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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1946
Page
4
Monticello High School's Black Panthers travel to the Eastern Iowa Conference indoor meet at Iowa Field House in Iowa City. The event, long held at the venue, features many eastern Iowa schools. Reynolds, a former Monticello man, holds a conference pole vault record of 10 feet 9 inches.
Sacred Heart pupils plan their sixth annual War Emergency and Relief Committee collection to aid the home less and destitute in Europe and worldwide. A school declamatory contest Sunday April 28 features Carl Manternacht Laura Heims Mary Ann Lyons Joan Hayes Jean Marie Howie Kath leen Barron Shirley Schneider and others with judges to be announced.
Rev. Andrew Mast, pastor of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, spoke last night at the Union Lenten service in the Community building. The audience filled the hall for a program by four churches with a 35 voice choir directed by Mrs. Cecil Goettsch performing God So Loved the World.
Alex S. Roberston 57 former Jones county deputy treasurer died Saturday at Veterans hospital Des Moines from heart ailment. World War I veteran born in Dundee Scotland he lived in Jones County since age three. Services set 2 30 p.m. Tuesday Smykil funeral home Anamosa. Survived by two brothers William and Peter of Anamosa.
Pfc. Lester J. Schaffer was discharged from the United States Army last week at Anamosa after separation on March 15 at Jefferson Barracks. He earns the Victory Ribbon American Theatre Ribbon and good conduct medal.
Reiss G Stuhler, once ill at McDonald hospital, shows health improvement and hopes to leave bed for brief sitting periods daily. He welcomes visitors and friends stopping by.
Manchester stores all agree to stay open until 10 30 p m on Saturdays and lock doors at that time to allow staff to leave by 11 30 p m instead of 1 20 a m. Customers urged to shop earlier for Sunday groceries and avoid late shopping. Also a 1948 notice to bidders from Jones County Auditor in Anamosa inviting sealed proposals with required certified check.
Bids due with a 3% plan, specs, and bond. County may retain liquidated damages if a bidder fails to execute a contract and file approval bond within ten days of bid acceptance. Proposals must be on county forms, sealed, and marked. Specifications detail Project 10 in Madison Township and Projects 96 and 44 in Warne, Jackson, and Avidison Townships with mileages and excavation classifications.
Ralph Marolf, son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Marolf, suffered a severe scalp wound requiring 14 stitches after a Frigidaire lid fell on his head while he held a bicycle on the rear of a truck hauling household goods to the Petersen farm north of Monticello where his father rents.
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