Births and marriages reported from local hospitals
Birth notices from John Mc Donald hospital Sept 7 list Mr and Mrs William Catlett Delhi girl. Cedar Rapids notices include Jack Mitchell first child daughter Jacqueline Sue born Sept 3 at St Luke's weighing 7 lbs 3 oz. maternal grandmother Helen Hogan Monticello. Other Cedar Rapids birth parents Jack Mitchell second son Sept 3 Mercy hospital. maternal grandparents Richard and Helen Hanken rural Monticello. Erie PA Joe Tuttle third daughter Lynn Marie born Aug 27 at Erie. siblings Dana 4 Renee 1 1/2. paternal grandparents Charles and ? Tuttle rural Monticello. Marriage licenses issued by Jones county clerk list pairs including Manternach Takes, Askam Lubben, Ricklefs Jamieson, Nissen Grant, Clark Sharon, Folkerts Wright, Douglas Gudenhauf. (con t on page A-4)
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Cedar Rapids
Jack Mitchell
St. Luke’s Hospital
Jacqueline Sue
Helen Hogan
Monticello
Marvin Frerking
Mercy Hospital
Richard Hanken
Erie
Joe Tuttle
Lynn Marie
Dana
Renee
Charles Tuttle
Jones County
Monticello area school race heats up with two contenders
Max Specht of Castle Grove announces candidacy for Monticello Community School District director opposing incumbent Bert Ballou of Wayne Township. Ballou seeks a new three year term as polling opens Monday Sept 13 from noon to 7 pm at five precincts. Specht, longtime farmer active in reorganization, has five children and past Farm Bureau leadership. Ballou, a 1959 board member and 1964 Iowa Master Farmer, is married with five children. The ballot also lists two incumbent Jones County board of education directors contesting six year terms Lesle Balster and Harro Ingwersen seeking re-election in Areas 1 and 4 respectively. Balster is sales manager for Balster Implement, involved in school reorganization, and Ingwersen has served since 1947. Midland Community district also fields three candidates Lawrence Willey and Russell Jamieson from Center Jet. con't on page A-S.
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Max Specht
Castle Grove
Monticello
Bert Ballou
Wayne Township
Peniel Presbyterian Church
Wayne Center School
Bohlken
Scotch Grove
Monticello Central School
Parish Hall
Specht
Monticello High School
Iowa State College
SS. Peter & Paul Lutheran Church
Ballou
Wayne No. 9
Balster
Harro Ingwersen
Oxford Jet
Area 1
Richland Township
Clay Townships
Ingwersen
Area 4
Madison
Wyoming
Oxford Townships
Hale Township
Balster Implement & Parts Co
Iowa State
Midland
Midland Community
Lawrence Willey
Russell Jamieson
Center Jet
Monticello Tops County in Yearly Retail Sales
Monticello stores posted eight and a half million dollars in sales for the year ending June 30 1965, topping Anamosa by nearly one million. Iowa State Tax Commission figures show local sales tax of 171402.82 and total sales of 8570141 for Monticello. Anamosa’s total sales reached 7674215 with sales tax of 153484.30. Wyoming, Olin, Oxford Jet and smaller towns contributed the rest of county figures including 42506.72 in additional tax data.
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Monticello
Anamosa
Iowa State Tax Commission
Maquoketa Valley
R.E.C
Wyoming
Olin
Oxford Jet
Mystery Monticello woman praised by Missouri fairgoer
A Springfield Missouri visitor commends the Monticello Iowa fair calling it better than many state fairs. He asks the fair to identify a Monticello woman who guided his party to the event, describing a 1957 Pontiac and a polite farewell at the Post Office.
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Monticello
Larry Robertson
Run-away youth found near city
A 17 year old from Lake City Minnesota named Daniel Prigge was found sleeping in a car behind Max Mitchell’s used car lot on highway 38 north of Monticello. Deputy Arnold Latuska said Prigge had been away from home about a week and a half before Monticello residents alerted authorities. He was held at the Jones county courthouse until his parents arrived that evening.
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Lake City
Minn
Monticello
Arnold Latuska
Daniel Prigge
Max Mitchel
Mitchell
Highway 38
Prigge
Jones County
Annexation Plea Filed by Eight Farm Families to Monticello District
Eight farm owners in Boulder township Linn county seek to join the Monticello Community school district. They currently live in Maple Grove rural district and have children attending Monticello schools with tuition paid by Maple Grove. Annexation requires Maple Grove and Monticello boards approval and Linn and Jones county board consent, with a target date before July 1 1966.
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Boulder Township
Linn County
Monticello Community
Boyd Shannon
Joseph Spersfalge
Ralph Burkel
Monticello
Maple Grove
Zumbachs
Kremers
Kintzels
Russells
Lawrences
Linn
Jones County Boards of Education
Shannon
Parallel bars debut at Shannon elementary
Sixth grader Mark Mowrey tests the new parallel bars as Mrs. Charles Stubbe guides him. The equipment, funded by the Denise Albright Memorial Fund, supports both elementary schools. Denise Albright, daughter of Darold and Darla Albright, died of leukemia last spring. Albright serves as Monticello Community High School principal.
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Shannon
Mark Mowrey
Charles Stubbe
Denise Albright
Bids Open Sept 20 for Jones County Central Park Dam Project
Public notice announces bids from contractors for the lake dam in Jones county Central park to be built this fall with a hearing and bid opening in Anamosa courthouse community room at 8 pm CST Monday Sept 20. dam to be completed by mid November with earthwork about 45000 cubic yards and a 28 foot high 650 foot long structure spanning 25 acre lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Central Park
Robert P. Hosch
Jones County Conservation Board
Anamosa
Hosch
Jones county court reports two new actions filed
In a light week in Jones county district court one civil case and one criminal case were filed. Cecil R. Farmer seeks $300 from James A. Walsh for a March 13 1965 loan. Charles Hageman of Monticello was fined for resisting an officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County District Court
Cecil R. Farmer
James A. Walsh
Farmer
Charles Hageman
Monticello
C. F. Shimanek
Justice of the Peace
Clifford Sadler
Monticello Schools Report 1965 66 Enrollment Totals
Monticello community schools enroll 1461 students for 1965 66, up 12 from last year, with 807 in elementary at Shannon and Carpenter. Sacred Heart high school contributes 20 part time students for art speech and physics. these do not participate in activities but may ride the bus. Sacred Heart Monticello enrollment reaches 389 with 111 high school and 278 elementary. grade by grade counts include kindergarten through sixth and junior high to senior high.
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Monticello
Sacred Heart High School
Sacred Heart
MHS
Shannon School
Carpenter School
Virgil
Phyllis) Hunt
Boyd Shannon
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Harold Postel
John McDonald Hospital
William Catlett
Delhi
Don LeRoy Folkerts
Emma Margret Wright
West Branch
Neal Robert Douglas
Florabelle Gudenhauf
Amber Eee
Teosissverere
Buck Creel
Cass Ween
Center Junction
Preee
Hopkinton
Olin Onslow
Oxford Junction
Poar
Servicemen’s Corner
South Fork
Sports
Fairgrounds
Frank Fitzsimmons
Iowa
Chillicothe
Jones County Board of Education
Lesle
Monticello, Iowa
Monticello Tops County
Fair-goer
Missouri
Springfield
Jones County Fair
George Kirby
Reeves Hall
Independence
New County
Monti
Dyersville
Louis Zumbach
Wilford Kremer
Louis Kronlage
Carl Kintzel
Richard Russell
Wesley Lawrence
Maple Grove Rural Independent School District
Jones Court
Velma Fall
Harold Fall
William F. Chamberlain
Ana- Mesa Men’s Reformatory
Dorothy Allen White
Harold White
Constance Sue Stoddard
Ronald Eugene Stoddard
State Conservation Commission
Des Moines
Richard G. Bullard
Iowa Natural Resources Council
Statehouse
Rystrom Engineering Company
Central Park
Jackson Township
Cowboy
The
Lions Club
Rodeo
Ride ‘Em, Cowboy
Hopkinton Rodeo
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