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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1925
Page
7
Edison phonographs and a new Buick coupe headline a page of community notes. Miss Alice Petersen and Miss Myra Joseph visit Cedar Rapids and Hopkinton while residents travel to Anamosa Manchester Mason City and Columbus Nebraska. Local shops advertise radios dresses charcoals screen doors and bread, with bake sale set for Saturday and dance pavilion opening May 14.
Monticello community notes celebrate visits by Rev Ernest Arbelger and Mrs. Arbelger of Sugar City Colorado, teacher Gladys Schmidt in Hancock, and local residents Mrs Daisy Gollins and B J Farley. A May 1 baseball game Monticello high versus Mopkinson high is announced, along with church, greenhouse, and celebration notices.
Miss Lucille Bradbrook and Alva Behrends wed at St Matthew's Lutheran with Rev Ide officiating. Miss Adele Huls visits from Chicago prior to a nursing post in Brooklyn. church events planned, John McDonald hospital hires Miss Petra Seehuus. Sophia Schmidt and Daniel Zumbrunnen married at Reform church parsonage. Newton Variety store to start corn club for 20 youths. prizes planned. Rotary elects directors and officers. Folkers celebrate 26th anniversary. County dog license deadline today with penalties. auto licenses strong. Miss Ella Fay McCue named Home Economics president at Iowa State. to work at Elizabeth Inn in Colorado Springs. Monticello Municipal Concert Band reorganized for 33 members with 12 summer concerts. Andrew Spence as tenor soloist.
Business men of Monticello organize the Twilight League to play after supper using soft balls so clerks and executives can form teams and compete for a championship with games on Tuesday and Thursday each week.
Miss Mary M Prull and Henry A Ohe wed at the Prull home yesterday at 2 30 p m attended by William Prull and Miss Edith Q Ohe. The couple will reside in Monticello where Ohe works in the Farmers Mutual creamery in the buttermaking department.
William Hinrichs of Center Junction appeared before Judge J B Travis after a complaint by Golda Steiner of Cedar Rapids. He chose marriage over jail and seeks a divorce from a wife at Center Junction to wed Steiner, with a $1500 bond set for a hearing.
Local society notes describe attendees at a foreign mission ary convention in Anamosa and Presbyterial sessions in Cedar Rapids. Rain improves crops as towns plan opening events for Monticello Country club including women’s parties from May 15 to 20, with officers elected and committees forming for a busy summer.
James A Laude son of Mr and Mrs William Laude of Monticello was elected basketball coach at Rockford high school Illinois This follows a season as captain of the state university team in 1924 and prior all conference mentions He assisted Coach Sam Barry with Iowa spring training and played first base in baseball He plans to graduate next June and begin duties in September Laude ranked eighth in Western Conference scoring with 85 and led in free throws with 46 He also helped set a new conference game free throw record by making ten of eleven.
Readers who mail The Express to relatives high light new two cent home letter rate for two ounces or less and two extra cents for over minimum. The paper ships under pound rate with seventh and eighth zone extra. Publishers urge subscribers to pay $2 to cover postage hikes and note Iowa papers adding 60 cent outside county charges. The Express has not raised its own price yet.
Mr and Mrs W Peck mark sixty years of marriage at their Le Mars home after a Monticello wedding on April 12 1865 Ruby A Starks sister of the late A W Starks. The pair moved from Monticello to Portlandville Plymouth county in 1876 and later settled in Le Mars in 1887.
May events include Hopkinton and Worthington baseball games at the city park Monticello high school senior class play Clarence at 8 pm May 1. An evening operetta May 8 at the new school building follows a postponed game due to rain. May 16 Junior Senior Banquet honors the classes of 1926 and 1925. May 22 domestic science and manual training exhibits open at the new building. May 24 class sermon at the Methodist church and May 28 commencement exercises with Rev Charles Medbury delivering the address.
Ten scouts hiked to Silver Creek last Saturday with a focus on exploration. Rohr found a perfect arrowhead and spotted a killdeer nest on gravel. The group observed toads singing in a pond and noted common water snakes, contrasting them with bull snakes and their roles.
A witty exchange features a doctor joking about dooming a patient to further operations after removing a barber's appendix. The judge counters with a quip about vet or thyroid work and tonsil trimming, highlighting sharp courtroom humor.
The operetta by Claude Richardson presented at the high school auditorium on May 8 1925 at 8 pm features a large cast including Alma Budl Eugene Dewitt Olive Slauson Eloise Schmidt Gesena Johnson Pauline Widmer John Kay and others. Acts range woodland kitchen ballroom scenes with special numbers by Otto Riedel Dorothy Bader Warren Studer admission 25c 35c.
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