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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1955
Page
5
Marriage licenses issued for Dale Burkhart and Wanda Stewart in Monticello on Jan 12. Birth notices list three births at John McDonald hospital and additional births across Iowa locations including Traugott and Wordman families, with multiple grandparents named.
Past Noble Grands meet at Mrs. Pearl Claus home with Mrs. Blanche Landis assisting at 8 p.m. Men's Council of the Presbyterian church to supper and meet. Camp Fire leaders hold regular meeting at 2 p.m. at the library. Rotary dine at Methodist church at 6 p.m. Lions board and minstrel show committee meet at the school at 7:30 p.m. 4-H training at Anamosa. Chapter FP PEO meets at Mrs. C. A. Coxsee home. Wayne Homemakers at Mrs. Hans Hoff man home. Scotch Grove Women’s club pot luck with Mrs. Floyd Sinclair. Rebekahs meet at 7:30 at Odd Fellows hall with Bonnie Meade. January 20 Buck Creek church circles pot luck. Teen-Age Drivers club at 7:45 at high school auditorium. Lovell Homemakers at 8 p.m. at Mrs. Henry Adams home.
Max Specht of Monticello was named president of the Jones County Swine Producers association at a Jan. 5 board meeting. Ed Helgens of Monticello was chosen vice president and Otto Danneman of Amber secretary treasurer. Dated terms assigned to Specht Russell Eldred Danneman Harvey Manual Helgens Mortensen. Plans for a swine marketing day at Wilson and Co. Cedar Rapids plant were announced.
Rev John F Baumann pastor of the Monticello Evangelical and Re formed church named chairman of the local Ministerial association succeeding Rev W Russell Hunter of the First Presbyterian church Rev Arnold Schlueter of St Matthew Lutheran church named secretary succeeding Rev Robert V Gildner of St Luke s Methodist church
An unofficial count shows 1954 births exceeding deaths by a bit more than three to one in Jones County. The clerk of court in Anamosa reports 528 deaths at the courthouse that year versus an unofficial count of 170 deaths.
Mrs Charles Tuttle receives large bouquets of orchids from Wailuku Hawaii arranged with water filled balloons to keep stems fresh. The gift honors a Christmas visit and came from Mr and Mrs Wesley Wong as thanks for Margie Tuttles classmate from Ottumwa Heights College. Margie Wong won Miss Narcissus title in 1954 and toured the U S and Canada guesting on Arthur Godfrey's show.
Mrs John B Brokens 82 died Friday at Straub Nursing Home after months of illness. Funeral Monday at 2 pm at St Matthew Lutheran with Rev Arnold Schlueter. Burial Oakwood Cemetery. Survives two daughters Emma and Louise, three sons Fred William and August, 15 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren.
Monticello Teen Age Drivers will meet Thursday January 20 at 7 45 in the high school auditorium announced by club advisor Paul Knipe.
Sharon Freese was installed Sunday as Worthy Advisor of Rainbow Girls at the Masonic Temple with Judy Podhaski serving as outgoing advisor. The ceremony included a full slate of officers and a choir, with Freese escorted by her father Alva Freese and mother advisor Mrs. William Johnson installed for the year.
Jones county board of supervisors invites bids for about 29 000 dollars in lumber and 25 000 dollars in corrugated culvert sections for county road work this year Bids are to supply 6230 lineal feet of pipe 18 to 48 inches and 106 corrugated pipe sections 24 to 48 inches Lumber includes 104 774 board feet of treated Douglas fir and 102 000 board feet of untreated Douglas fir in various sizes
Jones county cattle feeders urged to buy tickets early for the annual beef banquet at Monticello Fed. 3. Calvin Reiss, association present, said ticket sales limited to 400, the Monticello Community Building capacity.
A meeting to explain new social security provisions for farmers will be held in the Monticello public school auditorium Tuesday night January 25 at 7 45 p m. The event is sponsored by the adult evening class program and the Monticello State Bank with a Dubuque social security office representative to speak. Forrest Johnson and Bob Patten are coordinating.
Robert Schoon 39 former Lee Clark Construction employee began duties as Monticello night policeman on a trial basis replacing Ralph B Collins whose resignation takes effect Feb 1 Mayor A P Lambert announced Schoon will train 16 days with Collins starting salary 250 dollars per month. Collins cited friction over police chief duties. Donald Gilmore 31 named chief Jan 4 after Lambert acted as head.
Rev. Mr. Carl J. Manternach to be ordained Feb. S in Christ the King chapel at Loras college Dubuque and celebrate his first Solemn High Mass in Sacred Heart church here Feb. 7. He is son of Mrs. George Mantternach and the late George Manternach of Monticello and a member of the first class ordained from Mount St. Bernard seminary in Dubuque.
PRAIRIEBURG Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Holub are receiving daily Pasteur serum shots after a cat that bit Mrs. Holub on December 24 and Mr. Holub on December 25 was found rabid. The animal was killed and sent to a state lab for testing. Dr Robert Myers reports the Holubs have not fallen ill.
ANAMOSA Don Ratekin was rehired last week by the Jones county board of supervisors as county engineer and given a salary increase of 500 dollars. Ratekin's annual pay is now 6,500 dollars, about the average for county engineers in Town. Leigh Lint became assistant engineer at 4,500 dollars and Dean Herzberger was hired as assistant secretary at 3,000 dollars. The board also accepted bonds of two justices of the peace and two constables. Magistrates include George C. Lawrence of Anamosa and William R. Shimanek of Oxford Junction. Constables are John Sazma of Oxford Junction and W. H. Null. The board voted to pay Mildred Cook 200 dollars for land at Morley adjacent to a county garage. Henry Adams of Monticello, Lee Crain of Olin, and Mrs. Meda Bowdish of Anamosa were re-appointed to the county social welfare board.
Onslow resident 15 year old Mary Ellen Reid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Reid, will perform impersonations of radio television and movie stars on Friday January 21 on WOC TV Davenport. She won a prior talent event at Anamosa Corn Festival earning a trophy and a chance to enter the contest. Votes cast by viewers will be tallied Tuesday January 24 to determine who advances to the semi finals.
Monticello high school musicians joined the WaMac band festival at Marion on Saturday. Practice sessions led to evening concerts by a massed band and a concert band. The ensembles closed with Triumphal March performed by both groups.
Representatives from Cascade Emeline Onslow Peniel Center Junction Downtown Onslow convened in Cascade to adopt a new constitution for the First Presbyterian Cooperative Parish of Eastern Town. The council will include five lay and ministerial members from each church, with areas of service in women and men’s work youth work and Christian education. Regular meetings follow quarterly with special sessions as needed.
The Express begins a weekly church page series for Monticello area churches on page 6. It is a cooperative effort with 40 sponsors including businesses manufacturers and professionals. Ministers were invited to submit church activity news for weekly publication.
A Friday meeting with Mark Hendren and Boyd Shannon outlined a plan to start a Korean veterans vocational agriculture program near Monticello under the G I Bill. Three Korean war veteran classes will be taught alongside World War II courses as interest is gauged for a January 26 decision.
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