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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1932
Page
2
Public notices of jewelry and home electrical items from Keyes Jeweler and Matthiessen Auto and Supply Co appear alongside visits by numerous residents, including Kiburz of Cedar Rapids and Maude Arduser, with promotions on weed chains, photographs, radiators, and Chevrolet heaters.
Local Monticello area items include visitors and relocations in Dubuque Cedar Rapids Anamosa Oxford Junction and Sioux City. Advertisements promote Helms Studio photo packages at five dollars for twelve pictures and lighting goods at low prices with floor lamps and bridge lamps.
Mrs Lizzie Behrends hosted the U and I club last Friday afternoon at her home. The gathering featured quilting and visiting followed by refreshments.
Mrs Albert Stuhler hosted the Monday bridge club at her home on Monday afternoon. Three tables played with high scores by Mrs W W Stickford and Mrs Rex Rickless. Punch was served after the games. Guests included Mrs Henry Carpenter Mrs Edward Templeton and Mrs Riess Stuhler.
Mrs. Fred Kellum entertained the Tarry Awhile club with a hard time costume party last Saturday. Five hundred was played at three tables with Mrs. Asa Lambert taking high score and Mrs. Jack Studer earning the poorest costume prize. A two course hard times supper followed.
Daughters of the American Revolution held a second charity tea at Mrs O E Cramer’s home with hostesses Mrs George Van Buren Mrs Will Hiller and Mrs Lawrence Balster assisting. Hemming towels was the activity and towels will be sold later. Tea closed the event. In a separate note Mr and Mrs Fred Hanken hosted thirty relatives for a Sunday dinner at their country home with games of five hundred. Guests included G H Hanken Harm Dirks John Hanken B D Heiken Ardis Anne Heiken Lovisa Love of Center Junction.
Hosts at their home Thursday evening served a six thirty bridge dinner with sixteen at quarter tables. Frances Bone and Kathryn Dennison served. After dinner four tables played bridge with high scores by Mrs Siegfried Guyan and Dr Earl DeShaw. Guest couple Mr and Mrs Will Dennison of Cedar Rapids were in town.
Dr and Mrs D R Webb of Oakdale visited last Sunday at the home of Mrs Webb’s parents Mr and Mrs Grant Stambaugh Dani Reichart a patient at Oakdale sanitarium joined them and spent the day with his parents Mr and Mrs Adam Reichart
Sixty eight neighbors and friends gathered at Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tuetken’s country home last Thursday evening to bid them farewell before their move to Monticello. The party featured pinochle, visiting, and a midnight supper. The couple received a gift from guests.
The Congregational church choir under Frank Royden with Mrs. George Guyan at the organ will give the annual Christmas vesper next Sunday at 4 PM. Familiar carols and songs will be rendered and the public is invited to attend.
Mr and Mrs George B Hein were surprised at their home last Friday by friends from Monticello honoring their twenty fourth wedding anniversary. The guests included Mr and Mrs Harry A Hoag Mr and Mrs W H Jarrett Mr and Mrs Henry Che Mr and Mrs Harry and Mr and Mrs Ray Echter Nacht.
Schreiner chapter Order of the Eastern Star met at the Masonic temple with Mrs Anne Echter Nacht presiding. Officers for 1933 were elected including Agnes Steck as worthy matron Cornelius Steck as worthy patron Belle Timmins associate matron Arch Grimes associate patron Mabel Teutken conductress Nellie Van Bockern associate conductress Caroline Schoenhut secretary Ida Iverson treasurer. Officers to be announced later.
The piece details multiple local gatherings. Hosts Mrs J W Schweitzer and others organized a Christmas dining room setting for 36 members and 3 guests, with bridge at the McDonough home and high scores by Virginia Schneider and Howard Robertson. Other events include the Friday club program on Florida history, Delta Dek bridge supper with Christmas decor, a theater party for Mary Eggers eleventh birthday, and a fifteenth wedding anniversary at the Eilers home with dancing, five hundred, and a late supper.
The notice lists St. Joseph’s Prairieburg St Matthew’s Wayne Zion Lutheran and others with pastors and service times incl Sunday masses confessions and weekday masses. It notes Dec 17 18 program practices and Advent offerings and urges participation of children and congregation members.
Sacred Heart dribblers beat Viola 11 to 10 in a tight Monday night game at Viola gym. Monticello’s O Rourke and Lahey led Sacred Heart in a 27 to 17 win at Cascade, with Stretsh O Rourke pouring in 14 points for Sacred Heart.
Carl Richards of Muscatine shot a bluebill or scaup on Killpecker Island about 18 miles below Muscatine in the Mississippi. The bird bore a leg band from the United States Bureau of Biological Survey. The Iowa Fish and Game Commission will contact the bureau to learn when and where the duck was banded, then relay the information to Richards. The band was handed to A E B Miller, deputy game warden for the Muscatine area.
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