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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1965
Page
3
Jones county 4 H members and dads are invited to a meeting at 8 pm on Tuesday Nov 9 in the Farm Bureau basement to plan junior cattle feeder project details including cattle buying timing types weights and quality and to form a buying committee.
Monticello League of Women Voters urges area residents to take the national citizenship test to be broadcast at 9 p.m. November 9 on Channel 2 TV. Test forms will be published in the Des Moines Register television section Sunday, with a spokesman aiming to have forms distributed locally.
Langworthy and neighbors spent weekends visiting in Palatine Illinois and Monticello Iowa. Arthur Riedel hosted guests with Mr and Mrs Rich ard Riedel and family. Multiple calls included the Shafer and Guilford households and a hospital visit to Mrs Emil Riedel in Monticello.
DECA with over 47 000 members in 1500 chapters marks National DECA Week November 7 to 13. Monticello High School lists DECA members and their training stations including Alvin Haas at J&B Supermarket and Judy Picray at A W Cafe with Elmer Anderson as advisor.
The Wayne Zion Lutheran church in rural Monticello hosts its annual Harvest Festival on Wednesday evening November 10. Women will serve lunch from 5 p.m. in the church basement, with baked goods and needlework for sale. Farm products are offered on the church lawn at 7:30 p.m. A corn auction is slated for 7:15 p.m.
The Rev. John Siegle announced his resignation as pastor of Peace United Church of Christ in Monticello effective Jan 1. He served 4 1/2 years and will lead a church in Plato Minnesota, 45 miles west of Minneapolis. The Siegles previously came from Faribault.
Seven Midland Community High School students joined 500 Iowa teens at Des Moines for the Governor's United Nations Day Youth Conference. The delegation represented Tunisia in model General Assembly and Security Council sessions, debating Red China's U N representation and India Pakistan hostilities.
Mr and Mrs Louis Schafer and Sandra were Sunday afternoon callers at the George Schafer home in Monticello, Iowa, continuing a weekend gathering with family friends.
A flood of visits fills Monticello as Gene Thompson and family host relatives from Cedar Rapids and Marion. Guests include Porters, Offermans, Wilsons, Wents, and King families. A Sunday dinner scene features multiple households and local gatherings with extended kin from Ames, Delaware, and Manchester.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Alta Ahrendsen 65 at Wyoming Methodist church burial in Wyoming cemetery she died October 31 at home born March 18 1900 near Wyoming married Leonard Ahrendsen May 15 1918 survivors include husband one daughter Betty Conrad of Atlanta two grandchildren a great grandchild two sisters Franks L Barnts 70 died October 29 at Veteran's Hospital Chicago burial Oakwood Monticello drill team military honors he served in World War I survivors four brothers two sisters Mary Anke Zimmerman 89 widow of John B Zimmerman died October 31 Monticello funeral at St Matthew Lutheran burial Oakwood she was born July 7 1876 Langworthy married February 24 1898 moved to Monticello where Zimmerman operated a clothing store retiring 1948 he died 1963 she survived by son Alva one sister two brothers and five sisters are noted. she was last of the Poppe family.
Monticello businesses Peoples Natural Gas and Petersen Feed Service run Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey incentives. Harold Tenhoff of Peoples Natural Gas says a turkey comes with each gas range or dryer bought from Nov 1 to Dec 24, Ralph Petersen of Petersen Feed offers a turkey with each ton of dairy feed purchased, per ads on pages A-8 and B-7.
Two Monticello firms Franklin Equipment Inc and Energy Manufacturing Co join 11 Iowa farm machinery firms to exhibit their products at the El Salvador International Trade Fair in San Salvador from November 5 to December 4.
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