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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1928
Page
2
Rev. Paul T Gutknecht visits Chicago as Winchester paint and McNeill Haw appear in local listings. Multiple residents including Mrs Frank Kaveleski and Frank Liddy visit Davenport and Cedar Rapids for business and social events. Miss Dorothy Egger and Miss Mary Jarman among Monticello teachers renewed contracts while Jeweled listings and hardware promotions appear.
Public librarian Miss Florence Noble lists new circulation titles including six children’s books, twelve fiction titles, and four late Victorian works. Prominent items include Wisp, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry, Peggy by Request, and Peter Pan illustrated edition. Many works are classics with varied themes from adventure to romance.
Friday evening Sacred Heart School staged For the Love of Johnny a three act melodrama by Harry Hamilton arranged with Dennison Co. Chicago The show ended with unions of Johnny and Ethel Banks and Phil and Dorothy amid praise and calls for a repeat The junior history class debated tariffs with the affirmative winning in a close decision by the judge
A choir from St. Peter's English Lutheran church of Dubuque will give a concert Sunday evening April 22 at St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran church. It starts at o'clock under Fred Schoenbohm with Miss Helen Scheidecker as accompanist. No admission, but a free-will offering will be taken. The program includes prayers, choruses, solos, and the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah.
The undersigned announces his candidacy for the nomination to be owner of state senator for the twenty fourth senatorial district subject to the pleasure of Republican voters at the June primaries. Your support will be appreciated. Cc L. Rigby.
Prohibition enforcement raids were conducted in Cedar Rapids last Saturday resulting in a large crowd of offenders being taken into custody.
Aunt Het and her sisters impersonated by local residents hosted a six o clock bridge party for the Thursday Evening Bridge club at Mrs. E K Shelley s home marking the season s end. Miss Mate Siemering won high score and the club closed with a luncheon at Maples Inn followed by more bridge at Mrs. Kay s home. Additional events include a Friday bridge session at Maples Inn and a surprise party for Miss Agnes Maire and Miss Marie Widmer with old fashioned costumes and lunch baskets at a country school.
Miss Vivian Bancroft entertained eight guests last Monday evening. The party featured a cake with fifteen burning candles. Attendees included Vivian Smith Helen Mangold Sibyl Hutton Howard McLaughlin Bruce Suthers Eugene Rodman Milton Langer and Charles Eby.
Thirty guests gathered Monday at the Knights of Columbus hall to celebrate Virginia Schneider’s nineteenth birthday with dancing and cards. William Lubben and Anna observed their twelfth wedding anniversary with a surprise gathering. Mrs. Andreas Florine celebrated her eightieth birthday on April 18 with relatives and friends, enjoying good health.
Garnett Thomas 14 and Rose Cooke 16, local Cedar Rapids residents, were rounded up in Chicago Tuesday after traveling from Cedar Rapids last week. They reportedly rode a bus through Monticello to Cascade seeking to see the world.
Miss Lucy Held and Emil Conrad, both of Dyersville, were married last Tuesday morning at the Catholic church.
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