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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1935
Page
5
Keystone Lodge members with Robert Grapengeter install officers for the Order of the Eastern Star at Wyoming. Howard Gee past master and Earl Heath honored. carnations given to officers, a solo performed, and a reception followed with visits from Maquoketa and others.
Seventeen women and three children met at Mrs. M. M. Sinclair’s home for the Scotch Grove Women’s Community Club January session. New president Mrs. John Ahraken led the gathering with a program of antique showpieces, a poem, cooking article review, and a Valentine exchange planned for February 20 at Mrs. John Otten’s.
Center Junction high school announces honor roll for the third six weeks. Seniors Thelma Husman Merlin Dreibelbis. juniors Evelyn Courtney Lucile Livingstone. sophomores Jean McNeilly Robert Crist. freshmen Louis Bohiken Marcella Otten. Also listed are pupils neither absent nor tardy including Thelma Husman Ruth Hansen Eileen Chase Merlin Dreibelbis Lloyd Moats Robert Alyea Arlo Bell Imogene Chase Evelyn Courtney Lucile Livingstone Wanda McDonald Robert Crist Donald Dreibelbis Robert Hansen.
A Motor Vehicle Department reminder urges drivers to be a “heady” driver and use head as well as legs to get home safely. The message emphasizes caution on the highway and personal responsibility in driving.
Miss Leona Fegeler of Dyersville married Augustine Gudenkauf at St Francis church Dyersville. Reverend Herbers officiated with attendants Miss Helen Gudenkauf and Raymond Fegeler. The couple plans to reside near Worthington after a short trip to Nebraska.
A Wednesday ISU extension lesson on cured and canned meats drew nine women to Mrs. L. B. McKinstry’s home. The Masonic lodge held its annual installation with officers listed. Winter storms knocked out electricity and damaged telephone service. Dr. Smith reports a third boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Von Sprecken. Local events included a Wyoming dance, basketball losses to Wyoming, a Clinton trip for Mrs. Lou Barnes, and multiple community happenings such as a high school benefit dance raising $12.90 and a Wessels farm sale with cows up to $60 and soy hay at $14.50 a ton. The Hurst grocery store is being remodeled, a carnival is set for Feb 2 at the hall, and three cattle carloads shipped from Onslow. The Altrusan club seeks Mrs. Provan next Friday after a postponed meeting.
An advertisement claims Adlerika cleanses poisons from the bowels to reduce pimples and blotchy skin. The pitch urges readers to visit Pal mer's Popular Pharmacy for a dose targeting dull complexions.
Bad weather caused no school Monday. Three one act plays are being prepared for next Saturday night if weather permits. Dorothy Overholt and Irene Lightfoot were excused from semester exams with daily averages of 90 percent.
Prairieburg social and business items include visits by Mrs. Harry Knott and Frank Holub to Cedar Rapids, and trips by George Knott, Kenneth Sanders to Des Moines. Local farming, a new V-8 truck purchase, sheep shipment from Paralta, Altar Society events, and updates on DeLancey family, Earl Bebec, and Will Walker follow. Burial of Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming and Merse updates noted.
A new Boy Scout troop was organized in Prairieburg with eleven Tenderfoot boys receiving badges. Harold West of Cedar Rapids presented the charter with support from Scoutmaster Paul Smola and Harold Williams of Central City and Father J. Tracy of Cedar Rapids.
In Cascade on Tuesday morning at 8 Leona Lavery and Raymond Koob married in St. Martins church with Rev Roo ney officiating. A reception followed at the bride’s mother’s West Cascade home and a dance later at Durkin hall. The article notes other local events including rail manager changes and a 25th wedding anniversary, a birth and a university ball.
The January meeting of Castle Grove farm bureau will be held with the follow up meeting at the Harken home on Thursday instead of Friday. Miss Bertha Harken reports on the Town Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Des Moines last week and E F P Burr discusses cinch bugs.
Music by Lyle Hosford and a number by the 4-H girls are noted. Walter Ehits, son of Mr and Mrs G Ehits, suffered a facial laceration when a sled pierced a wire fence and required multiple stitches. Bertha Harken returned from Des Moines after attending the Town Farm Bureau federation meeting. Fred and Carl Caspers attended a sale in Maquoketa. Steve Petersen and O R Howle were in Center Junction.
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