Library Notes and New Book List at Local Library
Hours open list and a curated selection of health and fiction titles. Titles include Cancer by Beka Doherty You and Your Heart by five eminent specialists Watch Your Step by John J Flaherty The Whole Armor by Faith Baldwin Morning Journey by James Hilton Teen Age For a Brave Tomorrow by Jean Miller Hostess of the Skyways Dixie Willson The Catcher from Double A Duane Decker Ticktock and Jim Keith Robertson Once the Hodjo Alice Geer Kelsey Cowboy Joe of the Circle S Helen Rushmore Here Comes Mary Ellen and more titles from children to adult readers.
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Beka Doherty
Miss—Doherty
Town Heart Association
John J. Flaherty
Faith Baldwin
New York
James Hilton
Atlantic
Broadway
Wilshire Boulevard
Carey Arundel
Paul Saffron
Jean Miller
America
Breve
Skyways
Dixie Willson
Double-A
Duane Decker
Ticktock
Jim
Keith Robertson
Italy
Alice Geer Kelsey
Joe
Helen Rushmore
Mary Ellen
Band Sees Itself In Movie Reel at Chicago Lions Club
The Monti High band watched a Lions Club Convention film shot in Chicago last summer. The color film showed each band member in bright green shirts and blue jeans. The parade faced rain but continued, and Mr Stumbaugh invited grade students to view the movie in the auditorium to spark young musician interest. On March 17 the trombone quartet joins a brass woodwind clinic in Iowa City with about a few band students attending for critique to improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monti High
Lions Club
Chicago
Stumbaugh
Iowa City
Senior Profiles Highlight Monti High Class of ’51
The piece spotlights Margaret Dirks a Monti High senior active in F H A and her church work and hints at her future plans. It also profiles Mary Lou a fresh montage in F H A dramatics and cooking aspirations. Don Martin is praised for four years in Monti bands M Club and athletic participation with plans for engineering or military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Dirks
Margaret
F.H.A
Wayne Zion Lutheran Church
Monti High
Maquoketa High
Mary Lou
Harry James
Don Martin
Don
Monti
M Club
Seven Sisters
Mofiti High
Methodist Church
Monticello
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Iowa University
Sam
Weekly school lunch menu March 27 to 30
Scalloped potatoes and ham with Waldorf salad and cheese sandwiches offered Tuesday. Wednesday includes bean soup egg and ham salad sandwiches pickles crackers and apple crisp. Thursday features spaghetti and cheese upside down cake and peanut butter sandwiches. Friday serves fried fish mashed potatoes lettuce sandwiches apricots and milk.
Mystery student crowned as "Happy" in Monti yearbook
A senior transfer from West Liberty is described as popular and sports minded. He joined Monti basketball for two years and earned a football letter. He belongs to the M Club and Panther Club, with dark hair glasses and a friendly reputation.
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West Liberty
Monti
Panther
Hot-Rod Races Mean Junkyard End
A poem laments reckless hot-rodding and the danger on icy roads. It notes engines failing from wear, squealing tires near Montisweep Bay, and junkyards filling with wrecked cars as patrolmen warn against careless driving. Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs are praised for speed, yet unsafe driving harms all.
FFA Judging Team Competes at Hawkeye Downs
Local FFA members Phil Vesey Rex DeMoss Kenneth Streeper Glen Hein Jon Schrader and Darrell Helgens served on the judging team at Cedar Rapids Hawkeye Downs for the Spring Market Hog Show. Darrell Helgens placed sixth and Glen Hein also showed hogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Vesey
Rex DeMoss
Kenneth Streeper
Glen Hein
Jon Schrader
Darrell Helgens
F.F.A
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Darrell
Monti Midgets Run Busy Grocery Store Project
Miss Peck's fourth grade class runs a mock grocery named Monti Midgets Complete with price lists and empty containers to learn arithmetic changes. Buck Creek teacher Miss Phyllis Cox visited first graders, Linda Mowrey returns from illness, and Miss Nelson's third grade held a surprise birthday party with a class gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Peck
Phyllis Cox
Buck Creek
May Justus tale praised by Parents Magazine
The excerpt describes a charming story about a little girl spending a winter in the Tennessee mountains with Granny, noted as a five printing edition. It mentions Phil Stong's The Prince of the Parker about a pig and a racing horse, plus three E books Ruby Throat Bunny's Easter Gift and The Good Rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Justus
Parents Magazine
Tennessee Mountains
Phil Stong
Be Natural 4-H Club Meets at Pillards March 10
Be Natural 4-H Club met March 10 at Mary and Betty Pillard's home with Joanne Kintzle presiding. Twelve members answered roll call. Bake sale planned for April 11 in Prairieburg at 8 am. Committees named for posters and food. Demonstrations on Sewing Box and Good Posture. Officers installed. Next meeting set for March 31 at Evonne and Velma Reth homes. Iowa trucking stats noted.
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Mary
Betty Pillard
Joanne Kintzle
John Wacker
Eddie Siebels
Fay Pillard
Prairieburg
Jean Kimm
Joan Spersflage
Joan Kimm
Evonne Reth
Luciel Blohm
Beverly Wolfe
Velma Reth
Martina Lawrence
Elia Blohm
Evonne
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Freshie
Jack
Mother
Staner & Reynolds
ILITE
Lovely
Mary Lou Wright
Tommorow
Sweet Shop
Louise
Grace Walkers
Stuhler’s
Stuhler
Mme Gyp Bee
Oath O
Red
SaHors
Montisweep Bay
F.F.A. Activities
Iowa
Interstate
UA Ass Css
Staan
Monticello Imp. & Truck CO
Memorial Coliseum
Iglamour
Pals
Towa
Linn County + Coliseum
Buick
Ging
Henry J. Taylor
ABC Network
Fisher
McLaughlin Motor Company
South Cedar St
Monticello, Iowa
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