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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1939
Page
6
Local residents share visits and weekend gatherings with families in North English Davenport Clinton and Monticello. Attendees include Herren Zimmermann Felkers Huenke Englehart Bodiker To enjes and Dirks among others. Events feature picnics Ladies Aid meetings Luther League and Wayne Brotherhood activities with travel to Princeton and Wheatland mentioned.
A dense local round of visits and events fills the Onslow area. Family reunions, dinners, bridge games, and visitors from Clinton Davenport Chicago and Minnesota mark weekends and holidays, with farm tours, picnics, and postnuptial events sprinkled among travel updates and a July corn milestone.
Deep sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Husman on the death of their nine year old son Philip after a sickle blade accident at McDonald hospital. Funeral held in Amber. Family moves from Scotch Grove to near Amber. Also notes travel plans of Mrs. Naylor and family, Veneta Hughes fifth birthday party, upcoming Scotch Grove Band concerts, visits among local families, and Sunbeam mission meeting with officer elections.
A cordial invitation goes to former Peniel Presbyterian members and friends to attend church at the city park in Monticello next Sunday at 10 30 a m Rev James Hodgson of Cedar Rapids will lead the service and a picnic dinner will follow Also noted Mildred Warner returns home after a two week visit with her sister Mrs Lyle Hosford In the first half of the year Farmers Mutual Insurance Assn shows strong activity with about 150 policies written totaling over 500000 and 28 new members added along with paid losses
The report describes corn ranges from hip to shoulder high with oat harvest starting ahead of the usual season. A motorcycle accident injured Jimmie Howie, hospital treatment given. Social visits include Clarence Hosford in Belle Plaine and the Heinens hosting friends. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Leo Francois in Fillmore with burial at Sacred Heart parish cemetery.
Janet Green, six, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Green, lost the second finger of her right hand Saturday afternoon after coming in contact with a lawn mower operated by her brother Jerry, eight. She was rushed to a physician for treatment.
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