This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1960
Page
2
A quarry near the Maquoketa river northeast of Morticello supplies rock for highway 151. A crusher grinds and screens rock while a large crane loads trucks with crushed rock. Water from the river provides quarries operations as storage hoppers and a concrete mix supply paving crews.
Stephen Brokens celebrated his fifth birthday at his Monticello area home with family and friends including Nancy Blair and multiple Hinrichs and Podhaski relatives. Legion Auxiliary picnic planned for Sept 12 at Lion’s shelter, potluck style.
Olin School opens its fall session on Monday September 12 at 8 p m with ten weekly meetings. Homemaking and agriculture classes meet in designated rooms and cover topics from flower arrangement to soil testing with guest topics including current farm problems and social security for families. Local bridal showers and pre nuptial courtesy events are noted along with Labor Day weekend visits. GMC seeks a volunteer for a risky stunt as chair Copley pleads for help.
Parade participants will assemble at the Presbyterian church and march down West First street to the Energy corner for judging and prize awards. A special jumping attraction is scheduled to follow the parade.
Funeral services for Mrs Rex Ricklefs are set for Friday at 2 PM at the Congregational Church with Rev A Morris Lotte officiating and interment at Oakwood Cemetery. She died Tuesday at John McDonald Hospital after months of illness. survivors include daughter Josephine and three grandchildren. Also funeral services were held for Joseph Milota, 89, at Hayden Funeral Home in Oxford Junction with burial at Mayflower Cemetery. Milota born in 1871 in Czechoslovakia came to the US in 1881. he is survived by son Lumir Milota, one granddaughter, and two great grandchildren.
Anna May Tuel and Louis George Soppe wed Monday at Sacred Heart church Monticello with Monsignor Lorenz officiating. About 350 guests attended a noon reception at the Monticello Legion hall. The couple will reside at the Intke kofer apartments after a short wedding trip.
Jones County Farm Bureau members will attend district meetings in Cedar Rapids on September 14 for national policy and legislative committees. Attendees include Fred Petersen chairing the national policy group with Dick Smith Morley William Jansen Amber Jack Felton Cascade and others. legislative group features Merle Meeks Martelle Floye Hodgdon Oxford Junction and more. membership meeting in Iowa City included Harold Calvert and others with county president William Reade.
Mrs. Otto Lasack Jones county president of the American Legion Auxiliary led a school of instruction for unit presidents and secretaries in the American Legion meeting room Tuesday evening August 30. Attendees included members from Monticello Anamosa Olin Wyoming and Oxford Junction. The Jones County American Legion and Auxiliary fall meetings are set for Anamosa Thursday evening September 15 at 8 p.m in the courthouse community room.
A Saturday open house will honor Mrs Annette Young on her 94th birth anniversary at the home of her daughter and son in law H W Schaller in Storm Lake. Mrs Young, a longtime Monticello resident, moved five years ago to be with her daughter. Attending relatives include daughters H C Metcalf of St Louis and Inez Young of Storm Lake, granddaughter Mrs Robert Kitchen and her Freeport Illinois family, grandsons George Schaller of Iowa State University and Charles Metcalf with family in Victorville California.
Mr and Mrs Don Hennessey celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a Sunday afternoon reception at their home. About 200 guests attended, hosted by the couple's six children and Deloris and Jean of Cedar Rapids. The event featured a bouquet of twenty five pink roses. The couple wed at St Johns church in Coggan and have lived in rural Monticelo since. Out of town guests came from Worthington Ryan Iowa City Hopkinton Oelwein and Manchester.
The Zumbach reunion gathered on Sunday September 4 at Monticello Park with many members listed from Zumbach and allied families. New officers were elected including Frieda Wendt as president and Paul Richardson as vice president, with plans for a Jones County American Legion and Auxiliary meeting on September 15 in Anamosa.
Sutherland, assistant cashier at the Monticello State Bank, attended grade school in Florida and spent one year in a Tennessee high school before graduating from Monticello High School. He is a Rotary member and Presbyterian elder, served on the church building committee, married with three children.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.