St Martin's and St Clement's Claim Early Sectional Wins
In Monticello, two games opened the boys sectional basketball tournament with St Martin's Cascade edging Buck Creek 38 34 and Delhi defeating St Mary's Cascade 53 38. Hopkinton beat Peosta 37 21 and St Clement Epworth topped Epworth 37 32. games were slow amid fog and poor crowds. Tonight St Martin's Cascade faces St Mary's Cascade, while St Clement Epworth meets Hopkinton as district qualifiers race toward Saturday's final rounds.
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St. Martin’s
Cascade
Buck Creek
Delhi
St. Mary's of
St. Mary's
Hopkinton
St. Clement of Epworth
Epworth High School
Peosia
St. Martin’s of Cascade
St. Mary's of Cascade
St. Clementi of
Epworth
Xavier
Dyersville
Monticello Panthers
Fastest game of the tourney marks Class A clash
The 18 45 p.m. contest is billed as the quickest game of the tournament. Only one Class A team plays while others are Class B. Monticello will support the Panthers and Dyersville fans are set for Xavier.
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Monticello
Panthers
Dyersville
Xavier
Marion Indians Clinch WaMaC Title With 54 34 Victory
The Marion Indians beat the Monticello Panthers 54 34 to secure the WaMaC basketball crown. Marion improves to 16 3, finishing a season long battle with Anamosa. Lloyd Olmstead leads with 19 points as Marion sophomores top Little Panthers 27 23.
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Marion Indians
Marion
Anamosa
Indians
Lloyd Olmstead
Marion Cagers
Little Panthers
Monticello
Maigh
Nhiew Hares
Olmstead
McConnaughy
Smith
Kroyer
Monti VFW Beats AmVets In Monticello Basketball Clash
Monticello VFW hosted the Dubuque AmVets and won 43 41 with B Meyer leading Dubuque and John Hines Jim Seehusen scoring for Monticello. Monticello next faced Clear Lake in Fort Dodge at the State VFW tournament, falling 48 41, then prepared for an independent tournament in Dyersville starting Feb 29.
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V.F.W
Dubuque AmVets
Monti
B. Meyer
Dubuque
John Hines
Jim Seehusen
Monticello V.F.W
Fort Dodge
Clear Lake
Dyersville
Wilson
Iowa Manufacturing
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Kc’s
Public School
Dubuque K.C
Bowling League News Buckner's Conoco tops standings
Spike's Oilers led the men with high team three game series 1706 pins and Spike Hanken posted a 223 single. Buckner's team had high series 2578 and Ferring of Buckner's had 218. Women’s league shows Spike's Oilerettes leading 39 18 with 684 pins. Bowlmor 34 23 596. Gamble's 24 33 421. Local mentions include hospitality at Vandalia and Monticello visits by the Leone and Baty families.
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Buckner
Conoco Clark
Dubuque Pac
Oilers Henderson Bank
Legion 1
Franklin
Spike” Hanken
Spike
Oil
Ers
Woman’s League
Bowlmor
W.flw
Gamble’s
Kurt’s
Ben Long
Jackie McCurdy
Official Call for Jones County Republican Convention
Jones County Iowa Republicans plan a county convention in Anamosa on March 12 1948 at 10 am to elect 21 delegates to the Iowa State convention in Des Moines on April 2 1948 and to transact other business. Precinct caucuses will be held March 5 at eight pm to select delegates and forward lists to the county central committee. The county convention will have 179 delegates with representation based on precinct votes for governor in 1946. Also includes administrator notice for the estate of John Walker with filing deadlines and payment requests.
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Jones County
Towa
Jones
Anamosa
Town
Iowa
Des Moines
Sch
Erteus
Republican County Central Committee
Republican County Central
Republican Central Committee
Castle Grove
Chagatau
Win Tide
Ob Bath Greenfield Sadiy
WU PV
Jackson
Tones
Jens
Warren J. Rees
Ethel Wartman
Catherine
Doolittle
James A. Maurice
District Court
State of
John Walker
A. D
Ethel Walker
David Walker
Frank W. Less
Flying Lines Update From Monticello to Little Rock Trip
Mr and Mrs Harold Severn departed February 14 in a Stinson Voyager bound for Little Rock Arkansas to visit Dan Hunter and tour the Gulf states over about two weeks planned return March 8. Spectators watched takeoffs and landings at the Monticello airport as planes flew in from Worthington Hopkinton and Vernon Barrack.
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Harold Severn
Little Rock
Ark
Stinson
Dan Hunter
Gulf States
Monticello
Bill Bertling
Worthington
Clarence Feidler
Hopkinton
Vernon Barrack
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van Johnson
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Mar
Louis Hayward
Joan Leslie
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Tom Conway
Thomas Mitchell
Janet Leigh
Monti Vfw
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Bowling League News
Charles Luett
John McNeilly
Michael
Vandalia
Antone Leone
Leone
John
Ross Baty
Cresco
Arthur P. O’rourke
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Mazda
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Tulkhoff
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Ohio
U.S
Jonathan Gano
Express
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Sargent
Star Farmer
Archer Dairy
E. H. Huibregtse
Scotch Grove
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