Honor Society Initiation Set for Senior Class
The Honor Society plans initiation for the entire senior class with fifteen percent eligible for membership. Five percent of the juniors will be inducted at the spring banquet at Goudy’s Cafe on Tuesday May 28 at 5:30 with a candle light dinner and a speech by Mr. Grimes. Ruth Reuter leads initiation. honored members include Wilma Grossheim Lucille Huibregtse Junior Welter and LaVerne Wahl. guests are Mr Shannon Miss Merrill and Miss Magana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janson Schweitzer
Robert Liddy
Lois Naylor
Goudy
Grimes
Ruth Reuter
Wilma Grossheim
Lucille Huibregtse
Junior Welter
LaVerne Wahl
Shannon
Merrill
Miss Magana
Visitors in Grade School Highlight Weekly Activities
Kindergarten classes toured the greenhouse last Tuesday and received sweet peas from the manager. A series of small visits and birthday parties occurred across grades with Harold Wulf introducing a chrysalis and an Imperial Moth emerging last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Darrow
Reid
LaVonne Clough
Billy Schesser
Paul Brokaw
Dwaine Darrow
Rose Stadtmueller
Harold Wulf
Groups to Combine On Picnic Tour
The Honor Society and Shan non's Sons of Science plan a dual picnic in a Cedar Rapids park on Saturday May 25 followed by a movie. Three members from the S.S.S. are Honor Society members and the groups will mix for the event. It is unclear who looks forward to the outing most.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honor Society
Shannon
Sons of Science
Cedar Rapids
S.S.S
Miss Miller
Philomonte selects freshman staff with Ruth Reuter as reporter
The Philomonte staff, eager and cooperative, elected volunteers from the freshman class and appointed Ruth Reuter as permanent senior play reporter. Elizabeth Lee Byerly was named editor with Betty Clark as assistant editor. Staff reporters include Kathleen Adams Bobby Lee Bartlett Lyla Cantrell Marion Deischer Loretta Gerdes Robert Green Rebecca Grimes June Henrichs Ruth Hoff man Robert Husman Lawrence Rieken Philip Schneider Joyce Wismeier Ruth Ann Zirkelbach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philomonte
Ruth Reuter
Elizabeth Lee Byerly
Betty Clark
Kathleen Adams
Bobby Lee Bartlett
Lyla Cantrell
Marion Deischer
Loretta Gerdes
Robert Green
Rebecca Grimes
June Henrichs
Ruth Hoffman
Robert Husman
Lawrence Rieken
Philip Schneider
Joyce Wismeier
Ruth Ann Zirkelbach
Seniors Say Final Week of High School Schedule
Seniors prepare for their last week with events listed: May 24 class play May 26 baccalaureate May 27 class day May 28 senior picnic May 30 commencement and May 31 alumni banquet.
Editorial acrostic humor deflates newsroom myths
A playful piece by Becky Grimes uses the word editorial to spell out virtues and trials of writers. Endurance deprivation inspiration transformation ordeal reverence information attitude and labor frame a lighthearted defense of journalism. The author notes the burdens of producing editorials.
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Philomonte
Becky Grimes
Seniors Play Is Event of Friday
The senior class presents Anne of Green Gables this Friday at 8 pm with admission of fifteen and thirty five cents. The play follows Anne Shirley at Hopetown orphanage and her placement with the Cuthberts, tracing her mischiefs and eventual valued ties with Marilla Matthew and neighbors including Rachel Lynde Gilbert Blythe Ira Mills and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne of
Marilla Cuthbert
Anne
Matthew’s
Marilla
Rachel Lynde
Gilbert Blythe
Matthew
Rachel
Gilbert
Ira Mills
Science Classes Hike to Hanging Rock
Last Monday at four o'clock Miss Kosters two ninth grade science classes hiked to Hanging Rock. Some boys searched for a drink at a nearby spring and met an unfriendly dog, so they went thirsty. State normal training tests were given last Thursday to the junior and senior normal training group.
Algy and the Bulge of Love in Becky Grimes Verse
A playful verse recalls Algy meeting a bear and the messy pull of love. The speaker laments love’s chaos and mocks the impulse to confess, longing for singleness to avoid the mush of romance. Becky Grimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becky Grimes
Home Economics Girls Learn to Sew Dresses
Ninth and tenth grade home economics students have completed their first dress making project. They are now starting a second project and some hope to make a third, continuing their sewing practice at school.
Freshman English Class Reads Classic Poems and Plays
Miss James' class finished The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and begins Sohrab and Rustum by Arnold. Miss Mueller's section studies Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Receiving Line at Gay Junior Senior Banquet
A community building event Friday night featured a receiving line as juniors and seniors passed by faculty. Shirle Hebert led, with Janet Howie and Yola Rodman nearby, Supt Grimes and several staff in the line including A B Grimes and Lois Smith among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirle Hebert
Janet Howie
Yola Rodman
Supt. Grimes
A. B. Grimes
Shannon
Lois Smith
Juanita Magana
Janana Schweitzer
Herbert Herren
Express
Juniors Banquet Highlights Spring Theme at Monticello
The Senior Class Juniors Banquet was held Friday May 17 in the Monticello Community Building. Couples entered at 6 30 with a garden themed room, followed by songs by the high school sextet and solos by Yola Rodman. Speakers included Miss Ann Miller, Herbert Herren, Janann Schweitzer, Shie Hobert, Charles Ross, and Supt A B Grimes. Hal Foreman and his orchestra provided dancing music after the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Te Monticello
Yola Rodman
Miss Ann Miller
Herbert Herren
Janann Schweitzer
Shie Hobert
Charles Ross
A. B. Grimes
Hal Foreman
Freshman week musings stir Philomonte school gossip
A chatterbox column notes freshman motives and social mischief at Philomonte, touching on teachers invading dates, girls in home economics, blackmail rumors, note theft fines, and playful censorship. It teases secrets, class cliques, and light gossip about students like Delores, J M B, and D W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delores
Center Junction Holds Commencement and Yearend Events
Center Junction reports a busy close to the school year. The eighth grade graduates led by valedictorian Audra McDonald and salutatorian John McNeilly were honored by Supt. Charbonneaux with diplomas in a May 15 ceremony. Other graduates included Carl Underwood Jr Ralph Husman and Evelyn Kammerman.
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Center Junction
Mark Risinger
Audra McDonald
John McNeilly
Charbonneaux
Carl Underwood Jr
Ralph Husman
Evelyn Kammerman
Fay Rickels
Dorothy Mead
Ruth Ann Serbousek
Eleanor Dreibelbis
Pauline Otten
Ora Mae Andrews
John Alyea
Merle Husman
Paul Alyea
Paul Paulsen Jr
Glen Andrews
Ruth McNeilly
Dorothy Dreibelbis
Kenneth Moats
Ruth McNielly
Charles Larkey
M. W. Risinger
Jean McNeilly
Helen Himebaugh
Glen Norris
Mabel Collier Tomlinson
Arsenal
Rock Island
Ill
Keokuk Dam
Fort Madison
Franz Gharbonneaux
Scotch Grove Township
Viola Huston
Glen Smith
Norman Johnson
Presbyterian Church
Elias Upland
D. W. Bohrer
Johnson
Harvey Manuel
Missionary Society
Women's Missionary Society
D. I. Berger
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Berger
Prahma
E. L. Bergeson
Sioux City
Chicago
Peter Prahm
Bergeson
O. D. Thatcher
Polly Ann
Fort Dodge
Thatcher
Pauline Holm
Prahm
Beverly Peters
Wedding of Opal Hucker and Glenn Robinson detailed
Announcement describes Opal Hucker of Hopkinton marrying Glenn Robinson of Earlville at Lucdale Mississippi on June 4 1938. Dinner for Strawberry Point school faculty held May 14 at the bride’s home. Mrs Grace Hucker mother of the bride, a Lenox and Cornell graduate, taught in Strawberry Point schools. Robinson from Earlville betrews law, practices in Earlville and Colesburg. couple plans home in Colesburg.
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Gowrie
Strawberry Point
Robinson
Charles Robinson
Earlville
Lenox
Colesburg
Bertha Gienapp
Bertha Mary Reggentin
Heinreichswalde
Mecklenberg
Germany
Fredrich William Gienapp
United States
Delaware County
River Valley
Hopkinton
Gienapp
Hom
Hulda Wendt
Ella Harder
Delhi
Clara Pierce
Springville
Mary Barrack
Rudolph and
Paul
Ida Pfalzgraf
Dubuque
St. John’s Lutheran Church
J. A. Pannhuk
Fairview Cemetery
Local Social Notes From Hopkinton Area
Cedar Rapids visited the Stan ger home Friday. William McGlade of Hopkinton is homebound with a heart ailment. Chicago couple C A Kellar stayed with Charles Gearhart family. Walter Slaser returned to Hopkinton after teaching at Deloit. Edmund and Truman Cummings visited their father Dr W C Cummings. Embroidery club host was Mrs J D McAllister with Verna Neil presenting. Green Island visitors the Dewain Blake family spent Sunday with the Etferding home.
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Cedar Rapids
A. R. Stanger
William McGlade
Hopkinton
C. A. Kellar
Chicago
Charles Gearhart
Walter Slaser
Deloit
Edmund Cummings
Sterling, Th
Truman Cummings
Rockford
Ill
W. C. Cummings
J. JD. McAllister
Embroidery Club
Verna Neil
Primary Election Notice for Jones County Iowa 1940
Notice to qualified electors of Jones County Iowa that a primary election will be held on June 1 1940 at regular polling places. Polls open 8 a m to 8 p m. Parties nominate Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State and other state and county offices plus township officers and party delegates. County election officials cite apportionment on file and seal of Jones County dated May 6 1940.
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Anamosa
Towa
Jones County
Regula
Jones’ County
Iowna
Congress
Board of Supervisors
Justice of the Peace
County of
Jones
Notice to Bidders for Jones County Projects May 28 1940
Sealed bids are invited by the Jones County Auditor in Anamosa Iowa for grading and surfacing works. Bids due 10:00 a m for grading and 2:00 p m for surfacing before the Board of Supervisors meeting on May 28 1940. Includes 3 51 miles grading with 40071 cable yards of Class II excavation and 37 8 miles of Class A crushed rock surfacing. Requires a $300 certified check and four groups as specified.
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Jones County
Anamosa
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Jones County road project bids call for crushed rock groups
Proposals require certified checks payable to the Auditor of Jones County with amounts per group and liquidated damages for non performance. Bids must be on county forms filed with the county auditor or engineer in Anamosa Iowa with preferences for Iowa products and coal and labor sourced locally through the National Reemployment office in the courthouse.
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Iowa Bank
Jones County
Anamosa
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Court House
Amimnosa
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Editorial
Anne of Green Gables
Marjorie James
Rosella Behrends
Shirley Hobert
Carol Cartano
Kathryn Woodall
Virginia Clark
Ruth Roberts
Eileen Appleby
Miss James
Marvin Schoon
Edwin Howell
Paul Caspers
Express Flashfoto
Poet’s Corner
Algy
Home Ec
Chatterbox
F.F.A
Miss Thornburgh
D.W
J.M.B
Fred Lamke
Rockford, Ill
Africa
J. R. McNeilly
Paul Smith
Bob McDonald
A. W. McDonald
Harvey Townsend
Martin David
McDonald Hospital
Monticello
Peter Frahm
Oskaloosa
A. R. Price
George Burch
Burch
Lou Abraken
C. A. Little
Tipton
Abram Alyea
Henry Johnson
G. J. Dirks
Harm Dirks
Jerry Preston
Davenport
O. O. Watson
S. L. McCammon
Henry McCammon
Central City
Cornell
Mount Vernon
Frank Himebaugh
Harry
Selma Alyea
Harry and
Olin
E. L. Tomlinson
Iowa City
Opal Hucker
Lenox Junior College
Clarke Hall
Paul Gillilan
Mars Day
Pauli Gillilan
Florence Matheny
Eric Witherspoon
Mervin Blanchard
Bells of Progress
Irma Keith
Men’s Quintet
Maxine Appleby
Lenox College Trio
F. R. Tesar
Mr. Tesar
D. Berkley Smith
Charles Brazelton
William Stahr
Coggon
Fred Matheson
Lenox College
Maquoketa
H. M. Reeve
Lyle M. Gilbert
Chariton
Hopkinton High School
Finkbohner Hall
Francis Donahue
F. EK. Allen
Moore
H. Hewitt
Hewitt
David de Best
Schubert
Bette Thompson
F. E. Allen
Loras Kehoe
L. Gibbs
Independence
Russell Guthrie
Dell Stingley
Ethel V
Specht County
Helen Prull and
Joseph Simmons
Monticello City Park
WMT Bohemian
Gents
S-taliphone
FORD
H.p. Ford
Childress Motor CO
Lincoln Zephyr
Mercury
Monticello, Iowa
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