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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1939
Page
5
Preparations for the Monticello public school senior month include a junior senior banquet May 18 and forty four diplomas at commencement May 31. May activities feature a class play May 26, baccalaureate May 28, senior class day May 29, senior picnic May 30, and commencement May 31 at the high school with a sermon by E J Braulik and remarks by Bruce Gates.
Jones county reports April old age assistance payments totaling 7,651 to 421 recipients at 18.17 each. Five recipients and two applicants died. 10 new applications were received. Blind aid supports nine people. House File No. 628 sets max monthly payments at 30 and min at 6 effective July 1.
Two hundred families on county relief are planting vegetable gardens under Miss Vadena Finney Jones county relief director. The project requires recipients to grow and store at least 40 quart jars for winter use while preserving fresh summer foods. Acreages will be inspected by Louis Dreibelbis Anamosa inspector to ensure compliance.
Rev. Wm. Holub of Placid near Epworth wins a Plymouth sedan in Father Coughlin’s contest. Proceeds from the event will benefit Loras College.
Ten students will graduate this year at Sacred Heart High School with six boys and four girls in the class of 1939. Commencement Friday in the Catholic church includes a junior senior banquet on May 17 and class day activities yet to be scheduled. Diploma recipients are Claude Fothergill Jr. Dean Nordman Robert Jacque Francis McKeever Vernon Gadient James Guler Kathryn Renk Elizabeth Redmond Jean Kurt and La Von Lambert.
G O Hargrave of New Sharon bought the Wirth Cleaners on East First Street this week. Ed Wirth retires after 18 years owning the Monticello plant. Hargrave brings experience from Avoca Waverly and Leon and plans modern cleaning with delivery. The Hargraves reside above the plant with their two young children. Wirth bought by Allan Miner who recently died.
The Iowa Children's Home Society holds its annual publicity campaign and tag sale in Monticello this Saturday. Headquarters at the public library with Miss Bethel Merrill in charge of youth activities and emblem sales. The drive supports care for 251 children in Des Moines and across Iowa with adoptions and foster placements, inviting all to purchase tags and attend the event.
Harvey S. Grammer, traffic manager of Northwestern Union Pacific Bus Lines, spoke to the Monticello Rotary about modern through lines, steel bodied rear-motor, air conditioned buses, and safety features. He recalled driving the Omaha to McCook route amid poor paving and dirt roads, noting maintenance after 100000 miles and expanded traveler services including boat trips hotel accommodations and sightseeing.
Licenses to wed were issued by the district court clerk to George Beecher 28 of Olin and Emaline Dodge 36 of Olin Clinton Woodford Davenport and Evelyn Mereaux Davenport Paul Reichardt 22 of Massena and Alberta Northrup 18 of Cedar Rapids.
Seventy two Monticello high students compete in the state music festival at Iowa City with boys and girls glee clubs mixed chorus girls sextet orchestra bassoon and tuba solos. The schedule lists events Thursday and Friday with transportation provided by local residents.
Monticello post office ranked 15th among Iowa second class offices in 1938 with $52 481 25 in postal savings bonds. Anamosa totaled $21 712 50 for the county companion, per capita Monticello purchases reached 22 33 versus state 7 46 and national 4 32. Calumet Michigan led second class offices with 219 918 75, about 22 000 offices nationwide sell postal savings bonds earning 2.9 percent interest.
The April unusual picture contest winner shows Mr. and Mrs. Barney Eilers captured by Florence Metzenberg at the Maquoketa caves. A single negative yielded two angle shots, creating a twinlike double exposure in one frame.
Carl Schneider of the Hutchinson Ice Cream company in Monticello received a Safe Driving certificate for four years without an accident. J. H. Bormann presented the award at the April 28 company meeting in Cedar Rapids. The firm, a unit of Borden, recognizes 69 employees with one to six year perfect driving records as part of a national safe driving crusade.
William C. Green, 53, of Cedar Rapids, was killed at Olin when a small bungalow he helped move fell on him. The accident occurred at 8 a.m. on Friday as a timber broke during loading. Coroner Leonard A Iverson ruled no inquest. Funeral services were held in Cedar Rapids with burial at Center Point cemetery.
Mr and Mrs George W Keith longtime residents of Monticello marked 58 years of marriage on Tuesday May 2 at their daughter Mrs Clara Dunlaps home in Manchester. The couple wed May 2 1883 in Manchester and spent decades on area farms before retiring in 1917 and moving to Monticello. They have four children two daughters and two sons, five grandsons five granddaughters and two great granddaughters.
The Baumhofer Nursery of Cedar Rapids won a $738.65 contract to furnish landscaping for three highways into Anamosa. The Anamosa Garden Club joins the state highway commission in the project with plans to extend roadside plantings to the Monticello entrance from the north and to Wyoming from the east.
David E. Marlowe, 78, a widower living alone in Maquoketa, was found dead at his home about 5 a.m. Thursday. Coroner John Wordan ruled a heart attack as the cause after noting Marlowe had been dead several hours. Neighbor Mrs. Charity Abrams alerted the brother Fred when entry proved impossible.
Seven cases, mostly equity, were filed in the clerk of court's office as attorneys rush to meet the May term filing deadline. Judge John T. Moiit will preside as the May term opens May 15.
The Second district meeting of the Department of Iowa Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary will be held in Clinton on Sunday May 7. The post meets at Moose hall and the auxiliary at Knights of Columbus with a banquet at 6 p.m. and sessions starting at 2 p.m. Delegates and alternates are named for district council election and for the Coun cil Bluffs convention June 11 12 18 and 14. Monticello aims to maintain its large delegation led by Louis J Burack and Iane Hein.
Maquoketa city council rejected all bids for a municipal pool and bath house for a third time. Officials will alter plans and call for new bids after bids exceeded available funds.
Seven townships were rated superior at the annual Jones county home economics achievement day judged by Mrs. Sarah Porter Ellis from Town State college extension service. The event attracted 250 women at the Congregational church in Anamosa and featured booth exhibits, a clothing project display, and a music recognition contest.
Miss Nellie V. Morey is the sole candidate for Jones County superintendent of schools. The election is at the Anamosa courthouse on May 9 at 2 o clock. delegates from local boards may act if needed. Morey is praised as an able rural schools administrator and a leader recognized by the state board.
Ward reports the death of Rufus F. Ricker born May 6 1881 in Castle Grove. He studied Monticello, Cornell Mount Vernon and worked as a civil engineer in the south. He leaves wife Abbie two daughters Lillian Key Baxley Georgia and Virginia at home two sons Nat and Olin in Tallahassee two grandchildren and three sisters and one brother.
The state dental convention is in session in Des Moines this week. It started Monday and closes tomorrow. Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Maurice drove to Des Moines Sunday. They will stay with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Denkhoff, their daughter. Dr. Maurice also visited his brother Robert Maurice at Jefferson. Dr. F. E. Patterson drove to Des Moines Monday to attend the convention.
The rate cut effective April 15 boosted shipping volume at the Milwaukee depot. Cascade farmers switch from Chicago routes via Farley, drawn by lower costs. Last week saw multiple cattle car shipments by Hasler Kurt Becker Reiter Knepper and others with butter from Farmers Mutual Creamery sent to Boston and nine incoming cattle cars allocated to local buyers. Sixteen carloads of merchandise arrived for area merchants.
Three lifelong friends from Greenfield and Ottawa Kansas gathered at Wapsinivan State Park to celebrate their 80th birthdays. A O Sones, Thay, James McMurrvin, and Orlando Taylor marked the day with a picnic and wives present. The pals first met as boys at Greenfield No. 1 school and resolved to repeat the annual birthday reunion each year.
More than 1700 pounds of planting potatoes were given to residents in and near Monticello by the county relief organization. Distribution was handled from a truck on First street by Louis Dreibelbis of Anamosa with gardens supervised by relief office workers in Anamosa. Potatoes arrived in 30 60 and 100 pound sacks and some families received 200 pounds. Aid covers straight county relief families and WPA households with seven or more children.
Lester Meade and FE A Han een of Oxford Milks were sentenced in Anamosa court for illegal fishing. Each will serve 60 days in the county jail after they were arrested for fishing in the Wapsie River by Ray Barsalou of Dubuque.
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