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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1947
Page
6
Monticello Rotary Club held a Ladies Night dinner in the Community building auditorium with about 200 guests from Anamosa Mount Vernon and Lisbon. 4-H items and a musical program were part of the evening with Rotary songs and vaudeville acts entertaining guests.
The women’s adult homemaking program holds its first meeting at the public school in the home making rooms on Monday evening, October 27, at 7 30. The Crafts Are Fun lesson titled Dress It Up With Textile Paints will be taught by Miss Esther Nicoll, vocational homemaking teacher at the high school. Members should bring safety edge razor blade pencil paste brush waxed paper cloth energing and a rag.
The county treasurer issued licenses last week listing vehicles and owners in several towns. Entries include 1947 Ford associated with Edwin McAleer Anamosa and 1947 IHC truck linked to Walter E. Vargason Wyoming among others.
The district clerk in Anamosa issued licenses last week to August Katz of Milwaukee Wisconsin and Joan Dolan of Anamosa and to Paul E Paulsen 21 of Scotch Grove and Evelyn Schoon 16 of Martelle.
The past week at John McDonald hospital reports three births. Wallace Nehl and wife of Hopkinton welcomed a girl on Oct 17. Ad Bowers and wife of Monticello welcomed a boy on Oct 20. George Bohlken and wife of Monticello welcomed a girl on Oct 21.
Miss Gladys Skelley of Monticello was elected secretary of a new organization for women department editors of farm papers. The Chicago meeting last Saturday brought together 15 editors. Louise F. Roote, Capper's Weekly Topeka, Kansas, was named president. Iris Davenport of the Southern Agriculturalist National Pen, vice president. Mabel Senior of the Dakota Farmer Aberdeen, S D, treasurer. Skelley now serves as Prairie Farmer’s women's editor and previously edited the Monticello Express and held posts in Muscatine Town City and Cedar Rapids. she also worked with the Iowa Farm Bureau Farmer news staff.
The Second District of the Department of Iowa Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary will hold a meeting in DeWitt on Sunday October 24 at 1 30 p m. Mary Catherine Craige district vice president Jean Echternacht chaplain and Olive A Lyon music will attend all members are welcome to join and those with room are asked to invite others to attend
Anamosa Iowa Izaak Walton League chapter hosts its second annual conservation essay contest for Jones county students. Eligibility covers fifth to eighth grade class B and ninth to twelfth grade class A with topics on soil conservation wildlife management woodland song birds and fish management. Essays must be 300 to 500 words. Prizes include cameras radios pens and $1 awards for class A and similar prizes for class B. Essays mailed to William J Fisher Anamosa Iowa.
The Jones County Schoolmasters club met October 15 at the Olin public school for a chicken dinner hosted by Lutheran ladies. Guests included spouses, the county board of education, and the music department gave a program. Dr. M. L. Cushman of Iowa State College spoke on School District Reorganization, outlining a county survey through December and plans to coordinate with local districts.
R A Miller of Earlville buys the Shaffer Implement store in Monticello. Ownership changes November 1 and the store becomes Miller's in the same building. Miller has run farm machinery businesses for 15 years in Manchester Independence Earlville and will consider a larger building and warehouse in the future. He plans to live in Earlville until Monticello housing is found. He has three daughters Marilyn Linda Lou and Carol Jean. Shaffer, long an International Harvester agent in Monticello, will stay to oversee farming interests and continue residence with Mrs Shaffer.
Des Moines based Rev. Yvonn A Bruce assistant director of the Lutheran Welfare Society of Iowa will discuss the society welfare work at Wayne Zion Lutheran Church on Sunday October 26 at 8 p.m. He will also present the society's latest sound film Come Unto Me Pastor F Kehren invites the general public to attend and view the film this Sunday.
Wade Ernest Long a Monticello merchant since 1935 died October 17 at University hospital Town City after a short illness. Funeral services were held October 20 at the Methodist church in Monticello with Rev. Porter and Rev. Sandbach officiating. Interment at Oakland cemetery Manchester with Masonic rites. Survived by wife Jane Smith daughter Ruth son Richard Long and Beatrice Long five grandchildren two sisters and a brother.
The Kay Drug Store in Monticello owned by Eugene DeWitt was struck by a cellar fire at 2 45 yesterday morning. A motor and a compressor ignited smoke filled the cellar and damaged wallpaper and some first floor merchandise. An adjuster will inspect the damage. Bill Null, the night watchman, reported the fire to the alarm.
Miss Lillian Freese daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Freese Monticello is doing commercial art in Chicago She paints a Hawaiian mural for a Chicago company the mural is 40 feet long After Monti high in 1943 she attended Cornell college Mount Vernon for two years then studied at the Vogue school in Chicago before turning to commercial work
Louis Hanken of Scotch Grove was elected president of the Jones County Farm Bureau at its 31st annual meeting in the Wyoming high school gym. He is a farmer and auctioneer. New officers include Ed Helgens vice president Allen Chatterton secretary J E Porter treasurer Truman Stanton voting delegate Mrs Co Brown women’s voting delegate and Mrs F D Deischer women’s county chairman. About 250 members attended as Otis Tuttle of Norway spoke on his Europe Town Farm Bureau tour.
Tom Day of Ahamosa, 27, was seriously injured in a late Tuesday crash on Highway 64 two miles east of Anamosa. His car hit a culvert, overturned, and Day was thrown into the windshield suffering severe facial cuts and possible concussion. He was rushed to Mercy hospital Anamosa where doctors operated. his condition was listed as critical.
The October Parent Teacher meeting is set for 8 oclock in the Junior High assembly room. A program on Foundations for a Better Family Life is planned by Mrs Harold Wilcox Rev Andrew Mast Tom Hamilton and Ray Adams. Refreshments will be served in the Homemaking rooms by several listed hostesses. All interested in school activities are invited.
A school program is being planned for Cass No 6 school tomorrow evening at 8 pm. Cass No 6 school is also known as Frog Hollow-8¢.
Gov. Robert Blue announced that Louis B. Hofer, 36, an Anamosa reformatory inmate, will be executed by hanging at Fort Madison State Prison at 7 45 am on December 10. The death sentence follows a 1946 murder conviction linked to the slaying of John H. Hinz. The supreme court denied Hofer's appeal this summer.
Charles Metcalf 14 son of Mr and Mrs H C Metcalf Anamosa was injured last week when while training a fox his .22 rifle discharged striking the little toe of his left foot The toe was amputated at Mercy Hospital Stookey Rife and Don Peet accompanied him to the hospital and aided in the incident.
A banquet for more than 140 hardware men from Eastern Iowa counties featured M. B. Graham of Jackson Michigan delivering a sales training talk titled Its Fun To Be A Salesman. The event, sponsored by the Iowa Retail Hardware association, plus reports on public relations and welcome remarks from Mayor Clarence J. Matthiessen, highlighted industry pep and community ties.
The Frank Anderson and Son sale at Onslow grossed 22000 covering cattle machinery and feed. The farm of 275 acres was not sold at October 3 auction but privately for 54000. Auctioneer Louie Hanken with Wilbur Colby reported prices for tractors corn oats and hay among other items.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Lubben welcomed a son named Robert born October 11 at Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids. Mrs Lubben was Betty Day before her marriage.
Judge Floyd Philbrick heard two default judgments totaling 315.59 in cases Montgomery Ward Inc vs Frank Hudrick Jr and Otto G Brokaw vs Leon Ward Minnie Ward. State of Iowa vs Willard J Clay was dismissed. new OMVI case Millard Ervin Wells arose after a preliminary hearing. Ruth Sampson vs Jess Sampson seeks divorce and household goods. Flora Bowers vs Mary Jane Molloy asks quiet title. Lloyd Chestmore seeks return of a restrained cow and $50 damages.
Mrs. Ed Hicks of Monticello hosted her grandson Charles S. Hicks of Detroit who flew with a friend to Iowa and spent three hours with his grandmother and uncle Lowell Hicks in Seattle. Hicks gave his uncle his first plane ride leaving from Monticello airport.
Dr. Paul W. Brechler, athletic director at the University of Town, speaks next Wednesday evening at the public school in Monticello. The event, free to the public, includes color pictures of the last Iowa football game and is hosted by the local Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Monticello marching band and director Ray Stumbaugh earned second place in class B at the state contest held in Postville after competing at Ottumwa Audubon Pocahontas. Georgia Pluger won first in baton twirling class BCD, with Roma Houit also placing second. the group performed an impromptu Outdoor concert on First Street upon return.
Helgens Brothers held a Poland China hog sale six miles southeast of Monticello on October 6. They offered 40 head at boats and 15 head of gifts sired by Iowa Pride Tops and Revelation out of sows sired by Warrior Mator and Hero. Boars averaged 130 dollars and gifts 90 dollars. High boar sold for 505 dollars to Rueff Bros West Liberty. Three boars were sold to California buyers with buyers from several states present.
Henry Tobiason shows an Angus fat steer in the Royal American stack show at Kansas City this week. His son George drives to Jones County Fair where the 4-11 baby beef champion also is an Angus. Attending judges include Henry Tobiason and fellow exhibitors George Rickels Russ Jamieson Harold Severn and Ross Baty.
Milton Peterson of Wilmot South Dakota accepts a position as an operator printer on the Express. He and his wife and two year old daughter reside in the Jetta Rickless house now owned by Rev. Harry Morrow of Winthrop.
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