04 Sep 1969
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1969
Page
1
Planned remodeling and a 5 086 square foot addition will triple workroom space at the Monticello post office. Construction bids are set for October 2 with work beginning next spring in temporary quarters at 232 East First Street while brick exterior and new loading dock are built.
Births listed from McDonald hospital include a Worthington boy for Mr and Mrs Richard Polter and a Monticello boy for Mr and Mrs Marvin Goldsmith on Aug 27. Sept 2 notes a Farley boy for Mr and Mrs Dwight Taylor. Coralville adds an Aug 26 eight pound girl for Mr and Mrs Ed Otten with siblings and grandparents named. Marriage licenses issued to several couples including Mayberry McAtee Behrends Gatewood Hale Morris Ackerman and First. New cars and trucks registered include multiple residents of Anamosa Monticello Oxford Junction and surrounding areas.
Sheriff Ralph Albaugh and deputies Arnold Latuska Evelyn McClurg welcome Tom Walderbach to the New Jones County Sheriff’s Department. Walderbach, a native of Anamosa, began duties September 1 and will work with Latuska in Monticello and Clerk McClurg in Anamosa.
Minor injuries reported in five weekend accidents across Jones county. A Monticello youth named Mark Allen Stark escaped injury when his 1961 Renault rolled on Amber road near Monticello, leaving the car a total loss. In Wapsipinicon state park, two teens sustained minor injuries when their car failed to control on the upper road. A 1969 Chevrolet driven by John Walter Haigh faced an OMI charge after striking a rock planter and hitting a tree. A chain reaction collision near the Morley turn-off caused no injuries.
School elections in the Express area set for Monday September 8 polls open 12 noon to 7 pm Four candidates contest two Monticello Community school board seats Incumbent Dr C R Hosford seeks District 2 seat opponent Lavern Lambert new entrant in public office Also listed two parents Mrs Elmer Jacobs among readable lines
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