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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1932
Page
6
Numerous residents and out of town guests spent Christmas and the holiday period with relatives in Monticello and surrounding towns. People from Dubuque Chicago Cedar Rapids Des Moines and Vinton visited or hosted family and friends over Christmas in Monticello and nearby communities. The Red Cross floor distribution is scheduled for January 2 at 4 PM at the Lovel House.
The list records numerous Christmas visits and travels among families across Monticello Anamosa Cedar Rapids Dubuque Manchester Traer Olin Oelwein and nearby areas. Names include Hoult Mastin Lorenz Denkhoff Donnelly Skelley Barron Carpenter Podhaski Suter Reed and many others with engagements in Anamosa Monticello and Cedar Rapids.
Iowa State student Harlan Wilson visits relatives in Monticello during Christmas. Nurses Viola Hogan Elsie Seehusen and Helen Rohr spend holidays with families in Des Moines Chicago and Monticello. Local residents and students travel for Christmas and return ahead of the new year.
B T Perrine of Cedar Rapids visited his parents Mr and Mrs John Perrine on Christmas Day. In the afternoon he drove to Wyoming with Mr and Mrs Perrine and their daughter LaVetta to attend a family gathering at Mrs S G Franks' home.
Mr and Mrs C J Conklin of Davenport with Mr and Mrs Maurice Covemaker of Moline spend Christmas at the Crilley home. They return Monday evening with Mayme Crilley and nieces Mae Rose McCusker and Rita Crowley who will stay in Davenport a week. Alva Stadtmueller and wife welcome a baby daughter Rose Joan born December 22 at John McDonald hospital. This is the first grandchild for Austin Stadtmueller family.
Mr C C Wenger and wife and sons Alfred and Glenn from Geyser Montana arrived at Ed Wengers in Marshalltown after a 48 hour auto trip. The family plans to settle in Monticello. The boys will start high school after holidays. Mrs John H Perrine learned of Henry C Lyttons death in Florence Arizona. Henry had been bedridden in a Florence hospital for a year. He was son of Lemuel and Frances Lytton pioneers near Cascade at the Twelve Mile House where he was born. Mrs Ava Main, injured in an auto crash that killed Mr Main, is at Hopkinton recovering with crutches and hopes to return home to Monticello.
Mrs. Chauncey Bates of Stamford South Dakota arrived last Tuesday to arrange sale of the Bates home and its nearoventy of late Charles EB. Bates. The Bates property has been occupied by Lyle Callahan and his mother during the past year and will be offered at 1 oclock. The Bates home will be available for rent January 1.
Miss Hazel Eby hosted an oyster supper at her home Monday evening in honor of her sister Dorothy of Chicago visiting this week. Music and visiting followed, with Miss Emma Hanken of Anamosa as an out of town guest.
Mrs. Fred Hanken hosted a birthday party for her daughter Emma on her sixteenth anniversary. Five hundred was played at six tables with Raymond Coyle winning high score and Sam Schuetz the consolation prize. Refreshments and a birthday cake followed, and Emma received several gifts.
Mrs Elmer Hubbard marked her sixty first birthday on Christmas at daughter Mrs Maurice Cook’s home. Twenty three guests attended including Mr and Mrs Phil Schlatter Sumner Mr and Mrs Harold Dudycha St Paul Mr and Mrs Max Wilson and two children Waterloo Mr and Mrs Herman Hubbard and three children Castle Grove township and Mrs Hubbard’s mother Mrs A G Rodman.
Mrs. William Thompson hosted a birthday party for Esmeree Nichols on her thirteenth birthday. Friends attended, games and orchestra music were enjoyed, and a decorated table with a large cake was the centerpiece as gifts were exchanged. Guests included Helen Jolly Roberta Clark Hope Orcutt Frances Bone Frances Collins Mary Keith Joyce Orcutt Naida Bradley Ruth Zubler Leona Taylor Esther Cass and Dolores Warner.
Miss Irma Rohr and Mrs. Henry Chisman hosted a holiday party for the class of 1925 in their home on Monday night. Four jig-saw tables provided games with prizes awarded to Mrs. Imogene Schneider George Schweitzer and Mr and Mrs Henry Chisman. A two course luncheon followed with blue tapers and silver holders. Attendees included Carl Schneider Vinton Clyde Corbin Raymond Denkhoff Des Moines Stuart Lang Chicago Patricia Meyer R N Omaha Neal Hayden Owen Sutherland Lee Alcorn Maurice Maire and most of the class except Thomas Chambers Chicago and Loyal.
Podhaski of Anderson Indiana recalls the lingering discussion about school days that stretched into the early hours. The fragment highlights a local voice sharing memories tied to Anderson and education.
Miss Elfried Kaufman daughter of Mrs Ralph Crim and Joseph Hayden son of Mr and Mrs De Laney Hayden of Anamosa were married at the Reformed church parsonage by Rev Armin H Tendick on December 28 at 730 pm The ceremony was a single ring affair with bridesmaid Pauline Meier and best man Frank Schnetter A wedding dance followed at the Legion hall The couple plan a short honeymoon to Madison Wisconsin and will live on a farm near Anamosa The bride is a Delhi high school graduate class of 1929 and trained at John McDonald hospital The groom also graduated from Anamosa high school in 1929 and has worked on a farm near Anamosa.
Area families hosted large Christmas gatherings with relatives from Cedar Rapids Davenport Rock Island Rock Island and Monticello. Guests included the Mead Meads Schoenhuts Mills Sheltons and Adams among others with totals ranging from fourteen to over thirty relatives.
Mr and Mrs E E Stambaugh and daughter Betty Jean of Clinton and Dr D R Webb of Oakdale spent Christmas at the home of Mr and Mrs Grant Stambaugh. Read the Classified Ads and get it.
Monticello Creamery will pay 26 cents a pound for butterfat for the first half of December matching the prior half month. Checks for the last half of December will be issued in January with amount undecided. Also notes Christmas dinner guests at Amber, including Rev and Mrs Willms and several local families.
Mrs Irene McAleer and family and Miss Mary Kehoe of Independence visited Monticello last Friday to spend the weekend and Christmas at the Dennis Kehoe home.
Sioux City Journal notes that about 90 percent of the 33 000 motor car deaths in 1931 might have been saved with common caution by drivers and pedestrians. It argues most tragedies were avoidable with reasonable care.
Atchison Globe notes Mr Roosevelt pledges a 25 percent reduction in government spending likely to trigger his first clash with a hungry party seeking ple.
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