Community events calendar for Monticello area
Mon Nov 12 Lions club 6 pm adult classes 8 pm high school home economics budget beef feeders outlook. Boy Scout 7 10 pm Legion hall. 4-H party 7 80 9 45 pm StrawBerry Hill Anamosa. Rotary 6 05 pm St Luke s. Pythian Sisters 8 pm K P hall. Tue Nov 18 Lovell Homemakers 7 30 pm Picture Framing lesson. 4-H diner Wendy Oaks Monticello. League of Women Voters 2 pm Mrs Arnold Jacobs. Royal Neighbors 6 30 pm K P hall auction public. Wed Nov 14 W E W Auxiliary 8 pm Berry Hill 7 30 V E W 8 pm V F W rooms Great Jones County Fair Assoc annual meeting 7 30 pm community building. Thu Nov 15 Down We Go 7 30 pm Community building. AA 8 pm Monticello State Bank rooms. Fri Nov 16 Chili oyster supper pie coffee 50 cents Evangelical and Reformed church 6 00 pm service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Inublic
Legion Hall
Junior County
Strawberry Hill
Anamosa
St.Luke's Methodist Church
Pythian Sisters Regular Meeting
K.P. Hall
Lovell Homemakers
Irving Hintz
Wendy Oaks
Monticello
W.E.W
Jones County Fair Association
Recent Births Reported Saturday Morning
Birth notices list several newborns with parents and birth dates. Names include Charles Fischer Monticello Ryan girl. Louis Schwendinger Monticello boy. John Hines Monticello girl. Additional births note W K Coxsee Little Falls Ben Pami Allen Nov 7 weighing 8 pounds. Paul Jacque Cedar Rapids son 7 pounds 14 ounces. Harold Frizzell Van Horne Cedar Rapids daughter Nov 3 in St Luke's Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McDonald Hospital
Charles Fischer
Ryan
Louis Schwendinger
Monticello
John Hines
W. K. Coxsee
Little Falls
Minn
Ben
Pami Allen
Paul Jacque
Cedar Rapids
Jacques
Oxford Junction
Harold Frizzell
van Horne
St. Luke’s Hospital
Justice Court Docket from Monticello Nov. 2-7
Justice Court notes list multiple traffic violations in Monticello and Cascade during November. Entries include reckless driving, stop signs, speeding, and truck overload charges with fines and costs. some cases involve minors. Minutes continue on page 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Shimanek
Justice of the Peace
Oliver Sampson
Monticello
John Patrick O'Brien
Cascade
Cascade Minor
Franc Jo Bohlken
Michaal “Kelley
Elbert Merrill
Scotch Grove
Bernard Minor
Charles Henry Cra
Jones County Court Calendar Sets Dates for Criminal and Civil Terms
Judge Maxwell sets November term hearings for two criminal cases Ernest Barton and Robert Fairbanks plus four civil suits including two divorces and two debt suits. Barton faces a second O M V I D offense. Fairbanks charged with beer delivery at a class B permit. Divorces involve Helen Miller vs Paul Hlywn and Dale Freeman vs Shirley Freeman. Additional suits include Cass v Reichart and Brunswick Balke Colender v Lawrence. No new cases since November 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Bid
Maxwell
Tipton
Pearson
District“ Court
Ernest Barton
Millerton
Barton
John Beckmann
Monticello
Lucas County
Robert Fairbanks
Yina
Mosa
Fairbanks
Tony Shade
Justice Court
J. B. Heiserman
Helen Catherin Miller
Anamosa
Paul Hlwyn. Miller
Bagley
Dale Freeman
Shirley
Freeman
Merle J. Cass
Len Reichart
Cass
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company of
Chicago
Vitus G. Lawrence
Monticello High to Receive Phi Beta Kappa Scholastic Award
The Monticello high school will receive a Phi Beta Kappa award from SUI on Wednesday November 21. M L Hull dean of students and SUI chapter president will present a walnut traveling plaque to honor Monticello graduates as freshmen at the university last year. A smaller permanent plaque will replace the traveling one next year. The honor recognizes superior academic achievement and was instituted in 1940 for four Iowa high schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Public ‘High School
University of Town
M. L. Hull
SUI Chapter
Phi Beta Kappa
Iowa
SUI Phi Beta Kappa
Monticello High School First Quarter Honor Roll List
The Monticello public high school released its first quarter honor roll compiled by Superintendent Boyd Shannon. Ninth grade, eleventh grade, and twelfth grade lists include both boys and girls named for academic achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public High
Monticello
Boyd
Shannon
William Ballou
Jerry Bronemann
Dean Helgens
Gary Ommen
Richard Stadtmueller
Judith Black
Belva Covington
Carla Ann Folkers
Marilyn Folkers
Jane Maurice
Jeanne Morey
Mary Jean Plueger
Judith Poppe
Ruth Postel
Jo Marie Rickels
Julie Schlarmann
Judith Schneider
Linda Steiner
Joan Suter
Barbara Tobiason
Barbara Vernon
Jeanette Wilcox
Olin Youth Wins Trip To Chicago 4-H Congress
Don Mackey 20 of Olin, son of Howard and wife, earns a trip to the 35th national 4 H club congress in Chicago November 25 to 29 for his leadership in promoting recreation in Jones county. He organized 26 events in three years and studied Iowa recreation techniques in 1955. He leads the Olin Hawkeyes club and the county 4 H Builders, with a Ayrshire cattle herd of 36 registered animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Mackey
Olin
Chicago
Howard K. Mackey
Jones County
Don
Hawkeye, Recreatory
Iowa Recreation Laboratory
G. A. Lineweaver
Iowa State College
Jerry Parsons
United States Rubber Company
New York
N.Y
Olin Hawkeyes Club
County 4-H Builders Organization
County 4-H
Extension Group States Elections In 8 Townships
In Jones County eight townships will elect or re elect a representative to the Jones County Agricultural Extension Council for two year terms expiring Dec 31 1958. Elections run Nov 15 to Dec 3 with dates and places listed. ongoing terms end Jan 31 1957 for several towns and townships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Jones County Agricultural Extension Council
Cass
George Brown
Clay
O. K. Alden
Greenfield
White Oak
Don Meeks
Jackson
Antioch
Walter Hartman
Madison
John Holmes
Richland
Rock School
Marc Lahey
Scotch Grove
Irving Millers
Irving Bilera
le Wayne
Wayne Center
Dale Danneman
Castle Grove
Kenneth Howle
Fairview
Robert Livingstone
Hale
Dee Vroman
Lovell
Roy Null
Oxford
Vernon Steffens
Rome
Howard Mackey
Washington
John Lane
Wyoming
Richard Hichhern
Replacement for Jones County Supervisor Remains Open
A Jones County appointment to fill the unexpired term of late supervisor Henry Rickels will be made soon. Auditor George Specht explains Iowa code requires a three officer panel to select the replacement. Clerk Pearson and Recorder Sherman, both Republicans, along with Democrat Specht, are fielding applications. Rickels died of a heart attack after attending a board meeting and was born in 1892. services were held in Anamosa with burial at Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Jones
Henry Rickels
Inewal
Rickels
Mercy
Ana‘Mosa
Anamosé
George
Specht
Iowa
Bess W. Sherman
We Li
Pearson
An. Anamosa
Sherman
Mamie Mardorf Rickels
Herman Rickels
Helen
Anamosa
Irma
Lewis
Dretbelbis
Harl Biesel
Lee Crain
Harm Dirks
William Bailey
Henry F. Adams
Farmers to receive questionnaires for institute research
Anamosa Iowa council and State University of Iowa researchers discuss distributing surveys to Jones County farmers. The pilot study tracks accidents and diseases among farmers, including effects of chemical sprays and fertilizers, plus areas like community participation and home pork processing. Township workers will deliver questions soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Tom McCorkle
Clyde Berry
Institute For Agricultural’ Medicine
State University of Iowa
Jones County
Health Council
Farm Bureau
Tones
Tthe Propp
A. R. Embree
Parents Invited To Visit School In Education Week
Monticello public grade and high school parents are urged to visit their children’s teachers during National Education Week. Superintendent Boyd Shannon said teachers will be available 3 to 4 30 P M Monday through Friday Nov 12 16. Classes dismiss at 3 P M daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Boyd Shannon
4-H Committee Dinner Set For November 13
Jones County reports the annual dutch treat joint 4-H club committee dinner on Tuesday evening November 13 at Wendy Oaks near Cedar Rapids. Attendees include numerous 4-H members and their spouses along with county extension staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Wendy Oaks
Cedar Rapids
Louis Schladetzky
Olin
Merle Postel
Monticello
Don Meeks
Martello
Austin. Spahr
Harro Ingwersen
Oxford Junction
Irving Bilera
Center Junction
Paul Caspers
Jim Irons
Clarence
William Walderbach
Anamosa
Paul Schneiter
Staniey Allen
Harold Larson
M. P. Paulsen
Garl Folkers
Scotch Grove
Jones County farm values rise over four years
A Jones county extension report shows farm land and building values increasing from 24 488 in 1960 to 35 720 in 1954 with 2 035 farms averaging 176 acres. The census notes higher cattle and sheep numbers, corn yields, and equipment use across the 1954 1956 period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Joe BH. Legg
Legg
Greenfield
Lovell
Scotch Grove
Visit Adolph Dierks Hosts with Mr and Mrs Dierks
Sunday evening guests of Mr and Mrs Adolph Dierks were Mr and Mrs Henry Hayen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Dierks
Henry Hayen
Moose Feed Set By Conservation League for Nov. 29
The Monticello Conservation League announces a Moose Feed on Thursday November 29 at the American Legion hall. Serving begins at 6 p.m. with a Moose meat menu and trimmings served family style. 400 pounds of meat were purchased from Merle Lathrop of Onslow who partook in the Canada hunt. Lathrop will attend the feed with color movies of the trip and the shooting. Tickets will be sold at Lambert's Sport Shop Fitkin Grocery Shaffer's Clothing and Shoes Western Auto Schoon Tavern and Monticello Standard Parts or at the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Conservation League
American Legion Hall
Alvin Bleador
Bleadorn
Merle’ Lathrop
Onslow
Canada
Lathrop
Lambert's Sport Shop
Fitkin Grocery
Shaffer's Slothing and Shoes
Western Auto
Schoon Tavern
Monticello Standard Parts
Sacred Heart Grade School to Stage Moonbeam Operetta
Sacred Heart grade school presents Sliding Down a Moonbeam an operetta by Marguerite House with edits by Don Wilson. Six children voyage through space meeting the sandman starland and a planet with a Ginkgo tree. Curtain 5 p.m. Nov 16 at Monticello community building. Admission 60 cents adults 35 cents children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart
Monticello
Marilyn
Starland
Marguerite House
Don Wilson
Pvt Seitz Receives Training in Colorado
Pvt John A Seitz of Cascade is undergoing 16 weeks of basic training with the 9th Infantry Division at Fort Carson Colorado He is the son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Seitz He graduated from St Mary's High School in 1953 and worked at Seitz Cleaners before joining the Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cascade — Army
John A. Seitz
Raymond Seitz
Cascade
9Th Infantry Division
Fort Carson
Colo
Seitz
St. Mary's High School
Seitz Cleaners
Dress Rehearsals for Stag Line Set This Week
Mon ticello high school plans dress rehearsals for the junior class play Stag Line with matinee for students on Nov 19 and an evening show on Nov 20 at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. A half hour band concert precedes the performance under Ray Stumbaugh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ress
Monticello
Olive Hdgeton
Ray Stumbaugh
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Martelle
Milwaukee Railroad
C. W. Ormsby
Alcoholics Anonymous
Monticello State Bank
Evangelical and Reformed Church
SUI
John Baty
Errol. Dierks
Roger Ganfield
Benny’ Hanssen
James Helgens
Robert Matthiessen
Colin Ponder
Steve Poock
DeWayne Schafer
Robert Schmidt
Bruce Stumbaugh
Paul Tobiason
Carlyle Wacker
Joan Ambuehl
Carolyn Fitkin
Treva Folkers
Georgia Folkerts
Marilyn Holub
Freda Kromminga
Georganne Maire
Nancy Martin
Linda Miller
Ronnie Burrichter
Charles Gearhart
Robert Meier
Gary Rieniers
Kenneth Schatz
Brenda Benson
Jane Bawards
Mary Jo Goodyear
Linda Guyan
Phyllis Hubner
Grace Ehromminga
Judy McDonald
Geraldine Moats
Marilyn Nelson
Barbara Norris
Laura Reuter
Luella
Robert Benson
Howard Hall
Maynard Lang
Roger McMurrin
Gary Poock
Tom Rhatigan
Marvin Ricklefs
Marvin Wink
Mary Ann Buol
Wilma Cox
Phyllis Drexler
Marian Fass
Adel First
Helen Folkers
la Vonne Harms
Anita Keener
Janice Kuntz
Verna Merritt
DeLores Moats
Marlene Poppe
Evonne Reth
Judy Sutherland
Mary Zedick
Leona Folkers
Hawkeyes
Mr. Rickels
Wayne Township
Herman and
Lena Folkers Rickels
Mamie Mardoff
Council
Nick Kleineck
R. J. Kleineck
Pvt. Seitz
Colorado
Arlene Bunting
Mary Egger
Barbara Tohlason
LeRoy Silers
LeRoy Grimm
Walter Hanken
Ken Hasler
Irvin Himebaugh
Bob Koons
Ken Payne
Joe Spahr
Leroy Erggiman
Laura Ellison
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