton
Brazelton & McLaughlin
Center Street
Kathryn Young
L. E. Hutton
L. F. Balster
Henry Badberg
Center Junction
Towa
Poland
China
Farrow
Liddy
A. G. Bohiken
Korndyke Ona Burke
Prairieburg
G. J. Eiben
S. C
Eilert Prull
Rhode Island
J. L. Weber & Sons
Ongonde
W. H. Winans
Thos, F. Stimpson
Monticello Exchange
F. J. Burrichter
EB. J. Lightfoot
Wight
Fred Shover
Ray George
R. H. Rickless
Young Bros
J. M. Young
Higley Ridg
Lloyd Soper
Ryan
Delaware County
H. J. Dunlap
Tom Barron
John F. Null
Rior
O. W. Leghorn
England
Jamesway Brooder
Pleasant Knoll Hatchery
Hospital
Aibtt
Ames
F. J. Gestel
Oelwein Chemical Co
Oelwein
Cranke
Kash
Karry
Rae
Kasper & Wroblewski
L. P. Waddick, Auctioneer
Lovell State Bank
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