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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1948
Page
3
Readable item lists Republican candidates for county offices in Jones County for the June 7 primary. Profiles cover Sheriff contenders Ahrendsen Fischer Null and Remley, county attorney candidate Remley, clerk Leigh Pearson, supervisor hopefuls Biere Romer, Adams, and Romer, plus treasurer candidate Ruhl. Details include ages, residences, careers, military service and community involvement.
Chester Miller seeks Democratic nomination for Jones county supervisor to start Jan 1, 1950. He lives 80 miles southwest of Monticello, is 30, dairy and hog farmer, active in church and Farm Bureau, with a 17 month old son Garry Lee. Carrel Blood seeks renomination on the Democratic ticket and is a Jones county supervisor, former Anamosa gro cer owner, born in Jackson county, attended business college in Chicago. C. F. Shimanek seeks Republican renomination for county attorney, 2 years in office, L L B from University of Oregon, Navy veteran, former state legislator, Monticello resident with wife and two children.
Official lists name election clerks and judges for the Monday June 7 primary across sites including Cass Castle Grove Lovell Monticello Richland and Wayne districts. Entries enumerate receiving and counting boards with designated clerks and judges for each location.
Lewis I. Bourgeois director of commerce for the port of New Orleans lauds Iowa’s foreign trade saying per capita movement through New Orleans is amazing and that Iowa ranks among leading international traders given its size and population. He notes New Orleans as the Mississippi Valley port and recalls the Louisiana Purchase as a catalyst with Iowa farmers and shippers shaping national policy.
A judge at Spirit Lake awarded no damages in a quitclaim case. The Sikorsky flying shop owner sought damages from an automobile owner after an auto plane collision on the highway last summer.
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