Multiple divorce and guardianship actions in county court
Rose Kepler seeks absolute divorce from Floyd Kepler citing cruel treatment after a 1950s marriage and a 1961 separation. Elsie Carstensen seeks guardianship of Hilda Carstensen and claims the defendant owns a quarter of the Anna Carstensen estate valued at 49 775 with farm and residence. guardian appointment requested. Floyd Kepler has been convicted of larceny of a motor vehicle in 1961 and is serving a sentence at the Iowa Men’s Reformatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Kepler
Floyd Kepler
Keplers
Anamosa
Iowa
Arthur B. Ahrendsen
Elsie Carstensen
Hilda Carstensen
Wyoming
Anna Carstensen
Garden Club awards listed by division and item
The article lists Garden Club prizes across divisions with winners for fruits vegetables artistic design and junior sections. Notable names include Blanche Cartano Hattie Stadtmueller Eva Turnis Nancy Tuetken and Dan Reyner among many others with first second and third place awards for items such as Our Heritage Lamp in the Window Soldier's Return Plantation Memories and Stars and Stripes Forever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Abel
Blessing of
Eva Turnis
Blanche Cartano
Olga Smith
Minnie Rickels
Lucille Behrends
Frances Eiler
Rose Welter
Effie Hoffman
Alice Howie
Helen Tuetken
Lula Cass
Zula Byerly
Hattie Stadtmueller
Edna Buel
Minnie Ackels
Margaret First
Beawah
Rose Weber
Beaulah
Loretta Weber
Nancy Tuetken
Ruth Scherrer
Dan Reyner
Ted Prewitt
Donald Effers
Jerry Haag
Stars and Stripes Forever
Donald Eilers
Little Drummer Boy
He Eilers
Nancy Tuet
Area Students Headed to Colleges and Schools This Fall
Among Express area students enrolled in colleges universities and special schools this fall are Sheila Hosch Hopkinton and Paul DeShaw Hopkinton both of Davenport area. Emily, Carl, Roger, Mike and others listed with multiple institutions including American Institute of Commerce Wesleyan College Briar Cliff Clarke College Drake University Iowa State University and Loras College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Institute OF Commerce
Davenport
Sheila Hosch
Joe Hosch
Hopkinton
A. Schoenbeck
Monticello
Paul DeShaw
Merle DeShaw
Carl Herington
Roger Ingwersen
Tom Eganhouse
Mike Koranda
Robert Vanda
Oxford Junction
Iowa State University
Ames
Steve Poock
Arnold H. Poock
John Baty
Ross Baty
Sandra Eichhorn
Thomas O. Eichhorn
Wyoming
Errol Dierks
Harry Dierks
Dewayne Schafer
Lawrence
Ronald S. Davis
Ken Paulsen
Mike Paulsen
Joyce Schoenbeck
On the College Front Adds Student Activity Notes
A new feature in Ex press titled On the College Front will share items about school activities of Express area colleges and universities. The column, announced by news editor Betty Wag, lists numerous students by name and their institutions from Monticello, Hopkinton, Oxford Junction, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Wagner
Express Area College
Plan Open House At Camp DeShaw Postponed
Dedication of Camp DeShaw near Monticello was postponed Sunday due to bad weather and will be rescheduled. Dorothy Richardson of Camp Fire Girls Inc was also postponed and will visit after the first of the year. Open house is planned the next two Sundays weather permitting with no dates announced. The camp lies northeast of Monticello reached by Highway 151 then a gravel road past Albert Fass’s brick home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeShaw
Monticello
Dorothy Richardson
Camp Fire Girls, Inc
Miss Richardson
E. H. DeShaw
Albert Fass
Three Cars Damaged in Two Accidents
Monticello driver Alvin Homer Hobert 42 434 North Sycamore was charged with failure to have his car under control after a northbound collision with a parked Chevrolet owned by Janet Prull on South Cedar Street. Hobert’s car suffered about 750 in damage while Prull’s car sustained 250. In a second incident Charles N Green 28 collided with Lois Jane Morrisey 18 rear ending her car while Morrisey’s vehicle was double parked. Morrisey’s car was undamaged and no charges were filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
South Cedar St
Alvin Homer Hobert
North Sycamore
Hobert
Janet Prull
Prull
Charles N. Green
Lois Jane Morrisey
Morrisey
East Third St
Maquoketa Valley Bond Issue Defeated For Fourth Time
The $590 000 bond proposal to build a new central high school for Maquoketa Valley district was rejected for the fourth time. Total 948 opposed to 825 in favor, with 60 percent required. District votes listed: Hopkinton 287 128, Buck Creek 93 146, Delhi 196 217, Earlville 187 321, Oneida 62 136.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maquoketa Valley
Hopkinton
Buck Creek
Delhi
Earlville
Oneida
Deans Family Featured on Magazine Cover in Successful Farming
The E L Diz Dean family of Postville is shown on the October cover of Successful Farming with Mr Dean beside his horse and Dawn Cody and Glenn on a trail in the background. Inside photos feature a Whistlin Bit Saddle club trail ride with Deans as members. The Clayton county ride drew 564 riders from 43 saddle clubs across four states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L
Diz) Dean
Postville
Successful Farming
Dean
Bill Shaffer
Monticello
Dawn
Cody
Glenn
Deans
Clayton County
Fifteen Jones County 4Hers to National Dairy Show
Fifteen Jones County 4H youth will take part in the National Dairy Cattle Congress at Waterloo beginning Friday September 29. The group includes dairy judging team members David Specht Monticello Joe Steffens Anamosa Jim Dean Olin and John Frasher Martello and a large list of exhibitors and girls in the 4 H department with clothing demonstrations and multiple local families named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Waterloo
David H. Hamemond
David Specht
Monticello
Joe Steffens
Anamosa
Jim Dean
Olin
John Frasher
Martello
Mike Holub
John Holub
Joe Fleming
Tim Huber
Coggan
Tom Hanna
Jerry
Larry
Danny Volk
Jim
Dennis Dean
Ayrshire
Diana Larson
Marcia Pillard
Monticello Schools Week Lunch Menu Highlights
The Monticello Community Schools share next week’s meals. Monday offers baked beans carrot sticks peanut butter sandwiches fruit milk. Tuesday features vegetable stew celery rolls brownies milk. Wednesday serves scalloped potatoes with ham buttered peas egg salad sandwiches cake milk. Thursday includes maid rites with ketchup scalloped corn potato chips pickles ice cream. Friday's menu lists fish sticks tartar sauce green beans olives carrot sticks jello milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Mon ticello High elects student council head
Tom Greenawald is elected to lead the Mon ticello Community High School student council for this year. He will be aided by vice president Lyman Ponder and secretary treasurer Martha Edwards, with senior council member Larry Husmann among the representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Greenawald
Monticello Community High School
Lyman Ponder
Martha Edwards
Larry Husmann
Joann Ballou
Gary Duckler
Glenn Tobiason
Colleen Holub
Cathy Hall
Luanne Helgens
Paul Specht
Jill Husmann
Kathy Kromebaugh
Diana Prull
Monticello Opens Adult Evening Classes This Monday
Adult evening classes in Monticello begin Monday at 8 p m at Central School. Ten week courses in agriculture and home economics will meet each Monday night. Jo Wiltie will lead The Wide World of Clothing with topics on size problems and pattern alterations. Andy Cubit will lead What's New in Beef Nutrition for the agriculture segment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Central School
Jo Wiltie
Monticello Community High School
Andy Cubit
Jaycees Sponsor Teen Hop At Monticello Youth Center
A Teen Hop will be held Saturday night September 30 at the Monticello Youth Center from 8 to 12. Music by the Bob Cats orchestra. Sponsored and chaperoned by the Monticello Junior Chamber of Commerce. Jaycees plan another hop for October 28 and discuss a series of dances as a community project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Bob Cats Orchestra
Machine Shed Burns on Farm Near Hopkinton
A machine shed fire on the Cletus Feldmann farm five miles northeast of Hopkinton last Wednesday evening at about 6 30 burned the shed to the ground. A tractor and farm machinery were destroyed and a long hen house adjacent was scorched. The Hopkinton fire department called in Delhi and Worthington departments. a large nearby barn was saved by the firemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Fork
Cletus Feldmann
Hopkinton
Delhi
Worthington
Contract Awarded for Wyoming Sewer System
D and E Escavating Co of Cedar Rapids won the contract for a new Wyoming sewer system with a $188,438 bid. Construction of the sanitary sewer system including a lagoon is scheduled to begin this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D & E Escavating Co
Cedar Rapids
Wyoming
George Hahn Named Assistant Manager at Armour Monticello
George Hahn of Prophetstown Illinois is appointed assistant manager of Armour and Co buying station in Monticello Marshall Wynn announces Hahn comes to Monticello after five years at various buying stations He is married with two children and plans to move with his family once housing permits are secured
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hahn
Prophetstown
Ill
Armour & Co
Monticello
Marshall Wynn
Hahn
Onslow Youth Escapes Injury in Highway 136 Crash
A 17 year old Onslow youth Jim Smith escaped injury when his car overturned after leaving the highway near a farmer's driveway about 3 30 a m Sunday cars total loss Highway Patrolman John Beck man investigated the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onslow
Jim Smith
Highway 136
Smith
John Beckman
Monticello City Council Regular Meeting Minutes 1961
The Monticello Iowa council met August 7 1961 at 7 30 PM in regular session with Mayor S H Hoag. Councilmen Hearn Sims Roy Miller and Dave Miller present Absent Kuriger. Topics included sidewalk work by William Brokens a new road grader offer from Hanstrom Hubley Tractor Co street light concern Stan Peters city clerk position and budget hearing with tax payers. Budget adoption and coal bids were discussed with purchase from Hoag Duster Co as low bidder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. H. Hoag
Hearn, Sims
Ray Miller
Dave Miller
Kuriger
William Brokens
Brokens
Hanstrom- Hubley Tractor Company
Stan Peters
Gene Lansing
Hoag
Sims
Hearn
Roy Miller
Nayes
Great Plains Supply Company
Hoag Duster Company
Serssseeese
Spahn & Rose Lumber Cosseeee
Burton Sims
Ayes
District Governor Speaks to Rotarians
District governor E. B. Stillman of Clear Lake addressed the Rotary Club at a Monday meeting held at St. Luke's Methodist church. He described his experiences at the Rotary International convention in Tokyo where 23,700 Rotarians from 75 countries attended the largest service club gathering in history. President R. W. Myers presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Stillman
Clear Lake
Rotary
Stillman
Rotary International
Tokyo
Japan
R. W. Myers
St. Luke’s Methodist Church
Hearing Set For Vacation Of Roads In Jones County
A hearing on the vacation of four Jones county roads will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, at the courthouse in Anamosa. The roads span Greenfield, Castle Grove, Scotch Grove and Rome townships as described in the legal appearing on page A6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Anamosa
Greenfield
Castle Grove
Scotch Grove
Rome
Jerry Holub Breaks Ankles in Fall From Bridge
Jerry Lee Holub, 19, of Monticello, broke both ankles in a 30 foot fall from a bridge under construction near Springville last Thursday. He landed on his feet and was hospitalized at St Luke's in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Lee Holub
Monticello
Springville
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Holub
Hopkinton Club To Screen Operation Abolition Film
The Hopkinton Community club sponsors a screening of Operation Abolition on Monday October 2 at 8 p.m. in the Hopkinton school gymnasium. The film, directed by the House Un American Activities committee, uses footage from reporters at the May San Francisco hearings to depict communist inspired riots and activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinton
Super Valu Donates Golden Book Sets to Two Monticello Schools
Bud’s Super Valu of Monticello, through manager Les Voss, presented 16 volume Golden Book encyclopedias to Monticello Community School and Sacred Heart School for their libraries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bud’s Super Valu
Monticello
Sacred Heart School
Les Voss
DHIA Certificates To County Dairymen
Four Jones county dairymen earned Dairy Herd Improvement Association certificates for herds averaging over 450 pounds of butterfat for the year ending June 30, 1961. Recipients are Robert L. Wahl Monticello Jay Slater Olin Merlin Gendelman and Kelly and Hasselbusch Clarence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Robert L. Wahl
Monticello
Jay Slater
Olin
Merlin Gendelman
Kelly
Hasselbusch
Clarence
College pledges and choir members linked to Iowa and Cornell campuses
Monticello youths pledge to Delta Tau Delta at Iowa State University and Sigma Nu at the State University of Iowa while other Monticello residents join Acacia at Iowa State and Phi Kappa Psi. A Wartburg College singer from Monticello performs as first tenor and Cornell College freshmen chorus members feature Nancy Perkins and Diana Balster from Mount Vernon and Scotch Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell College
Vernon Lynn Balster
Les Balster
Scotch Grove
Carla Folkers
Carl A. Folkers
State College OF
Patsy Aitchison
Adrian Aitchison
Shirley Hoult
George Hoult
Monticello
Barbara Null
Orlando J. Null
Mary Larkey
Oxford Junction
State University OF
Hopkinton
Donald Welter
John Welter
Mary Zedick
C. F. Zedick
Charles Gearhart
Donald Gearhart
Marlene Wynn
Marshall Wynn
Larry Goettsch
Cecil Goettsch
Jim Helgens
Vernon Helgens
Jim Maurice
John Maurice
Douglas Clow
Robert Williamson
John Vanicek
Mary Hronik
Carrie Fifield
State University of Iowa
Iowa City
Delta Tau Delta
John Fraser
Sigma Nu
Iowa State University
Ames
John W. Baty
Acacia
Bob Tobiason
Phi Kappa Psi
Ronald Burrichter
George Burrichter
Wartburg College, Waverly
Nancy Perkins
L. C. Perkins
Alpha Sigma Pi Sorority
Mount Vernon
Diana Balster
Local GIs Take Part In European Training Exercises
PFC Lyle W. Ehlts of Monti cello with the 8th Infantry Division 20th Transportation Battalion joined Exercise Wind Drift in Sennewald Germany. He arrived overseas March 1960 after basic at Fort Hood and is a 1959 Monticello high school graduate. COLIN H. PONDER, son of Herschel Ponder of Monti cello, is stationed at Kirkland Air Force Base New Mexico after completing an 18 week basic photographer’s mate course at Pensacola. PFC Jerry L. Eggiman of Hopkinton, a driver in Company C 46th infantry, took part in a four week field exercise at Grafenwehr Germany after arriving overseas February 1960.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle W. Ehlts
William B. Ehlts
Monticello
8Th Infantry Division
20Th Transportation Battalion
Sennalager
Germany
Ehlts
Baumholder
Fort Hood
Tex
Monticello High School
Colin H. Ponder
Herschel Ponder
Kirland Air Force Base
Naval Air Technical Training Unit
Pensacola
Fla
Colin Ponder Phan
Naval Weapons Evaluation Facili
Jerry L. Eggiman
Clair F
Eggiman
Hopkinton
3Rd Armored Division
46Th Infantry
Grafenwehr
Kirch Gens
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Garden Club
Barbara Stoneking
Carol Tuetken
David Reyner
Teddy Prewitt
Debra Reyner
Dan
Tca Reyner
Debbie Reyner
Donald Scherrer
Steven Ellers
Mike Howie
Danica Reyner
Melvin Eilers
Ted
Dy Prewitt
Steven Eilers
Darrell Reyner
Donny Scherrer
FFA
Gerald Freese
Gaylan Wilken
Eldon Dirks
Ken Reth
Dick Black
Iowa Wesleyan College
Briar Cliff College
Mt. Pleasant
Sioux City
Herbert Ryner
Helen Helen Burlage
Rynor
Chariton
Lawrence Bulage
Moneticella
Barber College
Terry Chandlee
Robert Chandlee
Clarke College Horticulture Division
Dubuque
Margaret Locher
Carrotl
Locher
Tommy Haag
Tom Haag
Connie Hosch
and Peppers
COE College
Carolyn Sue Close
Steve Smith
Barbara Norris
Kathleen Norris
Scotch Groove
Juenior
Wauve
Marvin Rathmann
Seeneeee
John Rathmann
Oxford Swamplands
Debbie Rey Junction
My Lady
Mel
Vin Eilers
Tomy Haag
Donald Eiler
Zinnitase
Donald Ilers
Jerry Kaag
Cox Combe
Roses
Drake University
Des Moines
Linda Miller
Loras College
Paul Oeschger
Jerome Manternach
Norbert Manternach
James DeShaw
Mark Turnis
Frank Turnis
Stephen Vanourny
Ed. L. Vanourny
Mercy School OF Nursing
Sandee Chandlee
Janice Feltes
John Feltes
MT. Mercy College
Margaret Fleming
Paul Fleming
Palmer College OF Chiropractic
Ben Hanssen
Henry Hanssen
Paris
Beauty Academy
Gey Smith
Clarence Smith
Mona Kay Lenhart
Oxford
Parson's College
Fairfield
Noel Koranda
Lynn Hayden
Anne Hoag
Steve Hoag
ST. Luke’s Methodist Hospital
Karen Kidwell
Clifford Kidwell
Nancy Mershon
ST. Luke’s School OF Practical Nursing
Suzanne Mardorf
William Mardorf
ST. Luke's School OF X-Ray
Jennifer Schneider
Louie Schneider
University OF Dubuque Dubuque
Virginia Tuetken
Raymond Tuetken
Stanley Hosford
Kyle Hosford
David Krein
Jack Ross
Caryl Ross
Bruce Stumbaugh
Ray Stumbaugh
Joe Vincent Mullen
Robert Mullen
Monticelo
Peter Skelley
Howard Skelley
Paul Skelley
Richard Skelley
Mary Martha Williamson
Upper Iowa University Fayette
Wartburg College
Waverly
Bill Mitchell
Max Mitchell
Keith Stadtmueller
Art Stadtmueller
Center Junction
Galen Hora
Leonard Hora
OUT OF State
College of
George W. Smith
Monti
Camp DeShaw
E. L. Deans
College of St. Thomas
St. Paul
Minn
Richard Burlage
Lawrence Burlage
Creighton University
Omaha
Neb
Pat Cooney
Jaycees
Wyoming Sewer System
Armour Buying
Monticello City Hall
Secesserecencceres Dretteceens
Seeteen
Louise Lees
Jerry Holub
Hopkinton Club
Super Valu
College
Kirkland Afb
Albuquerque, N. M
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