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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1926
Page
2
Obituary of D W Sutherland from Manning Monitor and local history notes on Scotch Grove residents. Includes Presbyterian church role, Masonic activity, and a long community digest with school, church, and civic items plus social updates and upcoming events throughout the Scotch Grove area.
A Presbyterian church pageant The Daughters of Liberty presented last Sunday evening featured performers from Center Junction including Lorna Livingstone and Velma Pangburn in leading roles. Immigrant and nationalities scenes showcased student talent with piano by Emily Smith and soloist Mrs A Burmeister.
The Onslow high school assembly room hosted teachers, the board of education, and their wives for a birthday surprise honoring superintendent H. W. Bowser with games and music. Snow storms disrupted travel and school, delaying mail and transportation.
The bulletin reports the April 7 1926 wedding of Stella Callahan and Henry Hughes at St Patrick's Garry Owen with reception and plans for a Cascade farm home. It also notes the burial of Lan Sullivan at St Peter's Garry Owen and mentions Evelyn Aitchison and McLaughlin wedding at Des Moines with Aitchison's Cascade ties and hospital career.
The column notes births in Cascade and Cedar Rapids including a son for James and wife at Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids and a new grandson for the Devaneys. It lists burial of Mrs Nallie Graham Cook in Cascade and Gerturde Green Honerbaum of Dubuque's death. It mentions a foundation break for Mike Lauser residence and Lane’s orchestra at an Easter dance.
Walter Buchholtz of Wyoming graduates high school in 1925 and ranks fifth on Iowa State College Ames freshman honor list among 1,506 students with a 93.7 fall average. Various social happenings and local visits follow, including obituaries and theater plans at the era’s community notices.
Castle Grove township trustees met as board of review with no changes to assessor's books. F C Cramer elected road superintendent NE quarter. Tiling contract awarded to Will Siebels. Spray ring annual meeting at school house No 3. officers elected Steve Petersen president S M Hosford vice president Fred Harken secretary. Farmers' Mutual Insurance directors meet and approve McNeilly farm fire claim 1047 dollars. Mrs Herman Hahn and daughters hosted Lutheran Ladies' Aid. meeting postponed due to snowstorm. S M Hosford to lead club girls. Jolly Stitchers lack leader causing standstill. Pauline Cramer left Monticello hospital Sunday. visiting grandmother A W Cramer. Jor Kremers unable to reach from Marion due to heavy roads. chapel services canceled. Mrs L Stadtmueller ill. wishes for recovery. Heiken secured dairy farm work near Des Moines for season. George Specht attended Jones county farm bureau directors meeting in Anamosa Saturday. Ladies Missionary Society met at Harken home. A new daughter welcomed to J H Verner family last week. J W Milroy of Union township did business in vicinity Tuesday. Elizabeth McLaughlin visited Davenport last week.
Mr and Mrs William Crosby announce the birth of a son in the past week. Dell Conklin is seriously ill at his brother Fr La Conklin’s home after returning from Hot Springs for the winter. His wife and son travelled from Carrington ND to care for him. Miss Gladys Woutsehek returned to Iowa City after a month at the Bebee home. Mrs Bebé will stay with her mother and sisters for two weeks. Miss Ruth Paul has been elected teacher for the coming year with Miss Silige in the primary room. The intermediate grade teacher remains to be elected. Helen Rumsey spent Saturday and Sunday at the Kennedy home near Central City. A Harrington family moved into the Watsie Baker house. Sept A Diederich spent last Saturday and Sunday at Davenport.
Fred E Douglass, a former Rand Springs resident born May 18 1877, died March 23 at Mercy hospital Dubuque after a ten day pneumonia illness. He lived many years in Farley then Dubuque with the Dubuque Electric company and is survived by his wife three children two sisters and one brother. He was born near Rand Springs and educated in local schools with many friends who will mourn his passing.
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Fred A Lange of Scotch Grove was baptized by Rev J Willis last Friday and named Vernon Fay. A film about Martin Luther titled The Life of Luther will be shown at the Monticello Opera House next Monday April 12 at 2 PM and 7 20 PM with a notable musical score.
Mrs Menno Siebels of Langworthy attends. German services planned at Wayne Zions Lutheran church at 10 30 a m with Sunday school at 9 30 a m. Wayne Ziton s Lutheran church hosts the Dubuque conference of the Lutheran synod of Iowa and other states April 27 and 28. John Janssen a Wartburg seminary student from Dubuque visits during Easter at Rev J Willms home.
J A Dunlap reports the chau tauqua association will hold the Hopkinton series from August 2 to 6 inclusive. R B Goss attended an American Life Insurance reunion in Des Moines. F J Gestel represented South Fork township patrons at Manchester meeting amid protests against Delaware County Telephone price hikes. A check cashing ring was stopped when Carl P Price confessed to a $50 check cashed from a $6 original, linked to Paul White farm purchases. Farmers State Bank stockholders renewed charters and elected directors W S Johnson J Turnis Frank King William Delay L J Ortmann C C Bernhard B W Humphrey with officers unchanged.
Dr and Mrs F B Sigworth are due home tonight after two months in Florida with time spent in St Cloud where many Anamosa residents wintered. Louis Alferts of Cass township was arrested on a statutory charge and bound over to the next grand jury with a 2500 dollar bond. A Deering McCormick tractor equipped with a Gilbert grader was mentioned in the report.
A list of items offered includes an Ivers & Pond piano with bench in good condition and a bargain, iron and wood beds with springs and mattresses, sanitary cot, dressers, commodes, chiffonier, round dining table, chairs, oak sideboard, rockers, library table, Velvet rugs, kitchen cabinet, porch swing, writing desk, couch, chinaware, cooking utensils and many other articles.
The Jones county spelling contest at the Center Junction high school gymnasium finals drew eight finalists. Wilene Taylor of Anamosa correctly spelled medicine to win the county title after several contestants mis-spelled words such as owing original and favorably.
A narrator jokes about a farm bureau meeting becoming noisy as seven travelin' men complain their gossip about saving the country. The piece notes a hotel lobby scene with seven men arguing and a lodge meeting admitting nine new members, six juniors and three seniors, in Wilbur Nebraska. Michael Korbel, aged 78, died suddenly.
Sunday forenoon apoplexy took the life of a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sacora Sr. On Tuesday evening about fifty guests attended a six o'clock supper at Sacred Heart club rooms in honor of Mr. and Mrs. B F Tyrrell. B A Grimwood presented a silverware gift as a token of esteem from friends.
All leading American and imported granite monuments including rock of ages in stock. Call the shop to see what you buy. No agent commission when buying from us. Well-lettered and well set monuments are our pride. Prices reasonable.
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