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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1942
Page
4
The Monticello Express announces a 12 week photo contest starting May 21 open to subscribers their families and new subscribers. Entries must be Iowa taken with entrant name on back mailed to the Express office by Saturday noon. Winners receive a year’s subscription and a chance at a $5 grand prize.
Report as of April 4 1942 on First Farm Land Company Monticello Iowa affiliated with Monticello State Bank Monticello Iowa. Details cover kind of business liquidation and property holding and degree of bank control with stock relations to the affiliated bank and bank ownership limits.
The message emphasizes that winning photos should convey narrative content or depict unusual events. It states that everyone has a chance to win, promoting inclusive participation and the idea that compelling imagery can emerge from any entrant.
A batch of court actions includes promissory note suits involving A J Lathrop C E Barrett Co and George Miller Sr, as well as mortgage foreclosures and partition actions. The Monticello State Bank appears in foreclosure and guardian matters, with divorces and quiet title suits also noted among multiple plaintiffs and defendants.
The Monticello Panthers opened the sectional baseball tournament with a 22 to 8 win over Monmouth Thursday May 7 at Olin. Milt Rieken had two hits in three trips and ten Monticello hits included seven in the second inning.
Stuart Beck of Onslow reported his injuries from Manila in a radio broadcast heard by Mrs. E. F. Kleineck. He said his arm was broken and his knee injured by shrapnel and hoped to return to action soon. His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Paul, live on a farm near Onslow.
Gene Walker, addressing Rotary members, notes half a million FFA members nationwide and six Iowa districts with an Ames state convention. He details his four year farm project progression from six to twenty acres of corn, multiple sows and potatoes, and 700 two pound chicks ready to sell to fund next year’s college. The talk draws strong interest and warm reception.
Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 pm in Anamosa for Clara Taylor 75 who died Friday at Mercy hospital. Rev William J Grossheim led services in Anamosa and Oakwood cemetery Monticello. She is survived by seven children and three brothers. husband J F Taylor preceded her in death.
A 1940 county cost survey shows Jones County with 5 supervisors and 38 cents per person, down from 40 cents in 1939. Among 15 000 to 25 000 population counties Palo Alto leads at 54 cents, Cass and Hancock at 48 cents, while Montgomery Cherokee and Appanoose are lowest at 16 18 and 19 cents. total counties with five supervisors number 28, with two five seven and 69 three supervisor boards.
Monticello seventh and eighth graders may enter the statewide quiz derby at the Iowa State Fair in August. Final entries close July 1, with one team per school of three members and three alternates. Final contest lasts fifteen minutes with twenty one questions. Public seating will be expanded due to large 1941 turnout. Also, CCC camp to be moved next week by railroad inspectors from Dubuque.
Mrs Harriet Coughlan, whose illness was reported last week, shows a very satisfactory recovery at John McDonald Hospital. She can talk with friends and her condition is encouraging.
Miss Lois Lang the county health nurse announced this week that White Oak Greenfield township and Castle Grove No 8 have been added to the dental honor roll for achieving 100 percent dental checks and corrections. Included are teachers Eldora Koppenhaver Elfreda Wehling and pupils Marcus Leonard Junior Leonard Robert Leonard Lois Caspers Mary Jane Becker Billy Becker Donald Weber Gerald Weber Delbert Weber Luella Weber and more.
Donald L. Harter of the University of Iowa political science department earned his PhD at the 82nd commencement for a dissertation on United States diplomacy in Latin America and hemispheric solidarity. His wife Alma Buol Harter, a Monticello native, had earlier earned a university baccalaureate.
Seven Jones county residents earned degrees at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Commencement was streamlined due to wartime needs with the naval air school on campus. Graduates include Monticello pair Mary McLaughlin and Mary Maxine Redmond, Martelle graduate Dorothy E. Martin, and Anamosa trio Arthur E. Abel Charles W. Gray Robert D. Paul and Marshall A. Cook plus others listed with families attending.
Glen Matthiessen a bridge contractor and farmer of Viola died at home Friday night after a long illness. Funeral Sunday at 2 p.m. at Viola Methodist Church with burial at Wilcox cemetery. He was born July 24 1894 at Stone City and married Rose Staley in 1912 at Marion. Survived by wife a daughter Mrs Alfred Leeper Wyoming a brother Garry Matthiessen Anamosa two sisters Mrs Gladys Butler Mount Vernon and Mrs Glossler Wyoming. Relatives from Monticello attended including Mr and Mrs Will Adams Mr and Mrs Henry Adams Mr and Mrs Clarence Matthiessen Mr and Mrs Ray Adams Will Mat and Mrs Ray Adams Will Matthiessen Mrs Fred Matthiessen and Mrs Minnie Butler. Mrs Paul T Schuetz and Mrs John Null received cablegrams from sons Pfc Samuel H Schuetz and Pvt Earl Null with Mothers Day greetings. Both boys serve in the American Expeditionary Forces in northern Ireland.
Spring quarter enrollment at Iowa State College in Ames stands at 5 436 a drop of 344 from last year A list of Jones county students includes Durward Marek Harold Barber Robert Rummel Ray Fisher and others from Anamosa Center Junction Olin Ox ford Junction Monticello Martelle Scotch Grove Wyoming and more The honorary doctor of divinity will be conferred on Rev Thomas Paine Potter by Cornell College Mount Vernon at the May 18 commencement Potter a former Center Junction pastor and Cornell alumnus now serves as a Methodist church official and statistician editor for the church minutes
The Reformed church continues redecoration and will move Sunday school and worship services to the Community Building auditorium next Sunday. Sunday school starts at 10 a.m. and the worship service at 11 a.m. The message theme is The Ascended Christ. Everyone is invited.
Irvin Lubben, son of Mr and Mrs William Lubben, is serving with the United States army in Hawaii. His mail goes via the postmaster in San Francisco.
The text lists eight celestial bodies: Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Neptune and Iranus. The items appear as a straightforward enumeration with a misspelling in Jupiter and Iranus rather than Uranus.
The famous Franklinia tree, a hybrid of Franklinia alatamaha and Marshall, has not been found in the wild since 1790. In 1768 John Bartram near Fort Barrington in Georgia found a tree with camellia like blooms and brought it to Philadelphia, naming it after Benjamin Franklin.
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