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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1932
Page
6
Local items list jewelry offers at Keyes and Schoon along with Matthiessen Auto and supply ads for auto parts and supplies. Mentions several residents visiting relatives in Marion Davenport and Oxford Junction with gift photographs and Christmas framing ideas. Includes radiators and coal ads and a veterinary note for Monticello.
Christmas promotions for Matthiessen Auto & Supply Co and Helms Studio in Monticello highlight lamp and photograph sales. Local society notes report visits, hospital news, charity drives, a farm sale at Olin, travel plans to Germany, and family gatherings across Monticello and nearby towns.
Mrs. W E Page of Glendive Montana spent a month with her ill sister Mrs Dora Brucks. She returned home last Thursday as Mrs Brucks slowly recovers after several weeks of illness.
Fort Madison residents Mr and Mrs Edward Brown and their son James visited Dr A M Maurice and Miss Kate Maurice. A Christmas program by Wayne No 3 pupils and a one act play Grandma s Guest will be performed at the schoolhouse on Friday evening December 16 at 145 with a plate supper. Miss Helen Lieneman is the teacher. Master George Rynerson had his tonsils removed at John McDonald hospital last Monday. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Harold Ryerson and had been ill with infection prior to surgery.
Schreiner chapter Order of the Eastern Star will meet Tuesday evening December 13 for regular meeting and officer election. All members urged to attend. Royal Neighbors to Meet Tuesday December 13 with officer elections and hoped for large turnout. Chapter FP P E O meets at Mrs L W Lovell home with modern music sketch. Presbyterian choir and families picnic supper and music at Mrs Nell Davis home. Mrs Carl Jolly hosts luncheon for reading and sewing club. Clover Leaf club hosts needlework and visiting with luncheon. Mrs John Husman hosts birthday night with five hundred game. Leona Husman and E Kromminga high scorers. Mr and Mrs William Reuter celebrate tenth wedding anniversary with games and refreshments.
Henry Che hosted a small gathering last Thursday with VFW members and friends to mark his 57th birthday. Pinochle was played and an oyster supper followed, served by self invited guests and Mrs. Ohe assisting.
The Ladies' Aid society of St. Matthew's Ev Church met in Luther hall with Mrs. T. Rientets as hostess. They concluded the business meeting by finishing bazaar preparations for Saturday at Zimmerman's store. Refreshments were served by the hostess and helpers including Mrs. Tobias Bohiken, Mrs. John Casper, and Celia.
John Wenger was surprised Sunday evening by a gathering of relatives at his home to mark his sixty eighth birth anniversary. The event featured cards, visiting, and refreshments with gifts for the guest of honor. Present were his daughters Edna McCoy and her son Donald, Mrs C H Rollins and Mr Rollins of Marion, and his sister Flora Hamblin of Manchester.
Mrs Arch Grimes hosted a Wednesday gathering for her daughter Janis Grimes on her fifth birthday. Little girls attended and enjoyed games and a birthday supper served by the hostess. A cake with five candles centered the table and Janis received several birthday gifts. Attendees included Betty Jo Guyan Shirley Jean Skelley Betty Rae Morning Elaine Havlicek Ann Marie Skelley.
Entertains Thursday Bridge Club at Luncheon. Mrs. A. M. Maurice hosted a one o clock luncheon and high score honors went to Mrs. Maurice. Miss Caroline Schoenhut presided at a Past Noble Grand Rebekah gathering with a social hour and two course luncheon. Fortnightly Bridge Club met at Mrs. Van Bockern with three tables. Mrs. Earl DeShaw led in high score and guests included Mrs. DeShaw and Mrs. Byron Abel. The Daughters of the American Revolution at Monticello sponsor charity teas. first held at Mrs. Ralph Bone’s home with tea towels hemming for sale and out of town guests from Onslow. Next teas chaired by Mrs. Frank Walker and Mrs. Will Hiller.
Last Sunday a Wilcox country home near Monteicello hosted a family birthday party for Edwin Wilcox. Twelve family members gathered around one table with a pink and white cake. Out of town guests included Bernard Cass of Wyoming and several Wilcox relatives from Hopkinton and Wyoming.
Welfare League sponsored a benefit bridge party yesterday in Memorial hall with fourteen tables and a later committee served ten. A dance followed in the same hall with large attendance. Funds will support the unemployed.
The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist Episcopal church held a Christmas party at Mrs. Ray Hoag's home with 28 members present. A program included a Christmas meaning sketch by Mrs. Rudy Langer and a Christmas story by Mrs. Boyd Shannon, followed by carols and a white elephant tree. Refreshments were served by the hostess assisted by Mrs. Joel.
The notice invites customers to Balster’s Variety Store in Anamosa Iowa for closing out sales with auctions daily at 2 PM and 7 PM each day. It reports improvements in Ava Main’s condition at St Luke’s Hospital Cedar Rapids and notes L J Swift’s discharge to home in Monticello after a serious car crash near Marion that killed Cliff L Main ten days ago.
Junction arrived Tuesday to assist in caring for her sister Miss Mary Altman who has been bedbound with illness for eight weeks and is slightly better at this writing.
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