Clem's Post Cards and the outhouse vote
A rural perspective recalls school quality, comparing tales to a big fish story. The speaker endorses a YES vote to improve facilities for children.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1959
Page
1
A rural perspective recalls school quality, comparing tales to a big fish story. The speaker endorses a YES vote to improve facilities for children.
A May party for Debbie Huber celebrated her seventh birthday with a large circle of classmates and neighbors. The event at Buck Creek also noted Debbie’s fall the next day resulting in a broken arm treated by a local doctor. Several families and community members attended weekend gatherings and Mother’s Day events across Monticello Cedar Falls Davenport and Dubuque areas.
Local listings detail meetings and events across Monticello including Rotary at St. Luke's, Navy and Marine recruiters, post office notices, and district conventions in Cedar Rapids. Community groups like Junior Chamber, Knights of Columbus, Rebekah Lodge, and Alcoholics Anonymous host sessions May 19 21. Memorial day preparations set for May 25 with VFW and Legion participation.
A long list of Mother's Day guests and weekend visitors is detailed, including Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green at Monticello Oelwein, Mrs. Tom Wilson and family in Hazelton, and many others visiting or staying with relatives across Center Point Manchester Perry and Delhi. The entries name numerous families and locations, with several households hosting relatives from Milwaukee and Cambridge Hil.
The Monticello Express is published weekly on Monday and Thursday and is the official newspaper of Monticello and Jones county. It serves Jones, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson and Linn counties with annual subscription rates of 4.50 within those counties and 5.50 elsewhere in the United States. Advertising services are provided by Newspaper Advertising Service, Inc. in Chicago and Iowa Press Advertising Service in Des Moines.
Baccalaureate for Hopkinton High School graduates set for Sunday May 17 at 8 p.m. in the school gymnasium. Program includes processional, hymns, special numbers by girls chorus and brass quartet, address by Rev. F Leo O Connell, and benediction by Rev. D Watkins. Class members named include Virginia Becker Arlan Senter Rae Ann Chapman Clista Davis Cletis.
Olin Band Parents Organization calls a May 20 meeting at 7 30 p m in the new Band room asking all instrument parents to attend. Postmaster announces rural mailbox improvements May 18 23 and urges boxes with names visible to carriers. Rev M L Dutro reassigned to Olin E U B church for the 13th year as pastor and 20th year overall. Olin Garden Club hosts May breakfast May 22 at 8 45 a m at the Methodist church parlors. Mr and Mrs Richard Frazier were guests in the Richard Hopewell home in Davenport.
A list of relatives and friends visiting for Mother's Day spans Hopkinton Manchester LaCrosse and Mason City. Attendants include Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hoff and Bobby, Russell Jones family, Roy Slauson home guests, Bruce Dunlap Davenport, Rev. Robert Bailey Dubuque, and Rev. E. J. Starr filling Methodist pulpit due to Rev. Watkins illness.
Hopkinton high school held a junior senior banquet in the school gym on Saturday evening May 9. Mothers of the junior class prepared and served the dinner. The program featured a Song in My Heart theme with music acts and class prophecies. Afterward the group and their dates visited Cedar Rapids area venues and homes of relatives for Mother's Day weekend.
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