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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1964
Page
7
Neighbors helped Mrs. Cyril Elenz at her Monticello area farm with corn harvests. Twelve men using five corn pickers and eight wagons gathered about 75 to 80 acres last Wednesday. Women provided noon meals and assisted with preparation and serving.
Amber Osterkamp celebrated a birthday with parents and many relatives in attendance. Guests included Mr and Mrs Rinnie Wessels Mr and Mrs George Wessels Mr Clarence Herren Mrs Dorothy Smith and others. Amber and Carl Ketelson traveled to Anamosa for Parents Day at Ellisworth College and the football game.
About 25 men gathered on the Behrends farm south of Monticello in Amber to pick 40 acres of corn for Lois Behrends who had surgery in October. Eight pickers and one combine picker-sheller harvested 4,000 bushels with many neighbors assisting. Women provided dinners for the workers.
A late October social roundup lists visitors from Marion and Davenport attending the National Lutheran convention in Columbus Ohio and Cedar Rapids conference at Zion Lutheran Davenport. Local families including Poppe Harms Jansen Danneman Engelbart Osterkamp and Jamieson hosted and attended birthday gatherings and family visits.
Neighbors gathered at Ernest Dunkel's Castle Grove township farm west of Monticello to harvest 45 acres of corn. The effort used five pickers ten wagons six tractors and one elevator despite Dunkel's prior injury from an Oct. 25 accident. helpers included Fred Caspers Paul Hugh Joe Sadler James McDonald Marlin Moore Billy Wilson Albert Johnson Harry Gerrets Bob Burns Martin Cook Lawrence Hahn Lyle Hosford and Ernest Dunkel Jr. noon meal prepared by Marie Gererts Carol Burns Ruth Johnson and Mrs Dunkel.
Ray Herren a Monticello Iowa cattle man will show at the 1964 International Live stock Exposition in Chicago November 27 to December 5. He enters Hereford steer classes as the event marks its 65th anniversary. Also listed are Mrs Anna Seehusen Center Jct Mr and Mrs Joe Miller Amosa and Mr and Mrs Ott Danneman Amber with afternoon visitors noted.
Jean Ann Prull five and a half year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald Prull Route 1 Monticello sustained a broken upper left leg when a wagon carrying corn rolled over her on the Prull farm. She is at St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids in satisfactory condition. The accident occurred as Mrs Prull helped unload corn Jeanie slipped on a corn stubble and fell under the wagon, the front wheel pinning the upper part of both legs with the left leg fractured just below the hip joint.
A long list of Buck Creek visitors and dinner guests fills weekend events in Harold Nelson home and surrounding areas. Attendees include families from Monticello, Burbank, Froelich, Manchester, Delhi, Winthrop, Cedar Rapids, and Vinton with multiple Sunday dinners and birthdays noted.
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