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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1939
Page
2
Community notes list Jane Benesh visiting relatives in Blairstown and Kathleen Hayes from Cedar Rapids spending the weekend with friends. Many residents travel to Chicago, Waterloo, St. Louis, and Des Moines for visits, shopping, or family events. Ice cream socials, dressmaking ads, and local clerks changing jobs appear alongside weekend trips and family news.
Local notes record numerous visits and births in Monticello and surrounding area. Families, relatives, and friends travel between Cedar Rapids and Chadwick Missouri while community events, sales, and church gatherings fill the week.
Monticello residents share visits and travels with relatives in Manchester Decorah Iowa City and Minneapolis. Several family and school connections are noted along with a newborn John Inter at Kruse Auto Parts celebrating its first year and a new repair access door.
Mrs. George Guyan returned home Thursday from a week with her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Siegfried Guyan, in Winnetka, Ill. She was accompanied by her brother who will visit briefly. Arthur Skelley and James Skelley with their spouses visited Toledo, staying with Mrs. Skelley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Carson, and returned with Alan Skelley who had been visiting grandparents for two weeks.
Mr and Mrs T M Felten of McCook Nebraska visited Mrs William Oltman and family this week before Felten returned home. The Hubbards from Montevideo and Cedar Rapids stayed with Burt Hubbard and family as visiting relatives. Maude Lightfoot spent five weeks in Mitchell and Minnesota returning with her sister and husband A H Bailey of Mitchell. Rev Allan Darling and Beth Wallis welcomed daughter Mary Elizabeth weighing nine pounds three ounces, the first grandchild in the family.
Miss Catherine Fothergill of Shares Chemical Cedar Rapids spent her vacation last week with her parents Mr and Mrs C G Pothergill. She also stayed two days with Mr and Mrs Dean McDonald at Center Junction.
Marcella O Rourke of Cedar Rapids spent the weekend at her mother Mrs Joe O Rourke home. Ray Hearn redecorated his barber shop mirror case achieving a mottled black and white effect and plans further improvements. Irvin Davis added a second chair and his Hopkinton brother will become a regular assistant.
A. B. Burgess died of a heart attack while feeding hogs at his Marion area farm. James Rohr moved the body before hogs attacked. No inquest. A late Saturday wreck on Primary No. 20 near Manchester injured Walter Burns of Waterloo and Miss Brownie Does of Chicago. Burns suffered a fractured left shoulder and Does injuries.
Eight couples obtained marriage licenses at the clerk of court’s office during the last week. The list includes R Connor Owen and Doris Howe. Floyd Groth and Helen Price. Myrie Shover and Corinne Lackman. Eric V Owen and Gertrude Prult. Mr and Mrs Leyland Skelley of Des Moines vacationed at home then traveled to Minneapolis with Mrs Skelley visiting sisters.
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