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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1933
Page
5
Local notes show the Onslow community hosting women’s society events, a guild meeting, and a church program. Family updates follow with Mrs Kate Maple’s death in Royal Oak, Mich., and the Maple family arrangements including Paul Maple and Genevieve Smith, plus a large funeral at Onslow Presbyterian church.
Hopkinton patrons numbering 222 obtained a net average of 20.67 cents a pound from 371630.45 pounds of butterfat in 1932 while buttermaker C W Rouse churned 459143 pounds. Directors Guthrie McGlade Smith re elected and over directors named. Attendees 175. Community notes relay school games, club meetings, broadcasts, and local visits across Cedar Falls Waterloo Manchester Lenox and Amostra.
Na-quil the moon god finds Strong Heart crying atop a mountain. He learns the boy is too big to join other children, and suggests new games like hide and seek and a teeter totter made from rock. Na-quil concludes Strong Heart wants a moonlit playmate, a friend as grand as the Moon.
Na-quil plots to seize the new moon to give Strong Heart a moon for play. Kee Yay warns of consequences as Na-quil notes a salty lake remains, while Moon rise looms and Happy Moon-later hints at more tales.
A puzzle note describes adding and subtracting core neuron groups and then the central set. If solved correctly the initial syllables of the corner groups form the four evitables of the central word. Copyright.
The article contrasts Whistler’s money troubles with Rossetti’s skill at cashing in on assets. It describes Whistler pawning etchings in pursuit of rare items and Rossetti pursuing old furniture and bric a brac. It notes a house that served as a museum and menagerie with raccoons and other animals among manuscripts and furniture, ending with a remark on morbid collecting tastes.
A New York Chicago passenger train meets a severe storm as the stoker urges a halt after seeing a woman in black dancing by the engine. The driver discovers the Rock Creek bridge washed away and, inspecting the lamp, frees a trapped insect that appeared as a dancing shadow in the rain.
A Manchester Guardian piece discusses how scarlet dyeing originated in Persia and spread to Europe. It notes the phrase though your sins be as scarlet and mentions Persians as skilled dyers whose dye houses were once called Christ's workshop.
The article explains boxing the compass as reciting the mariner's points in order from north to east. It lists the sequence from North to East including terms like north by east, north northeast, east by north, and east.
Center Junction residents hosted a Wednesday evening gathering at the Vander Stoep home with a 7 oclock cafeteria supper and a one act play Modes and Manners led by Lulu Kleineck et al followed by progressive games and singing. E F Kleinecks grocery was robbed of cash and silver early Friday. sheriff investigations begin next day. Presbyterian Ladies Working Band met at Mrs. Frank Dawes home with guests Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Eller. Center Junction basketball teams open county tournament at Monticello with strong local rosters and a near undefeated girls squad. Several residents welcomed new births and reported weekend visits, while church and school activities fill the week.
The article explains early methods using kites and hydrogen balloons to study the upper atmosphere, noting balloon data reaching 15 to 20 miles and instruments that return by parachute after balloon bursts. It mentions shooting stars as evidence of air extending near 100 miles and plans for rockets to reach 50 miles with scientific instruments.
London Answers reports Lord Belhaven and Stenton suggest the biblical unicorn may be the Arnabian oryx or the reem. A single oryx gifted from Ibn Spud to the king was once in the zoo and favored charettes as a delicacy. Biblical commentators link the unicorn or reem to the wild ox or aurochs, noting double horns disqualify them as unicorns.
The George Washington bicentennial commission states he first encountered theater in Barbados with his sick brother Lawrence. In his diary on November 15, 1751, he records receiving a playticket to see The Tragedy of George Barnwell, with praised performances and accompanying music. Anne Washington is described as a theater lover.
Edward Eggleston notes the old game tee tah toe or three in a row played with slate and pencil by boys and girls. He describes a better variant tee tah tee learned on the Wildcat, possibly an early Indian game played with grains of Indian corn.
Amber Kathryn Martinsen was honored at a miscellaneous wedding shower at her southeast town home last Wednesday. The event included cards, games, a luncheon, and about eighty guests as she nears her marriage to Freese, son of Tobias and Mrs Freese.
Georgetown visitors stayed last week with Mr and Mrs W R Zimmerman and with Mrs Cletus Boland and daughter Beverly Ann who are ill with the flu.
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