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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1941
Page
5
The report lists admissions at John McDonald Hospital during the week including Elden Brashaw for medical care Mrs Ethel Kammer ian for surgery FF W McDermott for surgery Florence Blount for surgery and M E L Burrichter for surgery among others.
Swift and Company in Dubuque has taken over the local creamery formerly operated by Mrs. Augusta Farley. Since the purchase, some rebuilding work has begun and a worker is assisting in the project.
Three minors obtained marriage licenses this week through District Court Clerk Leigh Pearson. The young couples include Robert Lock Thesipeon aged 17 from Pairview township to Lambert 20, and Fonalee Shover aged 19 from Moni tleallo to Mon ficelle.
A notice reports that Pence Ross Mcintyre was bound over to the grand jury on a forgery charge. Fogarty allegedly passed a check at the Citizen's Savings Bank in Azt anese. The defendant has not posted the $1,000 bond.
Don S. Ruhl, county treasurer, records new car registrations during the period noted in the public bulletin. The listing confirms individual vehicle entries and associated registrant details as filed with the county office.
Anamous g golfirs led the Anodian four with a total of 706 to win the four team eastern Iowa Junior Golf tournament. Iowa City West Liberty and Mount Vernon trailed in that order.
The fragmentary text provides no clear event or identities. Readable portions mention wounded individuals and possible place names but lack verifiable details for a complete summary.
A fragmentary report notes the government aims to secure aluminum to meet current defense needs and to stockpile future demand. It mentions Monticello and efforts to gather scrap aluminum in large volumes to prevent production slowdowns.
Thirty men are to receive physical examinations by Dr. J D Paul in Anamosa on July 27. The list of selectees includes order numbers and hometowns such as Hoffman Monticello Mundy Anamosa Schmidt Monticello White Wyoming McGuire Olin Richardson Monticello Stiffer Mon Nowachek Oxford Junction Lasio Anamosa Robinson Monticello Wright Monti Taylor Wyand Morrison Cascade Fraser Monticello Holub Langworthy Bohiken Scotch Grove Ballou Olin Weber Monticello Meyer Monticello Zumbrunnen Monticello Baly Oxford Junction Peters Monticello Schafer Anamosa Schummer Monticello Fairbanks Monticello Thalacker Monticello Scott Olin Inland Inland.
Eugene Henry Schoon died at his mother Mrs Henry Schoon’s home after an eight month illness. He was 18 and spent time at the University of Iowa hospital. Funeral services were held in Monticello with Baptist and Presbyterian affiliations noted. He is survived by his wife Edna Howell and three children, plus siblings and his mother.
Extension horticulturist C. Fiteh of Iowa State College will visit Jones County July 21 and 22 to guide a potato test plot tour. The Monday tour starts at Olin schoolhouse at 9 a.m. with an afternoon session from Monticello schoolhouse at 1 30 p.m. Tuesday gains Monticello at 8 30 a.m. and ends at noon.
Chicago resident Richard Guyan won on relatives in Montiello this week. Mr and Mrs Guyan and their daughter are with Mrs Onslow as part of the event coverage.
Farewell at First Congregational Monticello for Rev Samuel G Gutensohn hailed by parishioners and friends. The service featured Rev Gutensohn delivering the sermon with Sylvia Gutensohn on organ and a Masonic quartet performance. The Gutensohns plan a two week vacation before beginning a new pastorate in Green Bay Wisconsin on the first Sunday in August.
The 1989 Jones County total for county home operations reached 14 370 with an average of 56 inmates. Across Iowa the state spent 1 675 340 toward deaf and blind institutions and support for tuberculosis wards and homes.
The Monticello Lions Club sponsors the first Junior Tennis tournament for youths under 16. Events include boys and girls singles doubles and mixed doubles with traveling trophies to be won three times for permanent possession. Registration ends July 29 with play in early August on local cement and hospital courts.
The Monticello Municipal Band plans an evening concert in Monticello city park with Lois Barrack and Emil Pruit as featured soloists. The program includes Sounds from the Hudson cornet solo and My Wild Irish Rose vocal. A joint concert with Dyersville band is set for July 24 in Monticello park.
Jones County adopts a cooperative plan with the Jones County Bar Association and Board of Supervisors. The County Recorder will exchange old forms for new ones on a barter basis to reduce errors and save time and money. The forms are on file in the recorder’s office for trade-in.
Pvt. James T. Remley of Company H 136th Medical Regiment at Camp Claiborne Louisiana has become a key figure in his unit as a kangaroo court judge. A University of Iowa law school graduate with two years of practice in Anamosa, he shares graduation timing with his company commander Capt. James J. Redmond and several other officers.
The Blue Cross Plan, a community hospitalization program, is established in Monticello and nearby areas. John McDonald Memorial Hospital signs with Hospital Service Inc of Iowa to begin coverage for groups and their employees, offering 21 days of care, meals, nursing, operating room services, drugs, laboratory work, and 90 extra days of coverage, with group enrollment and affordable rates.
Miss Susan McMahon died at her Monticello home after a six month illness. Aged 65, she lived in Monticello her entire life and worked in local dry goods stores for 30 years. Funeral services were held at Sacred Heart church with burial in the Catholic cemetery. She is survived by her brother William McMahon.
The Jones County Draft Board announced that 13 of 35 men examined last week received an A-1 rating. Names listed include William A. Smith Anamosa Louis T. Lasack Oxford Jct Louis J. Stutt Monticello Clyde C. Lutz Anamosa LeRoy D. Dirks Wyoming Donald A. First Wyoming Carl C. Wehling Anamosa Willis G. Zimmerman Amber George R. Allamand Monti Gerald W. Kehoe Anamosa Harold Scherrer Monticello Lawrence Folkers Anamosa Otho E. Colbert CCC Monticello.
The Orphans Home band of Fort Wayne Indiana will perform on the church lawn of Evangelion and Reformed Church Friday evening starting at 8 pm. The 30 member group of children and youths is touring Iowa and Missouri. An ice cream social follows the concert and a free will offering is requested.
Miss Lois Lang, newly appointed county health nurse, started her duties Tuesday in the former county attorney’s office in the county courthouse. She came from Johnson county where she was one of two nurses and holds an R N from St Luke’s Davenport with public health training at the University of Minnesota. Her duties cover maternity and child health, communicable diseases, morbidity, administration, infant and preschool hygiene, school hygiene, and adult hygiene.
A Jones County Agricultural Defense board was created by order of Secretary Wickard as part of a nationwide county level defense system. L. T. Lorenzen chairs the Jones County AAA committee and will head the local board with members from USDA agencies handling farm adjustment and related services.
Deputy treasurer Al Hodoval reports total county automobile sales for the first half of 1941 rose to 337 997 50 from 210 084 50 in 1940. He attributes the surge to buyers racing to secure cars before shortages and notes nationwide factory backlogs. A 2 percent state tax applies to new car sales.
Jones county selected to exhibit numbers on clothing for the rural women program at the Iowa state fair. Mrs Sarah Porter Ellis announces. Other counties Appanoose Butler Page Story join clothing division with 25 counties creating booths on homemaking, child development, family relations, home management, foods and nutrition, and clothing.
The Maquoketa golf team out driven Monticello on the local course Sunday to win 22 to 20. Mark Rodman posted a 73 to lead, with Claude Appleby second at 76. The next tournament will be hosted by Maquoketa on its course.
Miss Lois Hager of New London Iowa is elected to fill the Monticello public schools vacancy created by Rena Kosters resignation. She will head the Smith Hughes home economics department and work with the boys Smith Hughes division under Frank Walker. Hager studied two years at Waukon Junior College and two years at Iowa State College earning a 1940 B S in home economics education with minors in science social studies and languages. She previously taught home economics biology and physical education in New London.
Don S. Ruhl county treasurer releases a semi annual report showing July 1 balance of $382 091 88 across county state school district and sid town funds. Receipts include homestead credits 63941 82 and motor vehicle funds 25213 68 with disbursements of warrants 148 815 34 and orders due districts 181 003 06 and cities 29415 42.
In Jones County eighty seven men aged 21 between October 16 1940 and July 1 1941 await the draft lottery in Washington D C for the second national selective service drawing. Iowa has 13924 registrants and the United States 750000. The order of army service depends on the capsule numbers drawn from a glass bowl starting at 6 p m Iowa time with officials drawing about 800 capsules.
The Ambuehl sisters singing duo received two radio offers in the past week. They will visit WHBF in Rock Island to plan their program with the production manager and begin work this fall.
Supt G B Kinser was installed president of the Anamosa Rotary club at a Holden hotel meeting. Also installed were E W Smykil as vice president Norman Plath as secretary Alfred Remley as treasurer and directors Clayton Hartman and John McNamara. Jones county clubs are led this year by school superintendents with A B Grimes presiding in Monticello.
A new state law sets up a county vital statistics system effective July 3 in Jones County. Leigh Pearson becomes registrar with Deputy Josephine Scherrer and seven existing deputies retained. local health boards appoint city registrars in larger cities. Certificates flow to the county clerk, then to the state health department for filing.
Mrs Wayne Yousse died Monday at University of Iowa hospital after two months illness. She was born Cora Kramer in 1874 near Anamosa and lived near Monticello. Survived by husband Wayne and two sons John and Dayton. daughters Marion Schneider and David Foraker. two brothers Mael Kramer Norman Kramer two sisters. Funeral at Wayne Yousse home Thursday July 17 at 2 pm with Rev Glenn McMichael officiating. burial in Oakwood cemetery.
Cedar Rapids Musketeers drum and bugle corps color sergeant Jean Echternacht will attend the National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and national drum corps competition in Philadelphia, Pa. The Musketeers, sponsored by post 788 VFW Cedar Rapids, depart August 21 and arrive in Philadelphia in two weeks. They won first at the national convention last year and first in the state contest at Marshalltown this year.
Robert Hartman of Anamosa was wiring a new home when a knife stuck in a board fell point first onto his head. It pierced his skull and severed an artery. He showed signs of immediate recovery Saturday.
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