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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1932
Page
6
Monticello readers hear from residents and visitors including J W Hoult at 302 N Chestnut and Misses Virginia Schneider Ruth Hayes in Dubuque. Several guests travel from Cedar Rapids Davenport Waterloo and Chicago with social calls and events noted.
Mr and Mrs George Timmins entertained eight guests at a Sunday dinner. Royal Neighbors held a social evening with games and a picnic supper. Multiple clubs met at homes for programs, needlework, quilting, and bridge. Mrs Ben Haeuasler celebrated her eighty second birthday with visiting relatives and friends.
Monticello guests D Bohlken John Rickels A Doering W R Zimmerman Amber attend a Methodist Episcopal church Social Circle gathering that featured a kitchen shower for the church. Refreshments were served by Mrs Hulbregtse Mrs Hearn Mrs Porter Mrs Anderson and Mrs Reed.
A sleet storm last week damaged Northwestern Bell Telephone lines in eastern Iowa from Maquoketa toward Waterloo with 40 000 in losses. 102 workers in 15 crews repaired 1000 wire breaks and 65 broken poles, plus leaning poles, speeding restoration.
The Clinton Bridge Works was the successful bidder to furnish structural steel for the new Savannah-Sabule bridge, an announcement issued this week confirms.
The Marshall Electric Company seeks to lay an electric transmission line along multiple townships in Jones County Iowa. The Supervisors approve routing on the east side of highways and require coordination with Northwestern Bell to move lines as needed. A verified petition for the franchise is on file with the county auditor detailing the extensive highway corridors and sections involved.
The text details a proposed transmission line path from mile 1 southwest across section 36 into section 2 at the four corners of sections 35 36 1 and 2 in township 84 north range 4 west, extending southwest to a highway point in the southeast corner of NE quarter section 2, township 84 north range 4 west, then about a quarter mile east of the four corners of township 86 north range 3 west.
The proposed line runs along the highway across Sections 23 and 24 for about 1.75 miles to the township line near the four corners of Sections 13 18 19 and 24. It begins at Monticello Iowa city limits, extends 0.25 mile east and 0.125 mile south, then proceeds northwest across Sections 16 and 17 to the highway in the center of the SW quarter of Section 8, Township 86 N, Range. (Continued on page 6)
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