Longtime Hopkinton resident R E Goss dies at 78
Funeral services were held in the Hopkinton Methodist church for Richard Edward Goss who died on Tuesday morning December 22 1936. Born July 18 1858 in Cottonwood County Minnesota he taught school in Elizabeth Illinois Waubesha Minnesota and New Sharon Iowa. He lived in Hopkinton since 1894 where he ran a barber and bicycle shop and later worked in insurance and nursery stock sales. He contributed a column Socialville to the Hopkinton Leader and helped fund local projects including the Hopkinton band. He leaves a son and many nieces and nephews. Burial was in Hopkinton cemetery beside his wife who died fourteen years before.
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Methodist
R. E. Goss
Richard Edward Goss
Cottonwood County
Minnesota
Jennie Smith
Mabel
Chicago
Z. E. Goss
Ryan
George
Goss
Adah Hopkins
Tl Health
Hopkinton
Mr. Goss
Christian Science Church
David de Best
Presbyterian Church
E. A. Cochell
Methodist Church
Neitert
Charles Neitert
Bay Cemetery
Neuert
Floy
Letha
Estelle
Virginia
Lorraine
Clarence
Bernard
Eskader
Aurora
Clarence F. Neitert
Isabel Tharp
William Tharp
Buck Creek
Cornelia Blanchard
W. A. R. Blanchard
H. E. Morrow
Fierstine-Gilder
Friends
R. D. Fierstine
Ethel M. Gilder
Lancaster
Wis
Little Brown
Nashua
Iowa
Kent
Scotch Grove Correspondent Marks Fifty Years of The Monticello Express
The Scotch Grove note honors Mra D O Sinclair for fifty years of writing in The Monticello Express since 1886 with interruptions until 1918. The column thanks neighbors for news gathering, mentions Christmas gatherings, weddings, engagements, and community events across Scotch Grove Center Junction and nearby towns, including F E Craig and Florence Ireland weddings, engagements of Gertrude Rickels and Robert Schoon, and various family visits and church activities.
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Monticello Express
Scotch Grove
The
Express
Arrival of Canal Boats Marks Early Ohio Waterway Progress
The Columbus Sentinel reported on September 27 1831 that three canal boats Cincinnati Red Rover and Lady Jane arrived from Cleveland reaching Columbus after passing the Licking Summit. The welcome included a six pounder firing the state house bell a citizen procession and an official address with a shared meal.
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Columbus
Ohio River
Columbus Sentinel
Cincinnati
Red Rover
Lady Jane
Cleveland
Licking Summit
Lakes
New York
State House
Orleans
Hudson
Garryowen Song and Its Irish Garden Name
Ireland’s Own notes Garryowen from Lim erick on a hill, Owen’s garden, the meeting place of recreators. The Garryowen Boys became famous, with a minstrel’s verses spreading the tune and the name implying Ireland itself.
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Garryowen
Erin
Limerick
Ireland
Owen
Garryowen Boys
Fault-Finding Versus Fostering Virtue in Life Growth
The passage counsels focusing on the good in others and in oneself rather than dwelling on faults. It urges honoring strength, mirroring virtue, and using virtue to overcome faults, noting a life may appear rugged but can still bear grand growth and substantial fruit.
Lesser Rhodesian skeleton resembled Neanderthals found in 1921
A skeleton unearthed at the Broken Hill mine in Northern Rhodesia in 1921 is described as a Rhodesian man. Thought to be contemporary with Neanderthals, he stood about 5 feet 10 inches, with gorilla like facial features yet distinctly human teeth.
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Broken Hill Mine
Northern
Rhodesia
Last of the Cocked Hats James Monroe Portrait
James Monroe described as nearly six feet tall and slender with polished manners. He wore a dark blue coat buff vest small clothes and top boots in Revolutionary era fashion. He has been labeled the last of the cocked hats for clinging to century old style.
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James Monroe
Mardi Gras A French Rite From Shrove Tuesday To Revelry
Mardi Gras means fat Tuesday in French and marks Shrove Tuesday the day before Lent. The old ceremony featured a fat ox paraded in Paris and other cities and Carnival traditions grew into a festival with pageants in Europe and in New Orleans where the tradition was introduced by French residents.
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Paris
England
Europe
United States
New Orleans
Wool Covered Tennis Ball Achieves Longer Life in London
A new tennis ball covered in Australian wool promises double the life of earlier balls. In London tests the wool cover survived sixty serves at sixty miles per hour while retaining the nap similar to an unused ball, indicating extended durability.
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London
Some Superstitions Our People Like to Mention
A compilation of beliefs about black cats, June weddings, opals, Friday the 13th, and third-light superstitions. It links medieval and Roman origins to common modern myths, noting Satan, Juno, plague lore, and wartime signals as explanations.
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Europe
Juno
Jupiter
Christmas in Castle Grove and area notes
Christmas greetings and family visits fill Castle Grove and nearby towns. Residents report holiday meals at homes in Monticello Scotch Grove and Center Junction while several hunt for health with mumps and a carbuncle. a local horse injury and a baptism story are noted. An upcoming marriage is announced for Irvin Becker and Catherine Gudenhauf. Fratosthenes and a census fact close the item.
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Clarence
George Helms
John Wright
Scotch Grove
E. H. Cox
Blanche Moser
Faye Kauffman
Howard
Travers
Ryan
Merle Baxter
Joseph Baxter
Donald Travers
A. L. Baxter
Oneida
Vernon Payne
Charles Clifford
Hopkinton
John Albany
Josephine Paetz
Brooklyn
Wis
Irvin Becker
Catherine Gudenhauf
Worthington
Perry DeShaw
Bert DeShaw
Fred Egger
Des Moines
Dean Morton
Edward Cox
Herbert Cox
B. W. Cox
Center Junction
Barney Jurgens
Marie
Leo
Bill Melchert
W. Chapman
Christmas Guests And Weekend Visits In Local Homes
Mrs Mary Egan of Monticello was a Christmas guest in the Roy Slausons home. Bertha Baxter visits her sister near Ryan. Fred Eggiman Jr and Sr and families join Dave Wilsons for Christmas. School resumes after a week off. Conleys from Dyersville visit Clement and Frank Conley homes. Dale McDonald visits John Albany Jr. in town. Vincent Duggan and Ann Haley from Peoria and Dubuque join James Rowans for weekend stay. Henry Heims and others noted in the closing.
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Howard Kirkwood
Kathryn
Hopkinton
J. R. Kirkwood
Wendell
Dubuque
Fred W. Smith
Farmington, Mont
Kate Smith
Margaret Porter
Ireton
R. V. Porter
H. M. Reeve
Eureka
Kansas
Reformed Presbyterian Church
F. E. Allen
Lester Ament
Kill Kare Club
Masonic Temple
Howard Kirkwood Jr
Bradford
Ill
Leo Driscoll
Vivian Dunlap
Duluth
Minn
Ermina, Dunlap
Ethel Morton
Charles
Donald
Mary Ethel
A. H. Larkins
Waveney
Alpha
Stanley
Edgar
Stanley School
F. E. Craig
Edwin
Ruth
Wyoming
Florence Ireland
Harvey Lecter
Wilma Craig
Leslie R. Himebaugh
Georgia
Imogene Moats
Joyce
Mary Ann Otten
Vaneta Hughes
Gerd Rickels
Renk Eilers
Monticello
Lestus Kuhns
Richard Hanken
Betty
John Hanken
Ray Wright
Geraldine
Virginia
Irma Keith
Frank Royden
Lois Naylor
Alva Freese
Center Junction
Selena Otten
Ethel Courtney
Ecules Junction
Carson
C. B. Carson
H. H. Carson
W. E. Carson
Herbert Hugh
John Schone
Darlene
Bobby
May Himebaugh
F. D. Sutherland
W. B. Clark
Alice
R. P. Clark
Wilma
Roberta
Charles Nelson
Irving Eilers
Margaret
M. M. Sinclair
Laura
F. Dd. Sinclair
Janet
L. E. Hutton
Merle
L. J. Schlemme
Hedden
W. B. Henrichs
Jane
Arend Balster
Leslie
Herman Folkerts
Roy
Deliie
Alva Zimmerman
Elmer Rickels
Kaydon
Burlington
Charles Henrichs
Henrichs
June
Albert Schrader
Max
Rex
Jack
John Husman
Dorothy
Ralph
Schraders
August Schrader
Henry Schrader
Albert Sc
E. J. Fedderer
Chicago
Mary Egan
Roy Slauson
Bertha Baxter
Howard Travers
Ryan
Fred Eggiman Jr
Clair
Velma
Gilbert Vernimont
Billy Jo
Fred Eggiman Sr
Dave Wilson
William Conley
Dyersville
Clement
Frank Conley
Claude Miller
John Batchelder
Andrew Glass
Dale McDonald
John Albany Jr
Peoria
Vincent Duggan
Ann Haley
James Rowan
Henry Heims
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Spokane
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George Gearhart
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Sunbeam Mission Band
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Fred Blake
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Hank Rickels
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Castle Grove
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Mildred Aldrich
Rein
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Cyrene
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