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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1934
Page
6
Monticello readers report visits and trips by Marty Rodman in Des Moines and Harry Berg with relatives in Cedar Falls. Several local residents travel to Manchester, Hopkinton, Anamosa, and Chariton, while others host kin at home. An auction sale of farm machinery is announced for Saturday February 3 by Matthiessen Auto & Supply Company.
A 1934 cancer awareness message urges early recognition and treatment. It notes Iowa cancer deaths rose from 1920 to 1930, with 1931 deaths exceeding those from several diseases, and stresses education, early diagnosis, and public health cooperation to combat cancer.
Cedar Rapids residents share visits with family and friends including Lilian Fitzsimmons, Leona at Mount Mercy Academy, and Drs. Generich and Hender. Advertisements promote Panoptik bifocals, farm machinery auctions, and Wm. G. Schoon coal at $6.50 per ton plus delivery.
F H Schlemme celebrated his birthday at home on January 22 with a lively evening of games and a large birthday cake. The Friday club gathered at Mrs H B Richardson's home for a program including readings and essays. Royal Neighbors held a meeting with five candidates to be initiated at the next session. Multiple clubs met for papers, bridge, social hours, and dinners as part of neighborhood society events.
A six thirty dinner for sixteen featured a prettily laid table. After dinner five hundred and dominoes determined scores with Mrs. Andrew Carmichael and Mrs. George Hein leading. Fourteen members and two guests attended. Rev Armin Tendick hosted a January Hodge Podge for the Reform church youths with games and summer plans followed by refreshments and a short devotional. Mrs William Shaffer and Miss Izora Bancroft hosted the Weekly bridge club with three tables of progressives. prizes went to Miss Virginia Schneider and Miss Helen Heiken, with traveling prizes to the Misses Ruth Hayes and Gladys Skelley. Guests included Evelyn Eby Gladys Shelley and Nella Hoffman.
Miss Lillian Allamand and Richard E. Meyers wed in Chicago last July. The couple plan to move to Iowa City where Meyers works with the U S coast and geodetic survey. Meyers is a 1928 Cedar Rapids high school graduate and 1933 Iowa City civil engineering graduate. The wedding followed high school and hospital training for the bride.
Miss Carrie Page Mrs George Wilkens Miss Janet Hazard and Mrs Riess Stuhler attended the charity gathering, sharing introductions and greetings with guests at the town hall.
A marriage license was issued to Joe Kusey and Josephine Setinsky of Oxford Junction at the clerk’s office in the past week. F. Fedderson of the county’s southeast was bound over to the grand jury on a grand larceny charge with bond set at $1,000. Swift & Co. sent 35 dozen cases of eggs as the county’s first relief shipment arriving Jan 16. Wilma Helen Heckensable was born Jan 12 in Oklahoma City to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Heckensable. Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Jane Cowan were held at Olin. she died in Davenport Jan 12. Cowan, former Jones County supervisor and Olin schools official, is survived by husband T. J. Cowan and daughter Jane E. Cowan.
Multiple property transfers, mortgages, and tax liens recorded. Transactions include Henry Eilers to First Farm Land Co for 160 acres at 14 500, various transfers in Monticello and Oxford Junction, and numerous deeds and encumbrances involving Scott Skinner’s addition, railroad right of way, and town easements.
Earl Boyer, former Jones county recorder and resident of Maquoketa, has been recommended for postmaster of Maquoketa by Representative B. M. Jacobsen.
The article details 18 Mortensen/Mortensen related families near Cascade Maquoketa and Elwood Iowa over 60 years with no deaths. It notes 66 people totaling 1987 years old and an average age of 30, plus a golden 50th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mortensen Jr. guests included Mr. Al Takes, Mrs. Nell Date, and Miss Anna Moore visiting Cascade.
Mrs John Miller and her two daughters Joan and Rosemary spent the past weekend in the home of her father W J Aitchison in Anamosa.
Simon and Robert Locher, students at the state university in Iowa City, arrived on Wednesday for a weekend vacation with their parents Mr and Mrs J J Locher.
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