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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 21, 1932

Page

2

Local Items Highlight Visits and Social News

Local society notes detail visits and guests across Monticello and surrounding towns including Dubuque Cedar Rapids and Anamosa. Several residents travel to Cascade Maquoketa and Independence while gatherings appear at Altman building and Legion hall. A gardening note promotes spraying for green lice.

Monticello and Cedar Rapids social notes mixed with seed ads

A long list of Monticello residents attends events in nearby towns and attends gatherings with relatives. Garden and seed tips from Stuhlers' Seed Department appear alongside local family visits and church notices.

Tacoma man Edward Thompson returns home by car

Edward Thompson of Tacoma Washington spent the winter with his niece Miss Lora R Houston a public health nurse and returned home this week by automobile

Edward Thompson Tacoma Washington Lora R. Houston

District Young People's convention at Anamosa church

Reverend G Gutensohn and Boyd Shannon attended with Misses Alice Palmer Margaret and Muriel Hanssen and Hazel Houston at the district convention held Sunday at the First Congregational church in Anamosa. Other towns represented included Dubuque Anamosa Manchester and Earlville.

Social and Club News Highlights From Local Meetings

Lillian Hearn hosted U and I club quilting session with refreshments. Schreiner chapter OES hosts benefit bridge and five hundred at Masonic Temple on April 22. FP PEO met with Mary Coxsee presentation on flower gardening. St Matthew's Ladies Aid sewed for church and socialized. Needlework Guild worked on quilt blocks and crafts. Mrs Ed Huibregtse hosted. Mrs Van Bockern visiting from Lennox. Parent-Teacher Association set April 26 program on boy and girl problems with Emma Grote and Minard Stout speaking. refreshments to follow. Alpha Delphian met with program on Iowa war contributions and infrastructure. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Methodist church discussed education and mystery box. Neighbors celebrated Mrs Mary Eagan's birthday with Five Hundred and lunch. Congregational Woman's Missionary Society met at Miss Carrie Page's with bank offering for home missions and Uncle Sam's family topic.

Ed Huibregtse Albert van Bockern Lennox Texas Parent-Teachers Association Emma Grote Minard Stout Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church Bertha Schatz Howard Deischer Christ Lou Lang Woman's Missionary Society of Congregational Church Woman's Missionary Society of the Congregational Church Carrie Page Hoult Uncle Sam Clayton Palmer Halstead Carpenter Clara Koop

Social club sketches honor American women at Wilkens home

At a Friday gathering hosted by Mrs. George Wilkens the 94 club featured biographical sketches of Patty Hill Dorsey and Martha Van Rensselaer by Mrs. A M Maurice and Carey Thomas Virginia Gildersleeve by Mrs. Albert McNeill plus life of Rose Fyerman and Fairy Tales by Rose Fyleman read by Mrs. Samuel Gutensohn. The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian church met Wednesday for a social afternoon with a business meeting and refreshments hosted by Mrs. A M Bollinger. Mr and Mrs Howard Skelley hosted a six o clock birthday supper honoring twin daughters Shirley Jean and Ann Marie with twenty five relatives attending.

George Wilkens 94 Club Patty Hill Dorsey Martha van Rensseler A. M. Maurice Ladies' Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church A. M. Bollinger R. P. Clark Henry Helsey Georges Hein Henry Helms Jess Martinsen Will Wenger Hans Ruof John Wilson T. T. Hexsey Mra Howard Skelley Shirley Jean Ann Marie Julia Balcom Will Skelley Adolph Ehrisman Leigh Clark Carl Schneider Vinton Lou Ehrisman Helen Sawyer Billy Corbin Robert Thoeni

Shirley Jean's Birthday Gifts and Local Bridge Club News

Delta Dek Bridge Club meets with Mrs. Smith in Marion with two tables of play. Asa Lambert wins high score and Carl Hod son takes the prize as guests include Mrs. Carl Jolly. A family dinner honors Mrs. Jack Sistrunk of New Orleans with ten at table and many relatives from Cedar Rapids to Wyoming.

E. G. Burrichter Katherine Hauss Cedar Rapids Jack Buchanann June Meyer Georgia Miller Recene Ashton Ruth Webster Waterloo Miss Webster Delta Dek Bridge Club William E. Smith Marion Delta Dek Monticello Asa Lambert Carl Hodson Carl Jolly Smith John H. Perrine Jack Sistrunk New Orleans Louisiana Herb Henderson Sistrunk Marie Keenan S. G. Franks Wyoming Fritz Husman Mr. Husman Carl Phyllis Null John Nui Carl Husman Ben Husman John Husman

Friday Literary Club Celebrates 45th Anniversary in Monticello

The Friday Literary club held its forty fifth anniversary at Mrs Stewart Stuhler's home with Rev Paul T Gutknecht Mildred Null and Philip Bailey among guests. The event featured a short play and annual tea. centerpieces depicted a league of nations council with passport place cards. Committee members included Mrs Stewart Stuhler Mrs John Fraser Riess Stuhler and Mrs C G Thomas. The club founded April 23 1887 remains Monticello oldest literary circle with current members listed.

Friday Stewart Stuhler League of Nations’ Council John Fraser Riess Stuhler C. G. Thomas Monticello Halstead M. Carpenter Henry M. Carpenter Harriet C. Coughlan John H. Fraser L. W. Lovell Charles J. Northrop John Perrine H. 8. Richardson Arthur Skelley Frederick P. Stuhler Riess G. Stuhler Edward Templeton H. M. Carpenter Templeton

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