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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1930
Page
3
The article details multiple local social events in Hopkinton and surrounding towns. It highlights a wedding involving Miss Kathryn Steen and David Union Star Moa, with notes on families, education and travel. Additional notices reference visits, church activities, reunions, and social gatherings across community households.
Anundo Anderson and Johnny Livingston, noted for daring flights, will headline the Monticello Air Circus on Sunday July 13. The event promises thrilling stunts and tests of pilot skill for spectators amid acrobatic displays and balloon dives.
Misses Frances Laughlin Leila Morrow and Axie Thorpe led the honors list with Miss Thorpe first, while Mrs Neil and Mrs Steachford L Nesnes of Anamosa won secondary places at the state event. Community visits, church vacation notices, and many family gatherings fill the week in Anamosa and adjacent areas as locals travel to see relatives, attend meetings, and enjoy summer breaks.
Center Junction community records a busy week with quilting at the home of Mrs J L Serbousek and Mrs George Seehusen hosting the Working Band. Attendees included Mrs Henry Seehusen Jr and family, Mrs John Seehusen, Mrs Carl Seehusen, and Mrs Rudolph Seehusen.
Prairieburg events include a church gathering in the forenoon and a marriage feast in the evening. The DeLances hosted Eva Delancey and Leon Delancey at their Central home guests. Local residents visited, vacation plans formed, and a Sunday school picnic was held in McQueen woods with smaller crowds but enjoyable for all ages.
Stockman notes farmers resist storage on home farms as nine years out of ten selling grain from the field yields higher returns than later sale. He cites carrying charges as costly and a burden on someone to pay.
Cascade Miss Cecelia Levanetz daughter of Mrs Emma Levanetz Two Rivers and Lester Kirchen son of Mr and Mrs Charles Kirchen Manitowoc Wis married in St Mark's church former Cascade resident groom nephew of Mrs Catherine Kirchen couple will reside in Manitowoc. J H Devaney attended Knights of Columbus meeting in Montreal. Several relatives traveled home after visiting for illness and death of Mrs Joseph Schwind. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Louis Breitbach at Monticello. New bath house built in city park near swimming pool. Peter Weber and Peter Wagner sailed from New York for Europe to visit relatives. Mrs John Koster of Waterloo visiting sister Mrs Mary Koster.
In a Boston Transcript piece a joke about the airplane as a family conveyance notes the backseat driver cannot be heard, implying wider challenges for popular acceptance of air travel as a routine family option.
The Castle Grove Farm Bureau held a crowded Friday program headlined by a 4-H club girls play Say It With Flowers. The event included songs, a convention recap, a weed control talk by County Agent Wortman, and a weed demonstration with sodium chlorate. Thirty three attended the weed session.
Miss Joanna Hansen of Town State college argues that carefully chosen pictures lift home life and reflect quality over quantity. The Minnesota Journal notes plans for midget golf followed by peace baseball on an eight foot diamond and hints at breakfast nook horseshoe pitching.
The paper notes ex senator Brookhart attracting sizable crowds for his lecture circuit and asks what this indicates. It recalls Iowa's famed Cherry sisters once filling packed houses, suggesting public interest in Bays of public figures and entertainment.
Old reliable rodent destroyer sold in cake form for pantry kitchen cellar and farm buildings. 35c 65c and $1.25 sizes offered with money back guarantee from MecNeill's Wardware.
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