Card of Thanks for Miss Elesa Hanken
We thank relatives and friends for kindness shown after the death of Elesa Hanken. Your thoughtfulness will be remembered. Mrs. W. H. Hanken and children Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hanken and family.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1954
Page
2
We thank relatives and friends for kindness shown after the death of Elesa Hanken. Your thoughtfulness will be remembered. Mrs. W. H. Hanken and children Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hanken and family.
Notice declares the Shaffer Henderson Tac a private Iowa corporation dissolving by unanimous stockholder vote at a December 22 1952 meeting in Monticello Jones County Iowa. Debts are stated paid with officers Chester Edwards president Elsie Edwards secretary and attorney E W Brashaw.
Notice states Ralph Wilson as attorney for the executor of Eugene A. Fagan and Margaret P. Balster estates in Jones County Iowa. It directs all creditors to pay promptly and all claimants to present authenticated claims to the clerk of the district court, Monticello State Bank handling details. Dated December 24 and December 28, 1953.
Jones County expects fewer government corn loans and purchase agreements in 1953 than last year with applications around 235 to date and a possible final total near 350. ASC chairman Neal W. Hayden cites no reasons but notes most 1953 crop sealing applications are in and compliance reports for conservation projects are due.
Monticello hosted the regular monthly Pastors Conference with Rev. O. Sandbach of Mount Vernon presenting a book review on The Life of Winston Churchill after dinner at the parsonage. About a dozen area pastors attended and plans were made for 1954 Methodist attendance emphasis in the Davenport District.
Monticello appoints a new five member Oakwood Cemetery Board after discovering priorholds. George Mardorf Carl Schneider Dr A K Jones Alva Freese and Louis Morf will serve terms of 2 4 4 6 and 6 years respectively. The council urged clerk as secretary and planned updated records and a new cemetery plat.
Lovell Township Farm Bureau and Lovell Homemakers plan a joint meeting on Thursday January 7 at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Temple Monticello. The program titled Understanding Yourself will be presented by Joe Legg and Helen M Tucker. Bring sandwiches coffee and cake provided.
A county wide ring test for brucellosis will be conducted in Jones county the week of February 8 per county extension director Joe E. Legg. The state federal mobile lab will test milk and cream from local herds with confidential results to dairymen at no charge. Owners of infected herds should contact their local veterinarian to plan control. state law outlines three control plans.
Rural county records show 23 divorces in 1953, down from 37 in 1952. Marriage licenses issued fell slightly from 130 in 1952 to 125 in 1953. The notice also lists numerous social visits and family events around New Year’s in Anamosa and surrounding towns.
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