80 AND NICE AGAIN TODAY.

THE CATTLE MARKET WAS UP AGAIN TODAY IN MAQUOKETA.....THE TOP STEER AT UNITED LIVESTOCK, FROM THE ZWINGLE AREA, BROUGHT $104.25 HOLSTEINS TOPPED AT $97.50. THE TREND HERE IN TOWN, NEARLY $7.00 ABOVE A WEEK AGO.

IT IS FIRE PREVENTION WEEK AND TONIGHT, THE CITYWIDE FIRE EXIT DRILL IN CITY HOMES. AT 6 TONIGHT, THE SIRENS WILL SOUND AND CITIZENS WILL, WITH REST OF FAMILY, PRACTICE THE BEST WAY OUT OF HOME IF THERE WERE A FIRE...AND GO TO THE CURB OF THE STREET. FIREMEN IN FIRE DEPARTMENT VEHICLES WILL GO AROUND TOWN COUNTING THOSE WHO PARTICIPATE.

MORE ABOUT ANITA MEADE, 71, WHO DIED YESTERDAY. THE FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE SATURDAY AT CARSON'S.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE 3 CHILDREN, WENDY SCOTT OF BALDWIN (Wendy and her husband purchased the business from her mother a couple or more years ago) LEANN McCALLISTER OF MAQUOKETA AND DAYLYN MEADE OF SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA. ALSO, A BROTHER, LEROY POWELKA OF MAQUOKETA AND A SISTER, DOROTHY CHESNEY OF ZWINGLE.

PHARMACIST ERIC STRATHMAN, WHO LIVES IN ANDREW, IS LEAVING OSTERHAUS PHARMACY, WHERE HE HAS BEEN A PHARMACIST FOR 8 YEARS, AND WILL WORK IN A PHARMACY UP IN DUBUQUE.

DO YOU KNOW THE BEST WAY OUT OF YOUR HOUSE IN CASE OF A FIRE....AND WHERE THE FAMILY WILL MEET QUICKLY OUTSIDE THE HOME IF THERE IS A FIRE?

CHECK BACK TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY