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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 10, 1931

Page

2

Local Items and Advertisements Highlight Monticello News

A collage of local notices and ads from Monticello includes Jeweler Karl M. Keyes promoting gift lines and gold rings, shop features from Meeker leather bags to Superior Permanent Ware, and various visits by residents to Dubuque Cedar Rapids and Manchester. Community events include basketball ticket pricing, radio shop promos, and a December 15 Monticello vs Springville game.

Local Social News and Classified Ads Highlight Area Life

Daily life details from Clarence and Monticello include visits by the Rhatigans Sloan Weise and Ardusers, church bazaar at Zimmermans, and numerous gardening and car related notices. Community members attend birthdays, medical updates, and shifts in work such as deputies licensing and radio shop ads.

Clover Leaf Club Members Quilt and Social

Clover Leaf club at Mrs Hans Ruof's home enjoyed a quilting afternoon with guests Miss Leona Davis and Miss Sarah Timpe. Numerous bridge clubs met, high scores were earned, and hostess refreshments followed each gathering.

Clover Leaf Club Hans Ruof Leona Davis Sarah Timpe Auburn Virginia Schneider Marian Hayes Forest Hearn Colin G. Thomas L. W. Lovell Kate Stuhier Carl Jolly Milton Thoeni Cornelius Steck Hans Kettlitz Emil Ricklefs Merie Cass Hi Low Bridge Club Thomas Hamilton Delta Delt Asa Lambert Louie Barrack Ed Huibregtse W. W. Stickford Maples Inn

Community clubs and dances fill week with meetings

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society hosts at Mrs. Lawrence Balster's home with devotionals and study from Christ Comes to the Village. Numerous church and lodge groups hold meetings election of officers in 1932 with social hours, gifts, and refreshments. Miriam Lovell marks tenth birthday with dinner and theater trip. Thirty five members attend Schreiner chapter meeting ending with an oyster supper.

LaVetta Perrine Ardys Rabe Kill Kare Klub Maples Inn Miss Perrine Ann Henderson Theodosia Pulver Raymond Smith Florence Noble Charles Doxsee Coxsee Halstead Carpenter Leonard A. Iverson Lawrence Balster Woman's Foreign Missionary Society The Methodist Episcopal Church Roy V. Porter Christ H. 8. Richardson Rebekah Lodge Odd Fellows’ Hall Offcers Noble Grand Lavina Sloan Bertha Sutherland Hattie Tedrow Ed Rice Miriam Lovell Major Antonetta Mary Davesa Ratty Thomas Josephine Rickless Josephine McNeill Lavonne Landis Ruth Roberts Frances Bone Mary Eggers Esther Cass Kathleen Carlsen Royal Neighbors Odd Fellows Hall Oracle Anna Skelley Mary Eagen Lilly Graves Emma Stambaugh Anna Widmer Mary Byerly Hazel Hartford Inner Sentinel Kate Lamber Outer Sentinel Pauline Hackman Katherine King Florence Bright Woman's Missionary Society of the Congregational Church George Guyan Janet Hazard Clayton Palmer Maud Royden Samuel Gutensohn Harriet Coughlan Henry M. Carpenter George Wilkens W. K. Hodgson Siegfried Guyan Fred McLaughlin Belle Timmins Mabel Tuetken George van Buren Bert Hubbard Irving Hintz A. M. Maurence Louis Hoag Cornelius Steck Charles Coxsee

Red Cross Roll Call Totals For 1931 In Monticello

Monticello reports 235 regular members 43 small donations and three gifts of 1 dollar or more in the annual Red Cross drive. Gross receipts reach $258.35 with $131.17 allocated locally for milk hot lunches and school dental care.

Red Cross Monticello The Welfare League Monticello Welfare League A. B. Grimes

First Presbyterian Monticello Welcomes New Minister

About 150 church members and families hosted a reception in the Monticello First Presbyterian church parlor for Rev. and Mrs. William J. Grossheim and daughter Leona. Grossheim, newly chosen minister, previously preached at Greene. Music readings and refreshments followed the program.

First Presbyterian Church of Monticello William J. Grossheim Leona

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