Years Gone By

25 years ago:

   • The Make Waves, campaign for the family aquatic center, recently announced the winners for its poster contest. Monticello school kids, grades kindergarten through fourth, had to draw a poster of what the new aquatic center would look like, and how they’d enjoy it. The first place winner in every class got a “Make Waves” t-shirt and a special early swim certificate. The certificate will give the winners a chance to be among the first to use the new family aquatic center when is is opened in the summer of 2001. (6/14/2000)

50 years ago:

   • A new communications center for Jones County will be in operation beginning July 1. The 24-hour communications center will be located in the sheriff’s department in the courthouse in Anamosa. For at least the past five years, and perhaps longer, all calls into the sheriff’s office were switched into the Monticello communications center from 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. weekdays, the entire weekend and holidays. Monticello is the only town in the county with a 24-hour center. (6/12/1975)

   • To live to be 100 years old is remarkable. To be spry, in good health, alert and busy with not one but several hobbies at that age is remarkable. But, then, Mary Locher is a remarkable woman. Born June 13, 1875 in Monticello, she has lived here nearly all her life. She is Monticello’s oldest resident. Her numerous hobbies include reading, stamp collecting, compiling scrapbooks, making quilts, working crossword puzzles, putting together jigsaw puzzles and traveling. (6/12/1975)