1/4 INCH OF SNOW LAST NIGHT. TOTAL IN JANUARY SO FAR, 5 1/4"...ALREADY AN INCH MORE THAN LAST JANUARY. HIGH TODAY, 30.
THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS BEAT DEWITT LAST NIGHT BY 4 TEAM POINTS. THERE WERE 14 MATCHES AND MAQUOKETA WON 7 AND DEWITT WON 7.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAY AT WATERLOO COLUMBUS TONIGHT IN WAMAC ACTION...GOING AFTER THEIR 6TH WIN IN A ROW. THE GIRLS HOST WATERLOO AT THE MCHS GYM. TOMORROW NIGHT, THE GIRLS HOST NORTH SCOTT IN NON-CONFERENCE PLAY.
THE HOUSE FIRE LAST NIGHT RESULTED IN TOTAL LOSS OF THE HOME AT AN ESTIMATED LOSS OF $100,000. THE HOUSE STANDS YET TODAY, BUT JUST THE SHELL.
FIREMEN FROM MAQUOKETA AND ANDREW SPENT OVER 4 HOURS FIGHTING THE BLAZE LAST NIGHT. THE FARM HOME OWNED BY OWEN LINDSTROM AND LOCATED ON 17TH STREET EAST OF MAQUOKETA OFF HIGHWAY 64. THE FIRE CALL CAME IN AFTER 4:30 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND NO ONE WAS HOME AT THE TIME THE FIRE BROKE OUT AND WAS REPORTED BY A PASSER-BY. IT IS BELIEVED THE FIRE STARTED AT THE WOOD BURNING STOVE. OWEN'S FOLKS ARE ARNOLD AND LIZ LINDSTROM.
JOSH SHADE, AGE 23, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS IN AN ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF MAQUOKETA ON DARK HOLLOW ROAD. DEPUTY SHERIFF RUSS LONG SAID SHADY LOST CONTROL OF HIS DODGE RAM PICKUP ON THE SNOW COVERED GRAVEL ROAD...AND IT WENT INTO THE DITCH AND ROLLED, CAUSING ABOUT $3,000 IN DAMAGES. NO INJURIES.
RYAN GERISCHER OF 410 S. 5TH STREET REPORTED TO POLICE THAT TAKEN FROM HIS RESIDENCE...A GAME CUBE, DVD PLAYER AND GAMES.
IN DISTRICT COURT, DAVID J. WEINSCHENK, AGE 41, OF MAQUOKETA WAS SENTENCED TO 30 DAYS IN JAIL, 28 SUSPENDED, ON CHARGES OF OWI. HE WAS ARRESTED ONN OCTOBER 15TH.
THE MAQUOKETA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAD A CONTEST THIS CHRISTMAS.
THE PERSON THAT (SAVING SALES RECEIPTS AND TURNING THEM IN ON A FORM)
SPENT THE MOST IN MAQUOKETA DURING THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SEASON WOULD GET ONE-HUNDRED CHAMBER BUCKS. WINNERS ANNOUNCED TODAY: DEB MILLWRIGHT OF MAQUOKETA WHO SPENT OVER $16,000. TAKING SECOND PLACE AND RECEIVING 50 CHAMBER BUCKS, WAS DAVID AND SUE DANIELS OF MILES, SPENDING JUST OVER $14,000. AND TAKING THIRD PLACE, AND GETTING 25 CHAMBER BUCKS, AL MUHLHAUSEN OF MAQUOKETA, SPENDING NEARLY $7,500.
ELLEN LINDEMIER, AGE 74, OF MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY AT HER HOME.
SHE AND HUSBAND DON FARMED IN THE EMILINE AREA UNTIL MOVING TO MAQUOKETA IN 2002. THEY HAD ALSO OWNED THE LINDY'S RESTAURANT IN DELMAR FOR SEVERAL YEARS. SURVIVORS INCLUDE: HUSBAND DON, 3 CHILDREN....BARBARA BERG OF DELMAR, ROY LINDEMIER OF MAQUOKETA AND NANCY SUTHERS OF DELMAR.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.
DENNIS VOY
