Years Gone By

5 years ago:

   • After operating in Monticello since 1980, Four Oaks has closed its program known as John McDonald Residential Treatment (JMRT), which provided foster group care for girls with emotional, behavioral and mental health conditions. Four Oaks thanked the community for its support over the past many years.  (1/31/2018)

10 years ago:

   • A Jones County hog farmer has earned the title of Master Pork Producer from the Iowa Pork Producers Association. Tim Fellinger of Hopkinton received the brass Master Pork Producer belt buckle, emblematic of the award, at the 41st annual Iowa Pork Congress Banquet Jan. 23 in Des Moines. Fellinger was one of 10 who received the award this year.  (1/30/2013)

15 years ago:

   • Jones Regional Medical Center has announced plans to build a new facility to be located at  the intersection of Highways 64 and 151 in Anamosa. JRMC Administrator Sean Williams hopes the new building will be completed by fall of 2009.  (1/30/2008)

50 years ago:

   • The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co. has given notice that it plans to curtail freight train service between Marion and Calmar. This also affects Monticello as the city is on this line. The railroad intends to reduce its present bi-weekly service to weekly service.  (1/25/1973)

75 years ago:

   • Effective the first of January, 1948, the name of the Farmers Lumber and Supply Company was changed to the Great Plains Supply Co. It was felt this change would be desirable because the former name was often confused with names of other firms in this area whose names were similar. As soon as weather conditions permit, construction work will begin on the new, modern building which the company is planning to erect on the lots just west of the Milwaukee railroad tracks across the street from the monument works.  (1/29/1948)

   • The Monticello Conservation League and Gun Club has held four fox hunts the past winter. The men killed 17 foxes. The proceeds from the hides and the bounties will be used for a supper for the fox hunters.  (1/29/1948)

100 years ago:

   • W.R. Kuhns of Monticello is the owner of three apples, which are more than 62 years old and still in an excellent state of preservation. The apples were brought by Mr. Kuhns’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Kuhns, to Iowa from Pennsylvania in 1860. The apples are stuck with cloves and look nearly as sound as the day they were picked from the tree 62 years ago. Who can beat this record?  (1/25/1923)