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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1954
Page
4
Monticello residents exchange to selective ringing with 560 rural lines receiving new numbers. About half already changed. new directories due by Sept. 15. Also notes local visits and family trips of residents including Wacker, Mundinger, Dunn, Stumbaugh, Schmidt, Kruse, and Stumbaugh families.
Harmony Eight club hosted by Mrs. Ralph Wilson and Mrs. W E Tuetken held a picnic supper at the city park. Mrs Helen Guyan was the honored guest and received a gift after the picnic. Bridge at the Tuetken home with Mrs Byron Abel high and Mrs Helen Guyan second high. Guests included Mrs Donald Sutherland and Mrs Asa Lambert.
The Gerdes family reunion and picnic gathered many relatives Sunday at Monti Cello City Park. Attendees included Otto Otten Amber. Clarence Otten Nashville. Lawrence Otten family. John Andrew Gerdes Anamosa. Bill Otten Center Junction. Kate Gerdes Olin. Fred Schlieman Woodward. Alice Herren Cedar Rapids. Rodney Rieken. Glen Adams family. Afternoon guests were Carl and Alva Gerdes. Henry Schaffer. John D. Dirks. George Tuetken Alton Illinois. Nearby visits included W E Tuetken’s guests and Hazel Williams from Hutchinson Kansas returning from Superior Wisconsin and Miss Emma Von Strohe’s Columbus Indiana visit.
A survey by the Iowa Taxpayers Association places Monticello among eastern Iowa towns of similar size for 1953 and 1954. Tax per $1000 assessed value shows Monticello at 64.79 in 1953 and 68.60 in 1954, with Maquoketa 67.58 and 79.78 and Manchester 79.50 and 81.51 nearby.
A series of families hosted Sunday dinners and visits across the region. Guests include the Wink and Archer families in Eugene Wink’s home, Bohlkens in Sand Springs, Gerdes and Arduser households, Mardorf and Tschantz homes, Streets and Streets family gatherings in Maquoketa, Thomas family in Topeka visiting C. G. Thomas’s relatives, and Adams Bonwell Schlieman visits in Waterloo and Cedar Rapids. The Bill Buol and Richard Hanken families toured Wisconsin Dells.
Mrs. James Bender visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gauch in Waterloo on Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Max Mitchell of Anamosa stayed with George Nieters on Tuesday.
Mrs John F Moore former Monticello resident died at her Cedar Rapids home Tuesday morning after a long illness. Funeral set for 1:30 pm Thursday at Turner chapel Cedar Rapids with Rev Wilbert Ehlert officiating. Burial Cedar Memorial. Survived by five daughters Mrs L A Blair Homestead Fla Mrs RB Kurtz Cedar Rapids Mrs E F Cooper and Mrs L E Hicks Seattle and Mrs G A Kline Groton S D. four sons John L Kellogg Idaho V Charles San Diego Fred A Parker Ariz George F E Moore Wilmington Calif. 13 grandchildren 18 great grandchildren. member Kenwood Presbyterian Church.
Captain John Stuhler and family arrived in the United States from Tokyo after two years of foreign duty. They traveled via San Francisco to visit his parents in Monticello before returning to Milwaukee to be discharged from Fort Sheridan.
St Matthew's Lutheran H L Adix pastor Sunday school 9 30 Divine worship 10 30. SS Peter Paul Lutheran Paul Kenyon pastor Sunday Aug 22 Sunday school 9 30 Divine worship 10 30. Evangelical Reformed John F Baumann pastor Sunday school 9 30 Divine worship 10 30. Sacred Heart Catholic Eugene P Lorenz pastor Thomas Rhomberg assistant Masses Sunday Holy days 6 8 10 Weekdays 6 45 School days 8 15 Confessions Saturdays Vigils 3 30 4 30 evening 7 30 8 30 Thurs before first Fridays 3 30 4 30 St Luke's Methodist R V Gildner pastor Sunday school 9 30 am Morning worship 10 30 Congregational Charles Ellett pastor lay school 9 15 am Morning worship 10 30 am Her Name Was Bitter sermon title.
A postal card from Dr. J. H. Fraser and Mrs. Fraser with grandson John HT reports a Portland Oregon vacation on August 14. They caught 12 salmon weighing 14 to 25 pounds and note Mrs Fraser caught two of them.
Emma and Janice Arduser visit the Paul Gerdes home while Mr. and Mrs. Harold White and family Dickie and Allen vacation at Clear Water Lake Minnesota last week.
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