Local shoppers fill Cedar Rapids week end
Local residents and visitors frequent McNeill's Hardware for Seal Sacs, aluminum roasters, Pyrex dishes, and a wide range of gifts. The scene includes Mrs. W. B. Clark, Miss Bethel Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. John McNamara, Otto Arduser, and many others shopping and visiting Cedar Rapids, Prairieburg, Anamosa, and Monte Cell o.
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Miss Bethel Merrill
Cedar Rapids
John McNamara
Anamosa
Anna Simmons
Prairieburg
Arthur Holub
Mildred Deischer
Elkacher Public Schools
N. C. Deischer
Local social notes and shopping ads from Monticello
Miss Pauline Oltman visits Cedar Rapids parents while St Luke’s nurse. Shoppers seek discounts at Kay's Drug Store and Kay’s promotions. Cattle shipments from Monticello. Christmas gifts and jewelry sales highlighted. Local births and visits, church meetings, and travel plans across Monticello and area.
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Pauline Oltman
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids
L. A. Oltman
Banquet for seed salesmen at Maquoketa Center Junction
About 250 people attended a dinner in Maquoketa hosted by McNeilly Ground Seed Corn Company of Center Junction for seed salesmen and dealers. The banquet featured a corn themed menu served by Maquoketa Methodists, with talks by J R McNeilly Senator Gruenwald and others, plus entertainment by Odette Keene and pupils. Attendees toured a new storage and drying plant near Maquoketa. McNeilly operates plants in Center Junction and Wisner Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zl Hillel
C. A. McLaughlin
Deischer
Maquoketa
McNeilly Hround Seed Corn Company
Center Junction
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. R. McNeilly
Gruenwald
Blairstown
J. F. Mommsen
Miles
Henry Stamp
Bryant
S. G. Thompson
Odette Keene
McNeilly
Iowa
Wisner
Neb
Queen Esther Ceremonial And Initiation Held At Local Church
The Queen Esther Circle of the Woman's Home Missionary Society held a Sunday evening ceremony crowning Miss Lucille Huibregtse queen with Miss Mildred Iverson as Queen Regent and other officers in royal costumes. Initiates were Joyce Bright Naomi Moorehead Frances Barlow and LaVonne Landis. A following play titled Out of Print portrayed circle activities and the society's reach includes 36000 Queen Esthers in 40 states plus Alaska DC Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
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Queen Esther
Woman's Home Missionary Society
Methodist Church
Joyce Bright
Naomi Moorehead
Frances Barlow
LaVonne Landis
Esmeree Nichols
Brydena Behrends
Dorothy Ross
Edna Howell
Annual Christmas Party For VFW Members and Families
The Monticello Post No 1683 Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary announce their annual Christmas party on Wednesday December 22 at the club. Each family should bring gifts for their group to be given by Santa. Chair Emma Jacobs leads a committee including Mabel Behrends Katie Jacobs and Margaret Carmichael with refreshments organized by officers led by Junior Vice-President Inez Lubben.
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Monticello Post No
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxilary
Santa Claus
Emma Jacobs
Mabel Behrends
Katie Jacobs
Margaret Carmichael
Remainder of Money Thrown Away by Thief
John Gray of Hopkinton was bound over to the grand jury after a jail return of the $5 found by Wade Long in front of his home. The money, lost after Gray allegedly received change for a $19.59 rubber check for underwear, was returned to the local store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gray
Hopkinton
North Cedar Street
Marshal Roy Pearson
Wade Long
Mr. Long
Gray
McLaughlin
Grand
Henry Etchhorn
Jones County
Simple Parcel Sending Tips For Christmas Mail
Advice on safely packing fragile items and gifts plus timing for Christmas mailing. Include sturdy packing, marking fragile, addressing clearly, return on top left, weight and girth limits, and using special delivery or combined air mail for fastest service. Local post office notes December volume and anticipated growth.
Hosford Visitors Reported In Cedar Rapids and Prairieburg
Hosford and Mr and Mrs Lyle Hosford were in Cedar Rapids on Monday Antone L Holub of Prairieburg was a business visitor in the vicinity on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Perrine
Anamosa
Paul Smith
Hosford
Lyle Hosford
Cedar Rapids
Antone L. Holub
Prairieburg
Major Portion of Taxes Received By County
Nearly 95 percent of the 1936 taxes payable in 1937 have been received by the county treasurer. The state treasurer sent a $95,642.23 homestead exemption check, with $13,987.38 paid directly to taxpayers. Payments credited to taxpayers for unpaid taxes totaled $73,308.97, and the total refund to Jones county was $87,296.35, leaving $8,345.88 to be returned to the state. Delinquent taxes should be paid promptly to avoid penalty.
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Jones County
Dairymen Benefit from Cow Testing Association Work
One thousand three hundred seventy nine dairymen received benefits from cow testing association work last year. Their herds totaled twenty eight thousand eight hundred twenty five cows. Average feed cost was sixty three dollars and sixty six cents, with an average return over feed cost of sixty three dollars and eighty eight cents.
Girls Basketball Teams Compete In Monday Game
SCHOOLS Miss Markovitz selected the girls teams across freshmen sophomores juniors and seniors. Notable players include freshmen captains Olive Nagel and Yola Rodman sophomores Beatrice Long Jeanette Lubben and Kate Woodall juniors captain Doris Lubben seniors captain Frances Bone and Frances Bone led the squads. Monday night the sophomore team defeated the freshmen in a competitive contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Markovitz
Olive Nagel
Betty Otten
Deloris Howland
Arline Balster
Lois Naylor
Pearl Harford
Ruth Schneider
Ruby Ambuehl
Norma Reyner
Velma Larimer
Betty Rathbun
Margaret Bader
Yola Rodman
Beatrice Long
Jeanette Lubben
Bernice Tobiason
Eunice Howland
Frances Bone
Betty Thomas
Edith Ferring
Kate Carlsen
Jean Royden
Joyce Bright
Esther Cass
Fern Lightfoot
Margaret Olive Deischer
Helen Heath
LaVonne Landis
Castle Grove Skips Town for Cattle Trades and Meetings
John Messerli traveled to West Union after cattle movements while Don Hennessey moved to Hicks farm on the Delaware county line north of Monticello. Various locals attend a ladies aid meeting, a Catholic burial for John Hogan in Union township, and beef cattlemen’s banquet in Monticello. James Morrissey plans an Anamosa implement store with John Deere line. Hasler and Rickels bought 60 feeder cattle in Omaha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Messerli
West Union
Don Hennessey
Hicks
Delaware County
Monticello
S. M. Hosford
Onslow
M. J. Cass
J. A. Howie
E. J. Noble
F. D. McLaughlin
Frank Burlingham
Cass
Ladies’ Aid
A. M. Black
John Hogan
Delhi
Simon Hogan
W. P. Hogan
Union Township
James Morrissey
Anamosa
Morrissey
John Deere
John Hasler
George Rickels
Omaha
M. Hosford
Kenneth Hosford
Manchester
George B. Nordman
W. H. Burrichter
Castle Grove
W. M. Delay
Clarence Hosford
Cedar Rapids
Vernon Barrack
John H. Husman
S. M
Seniors Fall To Juniors In Overtime Showdown
Tuesday night featured an overtime defeat for the seniors as juniors won to set up a winner’s bracket clash while losers face the other side Wednesday. The report details class activities from shorthand to Christmas events and student projects across grades.
Christmas Cheer Spreads as School Begins Holiday Plans
Pupils repair toys for boy scouts to give away at Christmas. Second graders welcome Jack and Eugene Butler from Maquoketa. Fourth to sixth graders plan jokes poems and songs for hospital and assembly events. Classes prepare carols and Christmas reading around a lit tree. Georgia Bartlett returns from Iowa City surgery.
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Boy Scouts
Patty Podhaski
Marilee Clark
Donald Shelley
John Lubben
Eugene Hanken
Marjory Luett
Bobby Guyan
Marilyn Landis
Beverly Beeks
Ruth Boots
Iowa City
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