Licensed vehicles processed by Don Ruhl county treasurer
The weekly licensing list from Don Ruhl, county treasurer, includes Harold J. Rumple and others with a variety of 1947 models such as GMC pickups, Willys jeep, Frazer Manhattan, THC trucks, and house trailers. The notice also covers names like Raymond Erickson, Monticello, and Anamosa Locker Service with multiple Monticello entries. The Lions club met at Monty cafe celebrating 30th anniversary. Rev. Wm. J. Grossheim presided. LeRoy Schoon joined. H. E. Stingley and Rev. Andrew Mast attended. Home Making Night School plans for November 3 with project painting and supplies discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Ruhl
Harold J. Rumple
Martello
Chevrolet
Raymond James
Stuart Hoag
Monticello
Frazer
Monticello Lions Club
Monty’ Cafe
Wm. J. Grossheim
Lions
Leslie Linn
LeRoy Schoon
Ray Naylor
H. E.stingley
Center Junction
Andrew Mast
United Nations
Five births reported at John McDonald hospital
Five births announced for the past week at John McDonald hospital. The list includes a boy born Oct 25 to Mr and Mrs Leo McGrane of Earlville, a boy born Oct 26 to Mr and Mrs Joseph Helly of Dyersville, a girl born Oct 27 to Mr and Mrs Henry Pfath of Bernard, and a partial entry for Oct 28 with unclear details regarding the parents and location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McDonald Hospital
Leo McGrane
Earlville
Joseph Helly
Dyersville
Henry Pfath
Bernard
Pilliam
Ehits
Marriages Reported From District Clerk Office
The past week saw marriage licenses issued for Abe Hamed 30 and LaVonna Starry 19 of Cedar Rapids, Donald R. Willimott 24 and Loretta Kepler 22 of Cedar Rapids, Kenneth J. Kinyon 25 of Tipton and Donna McDonald 17 of Olin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Abe Hamed
LaVonna Starry
Cedar Rapids
Donald R. Willimott
Loretta Kepler
Kenneth J. Kinyon
Tipton
Donna McDonald
Olin
Richardson Appoints Manager of Local Appliance Department
Victor Richardson was named the new manager of the Appliance Department at H. and S. Tire and Appliance. Announcement by Howard Struve and Paul Hearn noting they recently bought Clark Brothers Tire and Appliance. Richardson, long associated with Clark Brothers, will oversee the entire appliance section. Store now displays General Electric appliances alongside Christmas toys and decorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Richardson
H. & S. Tire and
Howard Struve
Paul Hearn
Clark Brothers Tire
Richardson
Clark Brothers
General Electric
Dale Hein Leads In Rodent Contest
Dale Hein, freshman son of Carl Hein, leads in the Monticello FFA Rodent Contest with 7,900 points. He lists 116 pigeons, 198 sparrows, 3 starlings, and 19 mice killed as the event nears Friday. Sponsor Ray Adams cautions that today’s high score does not guarantee tomorrow’s winner with some boys withholding rat counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Hein
Carl Hein
FFA
Monticello
Future Farmers of America
Hein
Ray Adams
Sheriff Henry Eichhorn Installs Police Radio in Anamosa Office
The Anamosa sheriff installs a police radio linked to the Maquoketa station to relay accident and drunken driving reports. Highway patrol cars also have two way radios for rapid scene summons and information sharing across the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry. Eichhorn
Anamosa
Maquoketa
Delegates Attend District Meeting in DeWitt
Members of Monti Post 1683 Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary attended the Second District gathering in DeWitt on Sunday. District Chaplain Jean Echternacht led the obligation for 24, with Mrs. Craig and Mrs. Lyon in junior vice president and musician roles. Major Robert Wray of Cedar Rapids Post 788 shared experiences as a Bataan prisoner during the banquet. The next meeting is planned for Anamosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary
DeWitt
Mary Catherine Craig
Jean Echternacht
Myrtle Bogs
Clarence Rhatigan
Fred Kreeb
Harry N. Lyon
Vernon Steiner
Ray Echternacht
Craig
Lyon
Myrtle Ross
Department of
Schick, General Hospital
Clinton
Robert Wray
Cedar Rapids
Bataan
Anamosa
Mrs. Frank Howie Dies in Los Angeles
The obituary notes the death of Mrs. Frank Howie of Monticello and Castle Grove in Los Angeles California on October 12 after a brief heart attack. She left a husband nine children twelve grandchildren and nine great grandchildren with siblings Charles Hogg Warren Hogg and Harvey Hogg. The family’s long residence included Delaware county Indiana and later moves to Kansas and California. Burial was at Englewood Park cemetery in Los Angeles with Marines as pallbearers. her grandson served in the Marines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Howie
Los Angeles
Calif
Englewood Park Cemetery
Armed Forces
Howie
James
Emma
Berlin
Hogg Howie
Hoge
Delaware
Hopkinton
Frank’, Howie
Monticello
Robert Howie
Castle Grove Township
Peniel Presbyterian Church
Castle Grove
Hays
Kan
Salina
Kansas
Hazel Gillilan
Cedar Rapids
Harold Howie
Kansas City
Vida Buckley
Morrell
Ethel Himebaugh
el Paso
Texas
Mildred Anderson
Denver
Colo
James Howie
Chapman
Naomi Cameron
Dorothy Dawson
Faye Mikels
Charles Hogg
Warren Hogg
Laramie
Wyn
Harvey Hogg
Longmont
Mille
Pete Hall Jr Receives Iowa Highway Patrol Appointment
Pete Hall Jr of Monticello has joined the Iowa highway patrol and has worked since September 9. He is stationed in Cedar Falls performing driver's license examinations and expects a patrol car by November 1 before being assigned to the Guttenberg division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete” Hall, Jr
Monticello
Iowa Highway Patrol
Cedar Falls
State Department
Guttenberg
Hall
Vna
John Warner Leases Clark Bros. Station
John Warner takes over the Sinclair Oil station on East First Street formerly leased by Clark Brothers. He has run it for Clark Brothers for eight months and will continue to offer the same high quality service and stock the same products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinclair Oil
East First Street
Clark Brothers
John Warner
Énee
Warner
Onslow Man Heads Jones County Schoolmasters Club
Walter Wagner of Onslow is named president of the Jones County Schoolmasters Club. He succeeds GaP Warford with Richard M. Speas of Wyoming as vice president and Joseph A. Bare of Anamosa as secretary. The group also announces a unity boys basketball tournament at Anamosa and a journey to Oxford Junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter
Wagner
Onslow
Jones County Schoolmasters’ Club
Gap
Warford
Olin
Richard M
Speas
Wyoming
Joseph
A. Bare
Anamosa
Jones
Unity
Ben F. Eilers Buried Today
Benjamin F. Eilers, longtime Monticello resident, died October 28 after a long illness. Funeral services were held at Goettsch Funeral Home with Rev. Roy V. Porter officiating. Interment followed at Oakwood Cemetery. He leaves wife Virginia Tuel and nine children, including Mrs. Harry Hoag and Mrs. Margaret Tuetken, plus two brothers, twelve grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F. Eilers
Monticello
Goettsch Fneral
Roy V. Porter
Oakwood Cemetery
Mr. Eilers
Frank
Glenn
Carl
Vincent
Harry
Clarence Eilers
Eilers
Renk
Maria Harris Eilers
Virginia Tuel
Harry Hoag
Margaret
Tuetken
Dewey
Rhardgan
Clarence
Song
Center Junction
Harold
Vernon Eilers
Barney Eilers
Alvan Eilers
Monticelio
Rev Burdine To Speak At Brotherhood Meeting
The Wayne Zion Brotherhood hosts its monthly meeting Monday November 3 at 8 p.m. at the school house with guests from Woming and Oxford Junction for a Ladies Night program featuring Rev. C. E. Burdine of Anamosa Reformatory as speaker. Royal Neighbors are reminded of their fiftieth anniversary tonight with a 6 30 pot luck supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burdine
Wayne Zion Brotherhood
Brotherhoods of Wyoming
Oxford Junction
C. E. Burdine
Anamosa
Frederick Kehren
Bands To Present Halftime Program At West Liberty Game
More than 100 Monticello high school instrumental music students join forces under Ray Stumbaugh for a halftime show at the West Liberty football game Friday evening. The program includes Indian dance by seventh graders, a Virginia reel to Dixie, Highland Fling by Marjorie Luett, waltz by Carlene Winkler and Jimmy Vernon, and seventh grade jitterbug. Dances directed by Mrs. Delmar Cram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Rieniers
Monti High
Monticello
Mount Vernon
Joan Morning
Jean. Lois. Barnts
Marjorie Paulsen
Carlene Winkler
Joan Ireland
Rose Maire
Monticello High School
West Liberty
Ray Stumbaugh
Marjorie Luett
Jimmy . Vernon
Delmar Cram
Mrs Grace Grover Etten Dies at Home Near Monticello
Mrs Grace Maria Grover Etten of Lowell Grae near Monticello died at home on Tuesday. Funeral services are set for Friday at 2 PM at the Congrega tional church with Rev. Andrew Mast officiating and Oakwood cemetery interment. She was born June 25, 1903, daughter of Ira and Josephine Grover, married to Charles Etten April 25, 1930, and survived by her husband, two daughters Delores Mae and Carlene Rose, two sons Eugene Herman and Carl Ervin, her mother, two sisters Mrs Adolph Kernen and Mrs Aubrey Appleby, and a brother William Grover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Etten
Lowell Grae
Monticello
the Congregational Church
Andrew Mast
Oakwood Cemetery
Etten
Grace Maria Grover
Ira
Josephine Starks Grover
Kenneth Kray Hurt in Cass Township Car Crash
Kenneth Kray, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Henry Kray of Cass township, is confined with a fractured hip and leg after a car accident. His brother Ed Kray was a passenger during the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Kray
Henry Kray
Cass Township
Ed Kray
4-H Officers to Attend District Training in Anamosa
State 4-H staff will lead a one day training for county officers at the Quality cafe Anamosa on Tuesday November 4 at 9 am Delaware Dubuque Jackson Clinton counties will send committees with boys and girls leaders and county 4-H officers. A fun for all party is planned for 7 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quality Cafe
Anamosa
Delaware
Dubuque
Jackson
Clinton
Mrs John Maloney Buried in Monticello Friday
Funeral services for Elizabeth Katharine Propst Maloney were held at Sacred Heart church Waterloo with Rev. Eugene Lorenz and Msgr. Edward Doughtry presiding. The widow of John Maloney, she died October 22 in Waterloo after a brief illness and is survived by a son Everett J. Maloney and several grandchildren, sisters, and brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Maloney
Sacred ‘Heart Cemetery
Monticello
Eugene Lorenz
Elizabeth Katherine Propst
Monmouth
Town
Maquoketa
Maloney
Canton
Fort Dodge
Anamosa
Waterloo
Everett J. Maloney
Sterling, NL
William Hobert
Vincent Kane
DeWitt
Lydia Crawford
Sedgwick
Kane
Emma Garnett
Onslow
Daniel “Propst
Lewiston
Mont
Sampel
Propst
Jake
Roy Propst
Wyoming
Iowa
Young Farmers Meet In New Quarters
Fifteen members of the Young Farmers organization meet in the basement of the Masonic Temple for the first time. President Lawrence Rieken calls the session to order as the group discusses European food conditions and current farm programs before Congress. Vocational Agriculture Director Ray Adams reports on findings from a Iowa farmers European tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Farmers Organization
Masonic Temple
Lawrence Rieken
Congress
Ray Adams
Iowa
Europe
Heman Hoffman Sterns Erection of Gas Station
Werman Hoffman broke ground on the lot north of his home on South Main street for a combined restaurant filling station and truck stop. He aims to rush construction and enclose the building before winter weather. The cellar is dug and water and sewer mains are being installed.
Campaign Opens to Raise Funds for Iowa Children's Home Society
Jones county residents are asked to contribute 1200 toward 165000 project statewide in November. Mrs. James Hollar and Billie Frazer chair this effort with regional leaders Mrs. Mural Cass and Mrs. Francis Turner. Kickoff dinner is November 3 at the Grill cafe Anamosa at 7 p.m. The Iowa Children’s Home Society, founded in 1888, places children in foster homes instead of institutions and oversees a Des Moines receiving home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Iowa
Children’s Home Society
James Hollar
Billie Frazer
Anamosa
Mural Cass
Grill Cafe
Francis Turner
Corning
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
Monticello
Iowa Children’s Home Society
Cass
Hollar
Des Moines
Adam Scheer Dies At Marshalltown
Adam Scheer died at Marshalltown on Tuesday October 21 at his daughter Edna Wendling’s home after a long illness. Funeral services were held Friday October 24 at Wayne Zion Lutheran church with Rev. John Willis officiating. Interment followed at the church cemetery. Survived by three children Henry Scheer West Branch Harm Scheer Marion and Edna Wendling Marshalltown plus many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mrs Herman Helgens and Mrs George Folkerts sang at the service conducted by Rev Willms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Scheer
Marshalltown
Edna Wendling
Wayne Zion Lutheran Church
John Willis
Scheer
Henry Scheer
Parent Teacher Meeting Opens Year With Noted Program
The first Parent Teacher meeting of the year was held Thursday evening with Mrs. S. J. Rhatigan presiding. A program on Building Foundations for a Better Family Life followed, with panelists Mrs. Harold Wilcox Rev, Andrew Mast, Tom Hamilton and Ray Adams. Lunch was served in Home Making rooms by hostesses listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J. Rhatigan
Harold Wilcox
Andrew Mast
Tom Hamilton
Ray Adams
Howard Shelley
J. W. Nelson
Victor Mowrey
Ray Schoon
Harley Stoneking
Hog Law Suit Heard By Court
Judge Floyd Philbrick's court dismissed the suit LaVerne Nagel and Roy Nagel vs. Leo Aldrich with the plaintiffs paying costs after evidence showed the hog breach and alleged cruelty. defendant denied striking or causing death. State of Iowa vs. Millard Erven Wells pled guilty to operating while intoxicated, fined 300 dollars plus costs, license suspended 60 days, with payment plan. State Patrolman John Beckman filed the information on Ivan Louis Flemming OMVI after a preliminary hearing. bond set at 300 dollars, bound over to the Jones county grand jury. Schreiner chapter Order of Eastern Star meets Nov 3 with initiatory degree for two candidates and a Grand chapter report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Philbrick
LaVerne Nagel
Roy Nagel
Leo Aldrich
Philbrick
State of Iowa
Millard Erven Wells
Wells
Ivan Louis Flemming
OMVI
Ross McIntyre
Justice of the Peace
Jones County Grand Jury
John Beckman
Harlan Russell Recalls European Farm Tour
Harlan Russell told the Monticello Rotary Club about a 22‑farmer Iowa Farm Bureau delegation that flew to England on September 1 then toured Ireland France Switzerland Belgium and Germany. He described cramped conditions in planes war remnants in Le Havre and Paris, wartime scenes in Germany, and interest in American machinery. The trip ended with a Cedar Rapids arrival after visiting Antwerp Brussels and Luxembourg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlan Russell
Anamosa
Monticello
Paris
Russell
Maurice Ville
Lynn Hull
U. S
Belgium
Antwerp
United States
Holland
Brussels
Ireland
Newfoundland
New York
Cedar Rapids
Monticello School Moves Agriculture Dept to Masonic Temple
The Vocational Agriculture Department of Monticello Public Schools moved to the Masonic Temple building with classes in session. The new layout includes a redecorated basement, a U shaped study desk for 24, and a magazine rack with 15 publications. Lunch service plans anticipate feeding over 200 students at 25 cents per meal once the hot lunch program opens. Two clubs meet in the basement room while Frank Walker leads the Veterans Farm Training program and the Young Farmers group convenes weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vocational Agriculture Department
Monticello Public Schools
Masonic Temple
Burns Lodge No. 173
Monticello School Board
Boyd Shannon
Masonic Kitchen
Vocational Agriculture
Ray Adams
Adams
Frank Walker
Veterans
Young Farmers Group
Monticello Sits In Conference Cellar As Standings Set
The Monticello Panthers hold last place in the conference with four losses. West Liberty leads with three wins and no losses, Tipton and West Branch close behind, University High sits at .500, and Mount Vernon trails with one win and four losses. Friday games include DeWitt at Mount Vernon and Tipton at University High.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Panthers
West Liberty
Tipton
West Branch
University
Mount Vernon
Monticello
DeWitt
High West Liberty
Williamsburg
Eastern Iowa Press Members Meet in Anamosa
Newspaper association members will hold a district meeting tomorrow afternoon at the Hotel Iowan in Anamosa. Attending Iowa newspaper men include Harold Els Marengo James McCutcheon Mount Vernon C A Coxsee Monticello Charles Niles Tom Powell Anamosa Ralph Young Marion William Hart Hopkinton Del Blumenshine Cedar Rapids and Bob Burrows Belle Plaine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Iowa Press Association
Hotel Iowan
Anamosa
Iowa
Harold Els
Marengo
James McCutcheon
Mount Vernon
C. A. Coxsee
Monticello
Charles Niles
Tom Powell
Ralph Young
Marion
William Hart
Hopkinton
Del
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lions Club
Richardson Department
Sheriff's
DeWitt Conference
Clark Bros
Onslow Man
Heads Schoolmasters' Club
Ben F. Eilers
Oakwood
Heman Hoffman Sterns
Open Campaign For Children’s Home Society
Postville
Georgia Plueger
Roma Hoult
Georgia
Express Photo
O.E.S. Meeting
Schreiner Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Chicago
Constellation
Ray. Anderson
Anderson
Shannon
London
England
Scotland
Anheuser Busch
Southampton
le Havre
France
Switzerland
Germany
Geneva
Luxembourg
Maginot Line
Wartorn
Agriculture Dept
Masnoic Temple
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