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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1954
Page
2
Monticello officials schedule a Tuesday May 4 night track meet with Ana mos a and Tipton after two rainouts. The event starts at 6 30 PM using football bleachers for seating. Monticello and Anamosa expect strong showings in multiple relays with no admission charge.
Conservation officials report the Maquoketa River stocked 150000 walleyes Monday in cooperation with the Delaware County Fish and Game Club. Fifty thousand fish were placed at Quaker Mill Tirrell Park in Manchester and just below Bailey's Ford. A small percentage will mature, reaching 10 to 12 inches by next year.
Monticello Sports Association named more workers for the city team. Paul Schuetz was elected treasurer, Albert McNeil Sr secretary, and Dick Devaney business manager. Playing manager George Nieters was announced earlier. Miro and Mrs John Behn will operate the concession stand this summer. Devaney will file a full summer schedule around league games. publication will follow.
A note from Mrs. Darrell Heffle finger announces a speaker change for the Anamosa meeting for retarded children. Robert Bentz, Linn county speech education supervisor, will speak instead of LeRoy Peterson as previously announced.
A Wednesday assembly at the public high school honored 29 players and managers with varsity letters for the season. Captain Ray Meier led six seniors, with juniors Carl Egger Bill Jansen and George Barnts also recognized along with several sophomores and seventh and eighth graders receiving awards.
The St Johns LWML met on Thursday evening April 22 at the church. Pastor Stenzel presented a film strip Ever a Pioneer. Mrs Merle Postel led the business portion while Mrs Emma Eden and Mrs John Jacobs served refreshments.
Fifty to sixty Monticello high school students mainly from literature classes will attend a cinemascope presentation of Julius Caesar in Cedar Rapids this evening. They will travel by school buses. Mrs. Henrietta Harford of Clinton spent the weekend at the Emil Riedel home.
Less than one percent of Jones County school children have refused the tuberculosis patch test as of Saturday. The mass testing covers rural and town schools, with several locations reading reactions Friday and plans to extend testing to all adults by late summer.
Darrell Hefflefinger, temporary chairman, invites Monticello Express readers to attendance at the May 5 meeting in Anamosa courthouse community room. LeRoy Peterson will speak on special education Cedar Rapids schools. Also notes plans for Des Moines June 11 12 convention.
The 94 Club held its closing meeting on Friday April 30 with a 3:30 tea at Mrs W D McLaughlin home. Mrs W K Cox presented the Mother's Day program A Letter to Mother and Mother’s Day poems. A preview of 1954 programs was given by the Year Book committee. Telegraph tea details credited to the 1953 1954 year book committee and guests Mrs P A Johnson of Grinnell and Mrs Minnie Hanson.
Members of the Monticello Chapter of the PTA attended the district meeting in Dubuque on Thursday. Attendees from Monticello included Mrs. Robert Savage president Mrs. Roy Miller vice president Mrs. Floyd Kephart past president and Mrs. Alva Freese past treasurer. Mr and Mrs Lewis Kuriger and Cecelia of Waterloo visited relatives in Monticello on Sunday.
Jones county residents hold about a percent more of series PF and EP United States Savings Bonds than other areas. State Savings Bond Director King Boo Palmer reported that 46 percent of dollars invested from 1941 through this spring have not been redeemed. He added that Iowa would likely post higher retention figures due to thrifty citizens.
Jones county residents could retain about 50 percent of savings bonds. When bonds mature or redeem at owners option the dollars plus interest will be spent locally on homes farms cars and goods, boosting business and employment in Monticello. From 1940 to Feb 1954 bonds sold in Jones county totaled 13 429 699 with an estimated 6 700 000 still held locally at 50 percent retention. Purchases early this year rose 35 percent from 1953, Iowa vs national 16 percent. Mrs Henry Furino and Bobbie Anamosa visited Clarence Stutt home Tuesday.
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