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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1931
Page
8
The Wyoming column covers a April tribute to Grand Army veterans, school concerts, student plays, and upcoming commencements. It notes local society activities including WCTU meetings, farm bureau discussions, band fund raising, and community visits by residents and relatives.
The annual event will be held at the Jansen residence with a dainty lunch served after the social hour. In county baseball, Wyoming beat Oxford Junction in the opener, then fell to Onslow and Martelle in the semifinals Saturday morning at Olin.
Amber Presbyterian neighborhood club gathered at the Lloyd Robertsons in Anamosa last Friday for an evening of talks readings and music by Miss Harriet Cunningham Lucile Yount Wilma Yount and others. A picnic luncheon followed with attendees including the Zimmermans and Jansen families, a full slate of readings songs and a program reflecting community life.
Onslow Orr injured finger at corn shelter requiring amputation at first joint. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Will Shuttleworth Craven Cedar Rapids and Mrs Emma Shimerda Oxford Junction. Ladies Missionary Society plans Africa program and May events at Lydia Lyons home. Melvin Spencer and Harriet Lamey visit Cedar Rapids. Mrs R Greiser hospitalized in Anamosa for heart trouble. M B Walters hosted visitors. Jack apastre EJ McKinstry of Anamosa hosted at Lyons residence.
The Castle Grove farm bureau met Friday evening with 35 attendees. County Agent Wortman showed a two reel film Four Men and the Soy and a comic reel. A Readers Digest article on business cycles was read and local musicians performed.
Social notes report visits and callers across the region. Mrs J L Batchelder and Mrs Cap Arduser hosted guests at the Clifford Arduser home. Monticello visitors included Mr. and Mrs Louis Helken and son Irving Eiters. Center Junction resident Ruth Nelson called on the Lou King household. Cascade kin Katherine Marcella Mary and Matt Clement spent Sunday with their mother Sophia Clement. The Leese family and I O Keater party from Clinton vacationed at Ray Chaplin home. Ward OCox spent the weekend.
Prairieburg residents visit and host in Walker Cedar Rapids visitors join DeLancey family for dinner Mrs Wes J Holub wins five dollars at auction Jack O Rourke home hay rope accident claims a life Monticello visitors stop in Anamosa guest Tom Tasker Illness improves for Charles Lamont nurse Will Byerly Mrs Nellie Johnston returns home after illness DeLancey two weeks auction ends.
B G Rees visited from Muscatine area and checked county accounts with Van Kirk. Attorney Marvin Levien to relocate to Anamosa. rents Johnson cottage on Park avenue with Levsen family arriving early month. F D Waterbury taken to Independence after insanity hearing. Charles Cash Sr injured thumb breaking coal with hammer in furnace room. March 1931 tax take $392,034.83 vs March 1930 $402,140.50, signaling nationwide strain. Bert Barrows sent to Anamosa from Cedar Rapids last Tuesday.
Sheriff Frazer reports Barrows as accomplice in a $50 bad check at Hart store Olin. Carl Solburg allegedly engineered the scheme. Stanwood also targeted. Barrows to face preliminary hearing. Elizabeth Noble, longtime Anamosa resident, dies in Cedar Rapids apartment. funeral Friday at 2 at Anamosa Methodist Church, burial in Southwick, Massachusetts.
Richland Center guests include Mr. and Mrs J Wasner and family of Alburnett and Mrs Elizabeth Bohren with Fritz of Monticello visiting Mr and Mrs John Yossi. Castle Grove guests are Mr and Mrs Henry Che. Kiburz and family visit near Scotch Grove. Will Balsiger stays with Andy Smith in Delhi.
The article extols Ecuador as a vast, varied land from Pacific shores through the Andes to the Amazon headwaters. It notes many ancient tribes, distinctive body art, and a landscape rich in grazing areas and agricultural goods, with cotton and wool products emphasized.
A fragmentary chronicle notes ancient drama origins with GOD Bo 4 and the poet Artan at Corinth leading a chorus. It recalls Thes pis of Attica half a century later adding actor interludes, storytelling, and dialogues with the chorus leader.
Atlantic News Telegraph says Gov Turner’s veto will cost him support among road advocates and friends. The paper frames the move as a clear step backward and notes opposition to his stance on state road bonds.
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