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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1958
Page
2
Monticello post office offers Jones county's first new plat map in five years. Maps cover every township and county including Monticello and Anarmesa, with careful indexing. Price two dollars fifty cents plus tax and mailing for mail orders.
The Olin Garden club met at the Methodist church Friday evening for a pot luck supper with about 50 attendees. Edward Jansen of Wyoming presented colored slides from his Europe trip, while the group voted $2 to the Heart Fund and door prizes were awarded.
Mr and Mrs Cyril White and family moved from the county line to the Ernie Becker farm vacated by the George Luris family who are now at home in Sand Springs in the former Ton Wile en based home. The Whites and family were Sunday guests in the Irvin Gadient home. James McGovern and sons and Ma and Mrs George Turnis visited John Turnis for Sunday dinner. A school reorganization meeting was well attended in Sand Springs with a representative of Dubuque county as guest speaker.
The West circle hosted a potluck with Mrs. Orville Underwood. John Sill attended the state extension advisory committee meeting at Iowa State College. Memorial hospital Manchester listed several patients under observation and treatment. Family visits and anniversaries filled weekends across Monticello Cedar Rapids Manchester and Marion with many relatives attending dinners suppers and birthday celebrations.
Mrs. Ava Bramer, president of the Jones County American Legion Auxiliary, attended the March 4 meeting. Plans were made for a county meeting to be held in Monticello March 20 at 8 pm. Lunch was served by Mrs. Rose Shaffer and Mrs. William Holmes.
The Friday Pinochle club met at Mrs Mardorf home with high score by Mrs Merle Cass. Mrs von Hutton traveled and Mrs Jeda Martinsen was low. A dessert luncheon was served. Guests included Mrs Lou Hutton and Mrs Mardorf.
Cass Mr and Mrs Charles Ball and sons Dennis 15 and Terry 24 moved to the Kesebore farm. Dennis is a 4 H member and the family belongs to the Methodist church. Mrs Dennis Kula is a patient at Monticello hospital. 4-H exchangeee Everett Martin visited with Judy Poppe and shared pictures of Massachusetts dairy farms.
About 44 Lones County Farm Bureau livestock leaders and six neighboring counties met in Cedar Rapids Thursday to discuss the bureau role in boosting bargaining power for livestock producers. Earlier on Feb 24, Elwyn May Floyd Hodgdon Bill Reade Russell Eldred Jim Whitmore Elmer Pedersen and Harlan Hawker joined a Des Moines statewide meeting to push for stronger bargaining leverage.
The Monticello Business and Professional Women's club met March 6. Kathryn Thompson Florence Roberts Mil dred Griffith Berniece Himebaugh Kathleen Straub and Emma Hei ken led the legislative committee program on Equal Pay and Social Security. Ron Burrichter sang two numbers with Judy Schoon. Monticello school students Judy Glendorn and John Hennessey gave readings.
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