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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1934
Page
6
Onelow and Bernard Cass hosts honor Cass relatives from Nebraska at a noon dinner for seventeen. Many residents and visitors celebrate with relatives and friends across Onslow, Anamosa, Monticello, and nearby towns, including church groups, CCC veterans, and lodge members.
East Cass Township residents Lon and Mrs. Burroughs and Sam Stover joined at the Arthur Burroughs home in Cedar Rapids for Thanksgiving. Nearby, Lyle Clark and daughter Lucille visited the Charles Clark home near Monticello. Carl Ricklefs and Henry Folkers accompanied by Henry’s wife traveled to Springfield Illinois for a few days. Mabel Franklin taught at Cass No. 1 and spent Thanksgiving in Prairieburg while others attended games and tuberculosis program events.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Freeze hosted relatives and friends for their third wedding anniversary on Sunday. Guests played progressive five hundred, with high scores earned by Mrs. Warren Bond and Russell Keith and low scores by Mrs. Homer Stanley and Harry Harbach. Gene Stevenson won the door prize before a luncheon. Several neighborhood residents and visitors were listed among the attendees, with travel from Manchester, Delaware, Hopkinton, Dyersville, Cedar Rapids, and Des Moines.
The district No. 2 school held a Tuesday program at the school house with songs dialogues and stunts by pupils and accordion selections by Lyle Hosford. Miss Leona Behrends teaches the school and a plate lunch was served.
Tuesday evening entertainment at snae house No 2 drew attendees J H Behrends and others. Pheasant hunting near Lamont by Lyle Hosford Gert Tuetken and George Nordman Jr with Lynn Howie. Coe College and State Agricultural College students Howard McLaughlin and James McLaughlin spent Thanksgiving at W D McLaughlin’s. Farmers Mutual Insurance directors met Saturday. Church services canceled due to road conditions. W D McLaughlin and Frank Miller traveled to Chicago with cattle. Jones county farm bureau officers met in Anamosa, while Castle Grove bureau meeting was postponed by weather. Ladies Aid held a food rummage sale in Monticello. A E Laude returned from Emmetsburg. H F Kuriger ill. Frank Miller and S M Hosford attended a Monticello fire truck directors meeting. Snow left corn in fields. Christmas visitors My and Mrs A F M Caspers and sons with Carl Mardorf visited in Bowen's Prairie and Monticello Rev C Mardorf called. Clarence Breun of Clinton visited A F M Caspers.
Richland Center hosts include Mr. and Mrs. John Schweitzer with children Sidney and Janaan and relatives from Maquoketa. Thanksgiving visits feature the Buol and Hayden families along with Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Buol. The article notes Christmas seals campaigns and a Red Cross drive as well as a confirmation of Casper Buol and Frances Beal’s marriage in Brighton Massachusetts. Greta Buol’s first birth anniversary is celebrated with family guests and gifts.
Old Parr lived at a hillside cottage near Middletown Wales. He reportedly reached 152 years old and was shown in London to King Charles I before dying months later. Doctors cited post mortem findings blaming his death on his removal and diet change. He allegedly farmed until 130 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Popular Mechanics notes the American Museum of Natural History photography reveals ultraviolet patterns on butterflies and moths unseen by humans. Chinese white areas appear deep ultraviolet to insects, with other whites also ultraviolet.
The article notes the value of owls as predators of pests like gophers rats mice and other mammals. It cites a Washington DC example where a pair of barn owls and their young consumed 1.5 percent mice 184 rats 50 shrews and 87 other mammals in a year. The piece highlights owls keen vision sharp hearing and silent flight as aiding their hunting.
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Tariq exposition and named for designer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. It remains a monument to engineering, a sightseer attraction, and an observatory for meteorology and wireless telegraphy. Byron’s cave near Lerici features erosion and a linked tale of Byron, Shelley, and Alegra in 1822.
Chemists recognize eighty eight elements and claim four more may be assigned to the periodic system. The proposed new elements have atomic numbers 48 61 85 and 87 and there is uncertainty about each.
Trigger fish menace southern waters, stripping the inside of four crabs while anglers still fish for taypoon, leaving shells. while they work the bait is stolen without a tremor from the cork float.
Odense, native home of Titan Christian Andersen, charms with medieval streets. The old city features Odin sanctuary, Saint Canute Cathedral, cloisters, and monks, making it one of Denmark's most picturesque and venerable possessions.
Listing of transfers including Lena Zumbach Fred Messerli and spouses John Messerli Rose Zumbach Joseph Messerli and Alice Messerli to Mary Messeri undivided two thirds of fractions in townships 86 2 and 86 3 with a 12.7 acre parcel and life estate along primary road 161, plus portions in Dubuque County and other deals. Includes Charles Foley to Cuba Starry, Eugene Fagan to Fagan parties, Emma Von Sprecken to Peter Von Sprecken, City National Bank Clinton to Sam and Bessie Switzer, Elizabeth Horton to L L Watsa baugh, and Reuben Leggett to John Leggett with various lot and parcel descriptions.
Legal notices detail several property transactions in Jones county Iowa. Varvels add to Monticello includes a life estate for Lil lie D. Leggett. Sheriff's deed issued to George Claussen and Charles L. Bosier for same area. Thomas J. McAleer deed and a fractional undivided interest conveyed to Violet B. Pieper with described parcel measurements and sections 82-9 and 20-83-3 in Jones county. Total sums listed include $1 610.02 and $1.00 respectively.
Charles W. Metcalf and wife transfer to Iva L. Brown administrator of Mabel L. Kirkpatrick estate and describe adjustments to several parcels including land around a military road and a highway center. Also James G. Warren and Louisa Jd. Warren deed multiple lots in block 66 Onslow to B L Warren and Ina Warren for $590.
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