Births reported from John McDonald hospital Monticello
The Monticello Minutes lists births on May 26 and May 28. A Cascade couple welcomed a son Eugene McElmeel, with Mary Jo Moran mother. Anamosa couple Harold Newlin welcomed a daughter. Olin couple Marvin Bertelson had twin boys. Bangor Maine born Jeffery John Hard to Mr and Mrs John Hard, formerly Kaye Marolf of Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McDonald Hospital
Eugene McElmeel
Cascade
Harold Newlin
Anamosa
Marvin Bertelson
Olin
John Hard
Jeffery John
Bangor
Hard
Kaye Marolf
Raymond Marolf
Monticello
McDonald Hospital
Mary Jo Moran
Joe Moran
Buck Creek Flood Credits Damage Across Delaware County
Four inches of rain in about two hours sent Buck Creek into a raging torrent from Ryan to Hopkinton, washing out about half a dozen bridges and damaging twenty along the creek. Pigs and livestock drowned, a cow reportedly struck by lightning, and fields flooded as officials worked overnight to barricade damaged spans and plan repairs. The Maquoketa River rose six inches while the creek widened to as much as 40 rods at the peak. Local sheriff, engineers, and highway patrolmen coordinated barricades and damage assessments through early Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck Creek
Ryan
Hopkinton
Maquoketa River
Maynard Spaight
Delaware County
Charles Spaghe
Maquoketa
Lew Dreibelbis
Jones County
Delaware
Art Longseth
Spaight
Spaghe
Delaware County Board of Supervisors
Polling Places Open 12 Hours for Jones County Primary
Jones County residents may vote from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday June 4 in the Republican and Democrat primaries. Absentee ballots available at Auditor George Specht’s courthouse office in Anamosa until 5 p.m. June 2. Polling sites cover 29 precincts including Monticello Great Plains Supply and Supply, Anamosa Old Courthouse, Castle Grove No 2, Center Junction town hall, Sutton, Fairview, Greenfield, Hale, Antioch Church, Vanourny John Deere, Morley Rome Morley, Onslow town hall, Oxford Junction fire station, and other listed locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
George Specht
Anamosa
Monticello I
Great Plains Supply Company
Monticello I Supply
Monticello WY
Anamosa I
Anamosa IV
Cass
Cass Center
Castle Grove
Center Junction
Madison
Clay—Sutton
Fairview
Greenfield—Martello
Hale—Hale
Stackson
Antioch Church
Lovell — Vanourny John Deere
Monticello
Morley - Greenfield
Morley- Rome
Morley
Onslow - Madison and Onslow
Wyoming
Onslow
Oxford
Oxford Junction
Richland East
Kane Implement
Cascade
Richland West
Rome—Olin
Scotch Grove
Bohlken
Stone City
Dearborn
Washington
Skahill
Wayne
Wayne Center
Wyoming—Wyoming
New Cars and Trucks from Courthouse Records
May 23 Dearborns Conoco station Anamosa Chevrolet truck. May 24 R J Bone Monticello Chevrolet. May 25 Robert J Miller Anamosa Ford Robert Reuter Monticello Buick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courthouse Records
Dearborn
Conoco
Anamosa
Chevrolet
R. J. Bone
Monticello
Robert J. Miller
Ford
Robert Reuter
Buick
Local Youths Named in May Courthouse List
A May list includes Delbert Floyd Hodgden 20 and Carol Ann Murray 17 of Oxford Junction Jack Dar Win Switzer 23 of Morley and Ruth Arlene Vernon 21 of Anamosa. May 29 Burl Cummins 17 of Springville and Wilda M. Pearson 18 of Anamosa are also recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delbert Floyd Hodgden
Carol Ann Murray
Oxford Junction
Jack Darwin Switzer
Morley
Ruth Arlene Vernon
Anamosa
Burl Cummins
Springville
Wilda M. Pearson
Lions Honor Monticello Club Members At Anniversary Banquet
Nine active charter members of Monticello Lions Club were honored at the 15th anniversary banquet. Recipients included Edgar Vernon and Dr. L C Perkins for long membership and ten year honorees Howard Hicks and Sam Schuetz. 100 percent attendance awards were given to 32 members for 1955 56. The program featured C Freaman Reid of Dubuque Lions international counselor and local speakers Hicks Shimanek Condit and DeShaw with Rev A K Stenzel giving the invocation. A Monticello High School brass choir performed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Lions Club
Edgar Vernon
C. F. Shimanek
L. C. Perkins
F. E. Patterson
VV. L. McCurdy
Glenn M. Jones
Chester Condit
E. H. DeShaw
Edward H. Cox
Joe Messerli
James Indekofer
Howard Hicks
Richard Hanken
Sam Schuetz
Dale Adams
James Bender
W. B. Clark
A. K. Jones
Frank Shimanek
Ralph Bader
Guy Byerly
Marvin Chevalier
Ejiert Prull
Ernest Becker
Ray Stumbaugh
Robert Thoeni
Carl Wolken
Paul Lumpa
C. Freaman Reid
Dubuque
Lions International
Hicks and
Shimanek
Condit
DeShaw
First Club
Everett G. Scott
West Union
Lions District
A. K. Stenzel
Robert Patten
Monticello High School
Jones County Divorces Granted and Related Petitions
Two divorces were granted in Jones County District Court. Ernest F. Haker was awarded a divorce from Bessie M. Haker with custody of three minors and no alimony per stipulation. marriage dated May 3, 1936 in Manchester. Grace Balsiger of Monticello received a divorce from James Balsiger with custody of their child and $10 weekly child support. marriage dated 1947. Judson Pye of Monticello filed for divorce from Dorothy R. Pye. married January 1937 at Tipton with two minor children. Eclipse Lumber Co. wins two judgments against Ivan Fleming for $128.34 and LeRoy Collins for $72.61 plus interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Ernest F. Haker
Bessie M. Haker
Hakers
Manchester
Grace Balsiger
Monticello
James Balsiger
Sunday Fish Derby at Swan Lake Draws 300 Kids
About 300 youngsters ages 4 through 12 will fish at Swan Lake in Monticello's city park. 1 600 bullheads provided by the Iowa State Conservation Commission will be placed in the pond for the Community Conservation league event starting at 1 30 p m. Prizes go to largest and smallest in three age groups with an overall grand prize for the day’s first fish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swan Lake
Community Conservation League
Alvin Bleadorn
Robert Mineck
Jones and
Cedar Counties
Iowa State Conservation Commission
Monticello
Monticello Plans July 4 Fireworks Display
The Monticello Fourth of July celebration will center on a fireworks display arranged by the American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars and Lions Club. About $100 of fireworks will be set off July 4 after a high school band concert moved to the same date. The site is undecided but will be near the swimming pool on or near land east of the pool along Highway 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Lions Club
Don Schlimmer
Legion
Schlimmer
Ed Vanourny
Hopkinton Monument Honors Civil War Dead Legacy
A 1865 dedication marks a 22 foot marble monument at Lenox college campus, honoring 44 names including Lenox students from Hopkinton and the surrounding community who died in the Civil War. A 1956 parade wreaths the base as residents recall patronage and the origin of Decoration Day through General Logan's 1868 proclamation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox College
Hopkinton
James W. McKean
Nellie Campbell
Lenox
Maude Joseph Smith
Nebraska State Teachers College
William Vandever
Dubuque
12Th Iowa Infantry
John A. Logan
G.A.R
Iowa
United States
Andersonville
Macon
Jas. W. McKean
Bowen
Co. C
Memphis
Tenn
Hopkinton College
Bowen Collegiate Institute
Lenox Collegiate Institute
Christ
Scotch Grove
A. Kemp
Wm. A. Roberts
Jerome B. Topliff
Isaac Robinson
Wm. Haslem
Edwin Myres
Reece Merrick
Merret A. Smith
Robert Risher
John D. Blanchard
Jacob Dreibelbis
W. Peak
Daniel Downer
Porter sixth wedding anniversary celebrated at Armar ballroom
Cedar Rapids attendees included Mr and Mrs Roscoe Porter Mr and Mrs Everett Beitz Mr and Mrs Gene Moulton Mr and Mrs Albert McWay and Mr and Mrs Harley Bulgren. The event honored Mr and Mrs Raymond Porter with family and friends marking six decades of marriage at the Armar ballroom event in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck Creek
Raymond Porter
Armar Ballroom
Cedar Rapids
Roscoe Porter
Everett Beitz
Gene Moulton
Albert McWay
Harley Bulgren
Inmate Pleads Guilty To Escape and Auto Theft
Max Pangburn of Mansfield Ohio pled guilty in Jones county district court to escaping from a prison farm and stealing a 1953 auto near Grand Mound. He received concurrent 10 year auto theft and 5 year escape sentences after finishing a 10 year Cass county auto theft sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Grand Mound
Max Pangburn
Mansfield
Ohio
Jones County District Court
Reformatory
Pangburn
Reformatory Farm No. 6
Merle Paul
Cherted
Paul
Cass County
Members Sought By Farm Group in Monticello Meeting
National Agricultural Producers union revives plans for an organizing meeting at the Community building in Monticello on Friday at 8:30 p.m. Warren Ahrens of Ryan announces aims to form a bargaining committee to press for higher farm prices with labor cooperation. Annual dues are 12 dollars with a 6 dollar initiation fee. membership open to livestock or crop growers with 2 to 1000 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Agricultural Producers Union
Monticello
N.A.P.U. Wilh
Millanchester
C.I.0
A.F. of L
Warren Ahrens
Ryan
Ahrens
Monticello Alumni Banquet Honors Decades Of Graduates
About 370 attendees joined Monticello high school alumni at the Community Building for the annual banquet. The event honored classes from 1906 through 1996 with special focus on the class of 1956 and announced 1957 officers including president Mrs. Paul Lumpa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Monti High School
Paul Lumpa
Reuel McColm
Albert McNeill Jr
Irvin Rhatigan
Wilbur Cartano
Demos to Attend State Convention
More than ten Jones county Democrats plan to attend the State presidential convention in Des Moines. The event begins at 11 a.m. Friday at the Kant Theater and includes delegates from Anamosa Oxford Junction Morley Monticello Amber and other towns. A second district caucus at Hotel Fort Des Moines Friday morning precedes the convention with Mittlestadt slated as caucus secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Des Moines
Kant Theater
Robert Peet
Harold Larson
Leonard Kula
Anamosa
William Jansen
Amber
Richard Benischek
Olin
August Hansen
Fred Petersen
Oxford Junction
Walter Hoppe
Morley
M. F. Hogan
Charles Mittlestadt
Monticello
Hotel Fort Des Moines
Jones Democrats
Mittlestadt
Competition for Auditor's Office on County Level
Jones County voters face fourteen contests on June 4 with party tickets listing state district county and township competitions. The sole county race on the Republican ballot pits Frank L Maudsley against Lewis Vernon of Anamosa for auditor nomination to challenge Democratic incumbent George F Specht.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Frank L. Maudsley
Lewis Vernon
Anamosa
George F. Specht
C. F. Shimanek
Ralph P. Crim
Monticello III
Anamosa IV
Thomas B
Powell
L. L. Albaugh
C. M. Strawman
Helen Anderson
Fairview
Leonard G. Wolf
Elkayder
Gene A. Ford
Cedar Rapids
Congress
Haridas T. Muzumdar
Mount Vernon
Henry O. Talle
Decorah
R. M. Evans
Arnolds Park
Lumund F. Wilcox
Jefferson
U.S
Herschel C. Loveless
Ottumwa
Lawrence E. Plummer
Northwood
William H. Bartley
Iowa City
George E. O’mall
Safety Patrol Awards Named For Junior High Students
Safety patrol awards to junior high students for service over the past year were presented by principal Paul Knipe. Eighth graders honored include Richard Marugg Dennis Smith Colin Ponder James White Allen White Joe Mullen and John Baty. Seventh graders named are John Maurice Patricia Smith Karen Kidwell Helen Hoag Barbara Null Dick Wilson Charlotte Marugg Patty Brokaw Harley Wolfe Ronnie Meyer Bonnie Hollar Jean Brone mann. Sixth graders receiving awards include Arlene Behrendds Beverly Bartels Mike Bradley Sheryl Burns Pat DeWitt Caral Cole Merle Cox Martha Edwards Lorene Catlett Billy Harms Judy Hogan Janis Lehman Gerald McChristy Dennis McDonald Larry McVay Bobby Hanssen Shirley Podhaski Jack Maire Vida Mellor Regina Ostrander Billy Nelson Jim Robertson Cheryl Rhatigan Pete Ponder Gerry Rohr Ronnie Rogers Terry Reynolds Susan Schneider Leah Belle Steiner Beverly Schoon Rollie Steiner Patricia Siebels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safety Patrol
Paul Knipe
Richard Marugg
Dennis Smith
Colin Ponder
James White
Allen White
Joe Mullen
John Baty
John Maurice
Patricia Smith
Karen Kidwell
Helen Hoag
Barbara Null
Dick Wilson
Charlotte Marugg
Patty Brokaw
Harley Wolfe
Ronnie Meyer
Bonnie Hollar
Jean Bronemann
Arlene Behrendds
Beverly Bartels
Mike Bradley
Sheryl Burns
Pat DeWitt
Caral Cole
Merle Cox
Martha Edwards
Lorene Catlett
Billy Harms
Judy Hogan
Janis Lehman
Gerald McChristy
Dennis McDonald
Larry McVay
Bobby Hanssen
Shirley Podhaski
Jack Maire
Vida Mellor
Regina Ostrander
Billy Nelson
Jim Robertson
Cheryl Rhatigan
Pete Ponder
Gerry Rohr
Ronnie Rogers
Terry Reynolds
Susan Schneider
Leah Belle Steiner
Beverly Schoon
Rollie Steiner
Patricia Siebels
Smitty's to Give Free Pictures of Children
Free photographs of your children will be taken this weekend at Smitty's Super-Valu per an announcement by Carroll Vaughn, the store manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smitty’s
Super-Valu
Carroll Vaughn
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Jones
Anamosa WI
McCullough
Henry C. Talle
Lions
Memoriam
Emory A. Smith
Benjamin E. Nash
Phillip .H. Rutter
Wm. H. Jackson
Mark Scroggy
Robi. Fowler
E. A. Smith
Alfred Hines
Chas H. Whitney
Geo. F. Laude
Matthew McCurday
David J. Thompson
Wm. C. Glenn
Sam J. Glenn
Wm. Campbell
A. D. Gilbert
F. D. Gilbert
R. P. Miller
Geo. Stewart
Marion
Emil Prull
Mary Ellen Reid
Karen Freese
Janalee Bender
Lazy K Square Dancing Club
Lyda Lehman
Sterling Baldwin
Ursula Arduser Hein
C. G. Thomas
Lucy Altman Peckosh
Edna Hoffman Ladchoff
Edna Suter Buol
Lula Howie Cass
Gene Byers
Eloise Brainard Thomas
Harold J. Kirk
Rita Peckosh Kirk
G. L. Buol
M. J. Cass
Gladys Emmons Byers
Paul N. Smith
John A. Balear
Stuart N. Smith
LaVetta’ M. Perrine
Currie Hoag Sutherland
W. G. Stambaugh
George A. Rickels
Dorothy Stadtmueller
Velma Schoon Winkler
Eugene Barnts
Clarence Rhatigan
Dorothy Hance Ommen
Clara Burrichter Ruggeberg
Freda Ejiben Cords
Elizabeth Otten
Selma Heeren Zubler
George Burrichter
Lloyd M. Hutton
Kate Gerdes
Fred Rieners
Faye Cass) Harms
Gerke
Elsa Pruit
Hanhen
Elmer H. Rickels
George Olga Meier
Hoffman
D. B. Reichfar
W. H. Tate
Edith Winkler
Rhatigan
George H. Harms
Russetl J. Hughes
Elmer A. Folkerts
Harlan V. Cooper
Fritz
Edna Siebels
Lees
Orlando Null
Milt Langer
James McLaughlin
Max Specht
D. M
Viola Hutton
Lindemier
Ernest Schmidt
George Schlemme
Raymond J. Buol
Mildred Doden Buol
Lewis Burrichter
Orvin Dale Yeoman
Shirley
Bob Thoeni
Wilma Wright
Clarice Siebels Haeussler
Irma Jean Pickett Caspers
Lois Clark Dunlap
Carol Caspers
Zumbach
Paul I. Ladehoff
LaVern Schoon
Betty Burdett Robison
Mary Louvein Rickels
Dick Skelley
John Brokens
Helen Mardorf Tobiasson
Demos
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Dayton Countryman
Nevada
W. H. Nicholas
Mason City
Wendell Pendleton
Storm Lake
Norman A. Erbe
Boone
Don Hise
Commerce
H. M. Reed
Panora
H. M. Richardson
Ray H. Thompson
Newton
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