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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1942
Page
5
The Women’s Society of Christian Service at the Methodist Church inducts officers for the coming year in a morning service led by Rev. Glenn McMichael. Mrs. E. H. Huibregtse spoke on past work and future aims as several officers were present for the ceremony.
Clerk of the District Court Leigh Pearson issued a marriage license January 21 to Joseph Peter Wolfe of Anamona and Ethyl Brainard of Olin to wed.
Former rural school teachers now residing in Jones County are asked to contact the county superintendent. The state department of public instruction seeks to reach them to validate certificates so they can serve their home communities if a need arises.
A Jones county Monticello campaign hosts a January 30 Diamond Jubilee birthday dance at Monticello Community Building to support the March of Dimes and the fight against infantile paralysis. Local committees, “wishing wells,” and dime cards raise funds.
Eighty three registrants classified by the Jones county draft board. Two placed in final 1-A, seven shifted to 2-A. seventy four listed as 1-A tentative. Names include Alvin Brunscheen Ivan Duncan Mearl Eilers Melvin Marek Lester Denison Harold Steiner Lincoln Rickels Jim McLaughlin James McLaughlin Fred Dirks Kevin Keegan Lloyd Folkerts William Fadley Perry Anderson Walter Stoffers Leonard Laetare Joseph Edwards Clarence Johnson Robert Hasler Melvin Collins Dr John Kay Edwin Westphal Clarence Rehrends James Anderson George Folkerts Lawrence Shanney Louis Andresen Clifford Schmalfeldt John Fitzsimons Carlos Eilers Arthur Rie del Henry Moenk Melvin Connell Roy Morning Emil Belling Herbert Timp and more.
Jean Hogan aged 26 died at 6 10 pm Monday after an eight day illness from leukemia. She worked in the Maytag Co accounting department and previously served as secretary to State Representative Thomas Stimpson and in Jones County AAA six percent at Monticello. Born in Anamosa she moved to Monticello as an infant and attended Sacred Heart high school and Mt. Mercy College. Funeral services were at Sacred Heart church Monticello with burial in the local Catholic cemetery. Pallbearers included Elbert Heiserman Elden Brashaw Simon Locher William Stanton Raymond Ferring and Dillon Franks. She is survived by her parents Dr and Mrs M F Hogan a brother Robert of Cedar Rapids and a sister Mrs D W Franks of DeWitt with a sister Rose Ann deceased earlier.
The Monticello Express announces a rare subscription deal. Pay a year in advance and receive 16 months of delivery plus 50 free printed envelopes, all for $2, with a $2.50 rate outside certain counties. Deadline February 15, 17 days away.
The Jones county district court shows light activity with several entries. A guardian petition for August Scherrer vs Engel Lake. a note on Monticel’s State Bank bankruptcy matters. a divorce decree modification in Alaric Swecher vs Lawrence Swecher with custody granted and support reduced. partition cases for Belle Johnson vs Mary C McMurrin with appraisers appointed. guardians ad litem filed in Remley case.
Nineteen Jones county men will leave for army service within a week. Two discharged for age Fred Milata Oxford Junction and Francis O Rourke Monticello depart today for camp. Seventeen more head to induction Feb 4 prior to training including Delbert Carmer Olin Roland Buol Monticello John Zamastil Oxford Junction Irvin Lubben Monticello Robert Mizour Oxford Junction Wilford Osterkamp Anamosa Donovan Tasker Onslow Glenn Behrends Monticello Michal Brady Monticello Edward Frasher Cascade Vernon Inman Anamosa Leroy Kula Anamosa Glenn Smith Oxford Junction Leon Taylor Monticello Donald Nordman Monticello Willis Pavin Anamosa.
Monticello public school begins a PTA sponsored health program serving fresh orange juice to every student and teacher at mid morning recess starting Feb 2. About 600 daily servings are planned with cost about 2.42 dollars per day per student funded partly by donations.
Jones county stock man Charles Guhl marketed 42 Chester White heavyweight hogs at Chicago yards. The 394 pound average pigs sold at 11.50 per cwt with no sorting. Prices peaked at 11.90 per cwt as bids rose, marking the highest January level since 1941 and the session average at 14.66 per cwt the highest daily 1941 high.
Samuel Fraser Reade 81 died last Sunday after illness of old age. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Goettsch funeral home and interment followed at Oakwood cemetery. Born May 17 1860 on a farm north of Onslow he lived in Onslow Center Junction Monticello North English and Monticello for over thirty five years. He operated a shoe repair shop and sold shoes and rubber goods. Survived by wife Carrie L Hanna seven children ten grandchildren and several relatives. Funeral details were led by Rev. Glenn McMichael at the Methodist church.
Wyoming couple Mr and Mrs John Holub celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary and nearby Clarence couple Mr and Mrs Peter Levsen marked their thirty first wedding anniversary with a dinner at the Levsen home. Twenty eight attendees included immediate relatives from both families. Wyoming visitors included Mrs Henry Westphal sr Mrs Joe Holub My and Mrs Lumir Holub and three daughters.
Max Palmer enlisted in the United States Navy on January 15 and is currently at the Great Lakes Training Station with Company 57. He previously worked in Cedar Rapids before joining the navy.
County draft board announces registrars for 28 voting precincts to oversee the Feb 16 selective service registration for men aged 20 to 44 who have not yet registered. Assistant registrars and exact registration sites to be named later. Names listed include Ament, Soukup, Himebaugh, Hartman, Murfield, Echternacht, Lorenzen, Kennedy, Hodoval, Martin, Lange, Lester, McQuillen, Sanford, Sherrill, and others across Anamosa Monticello Cascade Scotch Grove Wyoming and surrounding areas.
A double funeral was held Tuesday for Mrs. Joseph Rausch 27 and her infant son who died Saturday night at Finley hospital in Dubuque. The service was from the farm home near Earlville to St. Joseph's Church with burial in the church cemetery. Mrs. Rausch, born Clara Arnold March 23 1914 at Hopkinton, taught rural schools and married Joseph Rausch March 8 1987 at Earlville. Surviving are her husband her parents four sisters and her grandparents.
Allen Kline of Vinton will headline the Monticello Community Forum banquet in the Monticello community building. The former Master Farmer and current vice president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation has served on state and national agricultural boards and helped represent Iowa on the corn hog program nationally. A 6 30 p.m. banquet will be served by Methodist church ladies with special recognition planned for attendees of seven or more meetings. Monticello Rotary Club plans to attend as a group.
David Welch of Scotch Grove was laid to rest at Oakwood Cemetery after a service at Goettsch Funeral Home. Presbyterian minister Dr. Wm. J. Grossheim led the rites with solos by Mrs. Franz Walker and Mrs. Willard Yeoman. Welch, born May 28 1868 in Jackson County, died Monday Jan 26 at his brother William Welch’s home after three years in Scotch Grove township. He married Angeline Chase who died in December 1980. He leaves four brothers Thomas Ish Abish and Arch and William plus two sisters Mrs Albert Erkenbrack and Mrs Ed Hastings.
Lulu Hubbard files for divorce from W F Hubbard of Monticello charging cruel and inhuman treatment. She seeks restoration of maiden name Lulu Daly. The couple wed December 12 1988 at Goodland Kansas.
Only men out of 58 examined last week by doctors of the selective service system failed to pass the preliminary exam. Those who passed will go to Fort Des Moines later for final examination. Carmela O Toole, draft board clerk, said yesterday.
Ivy lodge No. 87 Knights of Pythias elected and installed officers for the year led by Chancellor commander Claude Appleby and lodge officers including Gerald J. Rehy Cliff Sheperd Sam C. Rhatigan Chauncey Robinson Carl Morning Verdie Richardson Ralph C. Lambert and Orlando Null. Installation was led by Past Chancellor Ralph C. Lambert and L R Hoag, with first degree initiations January 21 and a lunch served by the lunch committee. Plans by the new officers promise a successful year for Ivy lodge.
National Boy Scout week in Monticello is marked by a February 8 ceremony at the Presbyterian church. James Manville and Woody Clark will assist in investing the Presbyterian troop as the Jones county court of honor conducts awards. The article notes Scouts’ war-related efforts and the 32nd anniversary of the organization.
A county wide referendum will decide establishing a Jones County soil conservation district. Landowners vote at designated precincts with a majority needed for state committee authorization. Polling places include Anamosa Monticello Cascade Olin Oxford Junction and others.
Garnet Boss 12 daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Boss underwent an appendicitis operation at John McDonald hospital on Tuesday evening.
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