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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1931
Page
2
Local items note visitors from Cascade and Cedar Rapids, shopping trips in Monticello, and social calls. Advertisements from Madsen Motor Company and Monty Hatchery promote cars, groceries, and eye care. Several residents visit relatives in Iowa City, Dubuque, and Hopkinton with family ties highlighted.
Local residents hosted and visited across Monticello and nearby towns. Guests included families from Elkader Cedar Rapids Nashua Delhi Oskaloosa Manchester and Mount Vernon with trips detailing illnesses legal matters and community events. Two Wyoming men faced charges after resisting a Wyoming marshal in Jones county.
The teachers' examination for the uniform county certificate will be held at Anamosa on January 28 29 and 30. Nellie V Morey county superintendent.
The Jones county delegation left at 7 30 am Wednesday January 14 by special chartered bus to attend the Town Farm Bureau Federation convention in Des Moines. Delegates include Max Wortman Harry Newman Mrs E C Gotsch Mrs Sam Workman Ellen Shotwell Mrs Harlan Russell Ray Embree Greenfield Roy Joslin Mrs H E Stover C C Fairbanks Fairview H H Carson Esther Sinclair Scotch Grove William Benadom Mrs Henry Wehling Jackson 8 M Has ford Mrs S S Hasford Castle Grove Ray Fairbanks Cass Arthur Wilcox Madison Oscar Kinler Milo Phelps Hale John Yassi Mrs William Balsiger George Biro Richland Mrs Lou Ehristpan Clem Liddy Lovell Don Wherry Oxford.
The May Circle of Sacred Heart church hosted a card party at Mrs. James Lahey’s home with ten bridge tables and post-game refreshments. Alpha Delphian met at Mrs. Frank Stimson’s. papers on Educated Women and Women and Politics were read. Delta Dek bridge club, Mrs. William Smith hosted. high scores and supper followed. A busy slate of social events featured multiple bridge and five hundred games, dances, weddings, and church society fundraisers across Monticello.
Miss Kathryn Young hosted a 6:30 dinner for twelve at Maples Inn with bridge later at Mrs Matt Muller's home where Miss Lillian Byerly won high and Miss Frances Favan second. Bride-to-be Mrs Lyle Clark celebrated with a pink shower, gifts displayed in a coaster wagon. Mrs Ray Fairbanks attended from Cass township. The Congregational Church Woman's Missionary Society met at Mrs John E Bateman's with Mrs Henry Carpenter presiding in the president's absence.
A lesson detailed the science of turning water into liquid, why a sponge is wrapped in many layers overnight, and why a grandfather stocked flour before the new wheat market. It covered 19 steps from gathering ingredients to cooling and storing bread, with a follow up on Feb 24 at Mrs B D Hetken’s home.
In reflecting on a period of weakness and suffering the speaker notes a longing for the Lord to take him home. The message expresses that although he will be missed by family and friends the loss will be his gain and honors those who serve God by serving his creatures.
A Want Ad note describes a buyer meeting a seller to arrange a purchase, highlighting mutual profit and straightforward transaction in a casual marketplace setting. The exchange underscores practical commerce and common sense negotiations between parties.
J C Orr 82 died January 14 and funeral services were held at Golden Prairie church with burial in Golden Prairie cemetery. Born May 25 1848 in Zanesville Ohio he moved to Delaware County in 1856 and lived there since childhood. He married Mary Matilda Corell February 13 1879 and had children Edmund C Everett I Matilda R now Mrs Andrew Wilson and Charles J. Fifteen grandchildren survive. Orr joined the Reformed Presbyterian church and remained a member throughout life celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary about two years ago. He was a devoted father and respected farmer. His last illness lasted three days.
Miss Lulu Tregoning Iowa State College girls leader met with Jones county 4 H leaders and committee members at Mrs. W. E. Hay home last Tuesday to study bread making history and bake whole wheat bread The session ran from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and highlighted a shift to definite methods and exact measurements for uniform results.
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