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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1937
Page
2
Local residents travel across Iowa as families and friends visit during Christmas and vacation periods. People from Ames Cedar Rapids Manchester Davenport Dubuque and Chicago visited relatives in Monticello Menlo St Paul and Clinton while others traveled to Washington DC and Philadelphia for occasions and employment updates.
Community members and relatives gathered across Lisban Cedar Rapids Cascade Waterloo and surrounding towns for Christmas with visits to parents siblings and friends. Notable travelers include Bruce Suthers from Annapolis and Dr. Robert Locher from Muskegon while Miss Patricia Meyer a nurse from Omaha stayed with her parents in Monticello.
A group of adult farmers meets in the high school Agriculture room each Wednesday at 8 o clock for Farm Manures. The Young Farmers part time school meets Mondays with growing enrollment and interest. After each session, a gym recreation period follows. Plans for a two to three day Farmers Short Course are under consideration by the Vocational Agriculture department.
A writer in the New York Herald-Tribune notes that pain and pleasure differ by person and intensity. Pain is conveyed to brain centers via sensory nerves, while motor nerves do not convey pain. Hypnotism can block pain signals, and expectation can trigger subjective pain without a stimulus.
Theodore Rethoff, well known Cascade township resident, died Friday night in a Dubuque hospital after a two week illness. Born November 22 1875 in Petersburg he belonged to St. Marys parish Cascade. He is survived by his wife and children Andrew Frank Raymond Joseph Albert Mrs Oliver Tucker Elma Dorothy and siblings Frank John William Henry and Mrs Henry Bergfeld. Funeral services were held Tuesday at St Marys church with mass of requiem by Monsignor J B Albers. Burial followed in St Marys cemetery.
Night classes restart January 5 after Miss Markovitz resignation. Women’s physical training is suspended until further notice. Mr. Walker’s class resumes normal schedule and the International Relations class opens the year with a Germany discussion. Sessions run every Wednesday for at least five weeks. Attendance is optional and open to all with no cost.
Mist and rain plus rising temperatures are clearing main highways making travel safer. Above freezing temperatures were reported Sunday and Monday warmed more ice away. Pavement travel improves while gravel remains slippery. chains should still be carried as conditions may change.
Segt Day of Cedar Rapids addressed the Monticello Rotary Club on highway safety last Monday evening. He is based in eastern Iowa and was introduced by J. J. Locher.
Commodore Perry died in New York in 1858 and, as commandant at the Brooklyn New York Navy Yard from 1833 to 1843, supervised the building of the first steam warship with a hull of ordinary type for the United States Navy named the Fulton. Perry aided plans for a seagoing steam battery proposed by Fulton in 1813 before trials in 1815.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note explains Puritans sought church reform to purify the church while Pilgrims, Separatists who settled Plymouth in 1620, formed a distinct colony in Holland and America. Massachusetts Bay followed in 1628 seeking liberty to stay within the church with a simpler ritual.
The text traces Whitehall Palace from Cardinal Wolsey’s York Place to Henry VIII’s acquisition and renaming, then its role as a royal residence for over 150 years. It notes Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn in 1533 and Charles I’s execution before the palace’s later era of revelry under Charles II.
Households can save by planning for leftovers says Inez Willson home economist. Cooked meats kept for second meals and versatile uses like creamed sauces pots roasts and hash are outlined with steps for reheating baking and repurposing into stews casseroles and sandwiches.
Monticello stores announce New Year day hours with grocery shops closing at 10 oclock and staying shut for the rest of the day. Miss Georgia Miller of Randalia visits in the A B Grimes home. Notes on porcupine quill defense and offense. Telegraph Herald column discusses China rights and gunboat immunity in war zones.
The Webster City Freeman Journal quotes a stance that Great Britain France and Russia may push into Japan with US support. Uncle Sam says he will aid them if they pay cash and can deliver goods themselves, while avoiding personal risk.
Out of town visitors stayed with Mrs. Louise Hoffman over Christmas including Rev. and Mrs. Carl Berhenke of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Staner of Dubuque, daughters of Mrs. Hoffman. A Christmas day dinner was held at the Morey home with C. J. Leytem and R. O. Marshall from Cascade and Donald Morey of Monticello among attendees. Schreiner chapter Eastern Star schedules its last meeting of 1937 for January 3 to install 1938 officers, with refreshments to follow.
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Allamand hosted Christmas guests and, last weekend, their daughter and her family from Louisiana Missouri. The daughter, Lillian Allamand Myers, is a registered nurse from Monticello, and her husband R E Myers leads a government surveying group in Louisiana Missouri.
An opinion piece questions U S government expectations of Japan after apologies. It argues that insincere gestures undermine trust in future promises and asks what actions to take if promises prove unreliable. It challenges how to enforce commitments and prompts debate on consequences for noncompliance.
A historical column contrasts Japanese manners with wartime grievances, arguing for punitive action beyond apologies for sinking ships. It also notes a driveway lighting design for glare-free illumination and mentions sitdown strikers and a German pasture rotation system as notable contrasts in culture and industry.
Word from B M Baker Ocean Beach California reports the death of Harriet Cahill a former Monticello resident who would have turned 96 soon. Also noted is the death of William N Treichler veteran Cedar Rapids attorney and former judge of the 16th Judicial District who graduated from the university law school in 1879 and began practice in Tipton.
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