This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1932
Page
6
Monticello notices list shop hours and local business ads for Burrichter's car showroom featuring Rockne and Studebaker models. It notes residents visiting, gatherings, and travel between Monticello, Anamosa, Cedar Rapids, and Spirit Lake, plus society events and upcoming community performances.
Local Monticello residents report travels to Chicago for an auto show and visits to hospitals. New births at the John McDonald hospital include a son to Mr. and Mrs. Schoon and a daughter Esther Gaylene to Mr. and Mrs. Behrends. A comedy It Looks Like Rain is set for Sacred Heart auditorium with St Marys club.
Two hundred fifteen applicants have been denied licenses under the new state law. Supt. W. A. Stevens says habitual drunkenness caused most denials with 100. Other reasons include reckless driving 42 and mental incompetence 21. Six licenses were revoked partly for violations. Linn county had one revoke. County totals list many towns and counties with denials. Saturday saw 904,000 applications and 759,000 licenses issued.
Reuben Hubbard son of Mr and Mrs Bert Hubbard an agriculture instructor in Montevideo public schools was recently honored He was selected as president of the Montevideo Kiwanis club to serve for the ensuing year He is scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts and secretary of the congregational church
A compact listing of church services across Monticello and nearby towns. Includes St. Matthew's Ev Lutheran St. Joseph's Catholic St. Pauls Reformed Armin Tendick Methodist Episcopal Sacred Heart and more with service times, languages, confessions, and special events such as lent services and confirmation class examinations.
Four Monticello Protestant congregations announce Lenten and Holy Week services from Ash Wednesday February 10 through Good Friday March 25. Evening services start 6 PM except Good Friday 2 PM to 3 PM at the Methodist church.
Schreiner chapter No 226 O E S held its regular meeting Tuesday evening February 9 in the Masonic temple. All members were welcome.
Mrs Harry Stuhler hosted a one oclock luncheon for the Monday bridge club at her home. Twelve sat at one table and after luncheon bridge followed at three tables with Mrs Harry Stuhler and Mrs Riess Stuhler sharing high scores. Other guests included Mrs Thomas Redmond Mrs Raymond Smith Mrs Riess Stuhler and Mrs Leonard Iverson.
Miss Emma Grote and Miss Margaret Kaste hosted a Kill Kare club dinner at Maples Inn last Thursday at 6:30 for twenty. Afterward guests, including Mrs Boyd Shannon and Mrs Raymond Smith, moved to Mr. and Mrs. J F Meyer’s home for bridge at four tables. Miss Ann Henderson won high score.
The February Sacred Heart church circle held a benefit bridge party at Sacred Heart school auditorium last Sunday with over a hundred attendees. Twenty eight tables featured bridge dominoes and five hundred with scores led by Mrs John Lambert and J J Hayes for five hundred Mrs M J Hogan and John Breen for bridge and Mrs Hartman for dominoes. The event ended with hostesses Mrs Harry Stuhler entertaining Friday Bridge Club at a one o clock luncheon at her home.
Betty Denkhoff reports first to third grades making paper hatchets and memorizing Washington and Lincoln poems as the fourth to sixth prepare for a Lincoln program. Fifth and sixth graders win a geography contest, senior typing passes a speed test, and many newcomers join typing class. Sociology covers family crime and insanity. Junior English completes Goldsmith and starts Shakespeare, while freshmen study Ivanhoe. An epidemic of colds empties the high school assembly and many grades. Try Want Ads for quick results.
Miss Justine Demmer daughter of Mrs. Mary Demmer Monticello married W A Walz of Sumner in a 8 o clock nuptial mass at Sacred Heart church conducted by Rev Father Drexler. The couple were attended by Miss Lidwina Demmer and Alphonse Demmer. After a reception at the bride’s mother home forty relatives joined in the celebration. The newlyweds left for Sumner where Mr Walz farms.
John Winthrop Jr tried to make brass at his Lynn Massachusetts iron foundry in 1644. Scientists at the University of Iowa perfected a device to register off key notes in a singer's voice.
Practical guidance on dairy cattle disease prevention and management to be presented at the third series of dairy meetings in the Monticello public library auditorium. Earl Shultz will address wasteful cures and practical prevention, with discussions on bull selection care safety handling and pedigrees and records.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.