Friday, July 25, 2008

A NICE DAY TODAY IN MAQUOKETA...HIGH OF 78.
TOMORROW WILL BE ANOTHER GREAT DAY, WITH NO RAIN AND A HIGH
IN THE 80'S.

ATTENDANCE AT THE FAIR YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) WAS 3,402.....UP 114
OVER THURSDAY OF 2007. THERE WAS A FULL GRANDSTAND FOR THE
STOCK CAR RACES AND THE WINNERS OF $100 DRAWING, INCLUDING ONE
PERSON FROM MAQUOKETA, MELINDA USHER. KENT FUGLSANG OF RURAL
BALDWIN, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, WAS ALSO A $100 WINNER.'

BOB WIESE, AGE 67, OF ELVIRA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED LAST
NIGHT AT HIS HOME, FOLLOWING A BATTLE WITH LUNG CANCER.
GRAVESIDE SERVICES WILL BE HELD MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 AT ST. PATRICK'S CEMETERY AT DELMAR. FRIENDS MAY CALL SUNDAY FROM 4 UNTIL 6 P.M.
AT THE LAHEY FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS
WIFE CATHY, 2 SONS, JEREMIAH OF DELMAR AND JOSHUA AT HOME AND
DAUGHTER JENNIFER OF DUBUQUE. ALSO 7 GRANDCHILDREN AND 4 SISTERS,
INCLUDING EDNA EDWARDS OF MAQUOKETA AND A HALF-SISTER, BARB TUBBS OF MAQUOKETA. BOB WAS A GOOD EMPLOYEE FOR ME FOR SEVERAL YEARS AT THE 61 DRIVE-IN.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY
I HAD TWO PHOTOS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK
BUILDING IN ABOUT 1962 JUST NORTH OF THE KMAQ BUILDING. ONE PHOTO
WENT UP ON THE DAILY REPORT.....BELOW.....BUT THE OTHER ONE WON'T GO UP AT THIS TIME. MAYBE IT WILL GO LATER. M-S-B IS CELEBRATING ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY NOW THRU SEPTEMBER.
DENNIS VOY
THIS PHOTO IS VERY SMALL ALSO. CLICK-ON TO ENLARGE A LITTLE. THIS
PHOTO SHOWS THE M-S-B NEW ROUND BUILDING AFTER THE FLOOR WAS POURED.
AND, IN THIS PHOTO, IN THE BACKGROUND, THE BUILDING YOU SEE WAS THE
NISSEN DRY CLEANERS BUILDING, OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE LATE HAROLD
NISSEN. AND TO THE NORTH OF IT WAS DANNY'S LUNCH BUILDING.
THE ORIGINAL ROUND BUILDINGS IS STILL IN USE, INCLUDING THE BASEMENT,
BUT OTHER ADDITIONS WERE BUILDT AROUND IT OVER THE YEARS.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK, NOW CELELBRATING
50 YEARS OF BANKING SERVICE TO MAQUOKETA AND THE SURRONDING AREA.
THERE IS ALSO THE WESTSIDE DRIVE-UP AND WALK-UP ADDITION HERE IN MAQUOKETA AND THERE IS A BRANCH OFFICE IN BOTH ANDREW AND PRESTON.
DENNIS VOY