Twelve Softball Teams Entered In Tourney
Twelve fast teams enter the Monticello Invitational softball tournament run by Harry Schneider. Four first round games open tonight with second round Friday and semi finals Sunday. Prizes: 18 for winner, 10 for runner up, 6 for third. Most entries are from Jones county and Monticello teams except Center Junction.
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Grain Belt
Monticello
Clarence
Wyoming
Sand Spring
Chevrolet
Earlville
Dubuque Packers
Onslow
Harry Schneider
Monticello Softball League
Center Junction
Monticello Softball League Announces Second Half Schedule
The Chevrolet team of Monticello crowned champions for the first half. the six teams begin the second half this Monday with each team facing every other twice. Games run Monday Wednesday and Fridays host interleague contests. if Chevrolet fails to win the second half a playoff with the half winner decides the season champ.
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Monticello
Chevrolet
Harry Schneider
Batting Averages To Be Published For Monticello Softball League
The Express will publish next week a ranked list of batting averages covering the first half of the Monticello Softball League season. Players will appear in order of batting average with teams ranked by batting efficiency.
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The
Express
Monticello
Black Sheep of Shetland Inspire Global Wool Trade
In Shetland Scotland the black sheep and their famed wool produce prized blankets and shawls. Their wool travels worldwide, proving that color does not mark kinship in this famed wool industry.
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Shetland Islands
Scotland
Monticello City Golf Tourney Opens July 4
The Monticello city golf tournament will start July 4 at the local course with all club members eligible. It will be match play in three flights based on scores through July 2, with threesomes or foursomes and signed scorecards.
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Monticello
Gene Byers
Ben Roberts
Eldon Brashaw
Cecil Goettsch
Mr. Byers
Iowa
Marion
Mount Vernon
Tipton
Local Golfers Edge Manchester 20 19 in Sunday Match
Monticello golfers defeated Manchester 20 to 19 on the latter’s course Sunday afternoon. Manchester’s D Mullen was medalist with 82, while Claude Appleby led Monticello with 83. Twenty six players competed starting at 2 o clock.
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Monticello
Manchester
D. Mullen
Claude Appleby
Appleby
Easin
M. Rodman
B. C. Roberts
Mie Bones
Shaffer
H. Rodman
Hodson
Goettsch
Liddy
INA
S. Rhatigan
Local sports bits hint at varied games and scenes
Gump Ferring remains an umpire amid rowdy play. he reportedly struck a protesting player and once hit a spectator with a line drive. Golfers Harry Rodman and Doris Oakley feature in club and race scenes. NYA tennis court project fades as towns eye improvised winter skating setups.
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Gump Ferring
Gump
Carl Winkler
NYA
Worthington Game Postponed Due to Sunday Golf Tournament
The Monticello and Worthington baseball game in the Maquoketa Valley league will not be played this Sunday because of a golf tournament here. The two teams will meet at a later date yet to be decided.
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Mount Vernon
Maquoketa
Chevrolet Team Wins First Place In The Monticello Softball League
Matthiessen's Auto Supply Co. Chevrolet ball club captured the first half championship by defeating Center Junction 19 to 8. Scherrer led a 21 hit effort and posted four-for-four at the plate while improving Chevrolet's season record with key victories against Grain Belt Franklin Niles and Sand Spring. Grain Belt upset Franklin 10 to 7 with Fred Kreeb and Wayne Jones collecting two hits apiece. Tabasco is noted as a sauce and a name for mahogany from Tabasco, Mexico.
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Matthiessen
Auto Supply Co
Chevrolet Ball Club
Monticello
Center Junction
Chevrolet
Niles
Anamosa
Franklin
Peterson
Scherrer
Grain Belt
Sand Spring
Franklin Club
Fred Kreeb
Wayne Jones
Auto and Supply Company
Clyde Clough
Kenneth (Gump) Ferring
Fred Otten
Junior Hobert
Harold Uunn
Ernest Kula
Edward Scheerer
John Warner
Harry Schneider
Donnie Schneider
Monticello Express
Final Standings in WoL Pet Chevrolet League
The final standings show Niles Franklin Sand Spring Grain Belt Center Junction with records around .400. Several teams cancelled remaining games as outcomes would not affect the final table.
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Chevrolet
Niles
Hs Fece
Franklin
Center Junction
Cascade Ball Club Routs Monticello On Local Diamond
Cascade tightens hold on second place in the Maquoketa Valley league by routing Monticello 13 to 1 Sunday behind Al Kane’s four hit pitching. Cascade scored four in the first, eight in the second, while Monticello's lone run came in the eighth. Cascade had four errors to Monticello’s one.
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al Kane
Cascade
Monticello
Worthington
Siebels
Davenport
Lambert
Don Faris Named Olin Principal And Coach
Don Faris, former Wellsburg high school principal and coach for four years, is named principal at Olin and will coach girls basketball. His Wellsburg teams reached the state meet semi finals last spring. Faris is a 1932 Coe College graduate.
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Don Faris
Wellsburg High School
Olin
Wellsburg
Faris
Coe College
Approve Anamosa Post Office Site
A site for the $75,000 post office building at Anamosa has been approved. Action on the proposed site is expected after errors on lot boundaries are corrected by the Treasury Department procurement division.
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Anamosa
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Treasury Department
Tax on portable feed mills and corn shellers set in state plan
A bulletin from James Allen of the state motor vehicle registration department states portable feed mills will be taxed $25 after July 5 and corn shellers $15. Both outfits were tax free before. Tax payment is due in the treasurer's office.
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James Allen
State Motor Vehicle Registration Department
Clarence Hearn Receives Promotion To Assistant Manager
Clarence Hearn, longtime employee of Schultz Bros. Store in Monticello, has been chosen as a first class assistant manager for a Schultz Bros. store in Hobart, Indiana. The Hobart location is expanding to double its size as part of the promotion announcement.
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Clarence Hearn
Schultz Bros
Monticello
Hobart
Ind
Clarence
Cedar Rapids pair among three marriage license issuances
Licenses issued at the clerk of court's office to Robert Schodde Clark, 27, and Alberta Dell Schuknecht, 26, Cedar Rapids, plus Everett H. Brun scheen, 21, Wyoming and Margorie F. Dukek, 20, Alburnett, and J. Burl Walton, 31, Walker, and Blanch Black, 26, Monticello.
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Clerk of Court
Robert Schodde Clark
Cedar Rapids
Alberta Dell Schuknecht
Everett H. Brunscheen
Wyoming
Margorie F. Dukek
Alburnett
J. Burl Walton
Walker
Was Blanch Black
Monticello
Watch for Appendicitis in Hot Weather Warns Iowa Health Department
The Iowa state health department warns that summer heat increases appendicitis risk in children and outlines common misinterpretations of symptoms. Deaths rise in July and August, with 299 child deaths reported nationally last year and many cases presenting atypically in young patients. Parents are advised against home laxative use as it raises rupture risk.
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Iowa State Department of Health
Towa
Iowa
Elephant Cemetery Legend Tells Of Hannibal Route
A site near Avacon in the Durance valley France is described as an elephant cemetery linked to Hannibal. It claims a Carthaginian slaughter of elephants before crossing the Alps and burial of a chieftain and 100 warriors 800 years earlier. In 218 B C Hannibal crossed with 37 elephants and 102000 Moorish and Spanish soldiers.
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Hannibal
Alps
Avacon
Durance
France
Spain
Carthage
Italy
Sacred Heart Parish Picnic Plans Dinner and Dance
Rev A L Lorenz announces Sacred Heart church picnic on Tuesday July 11 at the church. Chicken dinner from 5 PM in the basement and a dance in the school with Connie Nason of Dubuque providing music from 9 to 1. Last year nearly 600 diners served.
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Sacred Heart Church
A. L. Lorenz
Connie Nason
Dubuque
Pesec
Coffee houses suppressed under Charles II for sedition
The account notes that Charles II denounced coffee houses as centers of sedition and ordered their suppression.
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Charles the Second
Measurements of the new municipal tower clock and vane
Local business groups study the tower under construction and The Express reveals several dimensions. The clock dial measures five feet three inches in diameter and the dome stands nine feet tall to the vane shaft. The weather vane shaft runs eleven feet from dome to cone tip, the ball diameter is sixteen inches, and the quill length is eight feet six inches.
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First Street
the Express
Descriptive notes on a clock tower mechanism and structure
The fragment describes an iron framed vane clock with copper shell and a case hardened pivot. It mentions a tall shaft in a clock tower, a ladder access by the janitor, and the clock's height and placement relative to a dome. Details include measurements of the shaft and dome and concerns about maintenance.
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