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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1961
Page
2
The Oxford Junction church, dedicated Oct 12, marks 100 years with 22 pastors in service and a 1961 name change to St. Mark's Lutheran. Pastors include W A Wolgemuth (1914–1940) and E A Piper since 1958, as the congregation entered a new century.
December activities include drawings for prizes a free kids movie at Monte Theatre with King of the Wild Stallions on December 9 and 2 showings. Santa visits December 16 around 1 p.m. Messiah concert December 10 at Central School. Stores stay open evenings from December 11. Electric grid expansion links Stony Point Cedar Rapids centers boosting capacity to 50 60 megawatts with a 125 000 kilowatt unit planned for 1966. Continuous feed to towns like Monticello DeWitt Maquoketa and nearby rural areas from Cedar Rapids Waterloo Clinton or Dubuque.
Junior high and senior high mixed choruses perform numbers along with small groups and soloists. The combined girls and boys glee club will present Song of Christmas, the Nativity story. Coleen Taylor directs 180 participating students.
Monticello Community High School bands will give their first concert of the season at 8 p.m. Thursday December 7 at Central School. The 89 piece senior high band directed by Ray Stumbaugh includes students from freshmen to seniors, while 70 junior high members led by Dick Brickley rehearse a varied program from classical to popular tunes. Also noted is attendance by Claude Hamlin and Dave Hanzlik at the Iowa county engineers meeting at Iowa State University November 27-29.
A 1961 McCormick Deering crawler with Drott dozer leads a long list of farm equipment for sale at around 12 30 p m along with many tractors including McCormick Deering models 340 350 M TA H C with attachments John Deere models A and A A 1 and B common Oliver Allis Chalmers Massey Harris Case Farmall Minn Moline ZTU and other gear such as plows disks balers and sub soilers Many items priced for parts or repair and in varying conditions.
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