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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1922
Page
6
Local paper notes a pre nuptial shower for Floravbele Klinkner bride to be and reports on hospital visits including Mrs Shaughessy and James McHugh senior. Community events cover dances dinners prayers and the Ford dealership transfer to Donnelly Boland with L A Walsh exit.
Center Junction reports a busy week with M E church activities. Pastors led seventh grade games. church ladies served cocos and ice cream sandwiches. Anamosa M E youth choir performed. Epworth League and Christian Endeavor held a banquet with toast topics about basketball terms. The Gerenaders quartette gave a strong concert at the opera house. Local high school lost to Cascade 53 18 with upcoming games vs Martelle. A Christian Endeavor meeting is planned at Paul Smith's home January 27. Center Junction resident N Smith won the cats championship at Ames corn show. Eunice Biggs returned from Ladonia Missouri after her father J B Hanken’s death. Martha Hanken and Lavila Love attended Maquoketa. The Working Bend of the Presbyterian Church concludes.
Mrs John Alexander will host a meeting on Thursday February 2. O M Miller and Peter Prahm families dined with Mr and Mrs Nelson last Sunday. The skating pond remains popular with enthusiasts. Mrs O M Miller attended an Eastern Star meeting in Anamosa last Thursday. Rachel Mead a Monticello area teacher, visited her parents这里. Mayme Preas visits Des Moines to see her sister Mrs Troxle and family. Mrs Peter Prahm spends the day in Maquoketa with relatives.
Onslow January 24 the Altrurian club met with Mrs. Marjorie Eichhorn and three guests. Members presented talks on churches and holidays. Mrs. Gratia Brown died after a two day illness just shy of 92. Dr. Soper to assume practice February 1. Numerous visits, travel, illnesses, and social events noted across town.
Castle Grove January 26 report lists attendees including Mr and Mrs J J Noble and others. Obituaries for Mrs Joseph Minnis and Mr Tapken noted with services in Prairieburg and local Lutheran church. Insurance firm reports Schoonover house fire damage under expansion policy. Monticello housing purchase by E J Noble and town events cited with high school declamation in Monticello.
Scotch Grove reports Thelma Gregory placed second in the humorous division of the Monticello declamatory contest held last Monday evening at the opera house. The village notes social events as Mr and Mrs Starry hosted a reception for their son and his bride last Saturday night and several locals attended. A girls club meeting was postponed due to Miss Hazen’s mother illness. Arend Balster and brother Robert are on a business trip touching Rockford and nearby areas. Presbyterian church plans Sunday services at two o'clock with Louie Schlemme recovering from grippe. Mr and Mrs Frank Wright hosted a party Saturday night.
Miss Matilda Crim and Miss Edith Gestel resigned from S Sand Spring school last Friday. Miss Age nea Peterson of near Monticello will teach in the Grammar room and Miss Anna Eden of Monticello will teach in the B room. The Catholic church group plans a dinner at Mr and Mrs C Stevenson on January 26. Several locals attended the Monticello Hopkinton basketball game.
The report notes a gymnasium game in Hopkinton last Friday night and a large youth party at Mr. and Mrs. Fred Egger’s home. Fred McVey of Monticello visited J. P. Shuster’s home Friday. Supt. W A Ottillea of Manchester and Sheriff L B Pride of Manchester called here on different days. C K Greer visited Hopkinton on Monday.
Prairiesting brief mentions Frank Drexler returning from Norcross Minnesota to Coegan on his road. Mr Wagner of Central City plans to run a garage and hardware in the Kula building. Drexler and Viola residents Will and Mrs Drexler visited in the Burg. Mrs Minnis died after a paralytic stroke. J C Drexler and son Ralph visited the J C Drexler home. Madge Delancey stayed with Louis Pillard. Will Mangold family visited Warren Whitney. Wess Holub family moving into Thomas Kula’s house. Sawyer and Bliss from Central City visited Dr. Taylor and Central City.
Emil W Hamer of Springville and Norma B Anderburg of Amber wed at the Con gregational parsonage with Rev Ernest Evans officiating. They were joined by Henry Hamer and Leona Anderburg in a ceremony reported amid county notes and local events.
Levien Bros will hold a public sale of thoroughbred Hampshire hogs on Tuesday February 7. Watch for further announcements. Plus local notes on ice production by H W Behnke and a bank annual meeting at the First National Bank of Wyoming reporting a solid year with new directors and officers for 1922 led by Park Chamberlain as president.
C L Fitch from Iowa State College warns seed potatoes for 1922 require careful sourcing. He says hot 1921 weather damaged home grown seed, risking about a quarter of Iowa’s early Ohio crop unless new seed from northern regions is used. He notes 100000 acres of potatoes in Iowa and urges growers to secure fresh seed to save a quarter of the crop and prepare for potential further bad seasons.
A Sioux City Journal item notes cobbler HB Spady of Emporia Kansas repairs the White House shoes of President Harding and Mrs Harding. The piece suggests the couple embodies a thriftier, old fashioned habit admired by supporters.
A catalog of exotic goods and luxuries appeals to courtly affection. The speaker names bazaar riches such as gold peacocks emerald caskets and silks to please a lady, citing spices jewels and foreign wares in a romantic tribute attributed to F S Coryn in the New Witness.
County Attorney Rhinehart chairs a group of about a dozen county solicitors to assemble evidence for the federal injunction against railroad taxation on increased valuations. They plan farm sale data from Jan 1 to Aug 1 1921 and will use masters in chancery Scott M. Ladd and John T. Gulher to decide matters of law and fact. Testimony will be taken at fourteen statewide locations starting this month, with four witnesses per county. The railroads offer to limit proof by showing average land value on Jan 1 1921 was 125 dollars per acre. The case covers Cedar, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Clinton and Scott counties.
The animal husbandry department at Iowa State College notes sows become inactive in winter leading to constipation. Forcing sows from quarters to water and food ensures exercise and stronger litters. Provide liberal protein with corn, clover hay, alfalfa, minerals, and wood ashes for best results.
The Methodist Episcopal Church led by Pastor William Hayes Mitchell invites all to Sunday services at eleven a.m. Morning sermon theme is Confidence in God on January 29. Evening sermon will reflect Ezekiel 47:9. Sunday school and young people's meeting at usual hours.
Pastor Leonard Duckett announces regular services every Sunday with Sunday school at 10 00 am preaching at 11 00 am and 7 30 pm Christian Endeavor at 645 pm and a mid week meeting Thursday at 730 pm The next Sundays sermon theme is A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ with an evening message The Parable of the Good Samaritan.
Rev William P Ames pastor announces Sunday services at 10 11 and 7 30 with a midweek meeting Thursday at 7 30 The morning service will feature guest speaker Rev J B Adkins of Des Moines representing the Congregational Hospital The junior Endeavor meets at 3 30 and vesper at 4 30 with a sermon series The Angel of Deliverance from Acts 12 7 titled Our Life's Alliance with the Angels of the Spirit is the theme.
Sigmund Ide, pastor, hosts Sunday services with Sunday school at 10 00 a m and preaching at 10 45 am The sermon language alternates between German and English on successive Sundays The Luther League congregation meets on the first Sunday of each month
Roland P. Kuentzel conducts regular Sunday worship with Sunday school at 10 00 a m and preaching at 11 00. Services alternate between German and English every other Sunday and a cordial welcome is extended to members and friends to attend.
Sacred Heart Church announces first Mass at 8:00 a.m. and second Mass at 10:00 a.m. Pastor George A. Hauck leads services with Sunday school instructions. Also notes sewing machines advertised at Locher's.
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