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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1929
Page
2
Local notes from Monticello Iowa list visits to Hopkinton Cedar Rapids and Marion. Shoppers are urged to buy enamelware and cookies at McNeill's Hardware and Stone White Bakery with specials on April 6. Community notices cover movies King of Kings in town and Easter visits plus residents traveling to Chicago Dubuque and Manchester.
Local Monticello briefs report bakery specials three 16 oz loaves for 25c and enamel ware sales at McNeill's Hardware. Notices mention births, visits, employment, school staff, and bank financial statements for March 27.
Mrs Charles Luett entertained in honor of Mrs John Gill of Marion with two bridge tables and high score by Mrs Paul Smith. Mrs H F Kettlitz hosted Fortnightly club with three bridge tables and refreshment service. Ernest Skelley hosted dinner for Leyland and three Iowa City college friends. Rebekah lodge and Anamosa members enjoyed initiation and social evening. Social Circle of Methodist Episcopal ladies held bake sale. Easter Sunday dinner for relatives and friends. Alva Hinrichs marked sixteenth birthday with games and cake. Jolly Twelve club held 500 with egg hunt and prizes.
Mrs William Laude honored her Sunday class by hosting at her home last Friday evening. At ten the boys gathered for cake candle guessing and games forming a single dining table centerpiece. Guests included Junior Burris Wallace Wilson Willard Yeoman Philip Maurice Elwoort Nichols Jess Smith and Robert Phelps.
The marriage, performed at 10 by Rev. Worcester, joined Miss Wadema Wink of Anamosa and Mr. Wink of Anamosa. The bride, a Monticello public school alumna, wore navy silk trimmed with beige lace. The newlyweds will reside in Anamosa after a trip to Boone.
The item lists multiple church services with pastors and times for Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, and St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran, plus a Wartburg seminary chorus program on April 14. It notes a cooking school by Miss Looney, family visits, road conditions, and a planned rummage sale April 12 and 13 in the Starry building now occupied by Good’s restaurant.
Deeds filed show transfers in Anamosa Morley and Wyoming with buyers such as Earl Huston Louisa Guhl and Ellen A Smith to State of Iowa. Notable amounts include 5480.79 for a Keller subdivision parcel and 3500 for a Main street area lot. Additional parcels include wid high value and nominal dollar transfers, reflecting local property activity.
The Masonic Temple association will hold its annual stockholders meeting at the temple on Thursday April 11 at 8 p.m. W A Beery is secretary. The notice appears in a local record of civic business.
The Knoxville town legislature debates the contentious plan of human sterilization shortly after failing to pass a bond issue with a clear mandate from the people. The remark notes the irony of tackling a complex social measure immediately after a simpler financial measure collapsed.
Julien Dubuque, a French Canadian founder in 1785, established the settlement later named Dubuque in present day Iowa. He held authority from Spain to work nearby lead mines.
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