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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1944
Page
4
The annual home golf tournament is underway with first round 18 hole matches due by Sunday night July 16. Finalists will play 86 holes as the event progresses with top players listed in each flight and matchups including Bone defending the 1943 title.
Maquoketa golf team defeated Monticello 3015 to 232 in a July 2 tournament at Monticello Country Club. Dr. John Tilton of Maquoketa shot 73 to lead, with Grossman and Appleby tied for second with 74. A return match is set at the city park Sunday July 23.
The most gratifying hog profits come from marketing hogs with rapid gains on minimal feed and effort. Big Gain Mineral Stock Food provides high quality protein vitamins and minerals in one feed. Many feeders report big profits with pigs on pasture self fed corn and Big Gain Mineral Stock Food from Shaffer Imp. Store Monticello Iowa.
Scoutmaster Carl Schneider and assistant Tom Hamilton led 18 Boy Scouts to the Waubeek area scout camp last Sunday. The group will remain in camp through next Sunday evening and authorities plan to list honors earned by the scouts next week. Attending were George Stuhler Jack Hayes Art Jurgensen Marvin Himebaugh Rudy Schoon Bob Veitch Leo Zimmerman Duane Kammerman Karl Behrends Jackie Clark Stanley Maire Paul Schneider Milord Clause Donald Shelley Donald Lambert Grant Adamson David Hamilton and John Lubben.
A series of property transfers are recorded including Emma Magee and George W to Berniece and Lee A First as joint tenants of Lot 11 Block 26 Soper & Boardman subdivision East Anamosa. John Hejinian and Anna P to Lucea de Kiewier and Cornelia W Bertha Hejinian to Sarah Elizabeth Cartano. Lots 3 and 4 Block Shaw's addition Anamosa Ambrose Jeffery Jessie to Kenneth D Jeffery quit claim $1.00. Lot 7 Block 12 original town Wyoming Iowa Alice V Nelson to Laura E Smith Lot 7 Block 12 Wyoming Iowa Blanche Nelson and Ray to Laura F Smith Ruth Nelson to Laura E Smith Rose Cloid and John Mary Fritz Tillie Luke Louis Gilbert Henak Marie to Arthur Daniel Kenneth Arthur Daniel w deed $love. Nts ne4 nla nwt4 except triangular piece about 1 acre off NN corner north of highway n4 51% nwl or see 25-83-2 west 199 acres more or less.
Center Junction Town Council will meet July 24 1941 at 7 30 p m in council rooms to hear taxpayers for expenditures for the year starting April 1 1945. A detailed receipts and disbursements statement will be available at the hearing. Peter Prahm town clerk.
Monticello City Council of Jones county Iowa will meet July 1 444 at the Community building to hear taxes and an estimate of expenditures for the year starting April 1 1916. A detailed receipt and disbursement statement will be available at the hearing. Rose Hines, City Clerk.
Monticello golfers and Manchester finished tied 27 all after a Sunday match at home. Claude Appleby led for Monticello and earned the laurel crown with an 80 for 18 holes, while John McKeag of Manchester followed with 83.
A Smith Hughes vocational agriculture department started seven years ago at Monticello High School. The four year program trains farm boys in scientific farming with the aim of placing them as successful farmers locally. About 40 boys enroll yearly and choose livestock or crops projects along with improvement tasks like orchard management and soil testing, emphasizing hands on problem solving.
Deeds record several conveyances: John N. Brown and others transfer land to James E. Remley in two east 60 acre tracts with school district rights reserved, plus detailed metes and bounds in sections 2 and 11. Marguerite N. Countryman and Howard E. convey Lot 7, block 12 in Wyoming to Laura E. Smith. Additional description covers land in section 19-84-3 west west of the Wapsipinicon River with multiple exceptions and boundary measurements.
The article outlines ongoing farm education through Vocational Agriculture at Monticello with a strong FFA chapter. It lists officers, explains degree levels, and cites Arthur Husmann and Boyd Chatterson earning State Farmer degrees in May, plus seven other members who previously earned the degree. It highlights Iowa’s FFA eligibility and instructor A F Walker’s role.
In addition to a four year vocational agriculture program a winter presented adult education Farm Forum is offered in cooperation with the Vocational Homemaking department and the agricultural extension service. The program is free to any person in the area.
Widow Alice Pattison Wherry transfers land in Wyoming and a large section in section 9 with life estate reserved to her, involving parcels of about 165 acres and specific rods dimensions. Frank Sutton and Myrtle sell to George Bruce a waterbed of lots and blocks in Anamosa. Additional names include John McBirney, Willam Pauls, Elizabeth Romer, and multiple Andersons.
The fragment shows a deed note describing a life estate granted to a grantee with reversion to grantors upon the grantee's death. It references property boundaries and a tract specified as 60 feet wide and 70 feet long, with terms indicating a life estate only.
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