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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1960
Page
4
The Olin Lions defeated Onslow 61 to 39 to win the Jones County boys championship at Oxford Junction. Morley beat Oxford Junction 60 to 52 in the consolation final as Leland Haring led Onslow with 20 points.
Warren Stroup of Wapello was honored recently for fifty years of service in the Wapello volunteer fire department. He serves as the department’s current treasurer.
Eleanor Aitchison Dunlap, wife of Earl A. Dunlap of Hopkinton, died January 19 at Straub Nursing Home. Funeral Friday at 1 30 p.m. at Hopkinton Presbyterian Church with burial there. Born December 25 1890 in Cascade, she was a Lenox College graduate of 1914 and married in Cascade February 10 1915. Active in church Order of the Eastern Star and civic affairs.
A dated community calendar lists events for January including Marine and Navy recruiters at the post office, Idle Nor club meeting at Mrs Norbert Manter’s home, a decorative pillows lesson, and Neil Sexton birthday party. Other items include Lions and Rotary clubs, Jaycees, Strwaberry Hill school square dance, and security and fraternal group meetings through January 27.
Scout notes describe raising a 50 star flag for pack events and new Den 8 members Lance Yeoman Terron Feeney Virgil Johnson Jim Bone Mike DeSousa Steve Hornstein Tom Locher and David Greenawald with Mrs. Harold Yeoman as Den Mother. Den 9 won the achievement trophy while Blue and Gold Banquet is set for Feb 11 with main speaker Ted Lloyd Hawkeye Area Scout Executive. Den Mother meeting scheduled Jan 25 at the Ted Krouse home.
The newly organized Methodist Men's club will receive its charter Sunday January 24 during the 10 30 a m service. Charles D Bell from Cherokee will present the charter and a potluck dinner will follow. Adult men may contact Marshall Wynn to join as charter members.
The obituary note states a person cannot attend a funeral because of ill health, with a brief expression of condolences and a probable mention of family or mourner's note.
A district court order dated Friday January 15 directed Benjamin Co Jones Anamosa to pay temporary support of forty dollars per week to Margaret R Jones also of Anamosa. Mrs Jones is plaintiff in a divorce action with Benjamin Jones as defendant and payments begin Monday January 18.
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