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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1941
Page
2
The column lists numerous visits and travels of residents from Monticello and nearby towns. It mentions weddings anniversaries and family events, including a sixtieth wedding anniversary in Sahala and a birth of Bud Stoneking, with guests from Cedar Rapids Des Moines and beyond. It notes operations and hospital visits and out of town attendance at a funeral.
Local 4-H notes highlight new club leaders and programs with meetings, pledges, and awards. A summary column introduces Boy 4-H work, farm accounts, and maternal events. Pedestrian traffic signals at eye level are now in use in San Francisco.
The John McDonald hospital reports admittances and dismissals last week. Medical patients dismissed include Master Wesley Hanken and Ray Clark with Jan 25 26 dates, plus George Timms. Births include Chuaries I, a boy, Mrs Floyd Davis twins, a girl and a boy, Bernard Pfath, a girl, and Thomas Kee gan Ceggan, a girl born Jan 24 19.
A four day series titled Landscape Development of Home Grounds will run February 4 to 7 in Monticello Anamosa Onslow and Greenfield township with 1 pm sessions led by Iowa State College landscape head John R Fitzsimmons. The program covers planning planting and maintenance for home and farm grounds and is organized by the Jones County Farm Bureau at the request of farmers and garden clubs.
Sacred Heart Church pastor Rev A L Lorenz offers masses Sundays 8 and 10 Holy days 6 15 9 weekdays 7 confessions Saturday 3 30 and 7 Sunday mornings 7 30 St Joseph Prairieburg pastor Rev Stephen J Kucera holds Sunday and Holy day masses 7 30 and 9 20 with English sermon Confessions Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning St Matthews Lutheran H L Adix pastor Sunday school 9 45 English services 10 45 7 36
Onslow residents attended a Thursday dinner at the John Peterson home for Mrs. Peterson who plans a move. Despite icy roads all members came. A noon cooperative dinner followed by five hundred at four tables. Prizes went to Mrs. Jensen and Mrs. Lloyd Preston. A hostess gift was presented.
Community members from Oxford Junction Onslow and Anamosa host visitors, with multiple families sharing weekend gatherings. The Black Spiders basketball team from Texas is slated to play on February 13, while a boys tournament runs February 6 to 8 in Onslow.
Noted in Clinton area town notes Dorothy Overholt and her mother Mrs George Overholt plan a benefit card party in the community room next Friday to support the local library. Also reported are a car accident near Anamosa injuring Bertha Friesen and a series of local visits and moves involving Mount Vernon Maquoketa Clinton and Maquoketa residents.
Mr and Mrs L B Feidler announce the birth of a baby girl on Monday Jan 29 in Hopkinton. John M Tibbitts of Hopkinton, with A D Austin of Cedar Rapids, a former school...
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