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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1931
Page
2
Local items from Monticello and surrounding towns record Christmas visits and gatherings. Citizens such as Ray Hearn, Ed Podhaski, Miss Lucia Schoon, Miss Betty Hogan, and many others are listed with relatives and friends across Burlington, Cascade, Clarence, Elkader, Des Moines, Clinton, Castle Grove, and Davenport.
A long list of local residents and visitors is recorded with Christmas and New Year greetings. Names include Miss Dorothy Johnson Miss Janet Hazard Dr O E York and Miss Florence Noble among residents and visitors to Monticello Cedar Rapids Anamosa and surrounding towns with several Reynolds references to family and kinship events.
Miss Frieda Schmidt employed in the Northwestern Bell Telephone office at Dubuque spent of her mother, Mrs. Lizzie Schmidt.
An inventor in Chicago introduced a motor driven device that signs 7,500 checks per hour and stacks them in order. The article then largely covers a long list of local social visits, holidays and dinners involving residents from Monticello Hopkinton and surrounding towns. It mentions Mr. and Mrs. Lang, Mr. and Mrs. Mead, Mrs. Woods visiting from Amarillo, Mrs. Nelson from Spicer and other families, plus a note on the death of Mrs. Green of Delhi and burial in Hopkinton cemetery.
Miss Irma Rohr traveled to Marengo last Friday to serve as bridesmaid at a college friend's wedding the following day. A bridal breakfast for sixteen occurred at the Marengo hotel. A son named Loren Arthur was born to Mr and Mrs Arthur Oltmanns of Sterling Illinois on Saturday December 27. Mike Healy resigned as deputy U S marshal after nearly five decades and will be replaced by Sheriff R L Whelan of Benton County with Senator Brookhart's endorsement. Mrs C S Iverson hosted Christmas guests Raymond and Ernest Iverson before leaving for Sioux Falls and Britt Iowa, returning to Monticello today. Mrs Dorothy Ommen nee Hance passed state nurse exams in Des Moines after training at John McDonald hospital.
H. E. Twigg quits as Monticello Super Maid aluminum dealer after six months and accepts a post with Rosser Tate Advertising of Cincinnati. He will cover a territory in Illinois and set headquarters at Fort Madison or Burlington. A replacement from Super Maid will visit Monticello in two weeks.
Mrs. E. E. Orcutt hosted a luncheon at her home last Thursday honoring her daughters Mrs. R. A. Hausman of Sparta Jr. and Mrs. C. W. Corbin of Valley Junction, with son Vernon visiting from Minneapolis. Also noted are a bridge dinner by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Iverson, a turkey dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Merle Cass for relatives of Mr. and Mrs. James Laude, and the engagement of Mary Eiben Jacobi to Carl Jacobi in Defiance Ohio. The couple will reside in Springfield Ohio until April after Carl’s graduation from Wittenberg College.
Miss Lena Hoffman daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Hoffman married Fred Schneiter second son of Mrs Louise Schneiter on December 24 They traveled to Rockford for the ceremony and visited Mr and Mrs Will Emmert in Janesville Wisconsin They plan to reside on Steve Grover farm near Stony Point Monticello where Schneiter will operate next year Miss Schneiter is a 1930 Monticello high school graduate.
Mr and Mrs George J Van Buren of Castle Grove township announce the marriage of their eldest daughter Helen Van Buren to Austin Spahr of Wayne Nebraska The ceremony took place Friday November 28 in Yankton South Dakota The bride a Monticello high school graduate in 1927 attended Wayne State Teachers College and has taught at Buck Creek Consolidated School The groom is a son of Mr and Mrs F H Spahr of Wayne and is farming near that city
A formal holiday dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Hal stead Carpenter in Cedar Rapids honored Commander and Mrs. Raymond G. Thomas of Norfolk Virginia and Mr. and Mrs. Don Merrill of Chicago. Twelve guests dined in the Jefferson room of the Hotel Roosevelt with red and green fern decor and jewel trees. Bridge was played with Mr. and Mrs. Merrill taking the prizes.
Mrs Henry J Ricklefs celebrated her sixty fifth birth anniversary with family at her home last Thursday. Guests included H J Ricklefs Monticello Gerd Poppe Ber nice Fred Poppe Raymond Ricklefs Castle Grove Cass Kula Dorothy Castle Grove Louie Zimmerman Fairview and siblings Herman Ernest Carl Clarence and Frieda. Music and visiting followed a noon dinner with a large sixty five candle cake and Christmas decor.
Christmas dinners were hosted at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Carpenter and Mrs. Anna Thoent. At the Carpenter residence ten guests attended with out of town visitors from Davenport Chicago Iowa City and the surrounding area. The Thoent gathering seated fourteen with a crystal centerpiece and a day of family merriment.
Numerous Monticello households hosted Christmas dinners with out of town guests from Dubuque Cedar Rapids Waterloo Maquoketa and Newhall. Hosts included Mr and Mrs Rudolph Aebi P A Kurt J H Haven C M Stutt E E Hicks A W Cramer and others with extended families from Iowa City Des Moines and beyond joining for festive gatherings.
The Farmers' Mutual Creamery at Sand Spring reports November butterfat at 39 cents. Top patrons include P. J. Kurt at 186.05 dollars and Weber and Weber at 185.98. Local social notes list visitors and Christmas dinners across Cascade, Monticello, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, and nearby towns, with many residents spending the holiday at relatives’ homes and some changing teaching posts.
Prominent Iowa leaders appeal to Governor Elect Turner to keep Clifford Niles of Anamosa as chairman of the highway commission citing his experience fairness and results in Iowa road building over the past five years. They argue his continued leadership would benefit state projects.
Mrs Campbell reports spotting a charming hat in a shop. Mr Campbell asks her to try it on to judge her look. The brief humorous exchange captures light domestic banter.
Miss Ruth Cessna of the Extension Service says that a good winter diet for school and pre school children does not require extra foods. A simple daily plan with milk eggs butter meat cereals fruits vegetables and cod liver oil provides essential vitamins minerals and energy. Bread potatoes and a light dessert help maintain weight appropriate for age.
Sioux City Journal editorializes that President Hoover should ignore the irreconcilable faction in Congress, arguing independence is valuable but punitive tactics by a minority power threaten productive governance and could plague the administration.
Auto club executives attribute most accidents to lack of road courtesy. They list seven behaviors: inattentive driving with passengers in rear, crowding the front seat, excessive speed on narrow or poor roads, touring or parking without signals, wrong side at curves, blocking traffic by slow driving, and driving with faulty brakes or improperly adjusted headlights.
A collection of light humor with puns about car trouble jail terms old maids stockings and a barber tip. The quips play on wordplay and social roles delivering quick punchlines in a period tone.
The bureau of standards explains that a lazy man switch or three way switch is a single pole double throw device. Two such switches let a light be controlled from two locations such as upstairs and downstairs. A four way switch is a double pole reversiti switch and any number of four way switches can be used with two three way switches to control light from multiple points.
Dr. Walter Hough of the Smithsonian contends the Kensington Rune Stone is a fake based on a confession from the inscriber. He notes the inscription uses runes not in use in 1362 and asserts the maker later confessed to the deception.
The article refutes the belief that mosquitoes live only 24 hours, noting that no species matures within ten days and that adults endure for months. In some species females may hibernate through winter and lay eggs for the next season.
A Kansas City Times column extols chess as a universal, timeless pastime for kings and commoners alike. It praises chess for sharpening thought, stimulating young minds, and soothing worn intellects, comparing it to golf as a mental diversion and cerebral solvent.
Ben Damph, a rambling Lovelace family mansion in Scotland, is one of the most inaccessible and wet places. Rain falls almost continuously, the nearest village lies eleven miles away, and the household sustain themselves with fish from the loch cattle from the pasture and game from the moor.
A traffic officer confronts a woman who stalled in the street and applied makeup while ignoring signal lights. She replies she knows what is wanted, prompting the officer to question her familiarity with traffic rules.
W 8 Chapman and wife transfer north 20 acres of south 30 acres of swW% to J J Locher for 800 dollars. Elizabeth Jane Somers Nellie V Everson Nannie C Field and Mary Alwilda Coder transfer to Mr and Mrs B F Curley undivided interest in lots 1 2 and north 25 ft of lot 3 block 2 Hale for 1 dollar.
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