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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
4
Jones County schools confront a severe teacher shortage as rural boards plan reorganizations on March 20. Superintendent Nellie V Morey warns one third of current rural teachers may not return next year, with salaries averaging 100.81 dollars monthly.
The M. M. City and Dubuque Packing teams were tied for first in the men's league this week. Rickless led the women's league while Stabler's and AAA tied for second. Also notes Willard Thomas of Schultz Bros prepares for induction with early leave.
Prosperity returns but schools suffer from limited stocks of educational texts and workbooks caused by the war. Miss Morey plans to order next year’s materials for fall, acknowledging ongoing teacher and pupil shortages and difficult conditions at the rural boards’ Monday meeting.
Hopkinton defeats Edgewood 29 to 28 in a district contest at Cedar Falls. Guard Smith sealed the win with a late drive and finish as Littlefield led Hopkinton with 13 points. First half score 14 10 Hopkinton.
Thompson earned a second team slot on the Eastern Iowa conference all star list as Monticello’s lone honoree. Mt. Vernon led the standings with three on the first team, while the second unit featured Paulson Wagner Thompson Kautz and Wiese. The Iowa State University athletic department arranged with the navy pre flight school to host the Eleventh Annual Indoor Meet at SUT Field House on April 1 with more details to follow.
The board of supervisors have entered contracts for paying crushed rock on six projects in Cass Fairview Greenfield Wayne Rome and Jackson townships. It is estimated there are 21 miles of surfacing. The supervisors also plan to resurface certain roads in Fairview Greenfield Cass and Jackson townships with crushed rock.
Ray Beck, state conservation officer, Cedar Rapids, urged timely postwar conservation efforts at a Monticello Conservation League meeting in Cedar Rapids. More than 50 men and boys joined the discussion after a review by Ray Hearn. the league began in 1938.
County recorder Bess Sherman reports a state order from Des Moines delaying opening of catfish season to Saturday in April. Licenses for 1944 become available at the recorder's office on April 1.
The Monticello Conservation League held its annual meeting and elected Tom Henderson as president William Shaffer as secretary and Ervin J. Davis as treasurer. Twenty nine adults paid 50 cent dues with six juniors at 25 cents. The group plans to stock waters and plant game and showed wildlife reels by Officer Beekman. A letter of appreciation to Glenn Bancroft was authorized.
Directors of the Jones National Farm Loan association set Tuesday, March 21, for the annual meeting at the Legion Hall in Anamosa. Harold B. McTavish said 300 Jones county farmers will be invited as members of the Jones credit cooperative. Nile Kinnick will be the principal speaker. Entertainment by Dempsey Jones.
Hargrave Cleaners has modernized its Monticello plant with new equipment including a wind whip hot air system to prevent fabric wrinkling, an oversized press, a larger extractor, and four new fluorescent lights. The finishing room was moved forward for a cleaner, better lit work area and service will be ready in about a week.
Mrs George Arnold sustained a hand injury Tuesday when her fingers were torn by a corn cutter at her home northwest of Monticello. The accident damaged flesh on the forefingers and broke a bone in her hand.
Star shells are fired from guns and drift down slowly suspended on parachutes, illuminating the night as markers or signals in a military or training context.
реклам text touts Spring laxative for the family claiming bienestar and harmony from cleansing bowels. It highlights Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a top herb remedy available at Falmer's Drug Store.
Miller living near Fiton is in Jones County jail Anamosa charged with breaking and entering after Milwaukee Railroad detectives say he broke a cupola glass of a caboose and crawled in to sleep He allegedly drank liquor bought groceries at Suter's market kept two tires at a shop and tried to sell them He also chopped walnut logs near Hopkinton and worked at a local lumber yard.
Twenty five seniors from Monticello and Sacred Heart high schools took Army Navy tests Wednesday morning administered by Boyd Shannon. The exams targeted students over 17 seeking Navy college training or Army programs for 17 year olds, and included rigorous inquiries into qualifications and interests.
Report states every senior boy at both high schools took tests to assess abilities for military programs. Students who pass may enter the Navy V-12 college training or Army college training if under 18. Test results will be announced later. Express Want Ads note results.
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