January Term Of Jones Co District Court Opens In Anamosa
The January term of the Jones county district court will open in Anamosa next Monday January 8. Defaults will be called Tuesday afternoon January 29 and an assignment of cases has been made. The petit jury is not called until February 4. A list of docketed cases includes promissory notes and foreclosures with several divorces and guardianship petitions noted.
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Jones County District Court
Anamosa
Petit Jury
Patrick H. Troy Dies at 75 in Monticello
Patrick H. Troy, born April 16 1859 in Castle Grove township, died last Tuesday night at 11 55 at his North Maple street home after six years of ill health. He never married and was cared for by his brother Wille and sister Mary. His brother Willie Troy remains in hospital with a fractured hip from assisting Patrick to a wheelchair. Funeral services set for January 25 at Sacred Heart church Monticello with mass by Rev A L Lorenz. Burial at Immaculate Conception cemetery in Castle Grove township beside his parents.
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Patrick H. Troy
North Maple Street
Wille
Mary
Mr. Troy
Edward and
Honore Malady Troy
Castle Grove Township
Castle Grove
Monticello
Willie Troy
McDonald Hospital
Patrick Troy
Sacred Heart Church
A. L. Lorenz
Immaculate Conception
Castle Grave Township
Rotary To Meet At Atlantic City In 1936
The 1936 Rotary International convention will be held June 22 to 26 at Atlantic City New Jersey. The decision was made last Friday by the Rotary board of directors. The 1935 convention is set for June 17 to 26 in Mexico City Mexico.
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Rotary
Atlantic City
Rotary International
N.J
Mexico City
Mexico
Three Cascade Men Face Liquor Charges
Charles Oeschger Leroy Hayes and Cornelius Gross all of Cascade were indicted at Dubuque on Wednesday by the federal grand jury for liquor possession. Each furnished bond of 500 dollars.
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Charles Oeschger
Leroy Hayes
Cornelius Gross
Cascade
Dubuque
Corn-Hog Meeting Scheduled at Monticello Public Library
Monticello farmers and landowners are invited to a public meeting at the Monticello Public Library on Monday January 28 at 1 30 p m. Norman Clark and Elden Braslaw announce a session with speakers who will explain the new corn hog program and present contracts for signing. The session aims to inform farmers about the government contract and recounts past year gains from the program.
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Norman Clark
Elden Brashaw
Monticello
United States
Monticello One Act Play Contest Set for Jan 30
The Monticello public schools auditorium hosts a home one act play contest on Wednesday January 30 at 8 PM. Judges select best play and best actor actress with awards for top performers. Casts include Mrs O Connor the miner s wife and others from the speech class directed by Miss Georgia Linter. A 10 cent admission funds production costs.
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Monticello
Monticello Public Schools
Georgia Linter
Mr. Barker
Clark Matthiessen
Judy
Jean Liddy
David Brooks
Bill Ferring
Johnson
Boozy
Stuart Stott
Monticello Woman Wins Radio Prize in Omar Won Der Contest
Mrs. John Husman of a farm west of Monticello won a new RCA Globe Trotter radio with dual wave reception. Her nut doughnuts recipe beat hundreds of entries from several states in a weekly Omar won der flour contest sponsored by Omaha Flour Mills. The prize is announced by the sponsor and the program airs Fridays at 7 p.m. on WMT. The Omar dealer in Monticello is E. C. Rickless grocery. flour is carried by George Stahler's Sons and Farmers Mutual Creamery.
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John Husman
Monticello
Route 1
Omaha Flour Mills Company of
Omaha
Neb
Husman
Omar Company
WMT
Omar
E. C. Rickless Grocery Store
George Stahler
Sacred Heart Game Postponed by Weather and Roads
The Sacred Heart versus St. Wenceslaus of Cedar Rapids contest on the local floor last Friday night has been indefinitely postponed due to travel hazards from adverse weather and poor road conditions.
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Sacred Heart
St. Wenceslaus
Cedar Rapids
Close Game With Martelle Tuesday
Monticello fell 17 to 16 to Martelle in a tight Tuesday matchup on Martelle's home floor. Highs and lows swung as both teams traded leads with Eden and Thomas leading Monticello while Sievers and Thede paced Martelle. The result kept Martelle undefeated at home and showcased a balanced box score despite the close finish.
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Monticello
Touth
Martel
Martelle
Martello
Thomas
Thede
Wesemann
Hobart
Eden
Monti
Ferring
Spooner
Parker
Sievers
Matthiessen
Monticeils
Martthreessen Kant Monti
Fraser
Larson
Merten
Warriors
Minnie Ricklefs Injured in Ice Fall near Franklin Factory
Miss Minnie Ricklefs stenographer at Franklin Equipment was injured Saturday after slipping on ice outside the factory. She sustained a fractured nose and facial bruises, sprained wrist, and knee bruise, and is being treated by a physician and cared for at the home of Mary and Bertha Locher nearby.
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Minnie Ricklefs
Franklin Equipment Company
Franklin
Miss Rickless
Mary
Bertha Locher
Dr Glen Rowley Speech At M E Church On Jan 23
A family night supper gathered about 80 church members at the Methodist church parlors. After dinner Miss Beth Walls led hymns then Dr Glen Rowley delivered a church analysis style address to the group.
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Glen Rowley
M. E. Church
Methodist Church
Beth Walls
Rowley
American Legion Meeting At Wyoming January 29
A joint American Legion and auxiliary meeting will be held at Wyoming on Tuesday January 29. All members invited. F L Maudsley Jones County commander leads the event.
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American Legion
Wyoming
American Legion and Auxiliary
F. L. Maudsley
Jones County
One Of The First Subscribers To The Express Dies in California
Mrs. Rebecca Meyers Shaffer Schoonover dies at her Pasadena home on January 13 at age 90 near 91. She long lived in Monticello and was among the paper’s original subscribers, later moving to California with her daughter. She is survived by children and grandchildren.
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The
Express
California
George W. Schoonover
Pasadena
Calif
Zanesville
Ohio
Langworthy
Edna Schoonover
Los Angeles
Mabel Keniston
Bismarck
N. D
Will Overing
Catherine
Hettinger
E. Doutrick
George F. Shaffer
Ontario
Ore
Died at Home Rev Christoph Mardorf Dies Jan 20
Rev Christoph Mardorf of Zion Lutheran Wayne township dies at his Matticella home on January 20 after more than a year of illness. Born April 16 1852 in Melsun Hessen Germany he served as pastor in Solon Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Wayne township for over six decades. He helped establish Zion Lutheran church and a parish school and organized Cryea Grove congregation in 1279. He married Celena Hertz October 11 1875 and had nine children.
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Zion Lutheran Church
Wayne Township
Gut
Christoph Mardorf
Matticella
Anna Mardorf
Herman Rickels
Monticello
Hugo Lutz
West Union
George Mardorf
Mardorf
Zion
Caroline Schroeder
Charles
George
Mission House
United States
Clayton County
Wartburg Seminary
St. Sebald
Strawberry Point
Dubuque
Lutheran Church
Solon
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Jones County
Cryea Grove Township
Zion's Church
Mardoff
John P. Willis
Wishek
North Dakota
Celena Hertz
Philadelphia
Carl
Sumner
Christoph
Christiana
Mrs Earl Davis Died Friday in Little Rock
Former friends of Mrs Earl Davis Florence Erickson learn of her death in Little Rock Arkansas Friday morning January 18 at 1130 due to a heart attack after a minor operation. Funeral services were held January 21 with burial in Little Rock. She was daughter of the late Charles and Margaret Erickson Monticello residents. She attended Monticello Public Schools and married Earl Davis. Survived by husband twin daughters two sisters Margaret Erickson R N and Bessie Erickson of St Louis.
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Earl Davis
Ee Florence Erickson
Little Rock
Arkansas
Ark
Davis
Charles Erickson
Monticello
Unnamed Bulb Produces Three-Plus Foot Red Bloom
George F. Raymond of Sibley discovered a single spike about three and a half feet tall emerging from an African Hy plant bulb kept in dry basement storage. A large dark red bloom appeared at the end of the stalk, with no moisture or salt near the bulb since storage.
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George F. Raymond
Sibley
Osceola
County
Congregational Church Elects officers at Monticello meeting
Sixty members attended the Congregational Church annual meeting in Monticello on Wednesday evening January 16. Following dinner, reports were read and officers elected for 1935 including trustees, deacons, church clerk, treasurer of benevolences and various committees as the seventy fifth anniversary year was announced.
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Congregational Church of
John W. Hoult
Frank Hayden
Albert McNeill
Albert Stuhler
Arthur Skelley
Stewart Stuhler
George Wilkens
Henry Carpenter
Augusta Bliss
Clara Koop
Paul Hanssen
George Fraser
Ray Hodgson
Roy Rickless
George Timmins
Riexs Stuhler
8. G. Gutensohn
Agnes Gearhart
Carrie Page
Harriet Coughlan
Rex Rickless
John Fraser
Imogene Stuhler
Automobile Dealers Meet at Anamosa in Jones County
Jones County automobile dealers held a meeting in Anamosa on Friday January 18 with H W Taylor elected Jones county chairman of the Iowa State Advisory board and C J Matthiessen as vice chair. M J Connolley of Dubuque spoke on the National Automobile association meeting at Detroit noting Donald Richberg as principal speaker and that major automobile company members addressed the gathering. The group praised the automobile code which Richberg said is stronger today and that dealers remain under it. Officers named include B B McLaughlin president N E Bailey vice president and Claude Sears secretary treasurer. It is expected President Roosevelt will issue a maintenance code for garages and repair shops soon. All dealers gate ages and repair shops are eligible for membership in the Jones County Automobile association.
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Jones County
Anamosa
H. W. Taylor
Iowa State Advisory Board
C. J. Matthiessen
National Automobile Association
Detroit
M. J. Connolley
Dubuque
Donald Richberg
Prinelgy
Richberg
Jones County Automobile Association
B. B. McLaughlin
Monticello
N. E. Bailey
Claude Sears
Wyoming
Roosevelt
The
House
Senate
Iowa
Doris
State House
Joan Mitchell
Fort Dedse
Republicancenes
Emeworth
Town Pit
Ge Lee
Moores
Wax production from Chinese insect cocoons grows rapidly
Chinese farmers rear a small insect that spins cocoons of pure wax. They have learned to induce the creature to produce large quantities, enabling substantial wax harvesting.
Mrs Eugene Duer Dies in California
Monticello friends mourn the death of Mrs. Eugene Duer in Long Beach California January 13 at 8 30 pm She was born Jean Grant May 11 1880 in Kinburn Ontario Canada She married Eugene V Duer August 12 1907 at Regina Saskatchewan Survived by husband son John of Elgin TI two sisters and two brothers Burial will be in Broadwater Nebraska, the family home earlier near Broadwater and Scottsbluff. The couple moved to Scottsbluff in 1932 and Mr Duer is in Monticello with a load of horses.
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Monticello
Eugene Duer
Long Beach
Cal
Duer
Jean Grant
Kinburn
Ontario
Canada
Eugene V. Duer
Regina
Saskatchewan
John
Elgin
Broadwater
Neb
Order of the Eastern Star
Bridgeport
Events Of Occurrences Twenty Five Years Ago
Readable notes report a January in Monticello with a 26 below zero temperature and heavy snowfall on the 3rd that blocked railroads. Births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Thomas Redmond on the 6th and Ethel Gest’s marriage to James Farley on the 19th. Marriages mention Lucy Gill’s union with Bascom Belcher in Florida and Grace Rundle with Frank Locher on the 18th. The year records include hog prices at $9.05 per hundred pounds in Chicago and W L Schuets officiating a marriage.
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Pin Pwentys
Monticotta Baye
Jangarye
Thomas Redmond
Ray George
Law
Northwestern University
W. A. Mirick
Independence
L. J. Curtis
Lucy Gill
Monticello
St. Petersburg
Fla
Bascom Belcher
Gill
Cleveland Welch
Omaha
Pearl Heisey
Belmont College
Nashville
Chicago
Mary Schmidt
Bregie Schoon
Roanoke
M. A. Breed
Clotilda d’Autremont
Moanticetla
Harry Murphy
Kendall, Mont
Montana
Grace Rundle
Frank Locher
Hutchinson Ice Cream Drivers Win Safety Award
Hutchinson Ice Cream Company with 99 refrigerated and pointe delivery trucks logged 1 425 000 miles in 1933 and won Borden Company Safe Drivers Award. Herman Schneider received a silver lapel emblem for two straight years of perfect driving while Arthur May of Manchester holds 15 years without an avoidable accident.
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Hutchinson Ice Cream Company
Hecht
Borden Company
Herman Schneider
Hutchinson Tee Cream Company
Arthur May
Manchester
Burrichter Sent To Waterloo Tractor School
Otto B. Burrichter of Monticello employed by Farmers' Implement Co. is sent to Waterloo by manager M. K. Hubbard to take a John Deere tractor erection course. Burrichter brings extensive garage experience and will support the local implement firm’s operations.
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Otto B. Burrichter
Lnplement Company
Monticello
Waterloo
M. K. Hubbard
Burrichter
John Deere
Prisoner Requests Return to Reformatory
A prisoner at the Anamosa Reformatory seeks permission to return to the reformatory. The State Guard is asked to facilitate the transfer and a report is to be made to the institution. The Fort Madison event involved a Christmas presentation to Gov. Herring now displayed in the state house.
Notable Obituaries and Local Incidents in Nearby News
Mrs Franses Vetkha 103, Jotimeen resident, honored in this week’s Nearby News as the oldest resident. Roy Palley of Urbona, living in Benton county, found unable to drive to Vie and skate near the county seat. Frank Coverdale 73, pioneer in sweet clover farming, died at Maquoke’a home after a May stroke. John Arduser 54 of Waverly found dead near Waterloo, coroner cites two weeks since death with no inquest.
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Roy BL Palley
Darmer Livin
Urbona
Sound
Vie
Ant
Benton County
Frank Coverdale
Middle West
Maquoke
Henry Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Farm Magazine
Coverdale
John Arduser
Waverly
Waterloo
Arduser
Dr Swift's Hupmobile Stolen Then Returned
Dr. Swift believed his Hupmobile was stolen after Dr Lod Switch briefly restlessly left it parked outside the A J H Mc Neill residence. Dr G Thomas thought he needed a ride to the hospital and used the Hupmobile, then returned it an hour later, relieving Dr Swift and discomfiting Dr Thomas.
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Dr. Swift
Lod. Switch
A. J
Dr Swift
Thomas
Swift
Cedar Rapids Scout Officers Re elected Leader Henry M Files
Henry M. Files of Cedar Rapids was re elected president of the Cedar Rapids area council of Boy Scouts for 1935 at the annual area meeting in Cedar Rapids. Files and James J. Minloney received the Silver Beaver Award, the highest local council honor.
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Henry M. Files
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa Shirt Factory Reopens Employing 100 Workers
The Gordon East Coast Shirt company in Anamosa has reopened after a six month shutdown. One hundred people are now employed with plans to add more as production increases. The Parent-Teachers Association will meet on January 29 with details about local schooling and company presentations.
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Anamosa Shirt Factory
Gordon East Coast Shirt Company
Anamosa
Jones County Basketball Tourney at Monticello High
Nine boys teams and six girls teams enter the Jones county event at Monticello High February 14 15 and 16 Pairings set by the Schoolmasters club Wyoming. Boys top bracket includes Anamosa Martelle Monticello Morley with byes for Olin and Onslow. Girls feature Oxford Junction Ons low Marley Wyoming Center Junction Olin Martelle bye.
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Monticello
Int
Schoolmasters’ Club
Wyoming
Olin
Onslow
Anamosa
Martello
Morley
Oxford Jishion
Center Junction
Olin Onslow
Jones County
Topic Club Organized In Monticello
A group of fifteen men in Monticello organized The Topic Club, a literary society with papers read and discussed on current topics. A. B. Grimes serves as president and Tom Hamilton as secretary, with membership limited to 15 men.
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A. B. Grimes
Tom Hamilton
State Legislature Elects Officers In A Couple Of Parties
A roll call in the Iowa legislature shows party caucuses shaping votes for the speaker and senate president pro tem. New members were sworn in and seated as the session opened amid discussions of patronage and balance between Republicans and Democrats.
Recheck Of Ballots In Election Contest
Judges hear the contest of Judes A B Glork versus Co Maus over about 35 090 ballots in the eighteenth judicial district from the November 6 general election. Jones county results, custody by Deorne Fo Specht, and a recount underway show several ballots questioned and set aside for ruling.
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Judes A
Glork
Co Maus
Haws
Patrots
Jones County
Deorne Fo Specht
Specht
Linn
Eichhorn
AL Bo Chak
Cedar County
Mareda
Ft! Tad
Monticello to Meet Mechanicsville in Friday Basketball Night
Monticello high school basketball hosts Mechanicsville Friday with junior teams clashing at 7 15 p m tight defense and fast action promised. The double feature ends with the Monticello Mont team facing Hopkinton independents while boxing bouts occur at halves. Monticello travels to Marion on Tuesday January 29 to face the Marion Indians in a fast game.
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Monticello High School
Mechanicsville
Amarrow Nocht
Wiy
Hich
Sirizmont
Hopkinton Independents
Mechanicsvile Junior High
Monticello
Hopkinton Aces
Dairymen
Montiello - Mechantesville
Marion
Marion Indians
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jones Co. District Court
F. O. Ellison
D. W. Bates
Et Ad
Fred Fedderson
Herman F. Brunscheen
W. B. Pye
Agnes Mitchell
Guardian. Co
BE. Reddin
F. A. Carstens
Emma Dorlan
A. T. Madsen
Earl R. Ott
Western Transportation Company Et al
Joseph Smith
Woodbury County
Anna Fe, Skelding
I. W. Suter
J. G. Suter
Anna E. Skelding
Guy P. Foote
Anna Soukup
John Ludwig
Ivan Dahlem
Mary Dahlem
Bertha Eby
Ray Sanford
Duane Eby
Ben W. Eby
Florence Driscoll
Arthur G. Moenck
Monticello State Bank
Linda Kiburz
M. F. Stickley
Miles Landis
Charles Sherman Jr
Dwight Keagley
Raymond L. Adams
L. BE. Hoag
Tyler & Downing, Inc
Alvin Kunkhammer
Henry J. Westphalia
Citizens State Bank of Wyoming
Fred Pankow
Helen Schreiber
Ellen Connell
Hanna English
Francis Abel Hankins
Luella Margaret Hankins
Evelyn Northrup
Robert Northrup
Annie Ludwig
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Margaret Owen
John G. Schneider
Verena Gundlach
Levi A. Birk
Anna C. Birk
Mike Breen
Robert Vesey
Julia Vesey
Radio
Junior High
Senior High
Dale Greenawild
Christuc
I Mardore
Congregational Church
Woutierle
Eflers
Bolton
Beery Brothers
W. A. Beery
J.de. Smith Diag. Atddertoi
Hutchinson Ice Cream
O. B. Burrichter
Waterloo Tractor School
Anaaiosa
Re Pormavtory
Franses Vetkha
Jotimeen Counews
Seelock
Lidiin Ertertabaie
Monticello High
Oxford Junction
Marley
Wyomine
General Assembly
Maore
Moore
Harrison
Shelby
Taylor
Wayne
Woagbury
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