Card of Thanks for Flowers, Visit and Support
Mrs Kate Gerdes thanks friends for flowers cards and gifts and nurses aides Dr Thomas and Rev Gronewold for comforting words. gratitude also to visitors. Mrs Kate Gerdes 74 1pd.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1954
Page
4
Mrs Kate Gerdes thanks friends for flowers cards and gifts and nurses aides Dr Thomas and Rev Gronewold for comforting words. gratitude also to visitors. Mrs Kate Gerdes 74 1pd.
Sealed bids for surfacing 28.00 miles and resurfacing 157.11 miles of Jones County secondary roads are due October 1, 1954 at 10:00 a.m. in Anamosa Iowa. A $1000 bid bond is required. Proposals, forms, specs, and project details available from the County Engineer. Preference given to Iowa products. The Board may waive technicalities and reject bids.
B. B. McLaughlin of Monticello, director of the Town Automobile Dealers Association, announced that Jones county auto dealers will attend a district meeting at Shooting Park in Dubuque on Wednesday September 22. The event begins at 2 p.m. with an information clinic on Iowa Sales Taxes and new motor vehicle laws. Alfred W. Kahl will preside. attendees come from Allamakee Clayton Delaware Dubuque Fayette Jackson Jones and Winneshiek counties.
A Monticello Standard Parts Co customer reported weekend mice invaded an office desk and gnawed invoices from the Monticello firm and a Manchester auto parts firm. Other papers remained intact. The anecdote notes some mice show a taste for inked papers.
Coach Paul Knipe leads a 24-player junior high football squad with weights from 79 to 128 pounds. The team plans intra-squad halves during freshman-sophomore games as inter-school play shifts to older groups. Notables include Keith Hagen 120 pounds and Larry Scott 128 pounds among an average 90-pound group.
Monticello Veterans of Foreign Wars volunteers will again staff car parking for home football games led by Commander Ray Fluckiger. Initial volunteers include Clarence Rhatigan Gene Barnts George Barnts Bud Reynold Herman Behrends Mike Brady Ray Marcis Fay Haeussler Jim Miller Herman Wolburn William Steiner Carl Siebels Nick Clement and Frank Eilers. Others may join.
District Court records show multiple OMVI convictions with fines and installment options, jailbreak mention for Charles Robert Wallerick, and dismissals for several divorce and civil actions. Notable items include Michael H Zaruba fined 300 dollars, Leslie Jack Stewart fined 300 dollars, Hanken pleading guilty to OMVI, and Arnold T Bryson fined 300 dollars.
Mr and Mrs James Thompson spent last week visiting friends Mr and Mrs Lorney Bacon in New Boston Illinois and attended the Mount Pleasant fair on Thursday.
Monticello police station has two new Motorola radio receivers added to monitor state highway patrol broadcasts on 42.5 megacycles and police sheriff channels on 37.1 megacycles FM. Extension speakers will feed the city clerk’s office for monitoring when police are away. Also notes social visits and birthdays in the community.
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