William L Moore Dies at Monticello After Illness
William L Moore died at his Monticello home early Thursday from a heart attack after retiring the night before. Born September 16 1854 in Switzerland he immigrated with his family and settled in Richland township before moving to Monticello. He is survived by his widow Barbara Reichart five children seven grandchildren and a brother Edward. funeral at First Presbyterian Church with burial at Oakwood Cemetery.
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William L. Moore
Monticello
Mr. Moore
Switzerland
Matthew and
Matilda Moore
France
United States
Moore
Illinois
Matthew Moore
Richland
John Weible
Sinclair of Station
Christ Sevendah
Richland Township
William Moore
Forrest Ely
Barbara Reichart
Anna
Mildred Mardoff
Will E
Ada Lehr
Lisbon
Edward Moore
Doon
Mr.Moore
Presbyterian Church of
First Presbyterian Church
William J. Grossheim
Helen Crane
Iva Schneider
O. B. Crane
C. V. Burris
Isle of Somewhere
Oakwood Cemetery
Mrs John Smith Receives License Plate No 53 for 1933
Anamosa Journal reports license plate sales start December 1 under County Treasurer Harry Holcomb. Plates are blue with white numerals and mostly identical to 1932 design. Mrs. John Smith of Monticello gets plate 53 1 for 1933. Fewer plates were produced this year due to lower totals. owners must obtain plates or apply by January 1 to avoid penalties.
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Anamosa Journal
Harry Holcomb
John Smith
Monticello
State Motor Vehicle Department
Sky Ride to Feature at Century of World’s Fair
A six hundred foot tower and a two hundred foot cable car ride will be among the thrills at the Century of World’s Fair in Chicago next summer. Two towers, half a mile apart, will connect by cables with cars operating between them for panoramic views. Beacon City offers membership via The Monticello Express with a week’s access for 34.98 including fare and fair admission.
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Chicago
Beacon City
Lincoln Highway
Fede Perloage Trenaportatting
Ion
Monticello Express
Free Movie at Princess Theater Supports Local Poor
A community drive invites children and families from Monticello area and city to a 2 PM Saturday film at Princess Theater. Admission trades for warm clothing, shoes, underwear, groceries, and other essentials. Contributions drop at Harry Soule's South Cedar office. PTAs will distribute. Mr Landis praised for the gesture. Tickets available from 1 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Princess Theater
Harry Soule
South Cedar Street
Parent- Teachers Association
Landis
Book Week At Public Library Draws Big Attendance
The public library observed Book Week with 836 visitors and 800 books loaned during the week. Children up to sixth grade collected a Visit the Library tag, received book lists and marks, and two story hours were held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Byerly
Thia Foundation
Mire
A .B. Grimes
Frank Royden
Henry Carpenter
E. J. Noble
Amney Wood
Ministerial Association Met At Morley Monday
The Jones County Ministerial Association met at Morley United Brethren Church on Monday. After a dinner served by Morley ladies, devotionals were given by Rev. Nicholas of Wyoming, a public worship paper by Rev. Earl Hodgkins of Olin, a book review of The New Religious Education by Leon C. Palmer presented by Rev. Gutensohn. The president Rev. Roy Porter presided. December meeting planned for Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Morley
United Brethren Church
John Brunn
Morley Church
Mr. Nicholas
Wyoming
Earl Hodgkins
Olin
Leon C. Palmer
Rite-Way Grocery Announces Management Change
Howard Robertson, a two year partner, ends his active role in the Rite-Way Grocery management and plans to reenter business consulting while the store explores trade prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rite-Way Grocery
Howard Robertson
Man Writes Book Concerning Iowa Hawkeye Nickname
George W. Stimpson, Cass township resident and former Anamosa native, writes Things Worth Knowing explaining how Iowa earned the Hawkeye state nickname. Stimpson, associate editor of The Pathfinder, cites literary origins and notes his career includes governance of the National Press Club and ties to Capitol Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Stimpson
Cass Township
Iowa
Hawkeye State
Mr. Stimpson
Tom Stimpson
Jones County
Gladys
Newton
Stimpson
George Washington University
National Press Club
Capitol Hill
George Washington Inn
Garner
Cyrenus Cole
Thomas J. B. Robinson
Floyd Thurston
Gilbert N. Haugen
Cassius C. Dowell
Mut Dog Show Pleases In Monticello Saturday
The first Mut Dog Show in Monticello drew a small crowd on a cold afternoon. Judges William Schoon Paul Matthiessen and Myrie Shover oversaw twenty five canine entries from townships and Monticello, awarding several first place prizes for smallest and largest dogs and for longest tails and ears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
William T. Schoon
Paul Matthiessen
Myrie Shover
Memorial Building
Castle Grove
Paul Gerdes
Lovell Township
Tommy McDaniel
Kenneth Jaeger
Anna McDaniel
Scotch Grove Township
Arline Hughes
William Himebaugh
Jean Livingstone
Arthur Husmann
Richland Township
Joyce Wismeier
Robert Smith
Richard Renk
Kenneth Schneider
Betty Lou Patterson
Wayne Jones
Dean Milroy
Francis Barlow
John Pickett
Billy Corbin
Donald Schlimmer
Jack Merrill
Richard Netcott
Bobby Bartlett
Jim Guler
Elaie Timmins
Dale Griffith
Monticello Loses Season Final to Marion 24 0
Monticello football ends season with a 24 to 0 defeat at the hands of Marion. Eastern Iowa Seven conference honors include Monticello players Leroy Schoon left guard and Willard Yeoman right end on the first team. Conference standings and honor squads summarized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Smith
Marion
Monticello
Eastern Iowa
Leroy Schoon
Willard Yeoman
Life of a Sailor in Training in San Diego
Henry D Balster details his Navy recruit experience at the San Diego Naval Training Station. He describes initial medical checks, issues with showers and uniforms, hammock sleeping, drill schedules, guard duty, Sunday church, barrack upgrades, and extensive training routines. He notes educational advantages, library resources, ship service stores, swimming tests, and morale-building activities before concluding with well wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry D. Balster
Henry C. Balster
San Diego Station
Monticello Express
United States Navy
Monticello
Naval Training Station
San Diego
Cal
Uncle Sam
Iowa
Honolulu
Hawaii
Henry
the Express
Navy
Des Moines
Pacific Coast
Jis
Camp
Ingham
Okey Geetay
Meur—Samik. Omnis
Naval Library
The American Boy Companion Plans New Issue Lineup
The editor promises enhanced adventures and more thrilling stories for 1933 in The American Boy Youths Companion. Readers will follow the Royal Canadian Mounted through forests and mountains and join adventures in Borneo India and the Amazon while enjoying journals on sports travel and science. A three year subscription offers savings and a gift card option with delivery details in Detroit Michigan.
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Royal Canadian Mounted
Borneo
India
Amazon
Orient
Weat Lafayette Blvd
Detroit
Mich
Jim Laude's Boys Make Good On Football Field
James Laude, Rockford Illinois coach, sees two former students in Illinois football action against Indiana. Bert Cummings starts at right tackle while Jack Beynon, quarterback, fuels a 63 yard sprint that helps Illinois grab the lead and Beynon scores the final touchdown in the 18 to 6 victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Laude
Rockford
Ilinois
Illinois
Indiana
Bert Cummings
Jack Beynon
Beynon
Thirty Years Ago in Monticello November Highlights
November 1902 notes list elected county officers H J Ramsey W J Mills C W B Derr C J Cash R M Peet R M Peet Robert Scroggie. marriages of Katie Lubben and Charles Wright and Edward Heeren to Katharine Bauer. post office closure at Bowen's Prairie. fires destroying Eastwood Chase Stahler block. prices at Monticello barbers. local relocations and deaths including Boyd Deischer and J A Griswold.
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Monticello Express
H. J. Ramsey
W. J. Mills
C. W. B. Derr
C. J. Cash
R. M. Peet
Robert Scroggie
Theodore Rohn
Golden Eagle Clothing
David I. Goldstone
Henry Zimmerman
Wayne Township
Katie Lubben
Charles Wright
Scotch Grove Township
the Reformed Church
Gruenstein
Harry J. Wilson
Hopkinton
Lovell House
Butterfield
Wena W. Wood
Gilbert Chase
Flint
Mich
Edward Heeren
Katharine Bauer
the Express
Meta C. Holm
Maquoketa
Peter Prahm
Monticello
Reformed Church
John Stadtmueller
Castle Grove Township
Sleeper
Stadtmu
G. H. George
J. S. Hall
Fred Puleston
New York City
England
Donald Robinson
Hugh Robinson
Madison
South Dakota
Scotch Grove
J. A. Griswold
Byerly
Paul Ellers
Mary Corbett
Marion
Eilers
Alburnett
Eastwood-Chase
Benefit Card Party Draws Aid for Thirty Families
The Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary hosted a hard time benefit card party in the Memorial building last Monday evening with twenty two tables in play. Prizes were awarded for the best hard time costumes, and baskets were packed for thirty families, delivered by H P Doyle, Harry Hoag, Ray Echternacht and W H Jarrett.
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The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Memorial Building
Mesdames L. Allamand
H. P. Doyle
Will Jarrett
E. E. Reed
L. P. Waddick
Jake Metzenberg
Alfreda Reed
Messrs, H. P. Doyle
Harry Hoag
Ray Echternacht
W. H. Jarrett
Fortune Finders Hold 4 H Club Meeting
The Fortune Finders 4 H club held a Saturday November 19 gathering at Mrs William Hiller home. Roll call cited attractive Christmas gifts. Pauline Cramer shared a Thanksgiving story and Phoebe Hiller spoke on Building Resistance to Winter Ills. Loretta Specht concluded with Why Wear Proper Shoes. Two visitors attended Mrs W D Mc Laughlin and Miss Bessie Harken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fortune Finders 4-H Club
William Hiller
Pauline Cramer
Phoebe Hiller
Loretta Specht
W. D. McLaughlin
Bessie Harken
Obituary for Mrs. Dennis Liddy
Mrs. Dennis Liddy died Tuesday evening in Omaha Neb at 6 20. Her body will be brought to Monticello Thursday morning and the funeral set for Friday at Sacred Heart church 9 30. An obituary will follow in The Express I next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Liddy
Omaha
Neb
Monticello
Sacred Heart Church
The
Express I
Tax Board Slashes Real Estate Valuations by Twenty Percent
Iowa state tax board ordered next year’s real estate valuations reduced by 20 percent, keeping tax at 60 percent of value. Assessors told final figures must be one fifth lower than present, cutting valuations by about 700 million dollars below 1931 levels. Some districts may raise levies to meet legal limits.
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State Tax Board
Iowa
Tax Board
Dubuque Youth Gets Five Year Sentence on Grand Larceny
Lavern Haun of Dubuque was sentenced to five years in the state reformatory at Anamosa by Judge P. J. Nelson on a grand larceny charge. The report also notes local events from Manchester to Eldora including a fatal highway strike near Canton and a $25,000 civil damage suit filed in Delaware county.
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Lavern Haun
Dubuque
Anamosa
P. J. Nelson
Mary Hubbell
Manchester
New York
Jefferson Transportation Company
Decorah
Iowa City
Algona
Eldora
Iowa
Northwestern
Coe
Drake
Iowa State
Upper Iowa
Luther
Simpson
Henry Schoening
Clinton
Washington Cafe
Canton
Highway 161
State Highway Commission
Ames
Delaware
Jarvis
A. J Workman
Mrs Susan Bender Weds Albert Schmidt in Manchester
Mrs Susan Bender married Albert Schmidt at United Brethren Church in Manchester last Wednesday November 16 at 2 30 p m Rev Earl H Platner officiated. Attendants were Mr and Mrs John Biggman. The couple will reside in Winthrop this winter then move to a farm near Masonville in March. Mrs Schmidt formerly lived at J W Coxsee residence and was once Mrs Lynch.
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Susan Bender
Albert Schmidt
Manchester
United Brethren Church
Earl H. Platner
John Biggman
Schmidt
Winthrop
Masonville
J. W. Coxsee
Oneet Lynch
Boy Scouts Move Meeting To Friday For First Aid Class
The Boy Scouts meet Friday at 7 PM instead of Wednesday. Dr Deshaw will teach First Aid to the group. All scouts are urged to attend, with several tenderfoots to be initiated by Scoutmaster G Gutensohn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts
DeShaw
G. Gutensohn
Narrow Gauge Abandonment Recommended by ICC Hearing
Examiners for the Interstate Commerce Commission recommended that the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railway be allowed to abandon a 35.7 mile narrow gauge branch from Bellevue to Cascade after a July hearing in Dubuque. Towns along the line opposed the move citing economic losses and junking of equipment. No final action had been taken by the commission.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway
Bellevue
Cascade
R. R. Molster
Dubuque
C. M. St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
Health Seal Sale Through Mail This Christmas
Holiday season calls for health seals to fund aid in rural schools and TB clinics. Previous funds bought first aid kits room thermometers milk for TB contacts dental care glasses and tonsil removals plus health charts for county schools. The sale will be conducted through the mall this year as in the past.
Mrs Anna Yossi Dies After Long Monticello Life
Mrs Anna Yossi a long time resident of Monticello died at her home Tuesday morning aged 68 years 4 months and 17 days She was born July 5 1864 in Grindelwald Canton Bern Switzerland and married Frederick Yossi in 1883 in Grindelwald They arrived in America February 1908 with seven surviving children Frederick Alfred John Jacob Emil and Emma plus Mrs Will Husman and others There are twenty one grandchildren Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 PM at the Reformed church with burial at Oak Hill Cemetery
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Anna Yossi
Monticello
Yossi
the Reformed Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Grindelwald
Canton Bern
Switzerland
Frederick Yossi
America
Adolph
Emil
John Enabait
Frederick
Manchester
Alfred
Will Husman
Coggon
John
Jacob
Emma
Monroe
Wis
Shimanek to Open Law Practice in Monticello
Charles F. Shimanek son of F. H. Shimanek of Oxford Junction will locate in Monticello to practice law. He studied at Columbia College Dubuque and the University of Oregon Eugene earning a three year law degree and was admitted to the Iowa bar in Des Moines. His office will be on the second floor of George Stuhler's Sons Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Shimanek
F. H. Shimanek
Oxford Junction
Monticello
Shimanek
Columbia College
Dubuque
University of Oregon
Eugene
Oregon
College of Liberal Arts
Iowa
Des Moines
George Stuhler's Sons Company
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Lucile Schweitzer
Lucile Huibregtse
Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Carl Staples
Tom Sawyer
Mary Jane Veitch
Arline Balster
Eunice Howland
Phyllis Anderson
Yola Rodman
Ruth Roberts
May Sharp
Delores Lubben
Norma Reyner
Geraldine Schneider
James Guler
Bobby Eggers
Marguerite Bader
Wanda Podhaski
Paul Harford
Mary Hanssen
James Wright
William Fitzsimons
Jackie Beeks
Lester Collins
Carl R. Behre
Cass
Mount Vernon
Anearaeesence
Tipton Power
Anamosa Est
Libe Een
University High Monticello
Burgess
West
West Branch
L. Schoon
Nesses
Moots
Baker
Erementenedes RT. Yeoman
Ebert
Tipton
Lewis
West Liberty
HB. Chimacher
U. High Ricketts
Pasenseersee
Kilmo
Oes Oe Keith
UT. Waters
Simmonda
Eeaven Moore
Ten Nvas Nesenseel Rarick
U. High
RT. Hartung
Harnor
C-17
U.S. Naval Training Station
Jim Laude
Express
Fortune Finders
C. F. Shimanek
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