Monticello woman turns candy hobby into home business
Vivian Hamilton of Monticello Iowa calls herself a candi dolic and runs a small scale candy operation from her home. She keeps it hobby level though licensed and taxed, using marble slabs, pure chocolate, and fondant to craft soft center chocolates pecan rolls and wedding mints for friends and clients.
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Betty Wagner
Vivian Hamilton
Monticello
Vivian
Health Department
Storm Lake
Tom
Foremost Fan Vivian Creates Autumn Candy Varieties
Vivian, aided by husband Tom, crafts a wide range of confections from carmels and butter mints to pecan bark and gingerly dipped treats. She experiments with new ideas such as angels Pecans and white chocolate and offers custom orders for Christmas and party snacks.
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Tom
Vivian
Llove
Farm price supports cut corn surplus and costs in 1961
A Iowa report notes price support and reseal programs covered about half market value, moving 200 million bushels of corn at 1.04 dollars. Anticipation of the 1961 feed grain program absorbed the surplus, marking the first nine year cut in feed grain surplus and leading to cost reductions by lowering production.
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Iowa
Croghan
Obituaries in Hopkinton and nearby towns
Joseph Chapman 55 died at University Hospital Iowa City after months of illness. He was born near Castle Grove November 20 1906 and married Erma Cooper. survived by wife two sons father and two brothers. Frank Kehoe 87 died at home near Monti after a broken hip illness. funeral at St Patrick's Monti with burial at Castle Grove. Mrs Louis Porter 70 died January 16 after heart attack. services at Buck Creek Methodist church and burial Hopkinton cemetery. survivors include husband two daughters son and 14 grandchildren. Lillian A Stewart 65 died January 16 in Monticello after a heart attack. burial Cascade cemetery. survived by two daughters and seven grandchildren. Dale Talmadge 42 of Bettendorf died suddenly at home. survived by wife three children and multiple siblings. services planned in Rock Island. Stanley Topinka 42 of Dysart died January 15 in a Waterloo hospital. funeral in Dysart with Mayflower cemetery services. survived by father brothers and three sisters.
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Joseph Chapman Hopkinton
Joseph Chapman
University Hospital
Iowa City
Cortland
Clara Simmons Chapman
Castle Grove
Erma Cooper
Hopkinton
Frank Kehoe
Charles Short
Monti
St. Patrick’s Church
Immaculate Conception
Patrick
Kathryn Hogan Kehoe
Elizabeth Crowley
Kehoe
Coggon
Francis
Charles
Roberta) Short
Mont
Bud
Frances) O'Connell
Coggan
Louis Porter Hopkinton
Louis Porter
Buck Creek Methodist Church
John Hall
Porter
Ida Ratcliff
Fred and
Jennie Garlinghouse Littlefield Ratcliff
Buck Creek
Methodist Church and Birthday Club
Nelson Porter
Okinawa
Everett
Alma) Beitz
Marvin
Marian) Stahlberg
Monticello
Raymond
Mary Ann Porter
Ryan
Ray LeClerc
Cedar Rapids
John Ratcliff
A. E. Littlefield
Halfway
Ore
Mrs
Jennie Ferguson
Vinton
Lillian Stewart
Lillian A. Stewart
First Presbyterian Church
Gideon S. Krein
Cascade
Stewart
Orvin Yeoman
Yeoman
Lillian Wallace Stewart
Leon and
Olive Hickman Wallace
Thomas B. Stewart
Jefferson
Sac City
Fort Dodge
Cedar Falls
State College of Iowa
Presbyterian Church
Order of Eastern Star
White Shrine of
Waterloo
Eleanor Yeoman
Max
Mary Jane) Sampson
Des Moines
Robert Savage
William Hintz
Paul Lumpa
Raymond E. Adams
Kenneth Howie
James A. Bender
Dale Talmadge
Stanley Topinka
Oxford Jct
Dysart
Oxford Jet
Overton's
Mayflower Cemetery
St Louis
Joseph Topinka
Lodge
Joseph Topinka, Jr
Clutter
Georgia Ales
L. C. Kleinsmith
Lost Nation
Emaline Barber
DeWitt
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Cogcon
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Howard W. Smith
Tony Schmitz
Virgil Heins
Larry
Richard
C. J. Chapman
Leo
Paul
William
St Luke’s Catholic Church
Leo O'Connell
Reserve District NO. 7 State Bank NO
Monticello State Bank
Federal Reserve System
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United States
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Chas. M. Luett
Louis L. Morf
Wanny
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J. J. Locher
H. W. Suthler
J. E. Heiserman
John Shover
G. Thomas
James A. Maurice
M. F. Carpenter
Cecil L. Goettsch
Arend Balster, Jr
State of Iowa
Jones
Nella M. Hoffman
Long's Drug
Phil Tuety Ene
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