Death Notices Highlight Hein Leesekamp Suhr Families
George M Hein a Richland township farmer aged 72 dies after a lengthy illness in May. Funeral at Monticello Presbyterian Church with Rev Buol and Rev Duckett officiating. Burial in Bowens Prairie cemetery beside parents. Survived by three sisters and numerous relatives. Mrs Lambertus Leesekamp dies aged 72 in Jones county after long illness. Funeral at Zion Lutheran Wayne township with Rev Willms. Burial in Zion Lutheran cemetery. Max Suhr 59 longtime Dubuque resident dies after short illness. former Monticello store partner, earlier in life connected to George Suhr. Burial at Oakwood cemetery. survived by brother-in-law Charles Soper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Michael Hein
Richland Township
Presbyterian Church
Monticello
Arnold Buol
Dubuque
Leonard Duckett
Bowen's Prairie Cemetery
Hein
Mr. Hein
Anna Margaret Hein
Leonard Buol
Barbara Allen
Lambertus Leesekamp
Jones County
John McDonald
Legsekamp
Illinois
Scotch Grove Township
Leesekamp
Jacob
Scotch Grove
Harm Hull
Deer Creek
Minn
R. H. Helgens
John Helmrichs
Ryan
Ben Husman
Oxford Junction
Zion's Lutheran Church
Wayne Township
Willms
Zion's Church
Lutheran Cemetery
Max Suhr
Henry Suhr
Max
George
Washington
Carl Ryder and Adams
Oakwood Cemetery
Charles Soper
Anamosa
Two Monticello Girls Graduate From Cornell
Ninety seven Cornell seniors will receive diplomas at the commencement service on Monday morning June 9. Miss Helen Pulver daughter of Mrs Theodosia Pulver will graduate from liberal arts and become a public school teacher. Miss Alice Reed daughter of Mr and Mrs Ervin E Reed will receive a bachelor of public school music and teach music exclusively as music supervisor of Mediapolis public schools. On Sunday June 8 Dr Herbert J Burgsthaler will deliver the baccalaureate sermon and on Monday Dr Ernest F Tittle of Evanston Illinois will give the commencement address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Pulver
Alice Reed
Cornell College
Miss Pulver
Theodosia Pulver
College of Liberal Arts
Miss Reed
Ervin E. Reed
Mediapolis
Herbert J. Burgsthaler
Ernest F. Tittle
Evanston
Miinois
County Sunday School Picnic Draws Jones County Reach
County chairwoman Mrs. J W Streeter invites all Sunday schools in Jones County to a June 17 picnic at Dutch Creek State Park. Attendees are urged to bring lunch baskets for a day of fun, frolic, and a ball game with old and new friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Dutch Creek
J. W. Streeter
Memorial Day Service Plan At Public School Auditorium
Plan to attend the Memorial Day program tomorrow at 10 o clock in the public school auditorium. The program includes band selections America sung by the audience invocation by Rev. Duckett songs and addresses by Elmer A. Johnson and a quartet. Ex service men will oversee ceremonies at Oakwood and Sacred Heart cemeteries with transport provided for the elderly and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Rev
Duckett
Elmer A. Johnson
Oakwood
Sacred Heart
Monticello
Population losses in Buchanan county and area events noted
Buchanan county lost 353 persons in ten years with 19 537 counted in 1930 from 19 890 in 1920 and 2 291 farms enumerated. Clay township fell from 558 to 466 between 1920 and 1930. Greenfield township Farm Bureau held a picnic at Anamosa state park with 115 attendees and Royal Holbrook spoke on Tow a. A concrete road project near Manchester proceeded toward Ryan and Linn county. Anamosa’s Maurice Fay injured in a one car wreck near Springville. George Ernst of Dubuque, 40, killed when his car hit a westbound Chicago Great Western train near Dubuque airport. A lightning strike destroyed E G Dunning farm barn northwest of Manchester with cows calves oats hay and machinery. Dunning and Herman Peterson were harmed and Blanchard knocked from his milking stool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchanan County
Clay Township
Greenfield Township Farm Bureau
State Park
Anamosa
Royal Holbrook
Cedar Rapids
Consteuetion of
la Oes
Fron Fornchester
South’ Or Mort Company
Manchester
Ryan
Linn County
Maurice Fay
Springville
B. E. Rhinehart
Fay
George Ernst
Irving
Dubuque
Chicago Great Western
Ernst
India
United States
Dunning
Herman Peterson
Uni Blanchard
Peterson
Blanchard
Manchester Grants Skelly Gas Franchise After Referendum
Manchester awarded a twenty five year gas franchise to the Skelly Oil Company by a 1121 to 14 vote. Women played a large role in the election with about half the voters being female. The plant will be erected this fall or early winter and is the first Skelly gas plant in the United States. The company covers erection costs. property owners pay only for connecting to mains and gas equipment. Manchester had never had gas service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Skelly Oi! Company
Skelly Company
United States
Forty Years Ago Monticello Items Include Rain and Ringling Show
Monticello news lists Ringling Brothers planned for May 20 and local events. Oranges sold at 20 cents, two dozen at Jennings store. Obituaries note Mrs. G. P. Fifield of Anamosa and Mrs. Fred P. Simons. Residents relocate, trains and deaths marked by heavy rain, anniversaries, and public notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ringling Brothers’ Circus
Monticello
Jennings
G. P. Fifield
Anamosa
Oakwood Cemetery
Dearborn
Stone City
J. G. Wood
Bellevue
Ohio
George
Henry D. Smith
P. S. Sherman
Fred P. Simons
Garry Owen
Ireland
Elgin
Noble Winner
Brush Creek
Ringling Brothers
Cedar Rapids
J. R. Stillman
George Rettig
Robert Dott
Jones County
Alexandria
South Dakota
Robert C. Stirton
Messrs
G. W
G. L. Lovell
H. G. Vernimont
Ida Grove
Henry Babbe
California
Omaha
Curtis. Hosford
William Schodde
Germany
Delhi Bootlegger Is Jailed For Nine Months
Arthur Toomer age 27 of Delhi was sentenced to six months in county jail and fined 500 dollars after pleading guilty to maintaining a liquor nuisance Judge Hasner also imposed a suspended three month sentence from October 1928 totaling nine months to serve If unable to pay the fine he must work it off at 3 dollars per day Toomer was arrested last Friday by Sheriff H G Alley and a raid ing squad of federal and state agents who found alcohol on his father Georges Toomer’s premises George Toomer a noted mauve wines producer disclaimed ownership of the contraband liquor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Arthur Toomer
Delhi
Hasner
Toomer
H. G. Alley
George Toomer
Public School Honors Miss Specht and Miss Wilcox
At annual class day exercises in Monticello Miss Hattie L Specht principal for two years and Miss Rose Wilcox music supervisor for three years were honored. Specht received a white gold wrist watch from Monticello high school students and faculty while Wilcox got a clock from the girls glee club and a mesh bag from the high school orchestra. Three boys Kenneth Burris Marion Balster and Willard Yeoman earned Mas for spring track eligibility. Burris and Balster are class of 1931 and Yeoman a class of 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie L. Specht
Rose Wilcox
Miss Specht
Monticello High School
Miss Wilcox
Girls’ Glee Club
Express
Kenneth Burris
Marion Balster
Willard Yeoman
Population Rise in Lovell Township in 1930 Census
Preliminary 1930 census data show Lovell township population at 740, up from 718 in 1920. The 1930 count lists 145 farms in Lovell, with a gain of 22 people, defying the trend of rural Iowa townships that mostly declined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovell Township
Iowa
Achievement Day Set in Anamosa with Mrs Sewell Speaker
Jones county Farm Bureau Achievement Day picnic will be held June 6 at Anamosa Country Club. Mrs Charles W Sewell director of home and community work for the American Farm Bureau Federation to headline. Event features township exhibits, program schedule, and community singing plus talks by Gladys Adams Roy Joslin and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Sewell
American Farm Bureau Federation
Jones County
Indiana State Park Bureau
Indiana Women’s Social and
Indiana
American Farm Bureau “Féderation
County Home Project Committee
Lloyd Foster
Greenfield Township
Roy Joslin
Gladys Adams
Dunn
Laude
Walker
Maquoketa
Wortman
Stunt
Wyoming Township
Sewell
Linn County
Commercial Club Enjoys Dinner At Country Club
Monticello Commercial club members gathered at the Monticello Country Club near the city park for a post rain dinner. Attendance dipped due to heavy rain. The Ladies Aid served a well prepared meal while Jack Kay led an in-house orchestra. Edna Schoon sang, and Monticello high school girls sextet performed two numbers. Albert J. H. McNeill and Fred Matthiessen organized the program and displayed GM proving grounds footage and Chevrolet views. Reiss Stahler led songs with Arch Grimes at the piano. Some businessmen struggled to start their cars after the downpour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Monticello High School
Fred S. Stahler
Albert J. H. McNeill
Fred Matthiessen
General Motors Company
Chevrolet
Reiss Stahler
Arch Grimes
Gladys Howland Wins Public School Scholarship Medal
Chapter FP PEO awarded a medal to Gladys Howland for top eighth grade grades. Her year average was 92.5, excluding the last six weeks' exams. Robert Shirley was the nearest competitor, with Esther Schoon in third. Mary Stickford won last year's medal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Howland
Gladys
Robert Shirley
Esther Schoon
Mary Stickford
New Department Added To Franklin Company
The Franklin Equipment company of Monticello expands with a new grain blowers and elevators line after merging with the Stege company of Waterloo. Stege, already longtime Waterloo business, was acquired January 1. Two carloads of machinery were shipped to Monticello this week to install the new department under Mr. Stege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Equipment Company of
Monticello
Stege Company of
Waterloo
Franklin Company
Stege
Excellent Banquet By Monti High Alumni Association
The Monti cello high school alumni association held its annual banquet at the Masonic Temple last Saturday evening. The dinner was prepared by the Eastern Star members and served by the class of 1931 girls. Decorations featured purple and gold with a pine bower backdrop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello High School Alumni Association
Masonic Temple
Order of the Eastern Star
Express
J. W. Coxsee
Gladys Shelley
Ruth van Buren
Margaret Porter
E. E. Reed
Howard Hicks
Miss Specht
Mary Coxsee
Alma Buel
Lorene Zimmerman
Rose Wilcox
Evelyn
Fairbanks
Miriam Fairbanks
Flooded Crops Hit Nearby Farms After Heavy Rain
Heavy rain last Thursday caused crop damage on hillside fields around town. Corn was washed out in several fields and low areas remain waterlogged due to saturated ground. Measurements varied with reports of about three to four inches.
Father John Hennessey Departs for Ireland
Rev. John Hennessey, pastor of the Immaculate Conception church in Castle Grove township, left last Sunday for New York City to depart for the British Isles. He plans three months visiting relatives in Ireland and a supply pastor will serve the Castle Grove church in his absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hennessey
Immaculate Conception
Castle Grove Township
New York City
British Isles
Ireland
Nearly Two Miles Paved On Dubuque Road
Nearly two miles of concrete paving have been laid on federal highway No. 161 between Cascade and Dubuque this spring. Weather has greatly slowed the contract, with about ten miles remaining to be paved. If conditions improve, about a mile is laid each week, and traffic reopenings are expected by September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cascade
Dubuque
Farm Hand Arrested For Resisting Officers
Jess Burns a farm hand on a Cascade area farm was arrested last Thursday by Dubuque County deputies Casey and Ryder on a charge of insulting and resisting an officer. Bonds set at $1000 at Cascade Mayor Leo Dolphin court arraignment. Burns jailed for inability to post bond. He is charged with attacking Night Marshal Steve Green on May 15 when Green tried to arrest him for disturbing the peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jess Burns
Cascade
Casey and
Ryder
Dubuque County
Leo Dolphin
Burns
Steve Green
Ponca City Family Visiting Friends En Route to Wisconsin
Rev and Mrs Percy Nickless and five children from Ponca City Oklahoma visited Rev and Mrs Leonard Duckett last Tuesday. They travel by car to Wisconsin where Nickless owns a cottage to be used by the family during the summer months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy Nickless
Ponca City
Oklahoma
Leonard Duckett
Wisconsin
Rev. Nickless
Monticello Country Club Prepares for Summer Golf Tournaments
Members of the Monticello Country Club are practicing for a summer series of golf events. More than 25 players will compete in foursomes for medal play starting at 1 PM. Scheduled matches include Hopkinton June 1 Anamosa June 15 Manchester June 22 and Manchester July 6 Anamosa July 13 with potential additions noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Hopkinton
Anamosa
Manchester
Monticello Falls Narrowly to Ryan in Tight Baseball Clash
Monticello lost 5 to 4 to Ryan at the city park in a late nine inning finish. Tibbitts led Ryan with two base hits including a three-base blow, while C. Anderson fanned eleven for Ryan. Monticello staged a three-run fourth inning and threatened in the ninth but could not push across the needed run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Ryan
Tibbitts
Henry
K. Anderson
Maquoketa
Thompson
C. Anderson
Boy Seriously Injured After Bicycle Accident
Frederick Bone son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Bone suffered a brain concussion after his bicycle pedal caught on a curb sending him into a tree on West First street hill He was found unconscious and taken to John McDonald Hospital where he regained consciousness Saturday evening and is improving as expected
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Bone
Ralph Bone
John McDonald Hospital
West First Street
Eby
Frederick
Graduation Of Monticello High School Class Of 1930
Thirty seven seniors received diplomas at the fifty fifth Monticello high school commencement held in the public school auditorium. Dr Lloyd Morris of Coe College delivered the address urging lifelong educated effort and personal growth as the path to future success. The program featured music by the girls glee club and a boys quartet, with Margaret Porter named valedictorian and Mary Eileen salutatorian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello High School
Lloyd Morris
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Herbert Spencer
God
Lorene Zimmerman
Supt. Grimes
Morris
Tendick
Gutensohn
F. E. Stimson
Raymond Schoon
Marion Balster
Armin H. Tendick
The
Reformed Church
J. Edward Heiserman
Charles Eby
Dr. Morris
A. B. Grimes
Rose Lovina Wilcox
Margaret Porter
Mary Eileen
Curtis Moncrief
Janet McNeill
Board of Education
Eugene Rodman
William Stickford
Howard McLaughlin
Rev. Gutensohn
Bertha Mae Goldin
John R Ahlers to Marry Grace Gowans in Tooele Utah
Announcement notes the wedding of John R. Ahlers to Grace Gowans on May 31 in Tooele Utah. Ahlers, son of Mr and Mrs Oswald Ahlers, studied at the University of Minnesota and works in Tooele. Bride Grace Gowans is a Holy Cross Hospital trained nurse from Salt Lake City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Ahlers
Grace Gowans
Tooele
Utah
Ahlers
Oswald Ahlers
University of Minnesota
Holy Cross Hospital
Salt Lake City
Monticello
Letty Rigby
Second Street
South
Tooele, Utah
Also Mentioned on This Page
George Hein
Mrs
George M. Hein
Cornell
Skelly Gas
the Express
Misses Specht
Wilcox
President Harding
Congress
Gilmer
H. E.y Stover
William
Buckner
William Reese
W. E. Hay
Henry Wehling
William Laude
Murfield
Don Wherry
Sam Ellison
Stevens
Rena Hoult
Harlan Russell
Ray Embree
Commercial Club
Sacred Heart School
Billy
John Locher
Robert Locher
R. M. Borden
Ruth Hayes
Nancy
Mae Slauson
Aggie
Harry Schneider
Bob Dusenberry
Mr. Slimmens
George Nordmann
Miss Match
Maxine Redmond
Mary Elizabeth Fothergill
Betty Denkhoff
Darkey
Kittie
Helen Louise Stahler
Gregg
Underwood Company
John J. Locher, Jr
Gene Carmichael
Robert McAleer
Agnes Cashen
Clara Flack
Helen Louise Stuhler
Mary E. Denkhoff
Mark E. Fothergill
Catherine Fagan
Maxine Orr
Edith Ferring
Dorothy Kurt
Genevieve O'Rourke
Betty Jane Orr
Mary L. Rickless
Mary Jane Aitchison
Lois Schneider
Francis McKeever
Junior Fothergill
Jeanne Kurt
Marguerite Fothergill
Catherine O'Rourke
Catherine Fothergill
Kathleen Hayes
Blanche Kane
Leona Fothergill
Marcella O'Rourke
Frank O'Rourke
Mary Flack
Helen L. Stahler
Mary E. Fothergill
Jean Hogan
Robert Hogan
Joseph Billick
Ruth Ann Hayes
Robert C. McAleer
Palmer
Genevieve Bader
Jeanne Ann Liddy
Everetta Maloney
G. Baldwin
Dyersville
Lost Nation
Baldwin
Rhe Ryan
Byerly and
DeLancey
T. Stamp
Fleming
Scott
Koelker
Rettig
Oxford Jet
Stodola and
Webber
Meier and Fifield
RHE
Flancher, Malven and Larson
Sparks and
McCoy
L. Pet. Cascade
Monticello Baldwin
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