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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
2
A collage of briefs notes visitors and movers in Monticello and surrounding towns. Names include John Ross Des Moines Clara Palmer New Chevrolet. Miss Mary Waddick LeMars. William G Schoon Cedar Falls. Miss Bethel Merrill Cedar Falls. Paul G Gienapp Hopkinton. Also local ads promote Farleys Produce Suters Food Market and used cars.
A long list of Monticello residents and relatives spent Sundays with family and friends in nearby towns including Manchester Fairfax Cedar Rapids Dubuque and Brainard. The social round featured travels to Iowa City Madison Prince ton and Chicago with mass attendance and church events noted.
Monticello residents hosted and visited relatives across Iowa Wisconsin and Illinois with family trips church events and social gatherings. Notable items include a first mass by Father James d Autremont and Camp Holiday activities for Betty Thomas Lorna Densmore and Maxine Redmond. Local travels feature Camp Huaga California visitors and a 70 000 can order for stove polish business. The week closed with a 100 degree heat spell and a cooler Tuesday morning.
Judge John T. Moffit of Tipton received a Master of Laws from the University of Michigan at commencements in Ann Arbor. Born near Mechanicsville July 8, 1862, he earned a BA from Cornell College in 1884 and MA in 1887, plus a law degree in 1886. He served as secretary to his 1886 class for 50 years and has held multiple public offices in Iowa.
The Orphans Home Band of Fort Wayne Indiana will give a concert Friday at 8 pm on the Reformed church lawn. Admission is free with a silver offering. The group earned a Century of Progress medal in Chicago. An ice cream social will accompany the event. The public is invited.
Twelve Monticello boys of the local Boy Scout troop returned from a week at Waubeck summer camp. Scoutmaster Merle Hutton led the group and the returning scouts listed include Bud Bader Dean Morey Charles Ross Harold Hogan Charles Field Mark Rodman Clarence Hosford Marvin Schoon Jack Fraser Paul Bender Glenn Lambert and Graydon Reade.
In parts of Iowa grasshoppers have become numerous and destructive. Sixty five cars of bran and six cars of poison sodium arsenate were shipped to Iowa to combat the outbreak. The poison is bought under a government appropriation to curb the plague.
A Monticello Mass drew many congregants from Riverside Cedar Rapids and Dubuque areas. Attendees included Mrs. Charles d Autremont and family plus other relatives and nuns from Clinton Dubuque and Cedar Rapids.
Mary Hanssen, a high school entrant, argues a new swimming pool will boost Monticello, attract visitors, support trade, and teach children to swim, saving lives in emergencies. The appeal urges taxpayers to vote for the pool for general welfare.
John Dahl 75 of Wyoming died at University hospital Iowa City last Saturday after a long illness. He had lived with his sister Mrs. Ella Countryman in Wyoming for 21 years. Born in La Porte Indiana he was a creamery operator with much of his career in Minnesota. Survived by daughter Mrs. Etta Stone of Welcome Minnesota four grandchildren and four brothers and four sisters. Funeral services were held at Harrington funeral home Wyoming led by Rev. G J Zeilinger Lutheran pastor.
The third annual kittenball tournament is set for July 16 17 and 19 under lights on the Monticello diamond. Twelve teams may enter with a $3 entry fee each. Prizes go to the top three finishers. First round games are five innings, later rounds seven innings. All games at night.
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