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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1919
Page
9
Local society notes list Cedar Rapids visitors include Mrs Thomas Smithson and Mr John Zimmerman last Tuesday. Hats featured at Devlin Millinery with promotions and travel mentions of Ottumwa and Dubuque visitors. Dr Redmond advertises eye testing and Rex Beach film at Princess next week.
Miss Mona Tesar of Hopkinton marries Roy Trafton at the Tesar home. The 1894 Club hosts guest day at the public library with a play She Organized a Club and refreshments for 40 attendees. News covers soldiers Charles and Mitchell Schneider, their service and Croix de Guerre award, plus Emima Vehon’s Chicago funeral and the return of Helen Hursh Adams to her Kansas City father.
The third community program will be held next Friday at 8 pm in the opera house. A 35 minute play titled Lest We Forget or Victory Loan will be staged by high school members with Emily and Billy Barnard and Irish Sarah in supporting roles. The Victory Loan drive in Jones county is led by Mrs Barnard, with a cast list including La Vera Rockstad Harriet Rohn William Rickless Emma Rhatigan Carolyn Stabler and others.
Rev J H Corkey of Winterset spoke at the opera house on the Y M C A in wartime France noting 12 000 workers overseas and 760 000 monthly funds sent home with no charges to soldiers. He described gas attacks on May 27 1918 and the Y M C A canteen and entertainment work in France. A free will offering supported his Monticello travel expenses.
Irving Hintz visited the psychology class on Tuesday morning. There will be no school Thursday and Friday for a teachers institute at Anamosa. The community sing at the opera house Friday at 8 PM includes 15 minutes of singing and a play by the sophomore class. The sophomores enjoyed a gym roller skating party Friday night. Miss Kluss and Miss McClintock spent the weekend at home. The Boys Glee Club performed Tuesday at the opera house. A student asks where the Philippine Islands are, with the reply West Indies.
The Cornell Conservatory announces its twenty first annual festival with performances May 8 9 and 10 featuring Mme Hulda Laghanska Heifetz rivaled talent Harnest Hutcheson and three Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts. Arthur Middleton Harry Weisbach and Enrico Tramonti join as soloists in a program aimed at out of town patrons. Confirmation services were held at St Matthew s Lutheran church with a list of names announced. Mrs Joseph Shedek of Oxford Junction dies after illness.
The Monti cello churches plan Easter Sunday programs with organ preludes and choirs. The Congregational Church features soloist Mrs. C G Thomas and double quartet, plus Mozart Gloria, readings from Luke, Easter offertory, and Gaul sermon. An evening Sunday school Easter pageant titled Immortality and Love is set for 7:30.
A local concert features choirs and orchestra performing a sequence of sacred works. Performers include Mrs Bosley Miss Vern Alcorn Miss Carrie Cowan and Prof L W Dunlap with C B Crane directing. The program spans O’Hara Double Choirs Gabriel Cantata Easter Angels The Wander ing Angels and The Angels of the Resurrection among other items.
The Rev Dr Sherman Powell will speak at both morning and evening services. Hymns, anthems, solos, and offertories led by Grace Fox Mrs N C Rice and others accompany a sermon by Powell focusing on the Resurrection. Postlude and organ pieces close the Easter observance with choir and congregation participation.
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