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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1937
Page
5
The Jones county district court opened for the regular November term at Anamosa with Judge F. O. Ellison presiding. Cases slated for the petit jury run through December 3, with numerous debt and divorce actions on the docket and probate matters including guardianships and will probates being finalized. Several estates see final reports and executors discharged.
Dr. R. A. Moye 48 a state employed veterinarian in Manchester died by suicide with a shotgun at his home Monday night. His children Jane 16 and Jack 14 were upstairs. wife away in Ames. No note or reason found. Moye led bovine tuberculosis eradication in six eastern Iowa counties. World War veteran prominent in lodge work.
During the week at John McDonald Hospital patients admitted include Mrs Leona Broderson Onslow Mrs Mary Poppe Anamosa Mia s Katherine Young and Mrs Gladys Black Amber. Babies born to Mr and Mrs Paul Chapmen Coeneeh.
Jones County Bar Association endorsed an integrated bar plan after a noon dinner in Anamosa. The resolution, led by President Hen Rhinehart, passed unanimously and asks the Iowa Supreme Court to establish a governing code. It marks Jones County as the 63rd county to approve the proposal.
Jones County reports 365 pensioners in October receiving 5 306 dollars, average 14.78 per recipient. State office pending applications at month end 7 175. October saw 1 606 new approvals, total statewide pensioners 43 018, with 674 881 dollars paid and an average monthly payment of 15.93.
Horace Brutsman 65 and his daughter Ethel of Martelle were taken to Mercy hospital Anamosa recovering from injuries after a Sunday automobile accident at the G McPherson farm. Their car hitched to the rear of the McPherson car lurched forward pinning them between the vehicles. Brutsman suffered broken legs and Ethel a fractured leg and wrist.
Miss Naomi L. Maloney daughter of Mr and Mrs Everett J Maloney of Dewitt and William J Hobert son of Mr and Mrs A H Hobert of Monticello were married in Davenport last Thursday at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage officiated by Rev Young. The couple were attended by Mr and Mrs Harold Hobert of Davenport.
Workers at the Franklin Equipment Company in Monticello rejected joining the Committee for Industrial Organization by a 6 to 1 margin after voluntary meetings. Workers had been approached for more than two weeks, but the majority preferred to remain nonunion with current pay and factory conditions.
The 1937 Christmas Seal sale starts in Monticello with seals mailed Monday November 29. The Jones county drive aims to fund health programs and tuberculosis fight, led by county chair Mrs T E Watters and local leaders Mrs R G Staniler and Mrs Halstead Carpenter oversee Monticello sales.
Actual construction on Cornell's Armstrong Hall of Fine Arts at Mount Vernon is finished by Max Mildenstein of Cedar Rapids. Interior painting proceeds while a 408 seat little theater will be installed in December by Ideal Seating of Grand Rapids. The building committee let the contract after seven bids. Distinctive coloring features rose buff walls blue seat upholstery and a gray stage curtain.
Alfred Remley and Earl Larson received a $280.97 check from the Chicago Live stock Commission for cattle stolen and shipped to Chicago last summer. John Watters allegedly took seven head from the Remley farm, shipped them, and used his own name to sell them. Watters received a sentence up to five years at Fort Madison. Jack Whitley, whose farm yielded the cattle, is serving an indeterminate term up to five years at Anamosa men’s reformatory.
The event lists noon street clown entertainment and a 2 30 p m Santa arrival with bells. At 2 40 p m the Junior Chamber of Commerce president welcomes Santa on the platform. Santa speaks at 2 45 p m. Local child performers at 3 00 p m. The Dog Wedding with scenic effects at 3 10 p m and Wonder Dog Aerialist at 3 25 p m. Gifts to children at 3 45 to 4 00 p m. Santa visits hospitals and bedridden people at 4 00 p m. A 7 30 p m sound bus broadcast by the local choir on Monticello streets.
The Older Boys and Girls conference of Jones county churches met in Monticello at Congregational and Presbyterian churches last Tuesday. Delegates numbered 82 for daytime sessions and 88 at the banquet. Mary Louise Yount was elected president with David Gray as vice president and Dorothy Felter as secretary. The day featured talks on Christian home life and leadership, with music, group discussions, and a closing banquet at the Presbyterian church.
The first state trial before a petit jury next Monday will be Charles Warrington, who escaped from Anamosa reformatory and was recaptured this fall. He faces a trial over allegations of striking a guard and fleeing in an automobile owned by another guard. Earlier, Thomas Gillilan pled guilty and received a five year sentence added to his existing term. Justice Boss McIntyre handled two other criminal matters this week, as Glen Aldrich pled guilty to passing bad checks and faces four months in jail for over eighty dollars in Monticello.
A Manchester horse importer Gus Steffens lost a three year old Belgian stallion valued at 2000 with partial insurance reimbursement. Linn county merchants faced warnings about illegal prize drawings linked to sales. Ray Urban and his brother were arrested in Dyersville for theft. older brother jailed 15 days, younger paroled. Gerald Haberman and Raymond McCormick, previously given life terms for the Handfelt murder, were released from prison and parole status terminated by the governor.
A Monticello rumor says the Calmar to Cedar Rapids jitney line may be replaced by a steam train carrying a sleeping car from Marquette to Kansas City. If true the change could occur before January 1 and gives Monticello residents a north or south sleeping car outlet, reviving past Milwaukee Road accommodations that ended years ago.
County Clerk Lee Byerly issued seven marriage licenses since last report with four granted Saturday. Couples include Donald Keating 21 and Marion Wolfe 21 of Cascade. Lawrence Cornin 24 and Florence Davis 22 of Janesville. Gerald Ales 32 of Lost Nation and Blanche Nowachek 20 of Oxford Junction. Albert Heeren 31 of Monticello and Luella Aman 24. Marylien McCormick 21 of Suia and Dean Tucker 24 of Onslow. Charles Howard Brown 34 and Louise Mudlik 29, both of Chicago.
Anamosa region sees Jim Morrissey opening a John Deere implement sales room and shop in the Metcalf building on North Ford street in December. Ray Schlemmer of Cascade assists, with Joslin handling repairs at the site. A large farm sale at the Joe Fairbanks farm nine miles north of Anamosa is planned for December 2.
Slushy melt followed by freezing iced over roads causing two weekend accidents. A. J. H. Mc Neill lost control on First street hill and struck Bill Rickels of Castle Grove, causing about 50 dollars in damage. Earlier John Eden of Monticello and Paul Paulsen of Onslow collided on a hill near Scotch Grove with minor damage.
The next session of the public school evening classes will be held December 1 at 7 30 P M The topic will be the Spanish situation discussed by Mr Grimes and Kenneth Fuller The meeting this week covered the situation in Russia The classes are popular and well attended by both men and women Encouragement to attend is issued for those who have not yet been present
The County Treasurer's office will issue new automobile license plates starting December 1 1938. This year's plates feature a white background with dark blue numbers, reversing last year's color scheme.
Jones county officials invite youths to apply for CCC enrollment in January 1938 at Anamosa Court House. Eligibility includes US citizenship, 17 to 23 years old, unmarried, unemployed, not in school, and able to deposit or allot $22 monthly. Reentry eligibility requires honorable discharge or six months since discharge.
Queen Esther group of the Methodist Episcopal church visited Marion last Sunday for a Davenport district rally. The event opened at 2 30 PM with Mrs. R C Jarrell of DeWitt presiding. Guest speaker was Mrs. Cora Downs Stevens, national promotional secretary. Mrs. George Woodall spoke in the evening after a 6 PM supper.
A special service will be held on Thanksgiving Day at 10 30 a m in the Reformed church all are welcome including those without a church home The message theme is The Joy of Salvation.
Judd Leggett, 30, of Anamosa, was shot in the jaw when his .12 gauge gun discharged through a wire fence. He rolled 200 yards to Frank Parks’s farm house two miles south, crawled to the county road, and died at Mercy hospital. He was unmarried and lived with his father, Henry Leggett, a guard at the Anamosa reformatory.
Dr. M F Hogan Monticello postmaster says Christmas mail will be delivered by midnight December 24. Star routes run as scheduled with no town delivery or rural window service. Special delivery perishable mail and limited holiday dispatches will be maintained for first class mail and daily papers.
Ed Lyons past president of the Dubuque Rotary club and head of Bayless Business College gave a talk on Thanks grving at Goudy’s cafe last Monday evening. Allen Klein, vice president of the Iowa Farm Bureau, will speak on the farm question next Monday night to a group of invited guests.
Rosa Sazma 98 died Friday at Mercy hospital Anamosa. Immigrant from Bohemia at age 20 she leaves three children John Sazma of Oxford Junction Catherine Holub and Rosa Fousek of Anamosa. Funeral services were held Monday at St Josephs Church Prairieburg with burial there.
A bowling alley moves into the former Schultz Brothers department store building owned by Wm. G. Schoon. Four regulation lanes with duck pins will be installed by Packard Bowling Association’s chief mechanic of Marshalltown and Fred Storer will manage. Opening is planned soon.
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