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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1929
Page
2
A compilation of local visits to Monticello and Cedar Rapids with multiple social calls. Baking sales at St Elizabeth and Royal Neighbors. Hardware bargains include a two-quart ice cream freezer for 1.25 and a 98 fifty cent neck range. Steiner Grocery promos feature flour specials. Community notices cover relatives, travel, and shop events through the week.
Montgomery ads promote Swift and Co fertilizer and enamelware at McNeills Hardware. A community diary lists visits, travel, scholarship moves, a DeMolay initiation, births, and a hospital operation, with residents such as Leonard Aldrich facing cancer and Betty Atkinson recovering from appendicitis.
A five inch snowfall last Sunday night covered roads much of the region and halted some travel. The narrow gauge line between Bellevue and Cascade remained blocked, delaying coal deliveries as crews worked to reopen the route.
A Sunday afternoon celebration at the J F Lieneman home near Langworthy honored the twenty fifth anniversary of their wedding. Guests enjoyed a long table with carnations and a large wedding cake, plus a program including songs, a reading, and a duet by Rev Gutknecht and his wife. The Lienemans wed in Monticello on February 24 1904 and have two daughters Anna and Helen, the latter an educator near Sherrill.
Miss Gertrude Arduser daughter of Mr and Mrs Casper Arduser of Sand Spring married Galen Hein son of Mr and Mrs John Hein of Richland township yesterday afternoon at 3 o clock in the Reformed church. Rev Roland P Kuentzel officiated. Attendants were Miss Lena Hein bridesmaid and Clifford Arduser best man. The bride wore tan georgette crepe. A three course dinner followed at the Arduser home for forty guests. The couple will live on a farm in Richland township.
Miss Birdena Behrends hosted friends for her tenth birthday with games and a birthday wake. Miss Gertrude Arduser received gifts at a miscellaneous shower and married Galen Hein. Miss Mary Stickford hosted a Sunday school class dinner for her peers, marking her thirteenth birthday. Miss Nella Davis’s pre nuptial shower announced her upcoming Chicago wedding to Carl McKinstry.
A roundup of social events as Misses Cook and Scott hosted the Kill Kare club at the Schoons with four bridge tables and high score by Miss Nettle Hormel. Fortnightly club, Friday club, Neighborhood club, Monday Bridge club, Jolly Twelve and Kensington club also held meetings with guests, readings, sewing, and refreshments.
The piece notes Chicago as an Augean stable in a Punch magazine line, with a correspondent stating the city embodies a rough, chaotic urban scene that embodies a harsh contrast to idealized order.
A letter from Mrs. Caroline Marsh notes poultry success using Quisenberry Starting Food and Growing Mash. She reports a test with 214 chicks where 211 survived, praising the feed for strong blood and disease resistance. The product is sold by Geo. Stuhler's Sons Co with a poultry manual available.
Mrs. Jacob Schneider a Delaware county resident for over forty years died at her daughter's home in Manchester after an extended illness. Born Rosa Ritschard in Canton Bern Switzerland on June 30 1861 she came to America in 1887 and married Jacob Schneider in 1889. Survived by three children and five step children along with several siblings, she will be buried in Oakland cemetery after services at the Lutheran church conducted by Rev. Herbert Groening.
Mr and Mrs Albert Schmidt tenants on the Mrs Hilah Hutton farm northeast of Monticello plan to move this week to a 200 acre farm owned by the Lowell State Bank eleven miles northwest of Monticello in the Coggon neighborhood. Their new address after March 1 will be Coggon Iowa. Albert expects the larger farm will offer better opportunities to earn money and friends wish them well.
Reader tips on using Want Ads for buying selling or trading. A quip notes someone who bargains harshly is meaner than any trifling cost.
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