Wednesday, January 23, 2013

23 TODAY...  -5 TONIGHT
HIGH TOMORROW 15

A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, JOEY REID, AGE 42, WON $30,000 IN AN INSTANT-
SCRATCH GAME.   SHE BOUGHT THE TICKET IN DUBUQUE.

LAST NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS BEAT DYERSVILLE BECKMAN 40 TO 33....PICKING UP THEIR 4TH WIN.      THE CARDINAL BOYS LOST 62 TO 48
AT DYERSVILLE.
AND AT TIMBER LANES IN MAQUOKETA, THE  HIGH SCHOOL BOWLING TEAMS TOOK 3RD PLACE AGAINST WEST DELAWARE AND CAMANCHE.

THE MAQUOKETA FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS CALLED TO THE JODY ELMGREEN FARM AT RURAL MONMOUTH AT 4:24 THIS MORNING.   A SHED WAS A ON FIRE AND WAS ALREADY DOWN WHEN FIREMEN ARRIVED.   A COUPLE LAMBS
DIED IN THE FIRE AND OTHERS GOT OUT SAFELY.    THE OWNER
SUSPECTED A HEAT LAMP STARTED THE FIRE.   FIREMEN WERE THERE ABOUT AN HOUR,  POURING WATER ON HOT SPOTS.

KEEP WARM.

DENNIS VOY