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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1934
Page
2
An array of brief notes from Jones County with many visitors and local travelers. Des Moines visits include Jean Liddy, Winifred Foley, Ruth Ann Hong, and M. Hogan. Family and friend gatherings span Anamosa, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Lisbon, Castle Grove, and Vinton with fair attendance and local gossip.
Kin dergarten class starts October 1 under Mrs. Byron Abel. Many families travel to Des Moines, Chicago, and Mechanicville to attend The Century of Progress Expo and state fairs. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Manternach, and numerous relatives from Cascade, Anamosa, Cedar Rapids, and Monticello, with multiple weekend gatherings and homecomings.
Mr and Mrs Walker Berlin and their son Lem with Mrs Berlin's mother Mrs Pearson of Springville returned from visiting Mrs Berlin's daughter Mrs Arthur Yates in Spencer and also spent time with relatives and friends at Ocheyedan.
Dr and Mrs R E Foreman and daughter Merle visited relatives in Wellman. Lenore Foreman had been visiting in Wellman and returned home with them. Merle plans to teach at Nira next Monday. Herman Che and two daughters Bernard Ohe and Evelyn Mack of Dundee TIL stayed with Henry and Mrs Ohe. Mrs Ohe hosted a family dinner with all her children.
Mr and Mrs H P Bancroft with Althea and Izora Bancroft attended the Iowa State Teachers College graduation at Cedar Falls. Vivian Bancroft completed a four year course in three years. Mrs James Carter and daughters Sally and Ann left for San Mateo Cal after a summer visit with Mrs Frederick P Stahler. Mr Carter has spent three months in San Francisco and the family formerly lived in Cincinnati Ohio.
Worthington couple Mr and Mrs Alphonse Demmer welcomed a baby boy weighing seven pounds fifteen ounces born last Thursday night at Joan McDonald hospital. He is the couple’s second child following a daughter and Mr Demmer is the son of Mrs Mary Demmer of this city.
Miss Mary Lovell and companions Miss Miriam Lovell and Miss Betty Thomas of Monticello along with Grace and Georgia Adams of Pasadena, Calif., arrived home Saturday after two months at Camp Holiday in Hackensack Minnesota. Cedar Rapids hosts gathered them at the station with L. W. Lovell.
Mrs Rena Lehman leaves for a northern Wisconsin trip. Ann Conmey of Anamosa visits Virginia Ferring. Margaret Kaste of Charles City visits Monticello friends. Norman Newton attends a post matrons meeting in Anamosa. Mr and Mrs Charles Kay visit relatives in Manchester. Ernest Carpenter family visits relatives. Burkett trio spends Sunday in Cedar Rapids. Bank closure noted for Labor Day. Burkert family visits Andrew. Ralph Strausburg and others visit Delhi. Demmer sisters tour Chicago. Bonjour family from Olin guests of Howie. Mary E F Sherman of Strawberry Point visits with Dorothy Bader. O A Ahlers of Bellevue visits Monticello and Jones County Fair. Norman Bringard of Detroit vacations with Howie family.
Reverend W. Burrack finished a visit with the Rickiefs and Burracks and will return to Bancroft around Sept. 8. Mrs. Burrack remains while he was summoned home for a funeral two weeks earlier.
Folger McKinsey notes in the Baltimore Sun an automatic welder used to sew steel auto bodies like a sewing machine joins cloth, aiding production of a popular car. The poem urges courage, healing, and unity as days of fear fade.
Daughters and relatives attended the Palmer School of Chiropractic Lyceum in Davenport while guests and families visited across towns. Attendees from Beloit and Monticello joined outings with Stambaugh, Edwards, Zimmerman, and others, including a Century of Progress trip to Chicago and a Marion picnic.
Mrs Fay Clark and her son Raymond returned home from Chicago last Sunday after a lengthy stay at James F Mulhall's. She underwent a thyroid operation in her absence. her condition was critical for a time but is improving and she hopes for short calls from friends soon.
Mr and Mrs Norman Newton and son Donald spent last weekend with relatives in a cabin on the Wapsie river at Independence. The party included Mr and Mrs R I Newton of Farley Mrs R C Peterson and daughter Phyllis of Butte Montana and Dean Newton of Cheney Wasi. This is the first time in 21 years all Newton families have gathered.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Tunnison of Chicago were guests last Friday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Skelley. They left Saturday for home accompanied by the Skelleys, who will spend a week in Chicago visiting the World's Fair. They plan two days at The Dells in Wisconsin before returning home. Mrs. Tunnison is a sister of Mrs. Skelley.
Miss Inez Young a Chicago library staffer spent three weeks with her parents Mr and Mrs D P Young and with her sister Mrs Hubert Metcalf in Anamosa. She left Tuesday morning for Storm Lake to visit her sister Mrs Harry Schaller before returning to her Chicago work.
Mr and Mrs Clyde Barnhill formerly of Boston now travel through Monticello en route to Pasadena to establish a new home. Barnhill, a manufacturing jeweler by trade for 24 years since leaving Monticello, visits his old town with only a slight change in appearance, aside from added weight.
Mr and Mrs Charles Petra farmers in Tama County started three hundred young chicks last spring. A mink attacked and killed seven in seconds. Two weeks later the animal reappeared near a wood pile where a nest of seven minks was found beneath. The flock count showed about two hundred chicks lost to the minks.
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