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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1955
Page
5
Jones County total moneys and credits and personal property increased by 775000 as of January 1 from a year earlier. Personal property rose from 6489877 to 6591289 and moneys and credits from 3479920 to 351,350. Bank stock climbed from 1857614 to 2030170 led by Monticello with 1294463.
Monticello minutes list community activities from June 13 to 19. Rotary dinner at the Methodist church and Lions Club supper at the Community building with officer installation. Ladies golf night at the Country club and Pythian Sisters at K P hall. Junior Legion Auxiliary at Olin with Mrs Schoon. Royal Neighbor picnic at Davenport's City park. Driver license tests at Anamosa courthouse. Rebekah meeting and clean up night. Idle Not club and Men's golf night. Lovell Lions bake sale at Town Electric. Lions picnic at City park.
Two births documented with names and places including Hopkinton and Marshall Bloomington Illinois. A daughter Joellyn Kay born May 31 to Dale and Mrs Marshall with eight pounds eight ounces and a brother Kevin David. Grandparents listed W T Rieken Monticello and Ruel Marshall Cescade.
On June 7 Albert R. Clark 20 of Maquoketa is listed with Nancy Leota Volk 16 of Oxford Junction and Dale W. Ortner 27 of Cedar Rapids with Jane Edith Maudsley 21 of Anamosa. On June 8 Thomas L. Finn 26 and Rita M. Takes 21 of Cas cade are noted.
June entries show Milton or Helen Chesire of Anamosa and Oliver W. Hutton of Monticello with Buick. June 10 Kennedy Lumber Onslow with Chevrolet truck, Cascade with Ford truck, Taylor Motor Sales Olin with Chevrolet.
Nine persons were elected to the Jones County Agricultural Extension council over Wednesday Thursday and Friday. New members include Dale Danneman Wayne township Robert Livingstone Fairview Walter Hartman Jackson Richard Skelley Castle Grove Floyd Hodgden Oxford and Howard Mackey Rome. Additional results list Edwin Reid Clay Lovell Scotch Grove and Irving Eilers Scotch Grove with others named in the nine elections. As of Saturday morning twelve men and two women had been elected to the extension council with prior selections including Mrs. Howard Jamison Wyoming township Mrs. Merle Hawiey Hale Ivan Fiedler Cass Marion Clark Richland and Don Wharton Madison.
Jones County selects James Maternach of Monticello and Richard Purcell of Anamosa for induction into the armed forces. They will report Tuesday, June 14, at the Anamosa courthouse.
Dr Earl DeShaw attends Frida Saturday events marking the 25th anniversary of his graduation from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City.
The notice asks for attendance at the annual meeting on June 14 with H Weiss and junior leader Mrs. Jean Schoon urged to attend and provide contact details.
Charles J. Renk named chairman of a committee of educational heads from Indian schools by Mrs. Hildegard Thompson. Renk, principal of San Juan boarding school in Shiprock New Mexico, will help prepare a practical handbook on school camping with a June meeting at Intermountain Indian School Brigham City Utah.
Vacation plans for University of Iowa and Iowa State system students are outlined with many remaining in Iowa cities. Names include Linda Hargrave Ronnie Matthiessen Ray Meier Rennie Rathigan Glen Rickels Sarah Vernon Bruce Appleby Julie DeShaw James Hosmann Stuart Sutherland Leonard Hoffman Donald Newton Phillip Tuetken and many more in education and work across Cedar Rapids Dubuque Monticello and Ames.
Jones county ranks among the lowest in combined administrative costs per person for 1953 among Iowa counties under 20 000 population. The report lists Cherokee Bremer Montgomery and Henry counties with lower costs and notes state averages rose 3.03 percent from 1952.
Delbert J. Anders Robert Che and Edward Gerrets joined navy enlistment ceremonies at Spirit Lake on June 4. The Arnolds Park program near Spirit Lake featured a parade of recruits high school bands and a navy band from Great Lakes NL with displays and floats. A mass band concert was followed by a barbecue USO show and dance. After induction the three Monticello youths and around 400 others traveled by special train to Great Lakes naval training base.
Seventy five Jones county farmers joined soil conservation efforts, bringing total signers to 680. About 530 work under conservation plans with progress including five miles of terraces, over 30 acres waterways shaped and seeded, and sixteen farm ponds built or stocked. Names of signers span Cascade to Mechanicsville with numerous communities represented.
Jones County reports 283 317 bushels of 1954 corn placed under price support before the May 31 deadline. The total under support nationwide runs around 30 million bushels for 1954, with storage space limits and reseal plans affecting final totals.
Monticello residents are urged by Mayor A. P. Lambert to stop taking property from the city garbage disposal area and warned that violators will be prosecuted. He reminded residents it is unlawful to dump garbage in ditches gutters or streets within city limits.
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