Monte Eye memories mark Monticello High’s first year
Elaine Reed Mitchell recalls the 1920 Monte Eye, Monte High School’s first publication later renamed Philomonte. She lists staff roles, notes Argentine students Alberto and Ricardo Cilley, and describes lithography trips to Anamosa and school discipline of the era.
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Luett
Monticello High School
Monte Eye
Philomonte
Monticello
Monte High
Robert Cushman
Elaine Reed
Alberto
Ricardo Cilley
Bugs
Eldon Rohn
Leyland Shelley
Anamosa
Elaine Reed Mitchell
W. H
Thirty Six Students Selected For New Mixed Chorus
A mixed chorus of thirty six members has been chosen by the music instructor Miss Huldah to participate in the annual music contest next semester. The roster includes first sopranos Helen McLaughlin Lucille Huibregtse Betty Crane Celestia Kuhns Mary Lou Luett Verona A ninga Joyce Wismeier Delores Yossi Janann Schweitzer. second sopranos Gloria Babb Eileen Appleby Virginia Clark Janet Howie Akos Yola Rodman Bea Ritter Arline Balater Eloise Timmins Wilma Doris Yount Anne Marie Husman. tenors Bill Marsh Laverne McVay Keith Wahl John Messerli Bob Husman Marv Schoon George Coxsee. baritones Chuck Ross Carl Fagan Dick Landis LaVern Don Howie Gene Walker. basses Ralph Bender Jim Bone Stan Schrader. accompanist Becky Grimes. They reported to the music room Monday at 1 40 for a first combined sing.
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Miss Huldaht
Helen McLaughlin
Lucille Huibregtse
Betty Crane
Celestia Kuhns
Mary Lou Luett
Verona Mminga
Joyce Wismeier
Delores Yossi
Janann Schweitzer
Gloria Babb
Eileen Appleby
Virginia Clark
Janet Howie
Akos
Yola Rodman
Bea Ritter
Arline Balater
Eloie Timmins
Wilma Doris Yount
Anne Marie Husman
Bill Marsh
Laverne McVay
Keith Wahl
John Messerli
Bob Husman
Marv Schoon
George Coxsee
Chuck Ross
Carl Fagan
Dick Landis
LaVerne
Don Howie
Gene Walker
Ralph Bender
Jim Bone
Stan Schrader
Becky Grimes
Music
Grade News Reports and New Pupils at Local School
Ruth Reuter substituted in kindergarten for two days due to Miss Hunter’s flu. First grader Earl Smith celebrated a birthday. Richard Schrove started second grade after moving from Columbus Nebraska. Audrey Eggers visited third grade from a country school. Marvin Jacobs enrolled in fourth grade from a rural school near Scotch Grove. George Stuhler returned from Florida just before Christmas break. The zero grade noted the departure of David It to Windom. The geography class begins the Flight of the Silver Bird story about a Pacific clipper voyage with crew interviews.
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Ruth Reuter
Miss Hunter
Earl Smith
Richard Schrove
Columbus
Nebraska
Audrey Eggers
Marvin Jacobs
Scotch Grove
George Stuhler
Florida
David
Windom
Meola
Pacific
Unique G A A Carnival Ends Semester With School Dance
A school carnival fills the gym with confetti booths a fun house fortune tellers and fish ponds during the Night of the A A carnival on Friday January 26 tickets for concessions cost a penny. A final high school dance follows the event with a grade school matinee earlier in the day. A separate note recalls a 12 year old boy Leslie Wirtz of Mason Paley who fell through the ice on Clear Lake and was recovered 34 hours later near his grandfather’s home.
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Leslie Wirtz
Mason Paley
Clear Lake
Monti High School Conference Game Preview
January 19 features Rosevelt High against Monti in a conference matchup while January 26 brings University High to Monti for another league game. Editor Janet Howie notes staff reporters and typists across the Anamosa area.
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Marineey
Anamosa
Jashany
Rosevelt High
Monti
University High
Readership Letter Sparks School Gossip
A lively reader letter from Yale school life recounts a missing senior girl and a convalescing freshman showing interest in new eighth grade students. The note hints at campus gossip and a rumor mill, joking about a future Walter Winchell and a mysterious candy gift to a freshman clarinet player.
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Yale
Walter Winchell
Sociology class reports on the Negro Topic
The Sociology class studied the Negro Problem with reports by Yola Rodman on Negro Music Helen Moore on Negro Business Ruth Roberts on Negro Health Kay Woodall on Negro Literature and Eileen Woellert on Negro Character The reports proved interesting to the class.
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Yola Rodman
Helen Moore
Ruth Roberts
Kay Woodall
Eileen Woellert
Vacations Noted Inquirers Report On Monticello Folks
In a light hearted column Janann Schweitzer and local students recount vacations with Manchester friends and other town residents. Kay Bays teases about romance while Mr Klumpar jokes of Cedar Rapids escapes and weight loss.
Leap Year Ahead Bachelors Column Replies
A Monticello Iowa reader praises a high school boy who carries ice up stairs daily and asks for more such effort. The reply offers an apology for a mistaken impression and suggests a night job schedule change as the cause.
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Monticello
Iowa
Sally
Philomonte
Wyoming farm sale to Minna Hansen and local news
The C P Lorenz en farm two miles northwest of Wyoming 66 acres with improved buildings sold last week to Minna Hansen daughter of Mr and Mrs John Hansen of Wyoming a counselor of high school students in Duluth Minnesota Lorenzen will remain on the farm W N Morse elected Wyoming fire chief and officers named A oyster supper followed the meeting New residents include Chester Wright John White and families and Lee Smart opening a shoe shop at Hotel Williams Canal Zone service for Ervin Eden and John Heasty Ennis Zeilinger attends funeral of Prof Max Fritchel church and club activities noted Later Mrs F L Harrington travels to Phoenix and Verna Allen resumes studies at Scovill Business College in Clinton and Jeanne Roush visits family Numerous community notices and local moves recorded.
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Wyoming
C. P. Lorenzen
Minna Hansen
John Hansen
Duluth
Minn
Lorenzen
W. N. Morse
Wyoming Fire Company
W. W. Bronson
Theodore Becker
Ernest Reitz
Howard Demoss
Claude Sears
Morse Cafe
Chester Wright
Platteville
Wis
Elmer Coburn
Pixley
Wright
International Harvester
John White
Waukon
James Inglis
White
John Lurkens
Amber
Stella Mallicoat Gray
Lurkens
Thomas Eichhorn
Williams
Lee'Smart
Smart
Cedar Rapids
George Myers
R. B. Pollock
Austin
W. B. Curry
Harriet
Emma
Myers
Canal
Midland Homemakers Club
Joe Holub
Lumir Holub
Peter Sivers
Eugene Abrams
John Radloff
F. L. Harrington
Phoenix
Ariz
Raymond
Verna Allen
Clinton
Scovill Business College
Austin Allen
Edith Wyrick
Baldwin
Miss Allen
Jeanne Roush
The
Presbyterian Hospital
Chicago
W. S. Roush
Student Council Still In Demand
A call for a student council proposes elected councillor and helpers to voice school concerns. The piece argues the council would operate under rules, keep teachers out of control, and empower students to change decisions by working together.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Congress
Two Wads Compare Lives In A Waste Basket Tale
A torn paper wad narrates life in a school waste basket after being chewed and tossed by a student. It encounters a talking wad of gum that describes its own origin from a gift wrapper and the bittersweet drift from sweetness to neglect.
Coming Wedding Announced in Sand Spring
Announcement of the coming marriage of Matilda Faber and Matt Manternach is recorded in Sand Spring. The note lists relatives and local connections with a string of visits and family gatherings surrounding the couple’s forthcoming nuptials.
Community Notes From Local Homes and Visits
Wake of Mrs. Ernest Kula at Monticello on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Herbert Cox and sons Dick Dean and David from Center Junction were Sunday guests at the E H Cox home. Will Oehler of Delhi works at the local creamery. Shirley Hakes of Viola visited her grandparents Mr and Mrs Lee Drum barger for several days.
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Sand Spring
Matilda Faber
Matt Manternach
Ray Chaplin
Jack
Paul
Onslow
Clinton
Fred Egger
Nelson Freeze
Lucretia Dean
Viola
Lee Drumbarger
Cyril Stevenson
Albert Kula
Prairieburg
Monticello
Lester Wilson
Ryan
Dave Wilson
Leslie
Tipton
Howard Beck
Manchester
Minnie Heeren
Caprduser
Ana
Ernest Kula
Herbert Cox
Dick, Dean and
David
Center Junction
E. H. Cox
Will Oehler
Delhi
Shirley Hakes
Hawthorne club meeting features “Goosie in the Home”
Wilkel WURMuCR and Richard of Preston stayed with L. M. Koch’s hosts on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Fred Latare plus Arnold and Esther visited Mount Vernon. Donald returned home with them. Rev G J Reilingesh presented the program at Hawthorne club Monday with Mrs L B Madsen and Miss Georgiana Butcher.
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Wilkel Wurmucr
Richard
Preston
L. M. Koch
Fred Latare
Arnold
Esther
Mount Vernon
Donald
G. J. Reilingesh
Goosie
Deanna Durbin Stars In First Love At Prin cess Theater
Deanna Durbin appears in her sixth feature First Love a mature romance directed by Henry Koster and produced by Joe Pasternak at Universal studios. The program includes songs such as One Fine Day and Home Sweet Home as part of the film’s musical numbers.
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Deanna Durbin
Princess Theater
Joe Pasternak
Deanna
Henry Koster
First Farm Land Company Affiliate Report
Report as of December 30 1989 by a Monticello Iowa affiliate of Monticello State Bank. It operates to hold property taken by the bank and acts as liquidating agent with the bank exercising complete control of the affiliate through ownership of all capital stock.
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Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Act
First Farm Land Company
Monticello
Iowa
Monticello State Bank
Towa
First Farm Land Company Statement Disclosure
An affidavit sworn by H. M. Carpenter Jr. as president of First Farm Land Company discloses stock affiliations with a bank and other obligations totaling around twenty thousand dollars. It states the need to fully reveal relations with the bank and asserts the statement is true to the best knowledge and belief.
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H. M. Carpenter, Jr
First Farm
Sworn Statement of Iowa Directors in 1940
A notary public in Jones County swears to the signatures of directors including M Carpenter Jr and J Locher for a state filing dated January 8, 1940. The document lists several named directors and affirmations of their oath before J R Mever.
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EIA Smy
I. Rk. Meyer
HH. M. Carpenter, JR
R. A. Cartano
C. G. F. E. Stimson
C. A. C. Thomas
F. E. , McLaughlin
Geo
Ambuehl
E. E. Hicks
H. W. Stuhler
T. M. Mond
Cong
J. J. Locher
J. R. Mever
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First School Annual
Montini
W. H. Mitchell
Most Union
Shirley Hobert
Jeantte Lubben
Margaret Bader
Ben Long
Betty Adams
Betty Otten
Gertrude Ortgies
Gertrude Wenger
Vernona Vernon
Doris Otten
June Henrichs
Lorraine Jacobs
Robert Eggers
Elizabeth Lee Byerly
Wilma Grossheim
Rebecca Grimes
Loretta Gerdes
Ruth Hoffman
Don Owie
Deloris Bohiken
Kathleen Adams
Marion Deischer
Betty Clark
Eleanor Cooper
Jeanette Lubben
Robert Heyen
Mark Rodman
Chatterbox
Kansas
Kay Bays
Grie
Ervin Eden
Henry Eden
Canal Zone
Panama
Clarence Sears
Youngstown
Ohio
Elmer Buckingham
Charles Marshall
William Peck
Cozy Club
Quality Cafe
Bridge
Lester French
John von Sprecken
Marvin Nissen
Lyle Jenkins
John von Sp
E. Schrove
Fisher
Buick
Flint
Mich
Lows
Louisville
Louisville Ear Drum Co
Dept. I. A
W. Broadway
U.S.A
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
United States
Ee Ees
Federal Reserve’ Bank
U.S
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