THE MAQUOKETA RIVER "CRESTED" LAST NIGHT OVER 30 FEET AND IS
GETTING LOWER BY THE HOUR.
SOME STREET WORK IS BEING DONE THIS WEEK ON SOUTH MAIN STREET AND ON MAPLE STREET. ON MAIN, THE WORK INVOLVES MAKING A NEW FOUR FOOT WIDE WHEEL PATH IN THE SOUTHBOUND LANE AND PATCHWORK IN TH E SOUTHBOUND LANE. ON MAPLE STREET, A MILL AND FILL
RESURFACING PROJECT IS BEING DONE IN THE AREA OF THE S-CURVE.
AND AT THE INTERSECTION OF MAPLE AND S. MAIN, REPAVING IS BEING DONE. ALL SHOULD BE COMPLETED IN A DAY OR SO.
THE JACKSON COUNTY COURT SYSTEM IS SCHEDULED TO BECOME COMPUTERIZED BY NEXT YEAR. SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT JUDGE MARLETA GREVE ADDRESSED THE JACKSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS YESTERDAY MORNING AND SAID WHILE JACKSON COUNTY MAY SEEM LIKE A SMALL COUNTY, IT IS NOT SMALL IN THE COURT SYSTEM. SHE SAID JACKSON COUNTY IS IN THE TOP THIRD IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN FILINGS.
LAST WEEK. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE ANDREW LIONS CLUB AND THE CORN
IN THIS FIELD WILL BE SOLD BY THE CLUB AT THEIR NEWLY PAINTED LITTLE BUILDING IN ANDREW THAT WAS THE OLD ANDREW GAS STATION. LARRY SAID IT IS SOME OF THE BEST LOOKING SWEET CORN HE HAS SEEN AND
THAT THE BICOLOR SEED WAS PURCHASED AT MAQUOKETA FEEDS.
THE CORN WAS PLANTED AT 32,000 KERNELS PER ACRE AND TASSELS ARE STARTING TO SHOW. LAST SUMMER, THE LIONS SOLD 550 DOZEN EARS TO RAISE MONEY FOR FOUR, $750 SCHOLARSHIPS THEY PRESENT TO SENIORS.
A GAS DRIVE-OFF AT THE CASEY'S STORE ON WESTGATE DRIVE YESTERDAY MORNING. $56 WORTH OF GAS.
VERA HACKETT, AGE 82, OF ANAMOSA, DIED JUNE 26TH. THE FUNERAL WILL NOT BE HELD UNTIL JULY 12TH. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, A SON
AND A BROTHER, NICK (NANCY) TOUTSCH IN MAQUOKETA.
CHECK BACK TOMORROW!
DENNIS VOY
