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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1935
Page
6
Local residents report visits and Christmas gatherings with relatives in Cedar Rapids, Cascade, West Liberty, Dubuque, Clinton, Manchester, Manville, and Osceola. Notables include Etten Krause Endley and several students visiting home from Coe College and Scoville Business College amid festive stays.
A long list of area residents and relatives disperses for Christmas and holiday visits. Kenneth Hubbard travels to Chicago. Georgia Orcutt visits Davenport. many others visit family in Cedar Rapids, Anamosa, Scotch Grove, and Des Moines areas. Trips include former residents and students from Purdue, Smith College, and various local schools, with several staying through winter in Chicago and other cities.
Oxford Junction and Cedar Rapids residents hosted relatives during Christmas week..Countless names appear, including Miss Eloise Zeller, Miss Kathleen Hayes, Miss Elizabeth McLaughlin, and many more visiting or returning to family homes. Family gatherings spanned from Oxford Junction to Davenport and Cedar Rapids with students home from Mercy hospital and Mount Mercy, plus CCC camp members and university attendees spending the holidays with relatives.
Max Rettig of Denver arrived Monday for a Christmas visit at his mother Mrs. George Rettig home. August Rettig of Chicago also spent Christmas day at his mother’s home. Miss Mary Jane Stewart a first year student at Town State Teachers College Cedar Falls is on a two week rest visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stewart.
Local households welcome relatives and friends for Christmas. Monticello residents host Mrs B Roy Emms and Miss Neuacher of Perry, Rev and Mrs W J Macaulay with son William, Cornell student Margaret Macaulay, and Stella Reichart plans to reside in Mountain Grove, Missouri. Edith Schemmel and daughter Jonna visit Bea ver Dam while Kenneth Helsel hosts relatives from Edgemont. A W Steiner and Mrs H G Verstine plan a Detroit holiday, Hans Ruof visits Waterton, and Jayne Shover returns to Illinois for vacation. Other notes include campus students home for holidays and a broadcast spotlight on the Chicano Sunday Evening club.
Thirty five years ago a visiting woman gathered signers for a constitutional amendment to grant women the vote. Though some refused, the legislature later adopted suffrage. The item mentions returning students from State University and other colleges, a pipe organ concert at the Congregational church, and local figures like T. B. Balear and F. P. Stuhler. Billy Sloan the janitor is praised for a gift of a chair.
The Anamosa school board rejected bids for an addition and remodeling after the first round on November 21. The project lost a 45 percent federal grant with December 15 as the expiry, hoped to be extended. Bids covered general construction plumbing and heating and electrical work with O Jorgensen & Sons of Clinton bidding 76632 for construction Burlington bid 13400 for plumbing and heating and H C Metcalf Co of Anamosa bid 1985 for electrical work.
State inspectors and patrolmen conducted a motor vehicle driver examination in Jones county last week with a second sitting scheduled for Saturday December 28. Passers earned licenses and performed well above regional averages. Notable local licensees include George H Bohlken Scotch Grove LeRoy Schoon Monticello William Ferring Monticello John Gray Amber Royal Corbett Monticello W Ray Bohler Center Junction Charles Rolls Monticello Richard Himebaugh Scotch Grove Ben E Mettler Monticello Warren Crawford Monticello.
A freezing spell gripped Monticello last Friday with thermometers at seven below zero at 7am. The cold eased to about ten above by Friday night into Saturday morning. A recent snow storm left four inches on Monday morning, promising sleighing for the holidays enjoyed by youngsters during vacation.
Cincinnati Times-Star notes that Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln will all be featured in the 1936 campaign, signaling prominent historical figures used in political outreach and rhetoric.
Indianapolis News notes a New Year church roundup with services at Prairieburg St Josephs Catholic Center Junction M E and Presbyterian churches. It lists pastors, service times, Sunday school, Epworth and Endeavor groups, choir practice, and evening worship with a New Year title Life’s Objective.
Samuel G. Gutensohn, minister, announces church notes with a church school at 10:00 and morning worship at 11:00. The sermon theme is The Testimony of a Handicap. Pilgrim Fellowship meets at the parsonage next Sunday at 6:45. Public invited to all services.
Castle Grove Lutheran Church lists December 27 congregational meeting at 12 45 pm Sunday English services at 10 am Sunday school at 11 am New Year Eve diving services at 7 45 followed by watch party for youth Holy communion in German on New Year Day at 10 45 am Public invited Reformed Church sets Sunday school 9 30 am morning English service 10 30 am with theme What will the New Year Bring Us Holy communion for those who receive It will be followed by annual congregational meeting after morning service on Sunday January 6 Consistory meets Monday at 2 pm to review members not in good standing and financial duties.
A quirky pairing notes that Mandarin class meals run 24 courses and fill most of the evening with interludes for smoking tests. It adds a self critical stance. The text also states gorillas reach six feet tall and eight feet with extended arms. It concludes with the idea that no one is rich enough to live without a neighbor.
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