Dickinson Leads in State Primary With Big Victory
In a decisive Republican primary, L. J. Dickinson swept the state for U S senator while Dan Turner narrowly beat Ed M. Smith for governor. Delaware and Jones counties reported heavy support for Dickinson and Hammill, with Greenwalt leading for secretary of state though short of 35 percent. Local totals show varied wins for state officials, with detailed precinct counts in The Express.
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L. J. Dickinson
United States
Dan Turner
Corning
Ed. M. Smith
Winterset
Dickinson
Turner
Jones County
Hammill
G. C. Greenwalt
Wate
Cyrenus Cole
Congress
George van Buren
LaVern Rockstad
John Bodenhofer
Alvin E. Hodoval
Oxford Junction
W. H. Null
Monticello
Messrs
G. J. Hughes
G. A. Peet
Board of Supervisors
John Matthiessen
W. F. Hintz
B. Paul
Harry Holcomb
Warren Rees
Lloyd Soper
S. E. Beam
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W. H. Frazer
Anamosa
Florence Althen
I. V. Dautremont
J. J. Hayes
E. M. Russell
Rome
Gerd Harms
Wayne Township
U. S
Lund
Payne
Smith
Lange
McFarlane
Ulstad
Saunders
Greenwalt
Hazlett
Hindley
Long
Strief
Johnson
Burbank
Thornburg
Lambert
Samuelson
Webster
Woodruff
Bell
Cogswell
Delaware County
Shrief
Galloway
Robinson
Davis
Jay Cox
Alley
Markee
Tiffany
Howard
Peterson
Cripper
Carpenter
Schenke
John Hammill
Frank‘ J. Lund
William
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Otto Lange
Dan W. Turner Sane Eeseens
Rch McFarlane Eoeces
Oscar Ulstad Weendeeeens
Secretary of State
John M. Hazlett
Chas, Hindley Send
Wm. E. G. Saunders
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Auditor of State
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J. H. Strief Pie Ee Reese
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W. J. Burbank Seeeane
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Mark G. Thornburg
Supt. of Public Instruction
Agnes Samuelson MW
John E. Smith
Railroad Commiss
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Lloyd Soper Wehee
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S. M. Hosfer
Senesere
B. W. Streeper
W. F. Intzetane
John Matthiess
Abe Ee
Jones County Livestock Marketing Survey Underway
Representatives of the federal farm board conduct a livestock marketing survey in Jones County after completing surveys in Washington Keokuk and Jefferson counties. Producers will meet to gauge sentiment on the federal plan. A National Livestock Marketing Association meeting approved by the farm board is planned for Chicago next Tuesday.
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Federal Farm Board
Washington
Keokuk
Jefferson
Jones County
National Livestock Marketing Association
Chicago
First Band Concert Of Season At City Park
The Monticello Municipal band opens the season with a concert tonight at City Park. Bandmaster Frank Royden says the program begins at 8 15 PM in the same venue as last year. The park offers ample space for listeners to enjoy Part I includes Hungarian Compositions and a trumpet solo. Part II features Germany I Welcome Thee and medleys from Faust and Gounod.
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Monticello
Frank Royden
Cure
Crates Tennant Kelar Bela
J. Edward Helserman
Nola
Germany
Faust
Cascade Falls Monticello a 7 to 3 Baseball Tilt
Cascade defeats Monticello 7 to 3 in a Monticello league game. Meredith and Stadola spark the offense while Bart and DeLancey combine on the mound for Cascade. Standings show Monticello trailing Dyersville and Manchester in the Maquoketa Valley League.
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Monticello
Cascade
Cascaders
Meredith
Anamosa
Orr
Byerly
J. Hayes
Hayes
Barron
Redlegs
Weber
Morey
Eggers
DeLancey
Hoult
Joe Barron
Bart
Shine
Stadola
Maquoketa
Oxford
Memorial Day Observed in Monticello at School Auditorium
Memorial Day services shifted from Oakwood cemetery to Monticello Public School auditorium. Hartley Wilkinson led the event for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Rev. Duckett delivered the invocation, Elmer A. Johnson spoke, and the Monticello band performed. Choir and audience participated, with services also held at Sacred Heart cemetery.
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Oakwood Cemetery
Hartley Wilkinson
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Duckett
Elmer A. Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Johnson
E. E. Reed
Monticello
O. B. Crane
One
Sacred Heart Cemeries
DeMolays Initiate Seven At Banquet Evening
Seven new members were initiated into the Order of DeMolay at the Masonic temple after a 6 30 banquet attended by DeMolay members and Master Masons. The initiates were Berkley Curtis Thomas George Richard Calkins Harlan Cooper Kenneth Burris Harry Matthiessen and Russett Hughes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Order of DeMolay
Masonic Temple
Samuel Gutensohn
Congregational Church
E. E. Reed
Carrol Podhaski
John Che
Howard McLaughlin
Berkley Curtis
Thomas George
Richard Calkins
Harlan Cooper
Kenneth Burris
Harry Matthiessen
Russett Hughes
Lightning Strikes the Jake Bader Home
The Jake Bader home was struck by lightning after 11 pm. A power line sparked inside the house blowing out a meter and plaster. a ball of electricity exploded near the couple, who endured only shock. No fire occurred.
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Jake Bader
Mrs Effie Hall Weds S W Reynor in Dubuque Ceremony
Mrs Effie Hall of Monticello married Samuel W Reynor at Judge Nelsons home in Dubuque on Saturday May 10. The couple will reside in Monticello. The bride has long been active in the American Legion Auxiliary. Reynor previously ran a store at Olin and a drug store at Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Effie Hall
Monticello
Samuel W. Reynor
Annual 4-H Rally in Monticello Draws County Girls
The Jones county 4-H rally at Floral Hall in the city park drew 200 club girls leaders and officials. Perfect attendance clubs Rustic Rustler Wyoming Scotch Grove earned fezs, with Wyoming led by Mrs Bernard Cass in blue and white uniforms. Miss Eleanor Bower urged journalism and farm papers work, while awards announced for top scores in the Martha opera music memory contest.
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Jones County
Floral Hall
Rustic Rustler Club
Richland
B-Square Club
Wyoming
Scotch Grove
Fez
Wyoming Club
Bernard Cass
Roy Joslin
Evelyn, Thelma
Miriam Fairbanks
Laboring Lassies Club
Lovell Township
Evelyn Fairbanks
Bertha Mae Goldin
Joslin
Reuel McCullen
Martha
William Laude
Kenneth Burris
O. B. Crane
Edna Schoon
Vivian Smith
Nellie V. Morey
Leslie Dunn
W. B. Clark
Loretta Specht
Castle Grove Township
Margaret Humphrey
Greenfield Township
Ruth Humphrey
Eleanor Bower
Wallaces
Farmer
Miss Bower
Clarence Rhatigan Graduates From I.S.T.C
Clarence A. Rhatigan son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Rhatigan of Monticello earned a Bachelor of Science in Education at Town State Teachers College Cedar Falls in commencement exercises held in the college auditorium last Monday morning June 2. President O R Latham conferred the degree and diploma.
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Clarence A. Rhatigan
Thomas Rhatigan
Monticello
Town State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Rhatigan
O. R. Latham
Path Across the Hill play set by Castle Grove Luther League
The Path Across the Hill will be staged Thursday and Friday evenings at 8 o clock. Admission costs 35c and 20c with all seats reserved due to the small auditorium. For reservations contact any Luther Leaguer or call 93 F 5 or 63 F 4.
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Castle Grove
Luther League
Luther
Ice Cream Social Planned by Richland Center Ladies Aid
An old fashioned ice cream social is set for Thursday evening June 12 at the city park. The event is hosted by the Richland Center Ladies Aid and invites local residents to attend.
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Richland Center
Ladies’ Aid
Little Boy Fatally Injured by Rotary Hoe Discs
Two and a half year old Billy Grieff died after being struck by the revolving discs of a rotary hoe operated by his older brother Donald two miles northeast of Hopkinton. He slipped on the machine and the prongs punctured his body. He died soon after at Dr. Cummings' office. Funeral was at St Luke's Hopkinton with burial in Worthington.
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Hopkinton
Billy Grieff
J. P. Grieff
Donald
Billy
Cummings
Little Billy
St. Luke’s Church
Worthington
Monticello Golf Wins Season Opener at Hopkinton
Monticello Country Club defeated Hopkinton by 11 points in a match play golf tie at Hopkinton last Sunday. The Monticello squad, featuring E. C. Ricklefs and others, opens an eight-tournament schedule with cities including Anamosa Maquoketa Manchester and Hopkinton.
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Monticello
Hopkinton
Anamosa
Maquoketa
Manchester
E. C. Ricklefs
William Laude
Dr. L. J. Swift
Karl M. Keyes
Ralph J. Bone
August Ricklefs
J. T. Staff
Henry Helms
Stuart Stuhler
Harry Stuhler
Mr and Mrs V C Moore Visit Monticello Before Cedar Rapids Trip
Mr and Mrs V C Moore of San Diego spent part of this week with friends in Monticello. They travel to Cedar Rapids for the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs John F Moore. Mr Moore works with the Royal Typewriter Co in San Diego and has eight years in the business.
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V. C. Moore
San Diego
California
Monticello
Cedar Rapids
Moore
John F. Moore
Royal Typewriter Company
Milwaukee Railroad Trims Calmar Branch Passenger Service
The Milwaukee railroad will cut two passenger trains on the Cedar Rapids Calmar line starting next Monday. No. 23 to Monticello in the morning and No. 26 from Cedar Rapids to Calmar in the evening are discontinued, leaving No. 22 morning Cedar Rapids to Calmar and No. 25 evening return. Freight trains continue. Low patronage cited as the probable cause.
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Milwaukee Railroad
Cedar Rapids
Calmar
Monticello
Elmer Rickels In Auto Wreck Friday Night
Elmer Rickels 18 of Scotch Grove drives a new Hudson on the Lincoln highway near Mount Vernon when he veers after meeting a westbound car. The crash injures Rickels and Carroll Lynch 19 of Anamosa and leaves several other riders with minor bruises. Davenport suffers a fractured rib.
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Elmer Rickles
Scotch Grove
Mount Vernon
Carroll Lynch
Anamosa
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
J. W. Smith
Oklahoma City
Rickels
Smith
Lynch
Kenneth Schifflette
Keith Schifflette
Robert Cartano
William Davenport
Davenport
E. J. Farley Marks 25 Years in Monticello Poultry Trade
E. J. Farley celebrated twenty five years in the poultry and egg business in Monticello last Tuesday June 3. He began with Diamond Creamery then Armour & Company before starting his own operation on June 1 1905. His modern plant handles a carload of live chickens two cars of eggs or two cars of dressed poultry and supports a twenty to thirty mile delivery area with six to eight workers plus eighteen to twenty during dressing season.
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E. J. Farley
Monticello
Farley
Diamond Creamery Company
Wyoming
Armour & Company
Monticello Cow Testing Association May Report
May testing shows 541 cows on test with 62 dry, average 742 pounds milk and 28.6 pounds butterfat. Freckles a grade Guernsey owned by William Balsiger led with 1255 pounds milk and 79.1 butterfat, followed by Sadie a purebred Holstein at 1996 pounds milk and 75.8 butterfat. William M. Oltmanns top herd with 13 grade Guernseys averaging 829 pounds milk and 41.3 butterfat. Len Buol Brown Swiss herd of 20 cows averaging 916 pounds milk and 38.1 butterfat. E F Burr Roy Walker Secretary Tester.
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Guernsey
William Balsiger
Hoag & Deischer
Sadie
Willam M. Oltmanns
Tragic Princess Cafe death of Mabel Bader
Mabel Bader died by self inflicted gunshot in the basement of the Princess Cafe last Thursday at 1 30 pm. The revolver fired at close range entered her right temple and exited left side. Her brother Paul Purcell found her. she died about a half hour later at McDonald hospital. She faced mental strain from a divorce action dismissed in May. Born Mabel Pursell in Hastings on June 10 1890 she lived in Shenandoah and married Godfrey Bader June 1 1916. She left no note. funeral services were held at the Reformed church and she is survived by husband nephew Donald Purcell and parents D W Purcell and Mrs Jennie Purcell and three brothers Thurl Paul Mark.
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Godfrey Bader
Princess Cafe
Paul Pursell
McDonald Hospital
Methodist Episcopal Church
Thurl
Paul
Mark
Shenandoah
Bader
New Veterinarian Opens Practice in Monticello
Dr. Otto E. York establishes veterinary office in Monticello sharing space with Brazelton and McLaughlin at the old Jones County Trust and Savings Bank building. A Chicago Veterinary College graduate of 1911, he practiced at Belle Plaine, moved to California after rheumatism, and now returns with wife and two children Gordon 11 and Louise 16 months, living on West First Street in the George Cowan home.
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Otto E. York
Monticello
Messrs. Brazelton and McLaughlin
Jones County Trust and Savings Bank
York
Chicago Veterinarian College
Belle Plaine
California
Dr. York
Gordon
Louise
George Cowan
West First Street
Five Car Loads Of Chevrolets Shipped Here
Five carloads of Chevrolet automobiles have been shipped to Monticello in the past two weeks and are now on display at Matthies sen Auto & Supply. The dealership offers prompt delivery of nearly all Chevrolet models and notes a busy repair department. The firm claims its garage equipment ranks among the town’s best.
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Matthiessen Auto & Supply Company
Monticello
Chevrolet Department
General Motors Company
Matthiessen
Loretta Uhr Closes A Successful School Year
Miss Loretta Uhr, teacher at Cass school No. 6, ended the term with a May 29 picnic. Seventy one attendees, many former pupils, enjoyed a noon basket dinner and ice cream. Four pupils received candy boxes for top grades and perfect attendance.
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Loretta Uhr
Cass School No. 6
Miss Uhr
Mabel Darrow
Lyle Uhr
Ernest Benedict
Elsie Benedict
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City Park
Montina
Meier
Fifield
Malven
Shaw
Flancher
Larson
L. Bartlett
Stodola
Dyersville
Ryan
Koelker
Dress
Ahlers
C. Anderson
H. Vernimont
Baldwin
A. B. Grimes
Rebecca
Janice
Thomas
West Union
S. W. Reynor
Clarence Rhatigan
I.S.T.C
Little Boy
Calmar Branch
Elmer Rickels
Report of
Mabel Bader
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