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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1951
Page
6
County Assessor L. T. Lorenzen announced completion of the assessment of personal property in Wyoming township by Ed Burda of Oxford Junction and in Greenfield township by Lewis Vernon of Anamosa.
W Leigh Pearson, Jones County Clerk, issued four marriage licenses this week. Couples include John H Cook and Florence Willis, Bobbie Otten and Ruth Ambuehl, Dasil Duance Darrow and Beverly Ann Buresh, and Charlie Carl Etten and Ruby Williams. New vehicle registrations list Monticello residents and local businesses. Rotary Club program featured Nick Brear, district governor, speaking on RI’s global outreach. Mr. and Mrs. Brear attended with Bill Coxsee’s group, and plans for next Monday were announced.
Four Monticello men are among eleven.S retroactively listed to report March 29 for military induction per the county selective service office in Anamosa. The Monticello group includes Robert Melvin Like John William Schilt Norman Tobias Hinrichs and Robert DeWain Veitch.
The Easter Fashion Style Show opens Thursday and Friday March 8 and 9 at the high school auditorium. Sponsored by the BPW club with the Greater Monticello committee, the event features both men and women models from cooperating stores. Readings and bunny trail activity will accompany the show with a large lineup of committees handling finance tickets advertising ushers readers and merchant contact.
Message urges broad support for the 1951 Red Cross Fund Campaign to aid servicemen here and abroad. It highlights obligations to assist soldiers families in emergencies and encourages ongoing Red Cross service through donor backing.
Arch Edwards, owner of Edwards Department Store, purchased Zimmerman's Hardware and Auto Supply on February 22. George Nieters was named new manager and will move from Anamosa after his Peters Shoe Co. duties end. Herbert Kuntz remains in charge of radio TV and electrical sales. Alva Zimmerman, a 25 year hardware figure, has not yet announced plans. Edwards relocated from Leon five years ago to Monticello.
A spark shower from the chimney prompted the Monticello Rural Fire Department to respond to the Cliff Peterson farm six miles west of Monticello Wednesday morning as a precaution. No damage was done to the house or the chimney.
Ice in the Maquoketa river gave way at the dam in Monticello on Sunday morning causing a rush and flooding the lowlands. The river rose three feet during Sunday and another foot Monday from 1 am to 1 pm. Subsideing today after the sudden rise.
Robert Kopp, longtime buttermaker, is appointed manager of the grocery department of the Farmers Mutual Creamery of Monticello. He succeeds Ray Hinrichs who offered to resign but stayed through February. Nick Nobish becomes creamery manager and brings 14 years as galley creameries head from Brighton and Iowa City.
The Monticello Independent school district board proposes a 2 percent mill levy to replace the present 3 mill tax, to be voted at the upcoming election. Ed Cox chairs the board with James Maurice Dr E H DeShaw Richard Long and Carl Schneider cited. The measure funds school maintenance improvements and space expansion for enrollment growth and upgraded vocational programs, with bonds to be paid off next year and expansion planned over the next decade.
The Jones County board of supervisors approved two deputy appointments, PhilA Newhard as deputy county treasurer and Bernice Dunn as deputy county auditor, effective today. Special deputy sheriffs Dick Naylor and Harry Barber were also approved without pay, with appointments by Sheriff Lewis Drie belbis. A United Nations flag was donated by Cass Homemakers Club chair Mrs. Ernest Dirks for display in the courthouse community room.
Police in Monticello report two men surrendered to authorities by simply entering the jail and having the door locked behind them. Dennis Conley slept off intoxication and was fined ten dollars plus costs, while Herman Butti kofer of Dubuque was jailed after seeking shelter and charged with driving without a license, also fined ten dollars plus costs.
A defective oil heater started a fire in the straw loft of a large frame brooder house on the James McLaughlin farm five miles west of Monticello. The owner extinguished the blaze before the Monticello Rural Fire Department arrived. Loss was about two bales of straw as the heater dried the house for upcoming chick arrivals.
Monticello officials and civic groups push a city street improvement program. Mayor Dr A P Lambert and Councilmen aim to rebuild and widen streets with engineering plans and financial estimates to be decided next Monday after site visits to six area towns.
Monticello students will stage Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado in the school auditorium tomorrow at 8 p.m. Miss Darlene White leads the vocal program with special intermissions planned between acts. Curtain time 8 o clock. Display ad on page 4.
Funeral services were conducted this morning at Immaculate Conception Church Castle Grove for Mrs. Thomas F Kehoe a former resident of the area.
Four taverns raided by state agents with Jones county officials led to five charges in district court. Two pleas of guilty were entered for illegal possession of liquor against Clyde Wehr of Wagon Wheel and George Secor of Secor's Tavern, each fined 300 dollars and costs. Three others face March 7 hearings due to their attorney’s illness. Confiscated property includes liquor bottles and casino-style items.
A series of community events listed with dates venues and times. March 2 wedding dance in the Auditorium hosted by Milton Bader. March 5 Rotary meeting at 6 05 p m in the Auditorium. March 7 Highway Patrol License Examination in Room 2 from 9 a m to 4 p m. March 11 District VFW Convention and banquet in the Auditorium. March 12 Rotary meeting in the Auditorium at 6 05 p m.
Early reports from Monticello and North Jones County indicate a strong Red Cross fund drive. The thermometer in the Iowa Electric Co window tracks progress toward a $3,000 goal with $584.70 already received. Dozens of volunteers work to boost the total promptly.
Monticello Independent school district board likely unopposed as filing nears deadline. Incumbents James Maurice and Ed Cox seek 3-year terms with Cox having led the board this year. County election ballots printed with Leigh Clark and Herman Helgens running. polls open March 12 from noon to 7 pm at designated schoolhouse locations.
State Representative Clifford M. Strawman invites constituents to a 2 to 5 p.m. meeting in the Anamosa courthouse Community Room tomorrow to discuss legislation. He chairs the Judiciary II committee and is ranking member of the Agriculture committee, with further service on Appropriations Board of Control Consolidation and Coordination of State Government Roads and Highways Rules Social Security and Ways and Means.
Two drivers pled guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in Jones County Court. Wayne Evan Dufoe of Hopkinton admitted an OMVI arrest on January 19 near Monticello on Highway 38, fined 300 dollars with 100 down and 50 dollar monthly payments. Raymond Eugene Davisson of Moline Ir appeared Wednesday. fined 300 dollars for an OMVI arrest on Highway 38 near Olin, arrested earlier this week by Patrolman Beckmann.
Dr Lyman C Perkins chiropractor moves to new offices in the Lambert building at 119 West First Street just south of the Milwaukee depot. The space has been remodeled. He previously occupied East First Street for three years. Harold Wilcox, buyer of that building, plans expansion of his poultry and hatchery business in the space.
Mr and Mrs Milton Bader of Monticello traveled to Chicago to visit the former's aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Henry Worm. They plan to visit the Great Lakes Training Station to pick up Ralph Bader who has recently returned to service before coming home Friday.
A Jones county petit jury awarded Edward Reiter and Edward Reiter Jr. 2636.30 against Edward Burke Jr. after four hours of deliberation. The case, remanded by the Iowa supreme court for retrial, reversed a prior 7350.75 verdict from a 1948 traffic accident near the Y intersection of highways 261 and 151 and 64, four miles south of Anamosa, in which Burke's wife was killed. Trial costs totaling 496.50 plus the award are assessed against Burke and his insurer.
More than 1500 residents attended the George C Schoon Implement Company fifth anniversary event at the Community building with stars from radio station WMT and Mr Schoon of the Allis Chalmers firm in Monticello presiding and praising the crowd.
February 18 marked the first robin sighting in Buck Creek by Gib Klaren. In Monticello, Mrs. C A Coxsee of the Express saw a robin in her back yard on Tuesday.
The City Council awarded a $3 016 contract to Louis F Whitney Co Cedar Rapids to replace an aging pump. The new centrifugal pump will be installed this spring at the pumphouse end of First Street and expand water supply capacity. The council also accepted the Greater Monticello Committee street program and granted a cigarette permit to Griff's Café.
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