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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1926
Page
2
The Bix press urges mailing letters one day early next week to enjoy the Great Jones County fab on Thursday. A second letter with unusual items may be mailed on the regular day. Publisher note.
The Scotch Grove farm bureau met at the Scotch Grove Presbyterian church with J. W. Hutton presiding. Members discussed a new program committee and heard about onion farming near Davenport including seven hundred acres under cultivation and daily shipments. Esther Sinclair spoke on Cedar Rapids Americanization classes aiding immigrants in language, civics, and letter writing. The gathering also featured a fish story by Hutton, reports on county roads, and a community sing.
North, Mrs. Ben Toby and children visit Cedar Rapids home of Walter Eby last Saturday. W B Clark family plan three to four week motor trip to Philadelphia New York City and Washington DC. Various locals host visitors from Cascade Amos Edgewood Maquoketh and Epworth. Civil activity includes a minor elbow injury to Mrs C B Carson and Himebaugh hand infection while several families plan trips to Fraser and Canada.
Center Junction notes a three month U S tour by Mr and Mrs Charles Scoanover and Mrs Ruhe of San Gabriel California visiting relatives and touring landmarks from Philadelphia to Yellowstone and Yosemite. Locals report gatherings at Selma Prahm and Miss Carnahan visiting from San Antonio, a Presbyterian Ladies meeting for a harvest sale, and a busy schedule of picnics visits trips and church activities through late August.
Mr and Mrs C H Nelson and daughter Tuth spent Thursday in Monticello. Allen Serhousek and son Kenneth were in Monticello Saturday. CG HL Nelson was a business caller in Lin Fast Monday.
The Onslow Ladies Guild met in church parlors with Etta Brown Jennie Smith Florence McMaster and Bettle Bowser directing a program featuring readings by Mary Ruth Kershherman and Ruth Sears and songs by Ethel Walker and a Booth Tarkington selection by C R Smith. A later concert produced ice cream and pie for the orchestra at Mrs Greiser’s home. A birthday reunion for W C Paul honored by family from Anamosa Moran and Washington noted reminiscences of pioneer days. Numerous visits and trips surround Onslow residents, including gatherings in Olin Hopkinton Oskaloosa and Davenport with relatives in Iowa and beyond.
August 17 1926 reports visits and family news in Cascade and nearby towns. Milwaukee residents Mrs Neal Gregory Mrs Emma Alexander and Mrs Evelyn Bert with Ruth visit Mrs Catherina Kitchen. Rev J B Alberse and Miss Angeline Albers attend Rev Schulte mass in Dubuque. Monticello band tours Cascade brings concert. many local families noted visiting relatives, medical updates, trips to Cedar Rapids Marshalltown Madison and Des Moines, and threshing activity signals seasonal work.
A crowd gathered to view the night blooming cereus, an eight year plant that blooms once a year for one night. Five waxy white petals filled the room with fragrance. The item notes three such plants in Wyoming and lists local residents and social movements, plus upcoming events and visits.
D. Chassell of Chicago was a business visitor here over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Loutis Koch and children visited in Davenport. Thursday Miss Wilon Marshall is visiting a school friend at Mast Lynne Illinois. Mrs. Cecil Wherry visited friends in Davenport last Wednesday.
August 18 1926 at Castle Grove A M Caspers birthday picnic at Wapsi Pinicon State Park near Anamosa with family and neighbors. A dance followed at Caspers home. Berton Brown death announced in Kasota Minnesota affecting Mrs Hosford. Local harvests report 70 bushels per acre on 25 acres of On-ta and 619 bushels from 7 acres. 40 acres oats 2561 bushels. 5 acres barley 341 bushels. Other updates include illnesses hospitalizations funerals travels and visits among Hahn Caspers Hosford Cramer McDonald and Laude families.
Humboldt Republican ponders the value of slowing down. It argues that true rest comes from mind and body realignment, not chasing excitement or reckless country rides. The piece asks if easing the grind is ever worthwhile.
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