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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1928
Page
2
Miss Frances Cavie spends the day in Cedar Rapids. Numerous residents visit relatives and attend events in Cedar Rapids Hopkinton Lincoln Neb and Des Moines as summer avails.
Circulating heaters are better than a stove but they never will take the place of a good furnace properly installed. McNeill's Hardware promotes Lenox furnaces as a superior heating solution and encourages readers to consider upgrading from older heating systems. The note references local residents, travels, and social visits interwoven with the advertisement.
Mrs. Conrad Poppe and Elenora join Miss Margaret Poppe of Lanegworthy for a relatives visit at Ledyard. District No. 5 Scotch Grove to start year with Miss Wilma Craig teaching. Numerous locals plan trips and enrollments as teachers shift, with Iris Lux visiting and Guelda Helm heading to Mystic to teach.
Miss Katherine Schneider returns to Monticello after over two years in a Rochester hospital where a severe neuritis left her bedridden. She has regained health and can walk with the aid of a cane. Her sister Helen, a registered nurse in Rochester, accompanied her home and has returned to the city.
The Monticello Country Club plans its next party on Tuesday afternoon September 11 inviting all members. Mrs C E Bates hosted the Presbyterian Missionary Society at her home with fourteen members attending an afternoon program.
Mrs Ralph Zimmerman hosted a social afternoon at her home yesterday for St Matthew's Lutheran ladies. Twenty guests attended and refreshments were served by the hostess. Miss Margaret Greer hosted a luncheon at Ma ples Inn last Tuesday with several Lenox college classmates among the guests, including Prof W J Guthrie of New York City Mrs Herbert French of Harlan Kentucky and Miss Mary Guthrie of Hopkinton plus Miss Mary of Harlan Kentucky.
Mesdames F. W. and Frank Roy den were hostesses at a Monticello Congregational church social afternoon at their Scotch Grove home yesterday. Refreshments were served at the close, assisted by Mrs. Harriet Coughlan Mrs. F. S. Stuhler and Mrs. J. H. Fraser.
James Howie, aged 73, was surprised by family and guests at his Castle Grove home. Attendees included his children and their families and Mr and Mrs William Laude of Monticello. Bridge was played at three tables and refreshments were served, featuring a large birthday cake with 73 candles.
Miss Veda Podhaski married Walter Mueller son of Ed Mueller of Castle Grove township last Monday at 7 AM in Sacred Heart church Monticello. Rev George A Hauck officiated with Irene Podhaski as brides maid and Arthur Mueller as best man. A church breakfast followed for relatives. The couple plans a wedding trip to Des Moines Chicago and beyond before settling on the Mueller farm in Castle Grove township.
In Williamsburg from a state dispatch three Iowa county farms totaling 520 acres sold in the last two weeks for 127600 dollars cash. August Newkirk sold 160 acres near Williamsburg for 50000 to Edward Newkirk and Otto Iburg. John Glandorf bought 160 acres of the Edwards farm two miles east of Williamsburg for 37600 dollars.
CHYBSHES H L Adix pastor schedules Sunday school at 9 45 and German services at 10 30. The Ladies Aid holds a bake sale Saturday and a sale at J B Zimmerman clothing store on Sept 1. Sunday school at 10, Holy communion at English service, confessional 10 30, registration Friday eve, Bible class Wednesday night. English service at Trinity 2 pm. Ladies Aid meets with Mrs Paul Schuetz on Sept 6 Thursday.
Sunday services are canceled as the pastor is away in Nebraska for a mission festival. Congregants are invited to attend worship at a nearby Lutheran church.
Services will resume on Sunday September 2 with Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. Morning worship and holy communion are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. The Young People's hour will be held at 6:00 p.m.
Sunday school at 10 a.m. German service at 10 a.m. Christian Endeavor at 11 a.m. The Ladies Aid society will meet with Mrs Bohren on Thursday September 6 at 7 45 p.m.
Next Sunday September second Meth odist church will host worship with Sunday school at ten and preaching at eleven. Evening Ep worth League and preaching follow. Pastor and family return from a two week vacation ready to resume church work. Halstead Carpenter to Iowa State fair Des Moines. Eugene Rodman laid up with mumps at home. Rickless on two week vacation from Rickless Dry Goods planning trip to Chicago with wife and daughter.
Mr and Mrs Harry Fairbanks and their three children left Tuesday for Lusk Montana to visit relatives for two weeks. While gone A M Fairbanks their father is tending the farm work and overseeing affairs at home.
A large straw stack on the John Meier farm at the Delaware county line burned last Friday at noon. The local fire company was summoned and saved the barn nearby by pulling the stack away with cables and tractors.
Beginning Monday evening September 3 the library will stay open from 7:00 to 8:30 after work hours while afternoon hours remain 1:30 to 5:30 daily.
Directors of the fair association request all persons with bills against the organization to present them at once for a complete checkup. L. E. Hong, president.
The Wyoming Town Council invites bids for a one story 50 by 40 building with a council room pump room and fire truck bay. Specifications are on file with the town clerk. Bids due to the clerk by 10 a.m. September 7. Mary A Brown Town Clerk.
Notice to bond buyers announces sale at 10 o clock am September 17 1928 in the Wyoming Iowa council room for 5500 in town hall bonds with one year optional from issue. Bonds and attorney opinion by H N Rogers Davenport Iowa provided. Bids not at par plus accrued interest not accepted. A separate suit in Linn county district court seeks 10000 damages filed by the administratrix of Hazel Spurgeon estate against Roxana Petroleum Corporation Joe Benesh and George Geise for a fatal May 26 Cedar Rapids truck collision.
Miss Mary Lovell Miss Lucile George and Miss Ruth Byers came back from Hackensack Minnesota after two months at Camp Holiday a girls summer camp. Lovell joined a seven day canoe trip to northern Minnesota and Canada carrying canoes over portages. She earned an H for being an all around camp girl among six from a group of eighty five honored.
Farmers in the area report hogs will not eat barley this year whether whole or ground. They note a bitter taste in the barley. Some have tried soaked whole grain and ground barley in swill with ground oats skim milk and water.
Fred Kelsaw, 74, long resident north of Baldwin known for crafting violins, has left his Baldwin home to live with relatives in Maquoketa due to failing health. His wife died in winter 1927 after many years in the old stone house where he spent years making instruments.
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