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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
6
Jones County Homemakers compile a kitchen friendly guide to using green apples. Recipes include ham and apple bake Brown Betty Apple Crisp and practical notes on making applesauce with optional spices. Suggestions cover using bottled fruit juices in various desserts and drinks.
A home economics note outlines making cocoa syrup by simmering cocoa sugar water and vanilla, then cooling and refrigerating it for up to a month. It also lists eight surplus agricultural foods butter eggs dried beans dried prunes oranges grapefruit wheat graham flour corn meal as good buys.
Home economists advise seasonal kitchen comfort through task scheduling to avoid peak heat. Open windows top and bottom to promote air flow and move warm air out. Monticello Express collaborates with State College home economists to answer readers questions via Better Iowa Homes.
Scientists report discovering fossils of penguins from 35 distinct species that lived long ago. The findings detail diverse forms of ancient penguins and illuminate prehistoric avian diversity.
No clear single event dominates. a montage notes elderly resident Mrs Jeasle Keoh Fred Luckstead aged 87, family picnic near Anamosa, and various farm families attending horse shows and club gatherings in Wyoming and surrounding towns. Community members from Marion Anamosa Martelle Olin and Wyoming join relatives for visits and events at parks churches and farms.
A packed Monte bill includes Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in Mr Deeds Goes To Town and Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in It Happened One Night. Also Alcatraz themed nights with Brian Donlevy Jacqueline Wells and Texas Stampede star Charles Starrett.
At The Princess theater ending Thursday August 10 Boris Karloff Grant Withers and Marjorie Reynolds star in Mr Wong in Chinatown third Wong series entry. Friday and Saturday feature a double bill with The House of Fear starring William Gargan Irene Hervey and The Ranger Code with Bob Steele. Sunday Monday Tuesday presents The Kid from Kokomo with Wayne Morris Joan Blondell and May Robson in a laughs filled caper.
SAND SPRING residents hosted and visited over the weekend with relatives from Center Junction Manchester Oneida Monticello Mapleton and Cedar Rapids. Upcoming nuptials noted Helen Haas of Central City and Paul Kerby of Sand Spring.
Mr and Mrs Fred Egger attended a Sunday picnic with relatives near Dyersville. Ernest Wahl visited the Batchelder home Thursday. Joe McDonald and daughter Lorraine visited Monticello on Saturday. Zenobia Bright returned from a week’s vacation near Prairieburg. Shirley Walters visited the Bright home. John Blaker and wife of Colesburg welcomed a daughter born August 1. Friends offered congratulations. W H Behrends family and Edwin Clement visited Cedar Rapids at the Brondel home. J L Batchelder and Mrs Batchelder visited Dick Bohlken near Amber Tuesday. Carl Weber of Prairieburg called at Sand Spring. Nelson Freeze and Noel from Delhi with Carl Harbach called on Fred Egger Monday. Mrs Stanley Bright spent Friday with Mrs Charles Lasche at Petersburg. C C Stevenson and E R Stevenson called at J R Lawrence and C J Stevenson homes at Prairieburg Sunday.
Local notes record multiple guest visits and family gatherings around Richland Center. Alfred and Gale Radcliffe families, the Kormans, Winch, Cobb, Buol, Hein, and Schneiter households hosted dinners, rodeo trips, camping trips, and a birthday picnic for Ruth Schneiter with extended relatives and friends. Threshing and travel to Dubuque and Kenora are noted among the activities.
Edward Cox and Duane Jones visited Cedar Rapids on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bright spent Sunday with the George Bright family near Anamosa. Mrs. Fred Egger helped her sister Mrs. Fred Benning of near Dyersville with threshers last week.
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