Two Monticello Teachers Wed in June Ceremonies
Two Monticello teachers married last Sunday June 10. June Meyer of Breda and Thomas Chambers of Chicago wed at the Meyers home near Breda in a simple 8 am single ring ceremony. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. Walters with no attendants. Mrs. Chambers and Mrs. Meyer attended relatives at a wedding breakfast.
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Monticello
June Meyer
Bredate
Thomas Chambers
Chicago
John V. Meyer
Breda
Walters
Presbyterian Church of
George Chambers
Chambers
College of Commerce
The
State University
Iowa City
Reckless Driving Causes Saturday City Collision
Joe Donovan of Dubuque faced a hearing before Mayor F. D. MecLaughlin on a reckless driving charge. Bound over to the September Jones county grand jury, he is held on $200 bail. Police say the Chevrolet coupe struck a Cedar Falls lady’s car on West First Street at 10 30 p.m. Saturday then rammed a Ford coupe owned by Carl Caspers, causing about 65 dollars in damage. Donovan works for a ties factory near the canning plant.
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Joe Donovan
Dubuque
F. D. MecLaughlin
Jones County District Court
Mberty
Donovan
West First Street
Carl Caspers
Mr. Smith
Canning Factory
Monticello V F W Auxiliary Honored at State Convention
At Clinton last week the Monticello VFW Auxiliary was honored with Honor L. Clark elected vice-president and offered junior vice-president role she declined. The local Americanization committee was cited for outstanding work. Attendees included Post Commander Grant Eilers and members Anne Echter nacht Dora Che Laura Waddick Mabel Jarrett.
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V. F. W. Posts and Auxiliaries
Clinton
Monticello
Honor L. Clark
Clark
Grant Eilers
Ray Echternacht
H. P. Doyle
Henry Che
W. H. Jarrett
Anne Echternacht
Dora Che
Laura Waddick
Mabel Jarrett
Casual sales ruled not taxable by state board
The state board of assessment and review ruled casual sales of goods not subject to the two percent state retail sales tax. The decision targets farmers and households making occasional sales in good faith, and it warns against using casual sales to evade tax or frequent retail selling.
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State Board
State Board of Assessment and Review
4-H Rally Here Wed June 20 Park Event in Monticello
Final plans for the girls 4-H club rally day are nearly complete at the Monticello park. Registration runs 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. with an opening program including speeches, memories, and a prize for perfect attendance at 10. The afternoon features club performances and a style show led by several local groups.
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Monticello
Paul Smith
Carl Smith
Bette Fishwild
County 4-H
Eloise Kuhns
Cepeatns
Ames
Ray T Moore Involved In Car Collision At Monticello
Ray T Moore a former Monticello high school teacher drove a car that collided with Arthur Malmer of Albert Lea Minnesota. Passengers with Malmer suffered injuries including a possible rib fracture for his wife a back injury for Mrs Leo Farr and head and leg bruises for Mrs C B Jesness all from Peoria Illinois. The Malmer car was upset in the crash.
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Ray T. Moore
Monticello High School
Arthur Malmer
Albert Lea
Minn
Malmer
Leo Farr
C. B. Jesness
Peoria
Til
Library adds new non fiction and fiction titles
Public library shelves welcome a broad list of new books spanning politics social service and music the nonfiction includes works by Dickens Benet Doust Englebrecht and Roosevelt among others while fiction features diverse settings and themes including Lauren Gilifilian and Marquis James plus a biography of Davy Crockett and a study of Cardinal Mercier page 8 continues.
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Public Library
Dickens
Charles
Benet
W. R
Babson
Washington
Doust
L. A
Englebrecht
H. C
Gilifilian
Lauren
Pit
Smith College
Gade
J. A
Cardinal Mercier
James
Marquis
Kaufman
H. L
Roosevelt
F. D
Rourke
Constance
Davy Crockett
Wald
L. D
Henry Street
Houre
New York
B P W Dinner to Welcome District Six in Clinton
Cedar Rapids Business and Professional Women's club affiliated with Iowa Federation will host district six welcome meeting in Clinton on Tuesday June 19. Dinner at Lafayette hotel at 6 30 p.m. Edna M. Becker Clinton club president will oversee installation of officers and a rally for Muscatine Iowa City Davenport Cedar Rapids Anamosa Monticello Maquoketa Dre Witt Clinton with Blythe Dennett Davenport assisting.
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Cedar Rapids
Change In Time Of Church Services Sunday
The Methodist Episcopal church shifts service hours starting next Sunday with Sunday school at 9 and morning worship at 10. Last Sunday observed Children's Day with fourteen new members. Next Sunday at 7 30 p m Epworth League presents the play Helping Hands. Public invited.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Macaulay
Epworth League
Young Boy Struck by Auto Recovers From Skull Fracture
Robert Schuetz son of Mr and Mrs Paul T Schuetz is convalescing after a bicycle accident June 1. He suffered a skull fracture and scalp wound. Surgeons report the wound healed and stitches removed and hope he can return home soon as fracture continues to heal.
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Robert Schuetz
Paul T. Schuetz
Bob
Cashman Brashaw Wedding In Castle Grove Township
The Immaculate Conception church in Castle Grove hosted the marriage of Miss Elenor Cashman and Clarence Brashaw last Tuesday morning. The ceremony used a single ring service by Rev. J J Hennessey with a nuptial mass following. Attendants included cousin Miss Nellie Kinley and El den Brashaw as best man. The bride wore white satin, lace, with a long veil and carried roses. she received a crystal necklace as a gift. A aquamum blue crepe maid of honor wore ankle length with butterfly roses. The reception for forty relatives followed at the bride’s parents home with a three course dinner.
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Allisa Cooper
Monticello
Louisa Cooper
Virgal L. Page
Long Beach
Calif
W. B. McGraw
Baptist Church
California
Kenneth Cooper
Marie Ball
Versailles
Louise Redford
Louise Davis
Immaculate Conception
Castle Grove Township
Elenor Cashman
Clarence Brashaw
Lohengrin
J. J. Hennesse
Nellie Kinley
Elden Brashaw
Jannah Noonan
John
Hennessey
Miss Kinley
Miss Noonan
Republican Candidates Ready for Jones County Voters
Following the June primary The Express outlines Republican nominees for Jones County offices. Warren Rees seeks state representative with background in law and clerical work. Clyde Barker aims for county auditor. Evelyn A. Brown runs for county treasurer. W. W. Hanken vies for district court clerk. W. H. Null nominated for sheriff opposing Henry Eichhorn.
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Warren Rees
Anamosa
Jones County
General Assembly
Ress
Grinnell College
B. G. Rees
District Court
Board of Supervisors
Rees
Jonts
Clyde
Barker
LaVern
Degrees Granted To 552 I. S. C. Students
Degrees were awarded to 552 students at Iowa State College during the annual commencement at Ames on Monday morning. The total since last June reached 862 degrees. Dr. C. R. Brown of Yale delivered the address as President R. M. Huches conferred the degrees. Graduates from Jones county included Jack B. Mellecker of Anamosa in chemical engineering and Joseph Tyrell Kulhavy of Oxford Junction in mechanical engineering.
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Iowa State College
Ames
C. R. Brown
Divinity School
Yale University
R. M. Huches
Jones County
Jack B. Mellecker
Anamosa
Joseph Tyrell Kulhavy
Oxford Junction
Death of Phyllis Locher in Dubuque at age three
The Locher family of Monticello mourns as Phyllis Locher youngest child of Mr and Mrs Harry Locher of Dubuque dies after a short illness in Mercy hospital Dubuque Tuesday afternoon 5 oclock She would have been four in December Survived by sister Mary Lorraine and brothers Donald and Billy one sister Caral preceded her in death Funeral services are held this afternoon.
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Locher
Monticello
Phyllis Locher
Harry Locher
Dubuque
Mercy Hospital
Mary Lorraine
Donald
Billy
Caral
Wesley Hanken Dies at Home Near Center Junction
Wesley Hanken died at 6 o clock this morning at his home near Center Junction after illnesses. He had sought care at University hospital and a Lutheran hospital in Omaha before returning home. He is survived by his wife and children, whose names include Hanken and Moats. Funeral services are set for 10 o clock next Sunday at the family home and 10:30 at St John s Lutheran church in Wayne township. Further details about his wife will be announced next week.
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Wesley Hanken
Center Junction
University Hospital
Omaha
Neb
Hanken
Moats
Mr. Hanke
St. John's Lutheran Church
Wayne Township
Monticello Downs Alburnett 9-4 In South Iowa Play
The Monticello nine defeated Alburnett 9 to 4 last Sunday to avenge an earlier loss. Hayes and Eggers led the attack while the Oltman brothers handled pitching and catching. Brown started on the mound for Alburnett with Bodecker behind the plate. Monticello rose to fourth in the East Central league and next travels to Springville to face the Springville nine.
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Monticello
Alburnett
Hayes and
Eggers
Oltman Brothers
Brown
Bodecker
Springville
W C Kehoe Buried From Church Today
W C Kehoe a respected farmer living near Monticello died last Tuesday at age 74 after collapsing in his yard and passing away shortly after. Funeral services were conducted at Immaculate Conception Church with Rev J J Hennessey officiating and burial followed in the church cemetery.
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W. Cgc. Kehoe
Monticello
Kehoe
Immaculate Conception Church
J. J. Hennessey
Plymouth and Dodge Cars Authorized Agent Named
Garret W. Eiben of Main Street Garage at the east end of First Street is named the authorized agent for Plymouth and Dodge cars and Dodge trucks. An advertising campaign for the agency is planned in this week’s Express.
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Garret W. Eiben
First Street
Plymouth
Dodge
Express
Eileen
Adv
Notable June 1909 Graduations from Monticello
The Monticello Express recounts June 1909 graduations and related events. Highlights include high school commencement speakers Dr Maude Hall Hazel Hubbard Hartley Wilkinson Lena Hacussier Clark Hubbard Iola George Freda Gruenstein George Drinkwater Ella Watt Harriet Campbell and additional ceremonies led by Supt John E Foster.
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The
Monticello Express
Dr. Maude Hall
Hazel V. Hubbard
Hartley W. Wilkinson
Lena F. Hacussier
Clark A. Hubbard
Iola F. George
Freda Gruenstein
George Drinkwater
Ella May Watt
Harriet E. Campbell
Iowa State College
Ibsen
J. S. Hall
First Street
Gertrude Campbell
Epworth Seminary
C. D. Chase
Texas
Verdon O. Welch
W. M. Welch
Lenox College
Messrs
Carl Stuhler
David Terwilliger
Marie Bateman
Selma Suter
State University
George Claussen
Monticello
Davenport
Ofice
M. W. Herrick
Claussen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Margaret Pond
Catharine Lovell
Libbie George
State University of Iowa
Valentine Eby
Ames
Toy Petersen
Eureka College
Ilinois
State University of Maine
F. M. Porhaski
Nettie Hazard
Iowa
Catherine Redmond Graduates from Western Reserve University
Dr. T. M. Redmond travels to Evanston to attend his thirtieth medical reunion. He will meet his daughter Catherine in Chicago Friday. She just completed library school studies at Western Reserve University Cleveland, finishing yesterday June 13 after completing the past semester and the first semester there.
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T. M. Redmond
Evanston
Ill
College of Medicine
Catherine
Chicago
Cleveland
Ohio
Lbrary School of
Western Reserve University
Miss Redmond
Western Reserve
Henry Folkers Jr Involved In Sunday Car Accident
Henry E Folkers Jr of Scotch Grove lost control on loose gravel Sunday and drove into a ditch. The Ford suffered bumper and front axle damage and two glass panels broken with total damage about 15 to 20 dollars. He was with a man and two children. all occupants escaped with minor bruises.
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Henry E. Fokers Jr
Scotch Grove
Was Dillinger seen by Monticello residents
Three Monticello women reported a tall suntanned man resembling John Dillinger on a Roofs back lawn last week. The visitor wore an overcoat one arm and asked to see the local newspaper before leaving toward Dubuque, leaving the women certain he bore Dillinger’s scar and features.
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John Dillinger
Monticello
Mike Hogan
Hans Ruof
Harry Moag
Daily
Dillinger
Dubuque
Mann
Desperado
Here And There In Nearby News
The sixteenth annual wildfire schools will be held at McGregor from July 30 to August 11. Delbert G. Knight, 55, a farmer near Edgewood, hanged himself last Sunday morning leaving a note for his widow. D. C. Bell, 54, of Cedar Rapids, a salesman, was found dead in a Dubuque hotel room last Monday, death by hanging. Aldo Hess, 22, a University of Iowa medical student, suffered a concussion at a Cedar Rapids road house last week. John Cox of Cedar Rapids is free on $1000 bond after allegedly assaulting Hess. County records show 71 marriage licenses in Jones county this year, up from 36 last year. divorces increased about 25 percent. Ira Maiden of Martelle fractured his skull painting at a public schools building after a fall from a scaffold. E. Shedek, missing from Oxford Junction, was found dead in a field. coroner cites natural causes, a World War veteran.
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McGregor
Delbert G. Knight
Edgewood
D. C. Bell
Cadar Rapids
Dubuque
Bell
Aldo Hess
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
John Cox
Hess
Lee Byerly
Jones County
Ira
Martello
Anamosa
E. Shedek
Oxford Junction
Hayes
Miss Mary Lovell Graduates From Simmons College
Miss Mary F Lovell daughter of Major and Mrs L W Lovell received a B S degree from Simmons College Boston at the annual commencement Monday June 11 She earned the School of Secretarial Studies diploma as one of nine schools combining liberal arts with vocational training She previously held an A B degree from Nebraska University 1943 She returned home last Sunday since post graduate students were not required to attend the commencement exercises.
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Mary F. Lovell
L. W. Lovell
Simmons College
Boston
School of Secretarial Studies
Simmons
Lovell
Dedree
Nebraska University
Fire at McCrea restaurant prompts quick West Point fire response
The West Point fire department battled a late night blaze at the McCrea restaurant building behind headquarters. Roof shingles ignited from chimney sparks and were quickly knocked down with a small chemical fire stream. Herbert G. C. Gen of Abamosit was named regimental commander of First Cantabay at the U.S. Military Academy West Point. He was appointed in 1930 by Rep Owens Cole after attending Town City University.
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McCrea
Vilding
Fire Department
Herbert GC. Gen
Abamosit
First Cantabay
U.S
Children Play Program Directed by Coach Ivan Merten
Monticello offers a free afternoon and evening playground program directed by coach Ivan Merten with activities for 50 plus children. Tennis, kittenball, hiking, golf, baseball and swimming are scheduled, with gear donations encouraged and no charges to participants.
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I’'van Merten
Monticello
Merten
Iowa Champion to Play Golf Exhibition Here
Miss Lucille Robinson national and state golf champion will appear at Monticello Country Club next Sunday at 2:00 for an 18 hole exhibition match pairing with Jim Gardner of Vinton. Opponents are Miss Fran Weeple of Independence and Joe Herl of Dubuque. Event includes a club dinner and out of town guests. club professional Don Young notes high interest and a projected crowd of 500.
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Monticello Country Club
Lucille Robinson
Des Moines
Iowa
Miss Robinson
Kansas City
Mrs. O
Hill
Jim Garener
Vinton
Ter. U. S
Joe Herl
Dubuque
Mike Robinson
Estabrooks
Careys
Cedar
Central Town
Local Golfers Fall To Iowa City Nassau Meet
Local Country Club golfers traveled to Iowa City to face Nassau in a season opener, losing 44 to 29. Kehoe led Monticello with 39 38 77, Merten second at 43, Frohwein shot 38 at Town City, nineteen players attended and dined afterward. Next week rests for Robinson exhibition, then interclub with Mark.
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Lowa City
Nassau
Kehoe
Monticello
Merten
Giverpe Frohwein
Echo
Town City
George Ridenour Injures Head In Night Collision
George Ridenour, a fac auind on ue Charse Manter noch fam, collided with a barrier at a crossing last Saturday night at 10 30. He struck the ditch and suffered a badly gashed head when thrown, while the car sustained $25 damage. The barrier was erected during plank work but Ridenour failed to see it.
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George Ridenour
Charse Manternoch
Pawiy Company
Ridenour
Speeding Cars Threaten Town Street Safety
Town reports rising automobile accidents with reckless driving on First Street west of town. Citizens urge officers to enforce the city limit as speeders flood both directions along the main thoroughfare.
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Corporation
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Iowa State Teachers’ College
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Lizzie Cooper
Barnett
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Kappa Delta Pi
State Teachers’ College
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Soldier
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Fairview Oriole Club
Ione Koppenhaver
Wayne Rainbow Club
J. W. Streeter
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Rome True Hearts
Althea Shumaker
Ruth Broderson
Man John
Cass Bluebird Club
William Reese
Cashman-Brashaw
the Express
Rockstad
Clyde Barker
Evelyn A. Brown
Martelle
Harry Holcomb
Treasuer
W. W
Bill) Hanken
W. H. Null
Henry Eichhorn
Wyoming
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Pres. Roosevelt
Alcock
Atlantic
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Bunker Hill
W. C. Kehoe
G. W. Eiben
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Henry Folkers Jr
Mary Lovell
Herbert Gee
West Point
Don Young
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