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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1939
Page
7
The Express plans a weekly calendar listing meetings of literary and fraternal societies and clubs in Monticello. Readers may call 7 for weekly listings by Tuesday morning. Current items include Bridge clubs, M Club banquet, and opening Country Club dinner dances. Frances Collins wed Yerded Bunting at Exee... parsonage.
William Claus marked another birthday with relatives and friends bringing well filled baskets for a noon gathering. Attendees included the Claus and Woellert families from multiple towns plus neighbors, with a large luncheon afterward.
Miss Laura Prull and Wilbur Nachtrieb of Dubuque wed in a single ring ceremony at St Matthew’s Lutheran on Friday at 8 pm. Rev H L Adix officiated. The couple, attended by Freda Prull and Theodore Sager, announced their home in Dubuque after a reception at Schoon’s tea room and a short wedding trip.
The 80 percent planting requirement for wheat corn and other crops with special allotments is amended Farmers no longer must plant 80 percent to qualify for maximum payment Previously payments were based on 125 percent of planted acres The change is welcomed across the corn belt Also notes on legumes grasses nurse crops and drought insect factors and a Des Moines moisture grade check on local shelled corn No 2 yellow 13.0 percent moisture
Otto J Heinze was freed from Anamosa men s reformatory Tuesday after Judge J E Heiser Man sustained a writ of habeas corpus. Heine had served as a law inmate since March 9 1938 for carrying concealed weapons and the judge ruled that no penalty was fixed by law for the time he was committed.
New Elkader owners L. C. Quinn and N. W. Kuehl bought the Blue Star Tavern on First Street and began remodeling it for a big open next week Saturday. The interior will be redecorated with booths for 40, a new 8 by 18 foot kitchen, a back bar, and separate lunch and ice cream counters. Pool tables will be removed and card tables added.
The Green Lantern Roller Rink on the Marie Bader lot near the public school opens this Saturday at 8 PM. It measures fifty by one hundred feet with maple flooring and a canvas top, offering 200 pairs of skates and two evening sessions from 8 to 10 and 10 to midnight. Rex Rohrer and Don Sowerwine of Virginia operate the rink, after running one in Dubuque and visiting Cascade Manchester Coggon and Maquoketa. Private parties may be booked for the second session.
The Lenten season boosted the local Methodist church with many new members and record Sunday school attendance. A children’s class led by Mrs. Woodall will join on Children's Day the second Sunday in June, with many to be baptized. A Sunday school picnic is set for Buck Creek on June 21.
Monticello Boy Scout troop 49 joins Cedar Rapids Circus on April 28 at the Coliseum. Scouts meet Friday at 6 pm with uniforms optional. Transportation and circus costs are covered. Parent tickets cost 25 cents from Milton Langer. The show starts at 7 15 PM.
By order of a Jones County Iowa district court clerk a sheriff sale is set for May 20 1936 in front of the county courthouse Anamosa Iowa at 100 clocks a.m. Property: Lots 7 8 9 10 block 35 Original plat Center Junction. Sold to satisfy a Monticello State Bank judgment against Robert G Mead for 291 43 plus 26 22 costs.
Column notes spring signs and local vignettes including Ted Crawford illness in Cedar Rapids and his plan if it recurs. Bud Denkhoff loses a watch sale as a crowd gathers to inspect a smashed car. Mentions of Roy Wrights farm ratler, Onslow baseball, Harold Tedrow cream truck risk, new Blue Star Tavern operators L. C. Quinn and N. W. Kuehl, PTA head Mrs Riess Stuhler, Rotary president Jim Maurice, and Milton Langer rising. Boyd Shannon remarks on pink eye placard.
For the first time in 13 months the county jail is without a prisoner this week. Sheriff Eichhorn notes his wife Mrs. Henry Eichhorn will get a rest from cooking for the six to ten inmates. Two remaining prisoners were released last Wednesday completing sentences. Deputy Cooley says they must fill cells as the lawn awaits mowing.
Three Jones County cattle feeders were at the midweek market in Chicago stock yards. George Manternach of Monticello shipped 39 head of 1238 pound beeves selling at 12.50 per cwt. Fred Buchholtz of Wyoming earned 10 per cwt on 24 head averaging 1086 pounds. Delay Brothers near Monticello received 12.25 per cwt for 20 head averaging 1260 pounds.
M. A. Brislawn 47 of Prairieburg pled guilty before Judge E Heiserman on Thursday afternoon to malicious injury to a building. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail with release after a week for good behavior. Complaint filed by Vernie Dudley states Brislawn broke a door at Dudley’s home on April 13 and threatened the household.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church led by Rev. A L Lorenz offers Masses Sundays 8 and 10, Holy Days 6 15 to 9, weekdays 7, Confessions Saturday 3 30 and 7. Congregational Church under Samuel G Gutensohn hosts school at 10 worship at 11 with sermon By Faith Moses and invites worshipers. Methodist Church led by George Woodall lists Sunday school 10 worship 11 Epworth League 6 45 with sermon The Cloud of Witnesses and children's story No Such Thing As Dirt. Claire Shannon tells a Bible story. Wayne Zion Lutheran led by F H Kehren has 9 30 Sunday school and Bible class 10 30 Divine worship in German. April 27 Ladies Aid at 1 and choir rehearsal at 7 45.
The excerpt lists church activities including Luther League Federation meeting at Ryan with Pastor Senst, St. John Evang Lutheran welcoming services and Sunday school, St. Matthew's Lutheran with 9:45 Sunday school and 10:45 English service, and a May 7 Sunday school convention at Lost Nation Castle Grove Lutheran Church with a Luther League ping pong match against St. Matthew's. Presbyterian service details are also noted.
Morning worship at 11 with the sermon A Word from the Lord. Evening service at 7:30 features the play Great Possessions directed by Melburne Grant, with performers including Leslie Reade and others. Church school at 10, theme When the Lord Walks By Our Side. Ladies Aid meets next Wednesday in the church basement bringing a potluck lunch. Celebration marks tenth anniversary of the pastor and family. Confirmation reunion scheduled for Sunday morning May aaa.
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