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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1956
Page
5
Saturday births listed include June 6 a boy to Mr and Mrs Arnold Thomson of Anamosa and June 7 a boy to Mr and Mrs Harold Shugart of Monticello.
Calendar items list meetings and activities for June 12 to 15 in Monticello Center Junction and Ames. Highlights include Pythian Sisters at K P hall 8 p.m. Lions Club 6 30 p.m. at St Matthew Lutheran, swimming classes at Monticello pool, League of Women Voters pot luck moved to June 19, P E O meeting at Mrs E H Deshaw 1 30 p.m. W E W auxiliary and State 4 H convention Ames June 13 16, first summer band concert June 14, alcoholics anonymous 8 p.m. Monticello State Bank area.
Courthouse records list multiple buyers and vehicle brands with dates in May and June. Entries include Anamosa buyers such as May 29 Loras or Nadine Mc Namara for Chevrolet and Pontiac purchases while Oxford Junction, Monticello, Cascade, and other towns show Mercury, Dodge, Nash, and Ford sales to individuals and couples.
Courthouse records show marriage licenses issued May 31 to William James Altmann and Janet Kathleen Heiken both 22 from Marshfield and Anamosa. June 1 to Robert D. Joy 26 of Cedar Rapids and Ruth Ann Winkler 20 of Monticello. June 2 to Lowell Nelson 19 and Kathleen Hay 19 of Anamosa. Patrick J. Flannery 18 and Janice M. DeBok 17 of Winterset. June 4 to Francis M. Miller 21 and Mary Ann Kuriger 20 of unspecified. June 6 to Larry Abele 21 of Iowa City and Linda Kay Hargrave 19. June 8 to Jay Theodore Bahnsen 29 and Viola Harms 24 of Wyoming. George J. Shadle 49 and Inno Stodesberry 49 of Cedar Rapids.
June 3 Harold S Osterday Darlington Wisconsin improper passing fined 10 dollars and costs. June 6 Freda Catherine Pearson Monticello U turn fined 1 dollar and costs. Jack Carl Annis Central City speeding fined 7 dollars and costs. Donald Lawrence Nordman Monticello speeding fined 16 dollars and costs. Paul Stanley Bartels Monticello speeding fined 15 dollars and costs. Clifford Eugene Hogan Monticello speeding fined 15 dollars and costs. George Edwin Tiaggi Monticello speeding fined 7 dollars and costs. Robert Grant Hart Hopkinton speeding fined 11 dollars and costs. Clarence Edgar Hageman speeding fined 15 dollars and costs. Edward Moran Onslow defective equipment fined 5 dollars and costs with no operator license dismissed and failure to appear dismissed. June 7 David I Allcutt Cedar Rapids no driver's license fined 10 dollars and costs. Failure to appear fined 10 dollars and costs. June 8 Aloysious Henry Helms Coggan violation of restricted license fined 5 dollars and costs.
The Center Junction Men's Club will meet Tuesday June 12 at 7 30 p m at the playground for a scheduled gathering.
Monticello Realty Inc. verbally accepted a city offer at a Friday night council meeting to provide 7500 toward extending sewer and water to a proposed 29 acre east Monticello housing addition between Kitty Creek and Oakwood Cemetery. The city would supply 4000 this year and 3500 in 1957 for each addition, with agreements drawn by the city clerk.
Harold Gray of Anamosa says plans to organize a Jones county ready reserve unit by Sept. 1 remain. The army’s cuts affect readiness eligibility and active duty calls. Weekly meetings proceed at the Anamosa Courthouse, with reservists serving without pay until organized.
Ray Marolf of 330 West Varvel Street is appointed agent for National Van Lines Inc a major moving company serving all 48 states. The vans are hygienically treated and handle packing crating and storage of all types.
Center Junction plans a Korn Karnival at the schoolhouse grounds on Thursday July 26 at 4 30 p m. The event offers all you can eat sweetcorn a ham dinner games concessions and rides. Proceeds fund land purchase for a community recreation area including a 45 by 90 foot lot a ball field picnic area and playground space Merl Husmann leads the men s club and Jody Smith leads the women s club as general chairs
Mrs. Robert Myers of Monticello was named temporary chair of a newly formed Jane Jefferson club for Democratic women in Jones County. Local women attended as the group formed, with plans to elect officers at the next meeting on July 5 and to attend the state convention at the Roosevelt Hotel in Cedar Rapids on June 15.
Walter Wagner resigns as Onslow superintendent to join the Town Employment Security commission in Cedar Rapids. He will leave July 1 if a successor is not found. enrollment gains and a new elementary building program mark his 26-year teaching career, highlighted by a strong community partnership and a 1953 graduate daughter.
About 50 Jones county swine raisers spent a day at Iowa State College Ames learning swine production techniques. Joe Legg extension director said the group visited swine nutrition and breeding farms and the new Iowa swine testing station in study with Dr Gordon Ashton and hosts Ralph Durham and Dr Maynard Spear. The trip followed tours of breeding and testing facilities and concluded with the Helgens hogs on test at the state station.
A special P.E.O. meeting will be held Tuesday June 12 at 1 30 p m at the home of Mrs E H DeShaw.
Laura Lynn Eggers discovered a turtle on the Reinhard Egeers farm three miles east of Monticello on highway 38. The shell bears the inscription HII-26 made 30 years ago by Henry Jacobs, now living near Langworthy. The animal will be kept in captivity briefly before being returned to the timber.
The Monticello Golden Harvest fund reaches 239 dollars for Wednesday's 3 p.m. drawing at the Community building. Mrs. Fred Bartels won 159 dollars Wednesday on a 50 percent ticket drawn from the Golden Harvest barrel. it was the first ticket drawn. Tickets are sold in participating stores and weekly winners must attend.
L. T. Lorenzen reports 1956 totals with moneys and credits at 4 826 149 up 667 799 from 1955 while personal property declines 201 665. Bank stock tops 2 125 609 led by Monticello 1 360 419 with Anamosa 318 277 Martello 106 155 Onslow 118 895 and Wyoming 221 863. Wayne Township leads in moneys and credits 273 300 and personal property 40 607.
The Monticello pool announces its first four week period of instruction led by Ronnie Rhatigan and four local female instructors. Classes run Monday through Saturday from 9 to 11:55 am with adult options on Sundays and summer long sessions. Communities include Oxford Junction Viola Anamosa Morley Onslow. Plans for subsequent periods are not yet prepared.
Jones County road crews began applying calcium chloride mixed with water to stabilize surfaces on several trunk and county roads including trunk A west of Monticello the Amber road to Highway 64 and the Oxford Junction to Oxford route. Engineer Earl Biesell says three applications may be needed over the summer with rates 0.8 0.4 and a variable final coat per square yard depending on rainfall and conditions.
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