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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1933
Page
6
Local briefs report hardware promotions at McNeillys and Eclipse Lumber Co with ads for coal and paint. Residents headed to nearby towns, visits in Marion Cedar Rapids Chicago Eldora Dubuque and Iowa City are noted along with moves and social visits among Monticello families and students.
A roundup of visits and errands in Monticello and surrounding towns. Michael Mulford of Iowa Electric spent last weekend with his parents in Eldora. Burton McLaughlin of Monticello attended a Chicago auto show. several families from Dubuque Algona Earlville and Onslow hosted or visited in Monticello.
Last Monday morning icy streets caused several accidents including Peter Pan bread wagons in ditches near Langworthy Ana mosa Monticello and Wyoming. The Lyman Fraser portable mill tipped into a ditch between Monticello and Cascade. The truck was damaged but the mill remained usable. Fraser was minorly cut and has remounted the mill on a new truck and resumed work.
Mrs Emil Ricklefs hosted a small waffle supper with bridge among friends and Miss Martha Meyer achieving high score. Mrs Caroline Schoenhut entertained Past Noble Grand club. refreshments followed. Needlework Guild and Working Band guests shared sewing and tea. Several bridge sessions featured high scores by Dr Earl DeShaw and Mrs Locher. An Auxiliary card party and missionary meeting wrapped the week.
Lucile Huibregtse and Yola Rodman performed piano duets as patriotic songs and a reading closed the program. Social hour and refreshments followed, hosted by Mrs. Ed Huibregtse and others. F H Hatch hosted a Shell Petroleum engineers dinner at Ann's Cafe with speakers Davis, Fritz, and Treadway. about 30 attended.
Miss LaVetta Perrine, Ardys Rabe, and Vera Mattocks led a Kill Kare bridge session with twenty at a six o'clock Maples Inn dinner. Clara Mae Pillmore had high score. Ruth Burnstedt took the traveling prize. Funeral attendees listed from Marion to Monticello and surrounding towns. About 5,000 women work for the U S government per Civil Service league.
Mrs Harry Rodman hosted members of the Social Circle of the Methodist Episcopal church yesterday afternoon. After the business meeting the program for the afternoon was presented.
John Oltmans 72 of Anamosa died after weeks of heart illness at his home last Sunday. He retired from farming in Cass township in 1920 and moved to Anamosa the same year. Born September 19 1860 in Vlardergroden Oldenburg Germany he came to the United States in 1884 settling first at Council Bluffs then Cass township in 1893. He married Elsie Weets July 28 1887 and is survived by his widow and six children John William Albert and three daughters Mrs Will Poppe Mrs John Albert and Mrs Lewis Knake. Funeral services were held at the Anamosa Lutheran church with later German services at Castle Grove Lutheran church. Rev A Matthias officiated and burial followed in Castle Grove Lutheran cemetery.
Dr Paul Kellar professor of church history and practical theology at Central China Union Theological Seminary in Wuchang China delivered an inspiring talk at the Reformed church on Tuesday evening. He described the seminary work and its three denominational sponsors the Reformed Church in the United States the Congregational and the English Wesleyan Methodists training Chinese to become Christian leaders for their people.
Des Moines lawmaker Rep Tom Stimson shows a fine coin collection totaling 266 unique American pieces. It includes 114 pennies all different, dating from 1800 onward. Chris Arduser of South Dakota notes an 1841 penny preserved since childhood in an iron bank. He recalls a mild winter and a nearby Lemmon occurrence.
A fierce fire swept six large stores, destroying all stock with losses around 100000 dollars. A strong wind hampered efforts to control the blaze. In nearby notes, John Bateman of Monticello is found with old coins including 1859 and 1867 issues as well as 1847 and 1875 cents and other older currency.
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