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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1951
Page
6
Monticello Mayor A P Lambert proclaims March 1951 Red Cross Month urging citizens to support the 1951 Red Cross Fund. He emphasizes the Red Cross role in military civilian and disaster relief and calls for full community backing during wartime emergencies.
In Jones County recorder Bess Sherman’s office a “Register of Farm Names” has seen only 38 uses since 1911 and two since 1944, the last on February 28, 1950. The register records unique farm names and restricts reuse within the county. a full farm sale transfers the name, partial sale does not unless specified in the deed. A bill to raise registration fees from $1 to $3 is under consideration, but Sherman believes the effect will be small given the rarity of registrations. The first entry, Pine Grove Stock Farm in 1911, was followed by several others through 1916, after which usage dwindled.
The record notes farm name registrations from 1917 to 1919. Mrs Sophia Wesemann registered Pleasant View Farm in 1917, followed by Jennie E and Olive K Pulver registering Willow Grove Farm in 1918. In 1919 the Willow Brook Farm Pleasant View Stock Farm and Bear Creek Valley Farm appear with owners Loomis Wilcox Rohwedder.
The article lists farm name registrations from 1920 to 1948 including Maple Grove Maple Lane Everley Egg Farm Comfy Knoll and Wayneland Timber View Farm Clover Ridge Farm Diamond Dot Poultry Farm Crest Haven Lindale Farms Hillcrest Stock Farm Rolling Acres Wapsie View Farms and Spring Valley Farm. It notes certificates suitable for framing with a possible rush to register farm names as awareness grows.
January brought two fires to the Lakota business district causing about $90,000 in damage per incident. No injuries were reported and investigators assess the causes in both cases.
Eagle Grove celebrates railroad conductor John Vike for fifty years of service with the C N W. He began work in 1900 at age seventeen and has spent a lifetime in the railway.
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