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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1923
Page
2
Subscription price per year listed by editors and proprietors J. W. Doxsee and Chas A. Doxsee. The rate is 42.00 dollars.
A strong turnout capped the 1923 farm bureau season in Scotch Grove with a county agent showing educational films on soils moisture mulching and fire safety and a play Dollars and Sense. The event featured Miss Thelma Brady as announcer and a full program of acts and Christmas activities across local churches and clubs.
Amber December 18 obituary notes four month old Alva George Otten son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Otten died suddenly after a croup illness. Funeral services were held at home and at Wayne Lutheran church with burial at Wayne cemetery. The family and neighbors extend sympathy.
The play depicts the office of the home demonstration agent guiding families through economy of well chosen foods and keeping classified home accounts. It ends with a healthier family meal and praise for the new accounting system as the county farm bureau plans its 1924 activities and officers.
Center Junction December 18 notices union Christmas services set for Sunday morning December 23 at the M and church. Rev Hf Schepple will deliver the sermon. Choirs and special carols planned as locals and visiting students return home for the holidays.
A fragmented local page notes a stock sale at Tiffany place on Tuesday with Ross McIntyre visiting Anamosa. A car load of oats was seen at Amber soon, with references to Phil Batley Jr and R A Naylor. The shipping association sent hogs on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Mike Martin were shoppers in Monticello, Tom Schoon and family also shopped there Friday. Henry Harris's son is ill and under doctor care. Lloyd Robertson remains on jury duty.
Mrs H Pierce and Mrs Fred Egger joined Mrs Joohn Shuster for a domestic science girls dinner honoring mothers in Hopkinton gym. Farm Bureau ladies attended a By A Dunlap home meeting. Talcott state organizer present. Efforts to form a Ladies Auxiliary noted. The Bosses of near Monticello moved to the former Matthiessen house. Additional visits and travel tied to relatives and illness appear across the region.
Ton visited at the home of their son Jake Lang and family on Tuesday. Mrs. Barton Powers spent a few days at her mother Mrs. Rhodes home in Manchester. Mr and Mrs Herman We have er and two children visited relatives in Cascade Sunday. Mrs Henry Behrends and Mrs J L Batchelder were Monticello shoppers Saturday. Miss Louise Gestel was a Cedar Rapids visitor Monday.
Prairiburg December 17 the community Christmas tree and program by the schools will be at the movie hall at 2 p m Friday Mrs I G Truesdell returned from Marion reporting Mrs Gehringer not improving Sunday school program will be at the M E church Sunday the 23rd at 2 p m Fred Bohren visiting Coggan spent Sunday with his father Howard Holmes and Johnnie Ohren spent part of the week at Waterloo John Holub touring with the Curtis show is home for the holidays Mr and Mrs Paul Lauser and family of Marion were in town Thelma Rhatigan has been quite sick the past week Mrs Edward Burlingham was ill the past week
Reduced rates on household goods and automobiles to all California points and long distance moving by truck. Expert packing and crating. Write or call Cedar Rapids Transfer & Storage Co. Cedar Rapids IA.
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