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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1937
Page
2
A local jeweler Keyes introduces entire new line of diamond and wedding rings. Homemaker updates include visits and guest stays across Cedar Rapids Monticello Dubuque Sioux City and Washington with many relatives and friends seen at Grandmothers homes and city parks.
Mrs. Merwin Holscher and son Dwight visit her parents in Earlville. Numerous locals and visitors travel for family gatherings, vacations, and weekend tours across Cedar Rapids, Webster, Anamosa, and beyond, with birthdays, retirements, and trips noted.
K R Schmidt of Vinton and Mrs Schmidt visit Mrs Maude Lightfoot. Don Smith of Maquoketa dies by suicide. Cedar Rapids couple Mrs A B Crimes and Mrs Minnie Hanssen travel west for sight seeing. William Gerald Bulgren born in Center Junction. Frank D Roy of Cedar Rapids killed in Manchester after car collision with Illinois Central train. Several relatives and visitors are named among Monticello area households and graveside notices.
Threshing winds down in Jones county with oat yields ranging from 40 to 65 bushels per acre. Ed Harms reports 2 275 bushels from 35 acres at Monticello averaging 65 bushels per acre. Stutt Brothers near the city average 50 bushels per acre while barley runs 35. Henry Bartels among Scotch Grove farmers notes an 1898 binder still cutting, oats at 40 bushels per acre.
Cedar county's South Bethel church marks a century since its 1837 founding in a pioneer farm home meeting. Early member Washington A. Rigby led a 25 mile furrow from his Tipton area home to Bloomington known today as Muscatine, guiding settlers to their new home.
Roman tribune Gaius Gracchus who lived about 146 B C distributed grain to the needy at half price. He supplied a bushel and a quarter per month at government expense as relief.
A camp meeting bill printed by John Blanchard in August 1876 is read with the committee list mostly legible. The paper notes the senior editor knew all but three men, and that the item was discovered by Mrs. Eda Van Buren of Bethany Oklahoma among relatives’ effects. The gathering occurred over sixty years ago near Ezra Clark's grove by the Maquoketa river.
Merle Cass described a six week journey through Europe at a Monticello Rotary dinner. The trip covered Nice Milan Venice the Dolomites Innsbruck Lucerne the Black Forest Rhine Amsterdam Marken Paris London Shakespeare country the English lakes Perth Prossachs and Glasgow with a return voyage to Montreal marked by iceberg delays.
Former Monticello pitcher Harry McKee visited his old team and manager William Podhaski with teammate Frank Locher. The 27 man squad in the era included McKee and players from Ana mosa Cascade Cedar Rapids Oxford Junction and Volga City earning 65 to 125 dollars a month, among the strongest locally and even rivaling the Three-I league.
Mrs Bernard Cass announces a farm women hobby exhibit to be held during the Jones County Fair. A committee led by Mrs Olin Howie includes Mrs L A Oltman and Mrs Paul Smith. Exhibits due Tuesday August 24 from 1 30 to 5 00 and stay until Friday. entries limited to farm women. each exhibit must have a title sign exhibitor name and address and a short personal experience story.
Sunday school times and morning worship listed for Methodist Episcopal Wayne Zion Lutheran St Josephs Catholic Hopkinton St Johns Lutherans St Matthews and Reformed Church services. Guest preaching by Doctor Em Poppen and Iowa district meeting to open with service.
Farmers and fruit growers are invited to a county wide meeting in the demonstrational orchard at the men’s reformatory Anamosa on Wednesday afternoon August 18 at 1 30 pm. E W Edgecomb ext horticulturist from Iowa State College will conduct the meeting. He will review building and grafting work completed recently and the orchard’s demonstrational role in cooperation with the board of control extension service and the Farm Bureau. Further information is available from the Farm Bureau office.
Glenn Mangold aged 37 of near Ryan died Tuesday afternoon while threshing at the Vincent Drummy home near Ryan. He reportedly fell through a hay chute in a barn suffering a broken neck and was killed.
F H Shimanek of Oxford Junction was named mayor by unanimous city council vote and also appointed secretary of the Oxford Junction school district after Ed Lasack resigned to manage the state liquor store. Shimanek is the father of Francis Shimanek, a Monticello lawyer.
August planning letters note resumed services on the first Sunday in September. Consistory members will visit to raise funds for repairing and painting the church and parsonage. The annual picnic is slated for next Sunday at Clarence Rickless’s grove with 9 45 am service and a noon pot luck.
Bill Cassidy and workers recently laid new sidewalks in front of the C. A. Palmer drug store and the Frank Podhaski billiard parlor. Repairs were made on other walks along the street, addressing long standing pedestrian needs.
A Dyersville booster group visited Monticello yesterday morning with a concert band and members in old time costumes. The centennial celebration is set for August 17 to 19.
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