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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1940
Page
2
Palmers advertise vitamin headquarters and watch repairs. births and visitors anchor social notes. Mr and Mrs George Plueger welcome a daughter. John Boland visits from McGregor. various relatives visit Monticello and Anamosa. Fracture noted for Barbara Matthiessen. Hunnicutt receives 100 baby chicks for early poultry work.
Miss Darleen A Wolfe visited Cascade while Gus Rickless continued a big sale through next week. Everything reduced stock must be cut down. Watch for the big 10 cent bag day week from Saturday.
John Hornung and C. B. Grantham completed their routine inspection of offices in the courthouse and departed for Muscatine. Major and Mrs. L. W. Lovell returned from a Palm Beach vacation via car, stopping in El Reno to visit Mr. and Mrs. George LeVan. Wilbur Doxsee and Sedgewick Manson spent the weekend at the C. A. Doxsee home after snowbound travel. Mary Waddick, longtime LeMars teacher, is staying with her brother in Monticello and recently suffered a stroke before Christmas.
Licenses to wed were obtained by Charles Edward Rands and Clara Sadler both 26 of Anamosa. Also licensed were Fred Egger and Anna M Svobodny from Central City.
County treasurer records show car registrations four days ahead of 1939 with No. 2425 sold January 17. Average daily licenses since December 1, 1939 is about 57. If sales continue, about 113 per day are needed through January 31. Last season had 4,023 registrations by January 31 and 5,221 for the year.
Announcement from Hamilton Field California notes the promotion of Roy F. D Autre mont to corporal in the air corps. D Autremont was born in Riverside Iowa and moved to Monticello with his parents. He finished Monticello high school in 1914 and earned a B S in electrical engineering from Iowa State College in 1921. He enlisted in 1917 at Camp Hopkins Virginia for WWI service and joined Mitchel Field New York in 1927 to serve in the air corps.
A collage of local vignettes from Monticello and surrounding areas includes social scenes with Methodist ladies and a Sunday school class, sponsorship ideas for visiting Negro basketball players, and small incidents like a fire station moment, CCC camp poll results, and a sled runner accident affecting Virginia Schneider. The piece lists volunteers, local figures, and mounting community activity in a period voice.
The passage honors D Autremont for outstanding service in multiple theaters including the Philippine Islands. A graduate of the Air Corps Technical School radio course, he is qualified as air mechanic and aircraft radio operator. His dedication earned praise from superiors while serving with the 9th bombardment squadron at Hamilton Reid.
SAND SPRING The farm sale of Lou J. King has been postponed until January 25 due to bad weather and impassable roads. The note of postponement appears in a brief local update amid a longer column of social and visitor notices from Sand Springs and nearby towns.
The piece discusses the Latin motto Qui pro Domina Justitia Sequitur and its varied translations. Dean Rostee Pound of Harvard law school translates it as who prosecutes on behalf of justice. Reverdy Johnson, former attorney general under President Taylor, gave the motto to the department and died before any wearer was minted.
Dr. Herbert Pease medical officer at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp emphasizes prevention over treatment. The camp has a small hospital with four beds for short illnesses, while emergencies go to John McDonald hospital or Fort Des Moines hospital. Daily sanitation, barracks checks, and antiseptic foot care guard against infections among nearly 200 boys.
Earl Schrove, educational adviser for Monticello CCC Camp, spoke to the Monticello Rotary Club last Monday evening. He described his work with new campers and the varied educational levels of the 40 boys arriving Tuesday morning, noting the challenge of scheduling classes to fit a wide range from first grade to college work.
The Iowa Press association begins compiling a statewide Who's Who with selections from across counties. It will list individuals active in civic life or recognized in their communities, arranged alphabetically by county and include a county history by a local historian.
A Wyoming hog feeder, Clarence Romer of Jones County, sold 86 quality Hampshire hogs at Chicago for 5.45 per cwt. The May pigs weighed about 208 pounds and were fed corn tankage and oil meal.
Presbyterian Church led by Pastor Wm J Grossheim has Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11 with sermon The Man Who Might Have Been. Evening services at 7:30 with sermon The Signs of the Times. St Matthew’s Lutheran in H L Adix’s charge notes 9:45 a.m. Sunday school 10:46 a.m. Divine worship in English. REFORMED CHURCH Amn H Tendick announces next Sunday church school 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 with theme Two Words One That Shuts Heaven and the Other That Opens Heaven. Woman’s Missionary society meets next week at Mrs Will Burrichter’s home. Sacred Heart Catholic Church Masses Sundays 8 and 10 with Holy days 6 15 to 9 weekdays 7 Confessions Saturday 3 30 and 7. St John’s Ev Lutheran Paul T Gutknecht reports St John’s English service 10 30 Trinity English service 9. Call of the Cross conference at Trinity Lutheran Cedar Rapids January 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. All members of St John’s and Trinity urged to attend.
The conference will feature Rev M F Kretzmann D D and Rev Robert Heyne with Samuel C Gutenschn leading Sunday school at 10 and sermon at 11 The Pilgrim Fellowship meets next Sunday at 6 Albert McNeill Jr All welcome to worship The Methodist Church led by George Woodall opens with Sunday school at 10 preaching at 11 Epworth League at 645 A mixed quartet from Cornell College assists during the service The pastor will officiate and administer the Lord's Supper.
The text urges families of the congregation to attend a service together and receive the sacraments. The public is invited. Our church is equipped with a hearing device for those who need it.
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