New Chamber Of Commerce Is Established In Monticello
A new Monticello Chamber of Commerce was organized in the public library auditorium. The board includes Ray Hoag Burton McLaughlin Emil C Ricklefa W A Beery H W Stuhler C A Coxsee Fred Lehman A J H McNeill Dr T M Redmond H M Carpenter Jr The dues for 1933 are set at 1 year. The group plans to affiliate with the national chamber to gain recovery act guidance and broader prosperity. The meeting was led by H W Stahler and director nominees were approved unanimously. Directors convene this morning to elect officers for 1933. New Monticello store hours are 7 am to 6 pm weekdays and 7 am to 11 pm Saturday with no Sunday opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Monticello
Publc
Ray Hoag
Burton McLaughlin
Emil C. Ricklefa
W. A. Beery
H. W. Stuhler
C. A. Coxsee
Fred Lehman
A. J. H. McNeill
T. M. Redmond
H. M. Carpenter
National Chamber of Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Monticello Group
United States
H. W. Stahler
H. M. Carpenter, Jr
Anamosa Farmer Shoots Hired Man Then Surrenders
Tullos McGuire a 60 year old farmer nine miles southeast of Anamosa shot Harvey Eye a farm hand twice at 830 pm Tuesday as Eye returned home with the McGuire family Eye was critically wounded and McGuire surrendered voluntary telling officials jealousy over his wife caused the shooting He was held at Anamosa and charged with assault and battery with intent to murder Eye had worked for McGuire all summer and Tuesday went to Anamosa with Mrs McGuire and others after the shooting McGuire told a neighbor then walked toward town to give himself up but rode with the neighbor instead until arrested by the county sheriff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Eye
Tullos McGuire
Anamosa
McGuire
Levyson
Eye
Morley Booster Day Planned for September 4
The Morley Booster club announces booster day on Monday September 4 with committee chairmen elected for ground concessions day entertainment night entertainment baseball advertising dance lights and police roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morley Booster Club
Art Boots
Charles Miller
Cliff Miller
Leola Stivers
Dwight Pulver
F. L. Shankland
C. D. Stingley
W. F. Cook
Leo Jackson
W. D. Hart
H. Tjaden
Anamosa Man Jailed After Paying Purported Fine
D. H. Conley of Anamosa mistook a Cedar Rapids residence for a police station when he pressed a man’s family for a drink and offered money. Mrs. Wilson called police, and Conley was jailed for three days in lieu of a $10 fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H. Conley
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Albert Wilson
Anamosa Golfers Defeat Manchester Across Two Meets
Wapsipinicon Country Club golfers beat the Manchester club team on the Anamosa course by a total of 109 strokes in a second win this season. The second match was held at Manchester on Sunday, July 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wapsipinicon
Manchester
Anamosa
Mary Burrichter Sings Twice At City Park Concert
Miss Mary Burrichter will perform two solos at the weekly city park band concert. She will sing Goofus and parts of the Songs of Scotland medley. The program opens with Rosini’s William Tell overture and includes Lampe’s Home Sweet Home the World Over with other marches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary “Burrichter
City Park
Scotland
Rossini
Lampe
William Tell
Mary Burrichter
Nearby News Briefs Highlight Prohibition Stop and Local Loss
Federal agents seized 150 gallon cans of alleged alcohol after stopping a westbound car driven by Thomas Salisbury of Tilden Nebraska on highway 20 near Dyersville. He was jailed. George Langschwager died in Cedar Rapids after a long illness. born in Germany he lived in Olin and Cedar Rapids and had six children. The Hand Fischer lumber yard in Maquoketa was destroyed by lightning fire, with an estimated 25 thousand dollar loss and insurance on inventory. Every Iowa county will receive indigent patient quotas for the University of Iowa Hospital next year, per hospital administrator Robert Neff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Salisbury
Tilden
Neb
Dyersville
George Langschwager
Olin
Ivan D. Miller
Cedar Rapids
Petersdorf
Germany
America
Chicago
L. H. Langschwager
Miller
Louise Todtz
Maquoketa
University of Iowa Hospital
Robert
Neff
Three Per Cent Tax Shifts From Users To Electric Firms
The three per cent tax on electricity, originally billed to individual customers, will after September 1 be paid by electric companies under a new clause in the Federal Industrial Control act. The tax moves from consumer to producer as legislation changes.
No More Factory Work For State Prisoners
The NRA rules of the president and associates bar prison made products from sale. Iowa prisons formerly employed hundreds in furniture shirt dress and apron manufacture. now what to do with prisoner employment remains unsettled as penologists back work but calling for a rigid ban ends the option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NRA
Iowa
Board of Control
Items Of Occurrences Twenty Five Years Ago August 1008
The Monticello Express lists events from August twenty five years prior. It notes the arrival of thirty Chicago youths for two week vacations, a young widow Alice George Meyer dying in Excelsior Springs at 23, deaths of several locals including George Scherrer and Miss Jennie Haeussler, a pension increase for John Fitzsimons, and the Hagenbeck Wallace show visiting Monticello amid hoodlum complaints. It also notes visits to the Des Moines state fair by local residents and mentions various deaths and family movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Express
Chicago
Alice George Meyer
Excelsior Springs
Otto Meyer
Libbie
Mary
Thomas
Louis
Charles Scherrer
Catherine Miller
Lamont
George
John Fitzsimons
Mr. Fitzsimons
William Sutherland
Cook
Neb
Flora Black
Wyoming
Dubuque
Alison
Muongus
Hagenbeck-Wallace
Monticello
Jennie Haeussler
Davenport
B. D. Haeussler
Prairieburg
Des Moines
Andrew Davidson
M. Hofacre
George Tobiason
Fred Zimmerman
Marshall Neil
C. K. Greer
William Corbin
Richardson
John McLaughlin
BE. J. Noble
Will Hintz
Rudolph Bohren
John Egger
Chris Balsiger
M. E. Balsiger
John Boss
R. Boner
John Hasler
Ben Herren
Gerd Rickels
Gerd Harms
Henry Poppe, Jr
Mount Vernon Defeats Mount Moutt Golf Team
Mount Vernon wins by 1 336 to 1 294 as Eastern Iowa Golf Association meet looms next Sunday. Thoeni led Monticello side with 44 38 82 while Roy Low led Mount Vernon with 38 37 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Laude
Byers
Podhaski
Roberts
Methodist
Thoeni
Roy Low
Itowa Golf Association
Monticello
Milton Thoeni
Emil Ricklefs
Ralph J. Bone
George Lovell
Ben Cotton
James Redmond
Earl H. de Shaw
William Shaffer
Francis Shimanek
Lynn Hauss
Carl Hodson
George Dennis
August Ricklefs
John Locher
Howard Robertson
Hawkeye Air Circus Set for Oelwein Show Sunday
The Hawkeye air circus featuring pilots and airport managers from nearby towns will perform in Oelwein next Sunday. Monticello participants include Ralph H. McCaffree manager of Monticello Municipal airport Kenneth Benesh and Alva Zimmerman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkeye Air Circus
Oelwein
Ralph H. McCaffree
Monticello
Kenneth Benesh
Alva Zimmerman
Frank Cyr Monticello Visitor This Week Feeds Adventures
Frank H Cyr of New York City visits Monticello this week sharing a long list of adventures from ships to restaurants. He sailed around the world in 1930 aboard the Van Buren with a bosn known as Sailor Mantel and joined Foreign Legionaires with Blackie and Zip for a globe trotting voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Cyr
Monticello
Bos'n
Harry Greb
Frank H. Cyr
New York City
Cyr
New York
Greenwich Village
van Buren
Panama
San Francisco
Hawaii
Japan
China
Philippines
India
Sues Canal
Mediterranean
Naples
Italy
Marseilles
France
Gibraltar
Sailor Mantel
Frank Webb
Blackie
Zip
Foreign Legionaires
Singapore
French Foreign Legion
Kobe
World News Briefs From The Century Of Progress Era
Reports from Chicago and beyond cover Italian airmen reaching the Azores on return from the Century of Progress, Cuba’s civil war violence near the president’s palace, a solo Norwegian voyage to Chicago, and eight million visitors to the fair. NRA codes, hog price plans, Iowa Legion actions, Kansas bond forgery, drowning at Edgemoor, Roosevelt’s Cuba intervention, and a Dubuque public hugging fine are noted with local and national figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balbo
Italy
Chicago
Azores
Lisbon
Editor Of The Leader Closes 45th Volume
Will S Beels completed his thirty third year as publisher of The Hop kinton Leader July 27. He bought The Leader in August 1900 and finished the paper's forty fifth volume two weeks ago. The Leader has grown steadily under his editorship with new machinery and a linotype. This year marks his fifty third milestone in the printing and newspaper business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will S. Beels
Hopkinton Leader
Leader
Mr. Beels
Former Manchester Man Placed Under Charges
W. A. Jarvis a former Manchester businessman who vanished in winter 1931 has been found in Sterling Colorado. An indictment reportedly exists in Delaware county for uttering false checks and is the main charge he faces. Sheriff Utley headed to Sterling to return him. Jarvis ran an automobile agency and dealt in livestock and general trading while in Manchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W .A. Jarvis
Manchester
Sterling
Colo
Jarvis
Delaware County
Sheriff Utley
Evangelist Aimee McPherson to Lead Cedar Rapids Revival
Aimee Semple McPherson, famed evangelist, has agreed to conduct revival services in Cedar Rapids at the Memorial building. She will arrive with her assistants and begin August 17 to promote a spiritual campaign for the Four Square Gospel group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aimee Semple McPherson
Los Angeles
Four Square Gospel
Cedar Rapids
Memorial Building
Coggon Harvest Home Festival Set for Friday and Saturday
Coggon's annual Harvest Home festival will be celebrated tomorrow and Saturday with entertainment from 10 a.m. to late evening.
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Coggon
Cascade's Oldest Woman Resident Dead at 89
Mrs. Sara Hickman 89, born Sara South in Dubuque on November 20 1843, died Sunday at 10 30 am at her daughter’s home. She lived in Cascade after marriage to Kimball Hickman 1860, farmed at Spring Branch, ran a dressmaking shop, survived by two daughters, nine grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren, and 18 great great grandchildren, funeral at Consolidated church conducted by Rev. Charles Rabenberg.
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Sara Hickman
Cascade
Hickman
Sara South
Dubuque
Richard and
Kimball Hickman
Spring Branch
Hopkinton
Classes Not To Be Included In The NRA
A list outlines which classes are excluded from the NRA including professional occupations public employees agricultural labor domestic servants and those buying and selling goods independently of commission sales with regular employees included.
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NRA
Health winners named in Jones county 4-H judging
Florence Wehling and Donald Meeks named healthiest 4-H club members in Jones county after community health contests judged by three Anamosa physicians. Florence scored 97.1 and will represent the county at the state fair in Des Moines. Donald scored 94.7, closely behind. Other entrants include Lucile Livingstone, Elsa Peck, Mary Koch, Evelyn Stivers, Virginia Yount, George Mann, and Dale Mayberry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Wehling
Henry Wehling
Monticello
Donald Meeks
W. B. Meeks
Martello
Jones County
Carl Smith
Des Moines
Florence
Rainbow Club
Wayne Township
J. W. Streeter
Anamosa
Lucile Livingstone
Center Junction
Elsa Peck
Wyoming
Mary Koch
Evelyn Stivers
Olin
Virginia Yount
Young Meeks
Carl
George Mann
Dale Mayberry
Lambert Restaurant Sold to Ralph Griffith Last Saturday
Mrs Evaline Lambert sold her interest in her Lambert Restaurant on First Street to Ralph Griffith last Saturday. Possession was given Sunday. The Lamberts renovate the Phelps property they recently bought and plan to open a rooming house soon on primary 113 in Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evaline Lambert
First Street
Ralph Griffith
Express Adapts Shop to New NIRA Rules
The Express rearranged its shop methods starting last Monday to comply with President Roosevelt's National Industrial Recovery Act. It sets 40 hour weeks, maintains higher than minimum wages, and asks the public to cooperate by sending notices early in the week. Advertising copy should be in by Tuesday noon for that week's insertion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Express
Roosevelt
The
Autogiro Set to Fly At Jones County Fair
The Des Moines Register and Tribune autogiro will visit the Jones County Fair on Wednesday August 23 for demonstrations and rides marking the fair’s eightieth anniversary from August 22 to 25. Pilot Charles Gatchet will operate the craft as it tours Iowa with prior appearances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines Register and
Tribune Autogiro
Jones County Fair
Charles Gatchet
Iowa
Register
Panilina
Jones County
Floral Hall
Harry Rodman
Jones County Fair Association
C. W. Kunath Opens Coryell Service Station
C W Kunath opened a Coryell 70 service station last Saturday in the Rickels garage on Main Street, in a quarters formerly used by the Barnsdall station. He offers gasoline oils and grease and plans to add tires and batteries. Gene Chaloupka assists. Kunath was formerly in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Kunath
Rickels
Main Street
Barnsdall
Gene Chaloupka
My. Kunath
Cedar Rapids
Wyoming Girl Dies By Own Action In Suicide
Sylvia Vacek a 16 year old Wyoming girl daughter of Mr and Mrs Anton Vacek took carbolic acid Monday morning after breakfast. She was found dead in her upstairs room about noon. Coroner J J Hayes of Monticello said no inquest was held as suicide was self evident. She was a Wyoming high school junior and survived by her parents three brothers Frank Charles George and sister Emily all at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvian Vacek
Anton Vacek
Wyoming
J. J. Hayes
Monticello
Sylvia
Wyoming High School
Frank
Charles
George
Emily
Pictures and Souvenirs Of Big Fairs On Exhibit At Library
The Monticello public library hosts a week long exhibit of pictures programs badges and souvenirs from fairs including the 1893 Chicago exposition the 1915 San Francisco fair the 1926 Philadelphia sesquicentennial and the ongoing Century of Progress in Chicago. Imogene Stuhler loaned items from her collection and attended the inaugural reception of the Chicago fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Library Now
Imogene Stuhier
Monticello Public Library
Chicago
Philadelphia
America
Columbus
Boxing Fights at Cascade Legion Grounds
Boxing event at Cascade Legion Grounds features 28 rounds with a main six round bout between Terry Dolphin of Cascade and Andy Barney of St Louis. Admission charged 40c for men and 25c for ladies.
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Cascade
Terry Dolphin
Andy Barney
St. Louis
Mrs Stewart Stuhler and party visit Wisconsin
Mrs Stewart Stuhler and Mrs Imogene Stuhler traveled to Shullsburg Wisconsin last Sunday. They were greeted by Harry Haley of Madison Wisconsin and Jackie Stuhler who had spent a week with his grandparents in Madison and returned home with his mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart Stuhler
Imogene Stuhler
Shullsburg
Wis
Harry Haley
Madison
Jackie Stuhler
Monticello Hosts Large Eastern Iowa Golf Meet
Monticello Country club will host the Eastern Iowa Golf Association meet next Sunday with eighty players from eight clubs Monticello Manchester Anamosa Marion Mount Vernon Tipton West Liberty and Maquoketa. The event adopts a state national style with judges per foursome Monticello supplying six judges and five field men while other clubs provide two judges each. About 185 participants including caddies and officials will create a crowded scene as Don Young oversees play with assistance from Charles Burkart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Eastern Iowa Golf Association
Manchester
Anamosa
Marion
Mount Vernon
Tipton
West Liberty
Maquoketa
Don Young
Charles Burkart
Marion Country Club
Infected Animals Stolen From Lincoln Hospital
Mrs Gladys Smits reports 30 rabbits and 6 guinea pigs inoculated with dangerous infectious diseases were stolen from Lincoln General Hospital near the garage. The animals were used in arthritis and infection studies. Hospital warns of health risk and urges thief to contact authorities to protect ongoing tests and public safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport Daily Times
Lincoln
Cedar Rapids Poet Jay Sigmund Hurt In Car Crash
Cedar Rapids poet Jay Sigmund and his wife were seriously injured Sunday when their car was sideswiped and overturned on the way to an art colony meeting. They and their three children were involved. the children escaped injury. The poet lost a finger and Mrs. Sigmund had internal injuries. Both were listed as extremely serious at Mercy Hospital in Anamosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay Sigmund
Cedar ‘Rapids
Sigmund
Stone City Art Colony
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
Kelsey Appointed Judge in Jackson County Seat
Frank D. Kelsey of Maquoketa was named judge in the seventh judicial district to replace the late Clarence L. Ely. He will serve the remainder of Ely’s term through January 1, 1935. The county bar urged Walter Keck, but political fit favored Kelsey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank D. Kelsey
Maquoketa
Clarence L. Ely
Kelsey
Adjourn Nels Louvring Inquest
Private inquest into the death of Fayette resident Nels Louvring, shot from ambush on July 29, was adjourned earlier in the week until today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nels
Nels Louvring
Fayette
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New Chamber of Commerce
Anamosa Farmer
Morley
Anamosa Man
the Express
Mt. Vernon
Moutt
Leo Custer
American Legion
Havana
Cuba
Gerardo Machado
Alfon Hansen
Mary Jane
Oslo
Norway
Florida
Mississippi River
Illinois Waterway
Paul Hundley
Enoree
South Carolina
Legion
Iowa Legionaries
Ray Pierce
Morning Sun
James Landry
Stewart
Glenn L. Gray
Rockwell City
R. J. “Skin” Laird
Algona
J. A. Nye
Ida Grove
Earl Burgess
Leonard J. Pint
Fort Dodge
W. J. O'Connell
William N. Oler
Ottumwa
Hanford Ost
Ted Drew
Howard Botts
Hampton
Kansas
Topeka
T. B. Boyd
Ronald Finney
Edgemoor
Machado
William Yawlin
Baldwin
Dorothy Meyers
Yachin
Aimee S. McPherson
Wilma Kirkwood
Little Brown Church
Stephen Jones
Nashua
A. W. McDonald
Little Brown
E. A. Kirkwood
J. Stephen Jones
Harmony
Minn
William Kent
DeEtta Humphrey
Wilbur A. Kirkwood
Inver Moats
Russell Kirkwood
Kenneth Kirkwood
R. L. Kirkwood
J. R. Kirkwood
W. J. Kirkwood
Mendelssohn
A. Kirkwood
Steel’s Inn
Lenox Junior College
State Teachers’ College At
Cedar
Dubuque County
Thomas J. Lane
Jones
Lambert Restaurant
NIRA
Charlie Gatchet
C. W. Kunath
Coryell
Cascade Legion Grounds
Monti
Golf Ass’n
Ballard
Arp
Kehoe
Turner
Laude and Byers
Kings and Dutton
Hartenberger
Nebraska
Jackson County
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