Police Court Discontinued in Monticello
Monticello shuts its police court after about two years of operation. Police judge C F Shimanek was not re hired for 1956 but will handle most cases in mayor's court. Shimanek, paid 50 dollars monthly, may see cost coverage in the new arrangement. Ralph Crim is pledged as justice of the peace for the area but has not set up an office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
C. F. Shimanek
Shimanek
Board of Supervisors
Ray Echternacht
Ralph Crim
A. P. Lambert
Lambert
Prison Labor Program In Iowa State Parks Called A Success
Anamosa state park officials say the new prison labor program is going very well. Ten inmates from the men’s reformatory at Anamosa have worked in Wapsipinicon state park since October 3 repairing trails roads and culverts cutting firewood clearing fallen trees and building picnic tables. Joe Brill, state conservation officer, was named to oversee the program coordinating work plans and inmate labor across state parks. Falls 30 feet James Runcie of LeMars was seriously hurt after slipping from a platform on an old R E A line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Wapsipinicon
State Conservation Commission
Joe Brill
Iowa
Brill
James Runcie
LeMars
R.E.A
Auction Calendar listing multiple closing out and livestock sales
Auction calendar announces sales by Nemanmeyer W T Allen near Anamosa Martello Roy Miller Wyoming Louie Hanken Damon Gray Monticello Glen Caraway near Montmouth with livestock and household items. Auctions by Eli Shada Wilbur Colby Louie Hanken Durward Gohlmann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nemanmeyer
W. T. Allen
Anamosa
Martello
Eli Shada
Wilbur Colby
Aucts
Larry Martinsen
Monticello
Louie Hanken
Lew & Harold Bramer
Colby and
Shada
Roy Miller
Wyoming
Auct
Damon Gray
Glen Caraway
Monmouth
Durward Gohlmann
Winchips Celebrate Golden Wedding in Olin Church
Mr and Mrs Alvin Winchip attended the golden wedding of Parley and Winchip in the Olin United Brethren church on December 20. A noon church dinner followed and Mrs Burns read a commemorative poem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotch Grove
Alvin Winchip
Max Burns
Monticello
Parley Winchip
United Brethren Church
Olin
Winchips
Burns
G. J. Hughes
Adult Classes Start January Six Subjects Offered
Public school adult evening classes begin January 16 with six subjects. Courses include public speaking grammar review typing shorthand welding and driver training. Minimum 15 students per class, welding and driver training added if demand and staff permit. Tuition ranges from 2 to 20 dollars per subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyd Shannon
Shannon
Charles Kissick
Mildred Griffith
Darlene Neihaus
Paul Knipe
Forrest Johnson
Youths Admit Three Break-Ins In Anamosa
Two 16 year old and one 15 year old youths confessed to Jones county sheriff that they broke into three Anamosa businesses over the New Year weekend, taking about $5. They entered a harness shop a feed mill and the Benadom Barber shop, breaking windows and night locks. An ice pick at the mill linked the suspects and the case will likely go to juvenile court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Jones County
Lewis Dreibelbis
Benadom
Dreibelbis
Delaware Schools to Get State Transportation Aid Totals
Delaware County districts receive state transportation aid totaling 28,389.54 dollars, prorated at 71.3 percent. Buck Creek Consolidated gets 2,507.42 dollars, North Fork Township 98.42, Kinton Independent 1,205.29, per county superintendent Donald B. Potter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware County
Hopkinton Independent
Donald B. Potter
Buck Creek Consolidated
North Fork Township
The 4-H Way Excerpt From Jones County Bulletin
Nearly 300 baby beeves were weighed in during the busy three days last week. Dick Fishwild Diane Hodgden and Ken Paulsen will be busy Saturday exhibiting pens of western lambs at the Cedar Rapids show and sale. Local 4-H members receive new feed record sheets to improve their record keeping. club leaders will have them before January. The Massachusetts exchange and county officer party included a white elephant gift exchange and memories of holiday visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Fishwild
Diane Hodgden
Ken Paulsen
Cedar Rapids
White Elephant
Massachusetts Exchange and County Officer Party
Jeaders
Plan to Stimulate Interest in Foreign Affairs in Monticello
Residents of Monticello Thursday were invited to join the Great Decisions program starting January 22 at Coe College under the Council on World Questions. The nonpartisan group will use weekly discussions and ballots to gauge opinions on U.S. foreign policy with guide sheets on eight issues prepared by the Foreign Policy Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Coe College
Council On World Questions
C.W.Q
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
U.S
Richard C. Spencer
State Department
U.S.S.R
Asia
Africa
Europe
The
Foreign Policy Association
Spencer
New Year Guests at Carl Schneiter Home
New Year's dinner guests at the Carl Schneiter home in Mon ticello included Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schneiter and children Karen Stevie Beverly and Douglas Supper guests on New Year's Eve were Mr. and Mrs Alfred Baumann of Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Feddler
Grant’s Park
Ill
G. J. Hughes
Henry Heiken
John Wright
Lillie Brady
Joan Wright
R.N
Donna Lea Strothers
Mount Vernon
Dorothy Rand
Anamosa
Esther Sinclair
William Murray, Jr
Hopkinton
Paul Oeschger
Delbert Simmons
Olin
Max Burns
Carl Schneiter
Paul Schneiter
Karen
Stevie
Beverly
Douglas
Monticello
Alfred Baumann
Cedar Rapids
Missing Girl Case Involves 3 Monticello Men
Three Monticello men, Robert DeWald Paul Michels and Lee Warner, face charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after a 16 year old Delhi girl disappeared December 28 and was found in Texarkana Arkansas. FBI agents were to join Delaware county authorities. The girl reportedly left home Wednesday night to visit with a boyfriend and identified herself to Texarkana police as a hitchhiker until her identity was revealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Delaware County
Delhi
Texarkana
Ark
Manchester
Justice of the Peace Court
Robert DeWald
Paul Michels
Lee Warner
Arthur B. Longseth
F.B.I
Delaware
Shebonda Camp Fire Group Hosts Yule Party
Shebonda Camp Fire Group held a Christmas party at Mr and Mrs Gerald Pasker home on December 22. Members sang carols at John McDonald Hospital and Straub Nursing Home. A gift exchange occurred with sponsor Mrs Pasker and Leader Mary Durst in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shebonda
Gerald Pasker
John McDonald Hospital
Straub Nursing Home
Hale Wapsie Wanderers Hold Monthly Meeting
In December the Hale Wapsie Wanderers conducted a club gathering with demonstrations on making quick breads by Jane Holmes and Phyllis Woods and on preparing eggs by Dianne Wilson. Films on muffins and quick breads were shown and the group planned to donate nursery blankets to Mercy hospital in Anamosa. The members also brought Christmas tree decorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HALE
Hale Wapsie Wanderers
Jane Holmes
Phyllis Woods
Dianne Woolison
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
Washington Tigers Club Holds Meeting at Home
The Washington Tigers met at Neil Gavin Dee’s home. Seventeen members answered roll call. Pat Hughes demonstrated rope halter making. Jack Burds explained record book keeping. Four new members joined: Joe Takes, Lloyd Takes, Robert Felton, Loras Felton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Tigers
Neil Gavin Dee
Pat Hughes
Jack Burds
Joe and
Lloyd Takes
Robert
Loras Felton
Monticello Neighbors Attend New Year Dinner
Guests at the New Year dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Sam Moncrief included Cedar Rapids residents Clifford Fye and family Jimmie and Patty Earl Travis and Beverly Margaret Thompson and Mrs Moncrief's sister and husband Otto Hansen all of Cedar Rapids and Robert Moncrief of Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Moncrief
Clifford Fye
Jimmie
Patty
Earl Travis
Beverly
Margaret Thompson
Moncrief
Otto Hansen
Cedar Rapids
Robert Moncrief
Monticello
City Council Reorganizes for 1956 Inaugural Meeting
The January 2 1956 session opened with Mayor A P Lambert sworn in by the City Attorney. New council members Harold Wilcox John Behn D B First and Paul Hearn attended. Absent was Roy Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambert
E. B. First
Paul Hearn
Harold Wilcox
John Behn
Roy Miller
Thee A. P. Lambert
Monticello
E. W. Pasha
Ealth
M. Redmond
Leamon Scott
Ione
Behn
Wilcox
Hearn
Miller
A. P. Lambert
Donald Gilmore
Leslie Bright
Floyd Nelson
Carl Gudenhauf
Nella Hoffman
Roy A. Miller
E. B. Tirst
Ari Blanchard
Lloyd Pickett
Arvil Tuel
Phillip Turner
Mrs
Leamon (Ione) Scott
EB + Brashaw
Donald Morey
Fred Kreeb
Merle Aldrich
Mremen
Gerald Rohr
Mike Brady
Sam Reyher
Darrell Blayney
Ray Brokaw
Harry Matthiessen
Albert Iben
Victor Mowrey
Warren Brokaw
Clarence Stoneking
Raymond Morelf
Larry Goodyear
John Eden
Fred Faust
James Bender
Henry Schone
Max Fitkin
Lester Monk
James Ashby
Iain
Tavern Bartels
Dick Lang
Bud Stoneking
Henry Harms
Eggie Schoon
William Fitzsimmons
Gilbert Hearn
Otto Smith
Publi
Henrn
Towa
DB. B
Awear
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Monticello Express
Armin Jacobs
Cliff Melchert
Mission
Leo Schemmel
C. H. Ferry
Chester
William Ublenkamp
Bolson
Lorance Wilken
Clarence Acker
Middleton
Wis
C.R. Piano Co
1St Ave
BUICK
Riviera
Dr. Dynaflow
Plymouth
Pontiac
Laughlin
David Stead
COLE
F.O.B
Monticello Express Steel Office
Aetf
Studebaker
Ford
Plueger Garage
Lux Leghorns
Lux Leghorn
Lux Leghorn Land Farms
Chevrolet
Oldsmobile
Mercury
Hudson
Curtiss Candy Co
Alex B. Stone
D.V.M
4Th Avenue
Moline
Gene Byers
LaVetta Perrine
Office Girl
Eclipse Lumber Co
Henry Prull, Jr
Kuriger Bros
Davidson
Monticello Roofing Co
Stan Peters
Hoag Duster
Care OF Express
Express
Lucille von Sprecken
Mile
Frank Dawes
Wesley Tolf
Hampshire
H. H. Manuel and Son
Center Junction
SOBIE
South Main Street
Highway 151
Donald Bronemann
Poland
Earl Keegan and Son
George W. Smith
Huerter
John F. Huerter
Wayne
Frank Straub
Kenyon
Dr. Myers
Carl Caspers
Henry, Heiken and
Jack Heiken
Donna Lee Strothers
N. Gill Street
J. R. Hintz
Bill
Hintz
Jerry Parsons
Helen M. Tucker
County
Home Economist
Massachusetts Exchange
U. P
Shebonda Camp Fire Group
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