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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 29, 1939

Page

4

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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