Social and club news highlights across several gatherings
Mrs. D P Young hosted a card and sewing afternoon with out of town guest Mrs Henry Siemering. The Gai-Douraine pinochle club honored Mr and Mrs Hayes Schoon on their twentieth anniversary with dancing and refreshments. Numerous clubs met for bridge and pinochle, with high scores and traveling prizes listed, as well as Christmas themed programs and lunch plate service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. P. Young
Henry Siemering
Hopkins, Minn
Harry Hoag
Grant Eilers
Fritz Hein
Amber
Scotch Grove
Monticello
K. C. Hall
Haye Schoon
Nella Hoffman
U-Namit
John Yossi
Lou Spooner
Grant Ellers
Herman Hoffman
George Hein
Christmas Club Hostesses Share Holiday Luncheon
The Presbyterian church circle hosted a one o clock buffet luncheon with over seventy five members and guests. Decorated dining room featured a large Christmas tree and each guest brought a ten cent gift for Welfare League children. A business meeting followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Presbyterian Church
Henry Adams
Welfare League
Congregational Missionary Society Meets at Mrs Coughlan Home
The Women Missionary Society of the Congregational church met at the home of Mrs. Harriet Coughlan on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Samuel Gutensohn led devotions and officers for 1937 were elected including Mrs. Coughlan as president and Miss Caroline Hicks as secretary. The program featured a Christmas story by Mrs. Halstead Carpenter and tea followed with gifts for the Welfare league.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. C. Roberts
94 Club
Samuel Gutensohn
Cyrenus Cole
Roberts
H. E. Delscher
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
L. H. Lang
Carrie Clark
Roy Porter
Bancroft
League of Women Voters
Ralph Bone
John Matthiessen
Harriet Cunningham
Oscar York
Anamosa
C. R. Smith
Onslow
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Reformed Church
Herman Egger
Alfred Egger
J. W. Schweitzer
Tendick
A. Schilt
Barbara Dietiker
Women's Missionary Society of the Congregational Church
Harriet Coughlan
Coughlan
Siegfried Guyan
Caroline Hicks
George Wilkens
Halstead Carpenter
Frederick Stuhler
Henry M. Carpenter
Welfare League
Monticello Memories and Local Notes
Former Monticello resident Blanche Monroe Frutchey recalls the town as Monticello The Beautiful with shade trees winding river and old mill site still present. The piece also includes botany definitions by Dr E M Gross and a quip from Senator Sorghum on evolution and election study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Monroe Frutchey
Monticello
Kate Maurice
Monticello the Beautiful
Sir Harry Lauder
Gray Squirrels Breed Two Litters Annually
Gray squirrels produce two litters yearly, each with four to six young. The adult female shows strong maternal care and relocates nestlings promptly if the nest is disturbed.
Quaint Wording and Carvings on Scottish Tombstones
History students and local explorers study Scottish kirkyards for carved quirk and language. Notable examples include Ashkirk’s early dialiect influences and Telford carved memorials, while Dryburgh shows Book of Life themes and skulls with hourglasses. The Bill of Rights outlines the first ten amendments ratified in 1791, preserving religious freedom speech press assembly and other protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. O. von Herbulis
Anchor Line
Ashkirk
William
Wiliam
Westerkirk
Thomas Telford
Dryburgh
Scotland
Congress
Infamous Mme Cresswell's funeral sermon by the Duke
A note on Mme Cresswell who left 10 pounds for a funeral sermon ensuring no ill words. The Duke of Buckingham authored the sermon praising her born well and died well. Also a brief primer on drying oils noting linseed chinawood and tung oils as key vegetables and menhaden as the sole animal oil for industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Cresswell
Duke of Buckingham
Shadwell
Cresswell
Clerkenwell
History of London Runs Back to 43 A.D. Era
London, the grand metropolis on both riverbanks, spans 693 square miles with over 8 million people. A cradle of British empire and literary power, it dates to ancient times and housed writers like Shakespeare, Milton, and Dickens, with historic houses linked to their lives still standing.
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London
Thames
Grand
Old City
Southampton
Great Britain
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Coleridge
Defoe
Dickens
Dryden
Gibbon
Goldsmith
Johnson
Keats
Lovelace
Marlowe
Milton
Raleigh
Shelley
Thackeray
England
Burns and Washington Toast Clash with Pitt Antipathy
Robert Burns, famed Scottish poet, lived through the American Revolution and early republic. He distrusted British Prime Minister William Pitt and once refused a toast to Pitt, offering to drink to George Washington instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burns
Robert Burns
Scotland
William Pitt
George Washington
Lightning Explained
Lightning is a small discharge from earth objects with flashes. The ground discharge can trigger explosions start fires and even kill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mountain Herald
Persian lamb and political terms in European history
The article explains Persian lamb fur from karacul lambs and the need to keep curls tight as skins age. It also defines Navacus furs as a light weight open type. It then traces political terms Right and Left in continental Europe, noting origins in France and broadened usage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legislative Assembly
France
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Young
Lloyd Clark
Arthur Madsen
Lee Byerly
Clover Leaf Club
August Jacobs
L. A. Oltman
Neighborhood Club
Lincoln Thoeni
Ed Podhaski
George Guyan
Thursday
Stickford
F. Stewart Stuhler
Fred McLaughlin
John Locher
Milton Thoeni
Carl Hodson
John Fraser
Leonard Iverson
Wyoming
Rebekah Lodge
Extchkah Lodge
Will Skelley
Linda Kiburaz
Cora Brockhaus
Bertha Sutherland
Bridge
Rex Ricklefs
Earl DeShaw
F. P. Stubler
Frederick P. Stuhler
Edward Templeton
Riess G. Stuhler
the Manger
Holy Family
Sonny
Foreign Missionary Society
Alpha Delphian Chapter
Joe Barron
George Timmins
A. J. Rickless
Thomas Redmond
W. E. Corbin
Ed Huibregtse
Ray Echternacht
Minnie Rettig
Bone
Ladies’ Aid Society of Reformed Church
H. Egger
Royal Neighbors
Odd Fellows Hall
Oracle
Anna Skelley
Edna Yeoman
Flora Conley
Emma Stambaugh
Anna Widmer
Hazel Harford
Eveline Lambert
Inner Sentinel
Kate Lambert
Outer Sentinel
Katherine Hartman
Florence Bright
Nellie Wilson
Fannie Bennett
Congregational Missionary Society
E. M. Gross
Pennsylvania
Senator Sorghum
Tee Hyn Cal Hale
Clothing Department
Lily Damta
Devil On Horseback
Shirley Temple
Dimples
G.W.C
RINSO
Diamond Brothers
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Monticello and
Emil C.ricklefs
Handkerchiers
Smartmeat
Smartwear
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