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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1955
Page
2
Center Junction residents visited Miron Johnson in Maquoketa while other locals attended the Fluckiger Hein wedding in Monticello. Guests included Phil Dart and family, Henry Wehling and Anamosa friends, and relatives from Rossville and Hawick.
Librarian Mrs. Florence Roberts announced new shelves of fiction and non fiction. Notable titles include Trial by Don Mankiewicz about a lawyer defending a possible criminal and Diligence in Love by Daisy Newman, a Quaker novel, Now That April's Here, another Newman work. The Captain's Table by Richard Gordon follows a conscientious captain commanding a passenger liner.
A list of novels including The Powder Heart The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Breaking Wave is interwoven with donations of books Christ in Poetry Best Religious Stories and more. Education groups in Anamosa Monticello and Oxford Junction announce committees meetings starting Sept 14 19 and 21 at various venues including courthouses Roy Miller home Poplar Heights and Monticello public library.
A field chopper that burned at the Bob Holub farm near Prairieburg on Sept 2 reignited Wednesday evening at the Harvey Hinrichs farm seven miles west of Monticello. Hinrichs told Monti cello firemen he saw the chopper burning at 7 30 p.m. It is owned by Vernon Barrack. Firemen were also called Friday afternoon to the city dump where trash fires spread to grass along the railroad and into a farm meadow, causing only minor damage.
Dubuque residents Mr and Mrs B G Lindenberg were Sunday dinner guests in the Sam Striet home. Raymond Hinrichs returned to Woodland California after a 10 day vacation visiting his parents and other relatives.
St Luke's Hopkinton along with St John Delhi and St Patrick Winthrop welcome four Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters as part of a new shared educational program. Archbishop Leo Binz will celebrate mass October 1 at St John Delhi and bless the convent annex. The sisters arrive August 29, use a new car, and will teach at Hopkinton on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Iowa plans a Cascade traffic count to gauge through and local traffic for a $75,000 paving project to the proposed curb and gutter. Cascade would pay about $11,000 with Cascade receiving $4,500 yearly from gas tax funds. Work in 1955 is blocked by funds, with profits to be settled by year’s end.
Albert Boots was elected president of the Lovell Township Farm Bureau at a Thursday meeting at the Methodist church. Don Zimmerman becomes vice president, Lawrence Heeren is secretary-treasurer, and a November meeting at the Farm Bureau building in Anamosa was announced. The Richland and Castle Grove Bureaus were invited to attend a square dancing event.
Joseph A. Beave, county superintendent, and Ralph Orth of Wyoming attended the 2nd congressional district meeting in Cedar Rapids to select a state board of public instruction member. Incumbent G. W. Hunt of Guttenberg was elected 2nd district representative for a six year term after serving as board member and chairman for two years.
Mr and Mrs Harrison Lubben of Winslow Arkansas were Monday dinner guests in the home of M J Cass.
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