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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1931
Page
3
Automobilist Adolph Satter in a late midnight crash near Tobias Ricken place injures self and Harold Connelly. Satter moved to McDonald hospital. July 7 Dutch lunch at Scotch Grove depot park invites all, with emphasis on fathers and sons. Community notices cover exams, funerals, travels, weddings, farm reports, and local visits.
Center Junction Miss Ruth Nelson daughter of Mr and Mrs C H Nelson and Irving Eilers son of Mr and Mrs Henry Eilers of Lovell township were married at the Little Brown church near Nashua last Thursday June 25 at 2 pm. The ceremony was by Rev Kemp in the presence of Louis Meeker Manchester and Miss Viola Rankin Delhi. The bride a Center Junction high school graduate trained as a nurse at McDonald hospital Monticello will honeymoon after a season wedding trip.
Funeral services were held in Hopkinton for Mrs Ray Payne 49 with burial in Hopkinton cemetery. Rosetta Casteel born near Amber Dec 14 1881 married Perry Payne Sept 12 1904 with eight children. Also noted: Reuben Moulton of Buck Creek died June 19 1931 aged 75. Burial at Buck Creek church.
Lavica Adams elected president of Madonna lodge No. 303 Rebekah Past Noble Grand circle with Myrtle Millsap as vice president and Lutie Poole as secretary treasurer. Charter members include Adams Millsap Poole Rogers Parr Willman Reitz Bender Roberts Marshall Johnson Behnke Hood. Mrs. Lamotte buried in Monmouth after dying in Cleveland. Local visits, church activities, and social events accompany reports of livestock losses from recent heat.
The Princess theater sustained a fire Friday afternoon originating in the booth during reel rehearsals. The blaze, fueled by heat and friction on the projector, damaged the booth and two projectors before firefighters confined the flames. Insurance partially covers the damage. owner Billings faces a heavy burden for the talking equipment installed about a year ago.
Amber Mr. Vernon spoke on summer poultry care at the Happy Hour club at Mrs. James Gray’s home. Celena Mardoff demonstrated salad preparations while Marian Bailey played piano. Refreshments were provided by Mrs. Gray and hostesses. Mrs. John Grant, visiting Clinton, suffered a stroke and was hospitalized. Adolph Messer assists harvest at Ed Duncan farm. Mrs. Peter Lincoln visits son Roscoe Lincoln. Summer vacation Bible school opens Monday at Amber at the Presbyterian Church.
A roundup of local social calls and family visits includes Rev and Mrs Provan of Anamosa in charge of a Bible study for school children, plus numerous relatives and friends visiting Cedar Rapids Marengo Elkader and Scotch Grove. Dry weather threatens pastures and hay as wells run dry and farmers drill deeper for water.
Local items recount house painting by Frank Bowes and visits by the Denhams of Chicago. Families gather for picnics and dinners, club gatherings at Anamosa state park, and plans as the Sears prepare to move to Redding California. A bank convention in Waterloo and a poisoning case in Cedar Rapids are noted along with a hand injury at a pump leading to amputation at Mercy hospital Anamosa. Prominent speakers and social rounds fill the week in Onslow and nearby towns.
John Peter Lauser of Cascade township died after a long illness following a fall at his home last week. Born May 25, 1854, in Cascade, he was the son of John B. Sauser and Mary Schneiter and a respected member of the Dubuque county community. His father, John Lauser Sr., a Cascade pioneer, immigrated from Württemberg, Germany in 1848. He married May Faber in 1877 and began farming in Cascade in 1878.
Obituary notices recall the death of a longtime Cascade resident and husband of Elizabeth Schradde with survivors in multiple states and towns. Cascade Commercial Club plans a large July 4 celebration featuring a ball game Mon ticello vs Cascade and family events in American Legion park. A five year old sustains a brain concussion at the city park and is recovering. Drought prompts mayor to ban most lawn and street sprinkling with garden watering allowed 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. until relief arrives.
A large crowd attended Castle Grove 4-H Club's annual program at the farm bureau meeting. Elizabeth McLaughlin and Pauline Cramer reported on the club girls convention in Ames. Leona Behrends and others staged Tom's Fiancee. Haying began early as heat dried crops and one horse died from the heat.
Local residents including Sand Spring and Monticello individuals visited relatives and friends across districts. Notable stops included the Batchelder and Bright households, with many callers from Dubuque Peosta Dyerville Dundee Cedar Rapids and Hopkinton sharing time with families and joining local clubs and services.
President Herbert Hoover backs the Olympic games as a means to foster international goodwill and fellowship through athletic rivalry among nations. He emphasizes sportsmanship as a constructive force for global harmony.
Richland Center families including Mr and Mrs George Hein Jr and Mr and Mrs John Yoast with Lucile and Dolores spent last Sunday at the M D Sackett home near Sand Spring. The Stotts of Davenport and Elisabeth Bohren with Fritz of Monticello visited the Yossi home. Buol family of Viola hosted at Len Buol’s. Will Balsiger entertained friends for a birthday picnic. Schweitzer and Sidney visited Cedar Rapids. Will Balsiger also hosted the Women's Community club and 4 H girls. Folkers of Amber visited Oliver Kibure's home.
Herbert Caran Gee leaves Anamosa with his parents for Rock Island this afternoon to board for the east en route to West Point. A Jones County Court verdict of guilty of escape against Alfred Johnson was upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court. Cedar Rapids Judge A B Clark presided at Anamosa. Cemetery paving nears completion with circle and stubs finished. State engineers bore for water behind the reformatory finding gravel 30 to 35 feet deep, indicating Buffalo River once ran high. water stands within four feet of the surface in places.
The state will immediately install a water system at the reformatory. Ed Wopenilek of Oxford Junction appeared at the samnty jail and will answer to drunk and disorderly conduct. He had rampaged for days prompting deputy Cooley to intervene. he previously spent months in the county jail on similar charges.
Extension service at Iowa State College advises cutting clover before the fourth of July in many Iowa sections for best hay quality. Alfalfa should be cut when one tenth of the bloom has opened, while beans are harvested when lower leaves brown and seeds start to form for optimal hay for dairy cows.
Cherokee Times notes President Hoover proposes a one year moratorium on all intergovernmental debts to stabilize world finances and business. The idea positions him as a leader in a worldwide movement aimed at aiding many nations and their people.
Short leadership in Iowa farm circles harms cooperative aims by tearing down peers rather than building the farm cause. The piece urges farmers to recognize true friendship tests beyond repeated claims from organizers seeking self-interest.
Helene Madison of Seattle, world champion woman swimmer, is reported stronger this year by her coach Ray Daughters. She now weighs 156 pounds, an increase of five pounds since last summer.
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