Monticello High Wins Eastern Iowa Conference Track Title
Monticello High School captured the Eastern Iowa conference track title at Mount Vernon last Saturday May 4 in a tight three way meet decided by the final event the one mile relay. Monticello scored 41 2/3 points University High 36% Mount Vernon 33 5/6 Tipton 30 Mechanicsville 20 1/4 West Liberty 21 4. Notable feats include Monticello's sole first place in the mile relay and a conference record pole vault by Reynolds and Hiller of Monticello and Aynerson of Mount Vernon at 10 feet 6 3/4 inches. Eggert of Mechanicsville was high point with 12 points. Four new conference records were set including Swift of Mount Vernon in high jump 5 9 3/4 and Mount Vernon’s 1:39 half mile relay. Campbell Mechanicsville set broad jump 20 feet 1 3/4 inches. Awards were presented by Dr. Millington Carpenter.
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Monticello
University High
Mount Vernon
Tipton
Mechanicsville
West Liberty
Monti Warriors
Reynolds
Hiller
Aynerson
Spooner
Eggert
Swift
Ryerson
Campbell
Luther Leagues Plan Spring Convention at Anamosa
The East Central Iowa Luther Leagues of the American Lutheran church meet at St. Pauls Lutheran Anamosa on May 12 with about 100 leaguers. Rev A H Braun of Wartburg College will preach the sermon. Cafeteria style dining follows a 10 45 am service with a 1 45 pm literary and musical program and social games to close. Local league hosts provide coffee.
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Iowa Association of Luther Leagues
American Lutheran Church
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Anamosa
Iowa
Castle Grove
Monticello
Olin
Ryan
Wayne
A. H. Braun
Wartburg College
Waverly
A. Matthias
Monticello Knights Win State Trophy
The Monticello Knights of Columbus council earns a gold cup from the Iowa State Deputy for the greatest percentage increase in membership. From March 1 to May 1 the council grew from 72 to 137 members, a gain of 65 members or about 90 percent.
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Monticello
The
Knights of Columbus
Iowa Knights of Columbus
Reinstated Worker Inches Toward Return to Rail Job
Andrew Carmichael, once removed from the eligible list after a serious fall from a baggage car at Paralta, has been reinstated last December. He passed the physical and rules exams and is now eligible to resume his baggage man duties with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
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Andrew Carmichael
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Paralta
Class Play At The State Reformatory
Anamosa seniors will present their class play in the chapel at the state reformatory due to fire damage at the Niles theater weeks earlier. The switch reflects a practical adaptation by the school community.
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Anamosa High School
State Reformatory
Niles Theater
Death of Peter Like in Lovell township remembered
Peter Like died Sunday morning at his home east of Monti cello after a winter of poor health. Born May 10, 1851 in Cattaraugus County New York he moved to Monticello as a youth. He married Hattie Miller in 1870 and survived by a son, grand children, and eight great grandchildren. Burial followed at Oakwood cemetery after services in the Presbyterian church led by Rev. William J. Grossheim.
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Peter Melvin Like
Monticello
Mr. Like
Cattaraugus County
New York
Peter
Caroline Like
Like
Lovell Township
Hattie Miller
Alva Marvin Like
Alfred Etten
Roy Like
Lovell
Colorado
Singer
South Dakota
Aimn
Cresco
Owa
United Brethren Church
East Monticello
Presbyterian Church
William J. Grossheim
Oakwood Cemetery
Loretta Specht Sings in Cornell Oratorio at May Music Festival
Miss Loretta Specht of Monticello is a member of Cornell College Oratorio society. The 100 voice chorus will perform two Bach cantatas on May 9, opening the 37th annual Cornell College May Music Festival with three soloists and a 40 piece Cornell Symphony Orchestra.
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Loretta Specht
George F. Specht
Monticello
Cornell College Oratorio Society
Cornell College
Cornel Symphony Orchestra
Petition Drives for $55,000 School Bond Chippewa Iowa
Petitions circulated at Anamosa urging the school board to call a bond election on a proposition to borrow $55,000 for high school building improvements. If approved, a government grant covering one third of the cost is anticipated.
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Anamosa
May District Court Opens With Light Docket In Jones County
The May term of the Jones County district court begins next Monday with a light docket of twenty two new cases on the equity and law dockets. Trial notices exist in twenty three cases including older docket entries. There are forty six state criminal cases, many holdovers. twelve target James Conway former reformatory clerk whose embezzlement conviction was sustained by the supreme court.
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Jones County District Court
Equity
James Conway
Reformatory
Supreme Court
Washington Township To Have New School
Miss Nelle Morey the county superintendent visited Monticello en route to Cascade to confer with Washington township school directors. They reviewed plans for a new one room frame rural school in sub district five to replace the building destroyed by fire. Estimated cost about 1200 dollars.
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Nelle Morey
Monticello
Cascade
Washington Township
Dr Earl Locher Elected Exalted Ruler of Elks
Dr Earl Locher of Dubuque was elected April 30 as Exalted Ruler of the Dubuque Elks lodge defeating Dr C C Coady by nine votes. He and other officers will be installed June 5 after a social buffet for 250 Elks. Locher is a former Monticello boy.
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Earl Locher
Dubuque
Supervisors Plan to Vote Soon On New Court House
Jones County supervisors push for a special election to issue bonds for a new courthouse with a possible PWA grant to cover about one third of costs. They met with Iowa Public Works officials and a Des Moines architect to draft plans. If federal aid is approved, residents will decide on bonding. The estimated total cost is $150,000 with a substantial bond issue planned.
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Court House
Jones County
County Board of Supervisors
PWA
Iowa
Cass County
Atlantic
Des Moines
Anamoga
Anamosa
Ty Bond Hasue
General Assembly Completes Iowa Session at Des Moines
The forty sixth Iowa General Assembly adjourned on May 4 after 110 days of work. It enacted 229 bills from over 900 introduced, including mortgage foreclosure moratoriums, a beer regulation bill, a state permit board, and a highway patrol creation. Governor Herring vetoed two measures. Some laws take immediate effect others July 4.
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Forty-Sixth General Assembly of
Iowa
Senate
Herring
Supreme Court
General Assembly
Near-Fatal Riding Disc Accident Sends Farmer to Hospital
Fred Poppe a 29 year old Langworthy area farmer escaped a severe riding disc accident last Monday afternoon. His leg caught in the machine dragging him 80 rods before he could stop the team. He suffered a fractured leg several fractured ribs and a bruised back. He was taken to John McDonald hospital and expected to recover fully.
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Fred Poppe
Langworthy
Mr. Poppe
Langworthy Station
Poppe
John McDonald Hospital
Jones County Farmers Sign 1352 Corn Hog Contracts
A total of 1,352 corn hog contracts were signed by Jones county farmers this year. Land under contract covers 237,997 acres with 12,272 acres retired from corn production. If approved in 1935, benefits total $350,431.65 split as $178,681.65 in corn benefits and $171,750 in hog benefits.
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Jones County
Corn-Hog Board of Review
4 H Club Girls Plan June Rally Day Opera
Mrs Edith Barker Ames assistant state leader 4 H clubs met with Jones county club leaders and the county committee to plan a June rally day program. The opera The Bohemian Girl will be one of the rally day features.
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Edith Barker
Ames
Jones County
Mrs. H. C. Mershon Observes Seventieth Anniversary
Mrs. H. C. Mershon, 88, of Olin, who came to Iowa in a covered wagon and settled near Anamosa, marked her seventieth wedding anniversary Tuesday. She continues the observance yearly despite her husband’s death five years ago.
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H. C. Mershon
Olin
Iowa
Anamosa
Miss Danneman 37 Dies in California
Funeral services were held at Zion's Lutheran church in Wayne township for Mrs Thenke Mary Abramsen Dannemann nee Dannemann who died in Orange California Monday evening April 29 She was born January 22 1898 in Wayne township and survived by her father Herman Dannemann two brothers Otto and Gerd and four sisters Marie Elizabeth Emma and Mrs Anna Colomb one sister Ms Colomb of Sykesville Maryland.
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Zion's Lutheran Church
Wayne Township
Thenke Mary (Abramsen
Dannemann
Orange
California
J. Willms
Miss Dannemann
Herman
Frances (Bodiker) Dannemann
Herman Dannemann
Otto Dannemann
Gerd Dannemann
Tucson
Arizona
Marie
Elizabeth
Emma
Anna Colomb
Sykesville
Maryland
Eighteen Years of Red Cross Service Honored
Mrs. Henry M. Carpenter declined reelection as vice chairman after eighteen years of service to the local Red Cross chapter. The board voted appreciation for her distinctive Red Cross work since the founding of the local chapter and during wartime activity.
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Henry M. Carpenter
Carpenter
Red Cross
Chain Letter Arrests In Iowa Soon Reported
Des Moines officials announce that nine to ten inspectors have traced chain letter originators and gathered evidence to charge fraud. Three businessmen were arrested in Denver earlier this week as the braze appears to have started there and may lead to arrests in Iowa within weeks.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Denver
Colorado
Anamosa To Get New County Liquor Store Manager
A. A. Clark, former clerk of Jones county district court about 15 to 20 years ago, will be manager of the new liquor store at Anamosa. A bid for assistant position faced rival petitions early in the week.
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A. A. Clark
Jones County
Anamosa
Items Of Occurrences Twenty Five Years Ago May 1910
A Monticello Express retrospective notes events from May 1910 including Dr. William Breen moving to Oxford Junction, a Castle Grove parish residence fire, farm moves to Lakeville Minnesota, deaths in Lake Charles and Monticello, a serious car crash near Amber, the new Monticello concrete water reservoir in Spring, multiple local deaths and births, Buick purchase by G L Lovell, marriages in Cedar Rapids and Scotch Grove, a San Francisco death, and Halley’s Comet visible in the western sky.
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Monticello Express
William Breen
South Dakota
Oxford Junction
Mercury
Immaculate Conception
Castle Grove
A. C. Cool
Lakeville
Minn
Harrison Rosa
W. L. Rosa
Lake Charles
Rosa
Monticello
George Schoon
Amber
Maxwell
Schoon
Hanssen Brothers of
David Sangi
Timothy Delay
Lambert
Presbyterian Church
Castle Grove Township
Ben Behrends
Harm W. Gerdes
Germany
Orin B. Crane
Susan Allen
Richland Township
Cedar Rapids
Johanna Leeschamp
John Helmrichs
Scotch Grove
Robert
Alva G. Skelley
San Francisco
Halley
Play Tag To Open State Liquor Store
Business men of the county seat shuffle storefronts as a new state liquor store is planned. The Quality restaurant moves into a vacated Balster room, Zeuch grocery shifts to the former Quality site, Mc Namara shoe store relocates to the grocery space, and the liquor store takes the former shore shop in the central business district.
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Quality Restaurant
Balster
Zeuch Grocery
Quality
McNamara Shoe
Shore Shop
Cass Township Announces One Room School Plan
School directors unveil plans for a new one room building in sub-district six. Estimated cost is 3000 dollars. Bids set for May 21.
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Cass Township
Signing of Cornhog Contracts Starts in Jones Co
Jones county will begin signing corn hog contracts next week with 1204 group one applications released this week. Carl Smith, allotment committee secretary, says contracts will be completed before signing. Public meetings or individual calls will handle signup in townships.
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Jones CO
Jones County
Carl Smith
Notable Obituaries and Local Elections Stir Cedar Rapids Region
Clarence Carl of Tipton died Saturday and his funeral was held Monday. He was a Cedar County sheriff candidate in the last election and is survived by his wife and two daughters. St Francis parish in Dyersville plans a $35,000 rectory project with a cloister alterations and additions to the church sacristy. W T Gilmore of Tipton, 78, died Sunday night after a long illness. Iowa State College graduate served five terms in the Iowa House and left no children. K Hahn was elected mayor of Cedar Rapids to succeed William Neill who died April 30. Hahn, a known contractor, supervised First Street brick paving in Monsticelelo. Ralph Bond, 31, of Springville, was arrested May 1 for drunk driving after a collision with Mrs. J L Coneemy on First Avenue. Coneemy suffered shock and bruises. Bond was uninjured. Joe McGowan, 35, of Springville, sustained facial cuts and leg bruises.
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Clarence Carl
Tipton
Carl
Cedar County
St. Francis’ Parish
Dyersville
W. T. Gilmore
Iowa
Iowa State College
K. Hahn
Cedar Rapids
William K. Neill
Hahn
Monsti
First Street
Ralph Bond
Springville
J. L. Coneemy
First Avenue
Bond
Joe McGowan
Anamosa Plans Addition to School Building
At a school board meeting last week an architect presented plans for an addition to the current Anamosa school building. The project may fireproof the old structure and combine an auditorium with a gymnasium while the district considers adding a commercial course to the curriculum.
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Anamosa School Board
Red Cross Chapter Elects New Monticello Officers
At a Monticello Red Cross meeting held at the public library last Thursday afternoon, officers for the coming year were elected. Dr. Earl DeShaw was chosen chairman, Mrs. T. M. Redmond as vice-chairman, Paul Locher as secretary, and F. E. Stimson as treasurer.
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Monticello
Court of Honor Held for Monticello Boy Scouts at Library
A crowded Court of Honor for Troop 49 of the Boy Scouts of America took place in the Monticello Public Library basement auditorium last Thursday evening. Scout executive Earl West presented a new charter to Ray Hoag, chairman of the Scout committee, who pledged city support. Tenderfoot and second class badges were awarded to several scouts, Anamosa visitors attended, and Chief West previewed the Washington D C jamboree with remaining Cedar Rapids quota. Camping plans for Camp Waubeek were announced with two trip options and prices.
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Boy Scouts of America
S. G. Gutensohn
Earl West
Cedar Rapids
Chief West
Monticello
Ray Hoag
Scout Board of
West
Hoag
Scout Committee
J. B. Heiserman
Boy Scouts
Gerald Taylor
Graydon Reade
Marvin Schoon
Ralph Bader
Charles Wright
Dean Milroy
Charles Bender
C. A. Coxsee
Anamosa
Williams
Staner
Merle Hutton
Washington, D. C
Camp
Waubeek
Pioneer Woman Called to Her Last Reward
Mrs. Voorhees widow of James A Voorhees died at home on South Chestnut street after a long life in Monticello Iowa. Born February 6 1847 in Morris Illinois she moved from Dundee Illinois to Iowa in 1864 65 and helped grow Monticello into a thriving town. She married May 6 1869 and had four children eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services were led by Reverend Samuel G Gutensohn with burial at Oakwood Cemetery.
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J. A. Voorhees
Monticello
James A. Voorhees
South Chestnut Street
Jones County
Voorhees
Morris
Ilinois
Champlin
Julia McEwen Merrill
Elgin
Illinois
Dundee
Illnois
Florence Graham
Palms
California
Merrill
Iowa
Lovell Township
Frank Hayden
Hayden
Mary Hayden
Cedar Rapids
Samuel G. Gutensohn
Congregational Church of
Imogene D. Stuhler
Oakwood Cemetery
Harry E Rodman to Sing in Weishea Nite Show
Harry E Rodman son of Mr and Mrs Harry S Rodman of Monticello is chosen for a lead in the Nite Show the Chocolate Soldier at Iowa State College during Weishea. He sings with the glee club and is president of Tau Beta Pi and Tau Sigma Delta. The event accompanies polo swimming baseball and tennis with a water carnival parade and a spring concert replacing May Fete. Over 1 000 high school students are expected to attend the congresses and Veishen with special rates for high school visitors.
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Harry Rodman
Harry S. Rodman
Monticello
Weishea
Iowa State College
College Glee Club
Tau Beta Pi
National Engineering Honorary
Tau Sigma Delta
Architectural Engineering
College Cossacks
Iowa High School Home Economics Congress
Iowa State
Howard Lubben 4 Dies After Horse Kick Near Baldwin
The four year old Howard Lubben died at his parents home north of Baldwin following injuries from a horse kick on April 30. He was born March 1, 1931 and survived by his parents and a sister Lois. Funeral rites were Sunday at 2 pm at the family home conducted by Rev. Fred E. Mastin. The funeral of his grandfather Frank Lubben, former Baldwin Savings Bank president, was held last week.
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Howard Lubben
Harry Lubben
Baldwin
Howard
Lois
Fred E. Mastin
Frank Lubben
Baldwin Savings Bank
Patman Bonus Bill Allocates Iowa Share to Jones County
The Patman bonus bill passes congress and would inject over 41 million dollars into Iowa. Jones county veterans stand to receive 325 thousand 829 dollars and 70 cents as part of the distribution.
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Patman
Congress
Iowa
Jones County
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