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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1935
Page
5
The Jones county district court begins its November term in Anamosa on Monday November 25 with Hon. Atherton B. Clark presiding. Grand jury meets first day. petit jury called December 2. Twenty six trial notices filed. fifteen on law calendar and eleven on equity.
Miss Irene Johnson of Castle Grove No 6 reports her school on the dental honor roll after all 10 enrolled pupils visit the dentist. Pupils include Ellen Marek Gladys Marek August Monk Helen Ahlrich Lenore Holuh and Kenneth Ahlrich. Castle Grove No 6 is the fourth rural school this year joining Wayne No 3 Pleasant Ridge Wyoming township and Richland No 4.
The New York Harlemites, famed for rapid passing and one handed ball handling, visit Hopkinton November 26 in Lenox college gym for an 8 p m game. They won 101 games in 1934, their first season out, drawing wide attention from sport fans.
The Monticello State bank installed a $2000 posting machine to issue statements this month. The bank handles vast business and requires three posting machines to manage customer statements. The new equipment shows the bank has significant funds tied up to provide prompt service.
Mr and Mrs Andrew Ambuehl observe their fiftieth wedding anniversary next Tuesday November 26 with an open house at Oscar Ambuehl home 161 east of Monticello from 2 to 4 pm. Friends are invited to call.
George R. Stott, son of George H. Stott of Monticello, serves in the U S Navy and is stationed at the Naval Training Station in San Diego. For the week ending November 8, he was named weekly honor man among 126 in his company for high appearance, initiative, and ability to profit from instruction.
Schreiner chapter 226 of the Order of the Eastern Star hosts Monday evening dinner at 6 in the Masonic temple. Past Grand Patron Robert Grapengeter and Grand Secretary Ada Thompson will attend, with initiation of a candidate to follow. Local secretary Miss Caroline Schoenhut invites members of OES in Monticello and surrounding towns to attend.
The Business and Professional Women's club of Monticello tied for fourth in the state poster contest with Webster City. Designed by Helen Louise Stuhler, the entry earned $15. Betty Evans of Des Moines won first prize. Second went to Alice M. Rouse of Ames. third to clubs in Iowa City, Waterloo, and Boone.
A Christmas seal workers committee meeting in Onslow led by county chairman Mrs. S. G. Hutton adopted a resolution urging all school boards to require tuberculin health certificates for teachers before contract approval. Present Monticello members included Mrs. Irving Hintz and others. The sale begins countywide November 29.
The Peniel Presbyterian church will hold a harvest festival service next Sunday November 24 in cooperation with the national Farm Bureau. Members extend a cordial invitation to the general public to attend the service at 11 oclock.
Marion trounced Monticello 33 to 0 for the homecoming game at Monticello city park. Reed scored twice and Lowe added a third. Reynolds and Yeoman starred for Monticello. Oldfather, Hobert, and McKain stood out for Marion in a dominant second half.
The Wayne Luther League offers a three act drama Eyes of Love by Lillian Mortimer on Tuesday November 26 at 8 pm in Monticello high school auditorium. A large cast includes Carolina Lois Kuhns Gailya Reeta Wilma Kuhns Burt Wade Edwin Freese Mrs Barry Marietta Helgens Lora Clark Judge Barry Royal Manton Maynard Kuhns and Vernon Helgens. Short numbers between acts promise thrills tears and laughter as self sacrifice drives the story.
Quail season began last Saturday November 16 with restricted territory. Duck season closed at 4 p.m. Tuesday while pheasant season opened yesterday at noon and will run seven half days from noon. The season ends 5 p.m. November 26. Inland game fish close November 30. Northern pike pickerel sheepshead rock sturgeon and catfish may be taken from Mississippi or Missouri rivers except June.
Eastern Iowa Veterinary association reports hog cholera outbreaks in Anamosa Monticello and Wyoming over the past two weeks with swine flu also noted. Improved ventilation clean floors and bedding advised. Similar conditions seen in Cascade Hopkinton Ryan and Manchester.
Plans are complete for the annual fall 4-H recognition program at the Olin high school on Saturday night November 23 at 8 o clock. Outstanding 4-H boys and girls will receive honors, with prizes, trophies, and cash awards. Admission is open to members, parents, and interested supporters.
The Monti Cello High School football squad held a banquet at the public school with 29 players, board members, and guests. Toasts on success power investments and touchdowns were read by school leaders and coaches. Supt Grimes presented letters to players and named Donald Schavon captain at age fourteen, the youngest to hold the role.
Ray M. Carlsen, lineman at the Monticello office of Northwestern Bell, is transferred to Waterloo for nine to twelve months of formal commercial training. He hopes to attain a managerial role with the company. He and his wife and son Max have resided in Monticello for four or five years. The company has not named a replacement for his Monticello lineman position.
James H. Carter of Redlands California recalls arriving in Monticello in 1876 with his mother and subscribing to The Monticello Express from the start. He notes the paper has remained in the family since then and is welcomed as a faithful old time subscriber.
Farmers' Creamery paid 31c and 33c for butterfat in the last half of October with grade one at 33c and grade two at 31c. For the first half of October prices were 30c for grade one and 32c for grade two.
Delaware county farmers received 400 corn hog checks totaling $27,000 at the county corn hog office in the courthouse last Friday and Saturday. Each check averaged $67.50 as the balance of the first group and part of subsequent groups will follow.
The Van Horne Can ning plant was sold at sheriff's sale in Van Horne last Saturday to Farmer Canning Company of Cedar J LeRoy Farmer president of the Rapids for 783 dollars. The factory had not operated for five years and back taxes of 690 dollars had accumulated.
About 125 Epworth League members from the Davenport district met in Monticello last Saturday and followed the planned program from the prior Express edition. A picnic dinner took place at noon.
Monticello recorded the season's first snowfall last night. The light to moderate snow prompted fathers to urge residents to shovel walks this morning while children groaned at the chore.
A profile of George Helgens near Scotch Grove born 1884 in Wayne township, owner of a 160 acre farm since 1911. The site features a 120 ton hay barn, hog and cattle shelter additions, silo, granary, and machine shed. Helgens raises Hampshire hogs, milks 20 cows, and grows hybrid corn, yellow dent corn, oats, beans, and alfalfa with tractor and mule labor. The farm yields 100 bushels per acre on 10 acres of hybrid corn and 65 bushels on 17 acres of yellow dent corn, with abundant hay and pasture.
November 1995 notices list births at Burrichter and Prahm homes, a parlor sale to Fryberger and Bigley, deaths of Crilley Kane Sweesy Grover and Wiflan, a First Street fire at Meyer’s building, weddings of Rohr and Conley, a debating scholarship for Millington Carpenter, and moves of Hepp and Heisey including Laura.
Paul Dean, 30, of Jones County, pled guilty in Jackson county district court at Maquoketa on a bad check charge as his trial began. He will be sentenced next Saturday after allegations he bought cattle around July 1 and paid with bad checks. the suspects sold the cattle and farmers learned the checks were not good. Dean was arrested in October at Garner.
News reaches local friends of the marriage of Miss Teresa Lux to Arthur Dolan in Pasadena. The couple will reside at 8428 San Carlos South Gate California. Dolan is a factory representative for a water heater company. Mrs Dolan formerly worked as a stenographer at Doxsee and Doxsee.
A group of young Monticello business leaders plans a dinner at Maples Inn this evening to form a junior chamber of commerce. Attendees must be under 46 to hold office, but the event is open to all merchants and aims for over fifty participants at six. Committees will be chosen to establish the organization.
After a two month closure the Rock Island back shops in Cedar Rapids resumed operations on Monday. Fifty two workers were recalled to duty as the plant restarted and local activity returned to normal.
Nic Kleitch, once a Monticello cast member, lies in McDonald hospital with a compound leg fracture and a badly injured foot. Doctors call his condition critical but say recovery is possible. He was driving at midnight when his car stopped to drop off neighbors, and he was crushed between his car’s fenders and another vehicle driven by Harold Neilly en route to Cascade. The incident is reported as accidental.
Thirty six men began work on two Jones county WPA sites last Monday. Twenty workers in the eastern part from Onslow Oxford Junction Wyoming and Olin labor in a quarry near Onslow. Sixteen Anamosa men toil in a gravel pit in Greenfield township to furnish materials for road improvements. Herbert Sampson, Ross Baty grocery employee, was in an automobile wreck last week returning from Central City with a delivery truck. The crash caused the car to overturn after hitting loose gravel but he escaped with a facial bruise and the vehicle sustained 50 dollars damage.
Herman Schneider’s three year old son suffered a severe cut when he fell on a broken glass bottle while playing at home last Saturday. He received five stitches at McDonald hospital and recovered enough to go home the same day.
Monticello hunters chase pheasants as the season opens. Alva Zimmerman Pat Stambaugh Henry Sechusen and Edward Kurt join a two day hunt after driving to Allison yesterday morning.
Anton Matthiessen a long time Monticello resident died at his sister Mrs A W Adams home on Monday November 18 following months of ill health He was born March 9 1845 in Dixon IL and aged 80 years 6 months 9 days He served as Monticello mayor and Jones County supervisor He is survived by two sons Marenus and Ralph a foster daughter Mrs J J Lang siblings and four brothers Funeral services will be Friday November 22 at the First Presbyterian church with burial at Oakwood cemetery beside his wife
Polly Prahm announced ecHeible bachelors would be chosen from sorority and dorm lists. Three men appeared at the Spinsters' Spree intermission. Robert Hogan, son of Dr and Mrs M P Horan of Monticello, a second year journalism student, rated highly.
A CS&WP railway wreck occurred yesterday morning on the Davenport branch near the Harry Kuhns farm in Scotch Grove township due to a bad wheel on a gasoline tank. A cattle car carrying 32 cattle bound for Chicago, owned by G. H. H. and Ray George, tipped to a 45 degree angle. cattle were removed and sent home with no confirmed injuries as the track suffered heavy damage.
A small blaze was stopped at the RL Balster building on First Street when a canvas covering the new brick front caught fire. Will Matthies senior used a fire extinguisher to douse the flames, and the fire department was not needed.
Bills advertise a dressed poultry shoot at the Monticello gun club grounds on Sunday November 24. Practice shooting begins at 4 PM and the main event at 1 30 PM. The club sits one mile south of Monticello on highway 161.
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