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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1931
Page
8
The Mystery Mothers party hosted by the Women's Foreign Missionary society featured King's Heralds guests and a reveal finale. Several local families attended reunions and visits, including Hanold and Rose relatives, with travel to Dubuque and Cedar Rapids noted.
The Castle Grove school board held its annual July meeting last Wednesday evening with F. C. Cramer and Arthur McDonald reelected secretary and treasurer for another year. A drought relief rain early Sunday eased pasture conditions and farmers fed hay. Local residents and visitors from Monticello and Dundee called on families, attended games, picnics, and trips to the Ely circus, Magquo caves, and Newton area sights.
A wagon box burst into flames after the wheel struck iron near a water tank but the fire was quickly subdued with little damage. A Cascade Fourth picnic drew a crowd from the section. Lutherans hosted a picnic at John Specht's grave with good attendance and a pleasant afternoon. Mr and Mrs John Sweeney of St Paul, newly married, visited the Delay and Kehoe homes.
Onslow residents host visitors from Chicago Lisbon and Cedar Rapids with pastors, anniversaries, and trips noted. Families include Myers, McGovern, Franks, Kennedy, Orr and Sears. Wisconsin and South Dakota connections appear via weddings, travels to Niagara Falls and Yellowstone, and a funeral in Sioux Falls.
Prairieburg residents share Sunday gatherings and visits across Iowa and Illinois. Highlights include Mr and Mrs Will Crosby hosting relatives from Deland Ill, Mrs Julia Randall's Fourth at Jordan's Grove, Milo Kaliban reopening Wheat stock store in Springville, and multiple trips to Marion Cedar Rapids Monticello Center Point and Kansas City.
Miss Edna Balsiger of Cedar Rapids visited John Hein Jr home with her parents and numerous relatives. The group attended the Fourth of July farm bureau picnic at Anamoss with a large gathering including many families.
Friends enjoyed a picnic supper on Wednesday evening at the Will Balsiger lawn. Visitors from Dubuque include Rev Arnold Buol and Miss Margaret Buol who stayed with Len Buol last Friday. Don Derflinger and others vacationed in Cedar Rapids. Monticello residents Ruth and Ramona Hoffman joined July Fourth at Viola with Martin Buol and family.
Sand Spring Henrietta Bohiken of Monticello spent Wednesday at the J. L. Batch elder home. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Dickerson and daughters from Oakland visited the Stanley Bright home Tuesday. Marjorie Kaufman of Colesburg is spending days with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cox. W. H. Behrends and baby Dorothy Lee spent Sunday in Cedar Rapids with Ernest Brondel. Fred Egger spent the weekend with Dean Morton in Minburn. Archie Casteel and family visited the Scott Ripple home in Ful ton Sunday. Hiram Gearhart of Belvidere Illinois and H S Gearhart with son Leo of Manchester visited the Stanley Bright home Sunday.
Mrs. Charlotte Tracy, 79, fell Tuesday afternoon around four, breaking her right hip while her daughter Ann and son were in the next room. No other injuries reported.
Practical household hints cover linoleum flooring in playrooms, shirred eggs baked in shallow dishes, repurposing old net curtains into sun suits, refrigerating tips for melons and bananas, jelly that fails to set usable in punch or desserts, and ways to use jelly with cream, puddings, and sandwiches.
An orator proclaims effort then expects others to act. Tarbell in Marion, C. faces a grim nine baby rate proposal for destruction. The piece contrasts rhetoric with action and notes a disturbing local case.
A Kansas legend recounts how an eight year old Kaw boy carried news through 57 miles of prairie to Topeka for aid, aiding the Kaw against Cheyenne raids in 1868. The boy, Charles Curtis, would become a U.S. senator and vice president.
A Rumford England dog lovers club issues licenses as a Christmas gift to needy members. Poor men pay four cents weekly, and any surplus funds supply licenses for widows and ex service men unable to contribute. Primary aim is to secure licenses for dogs.
A proverb-like exchange urges fathers to borrow from sons and sons to borrow from fathers. It argues fathers gain through a son’s playfulness modesty conscience and sons gain through a father’s wisdom work ethic virtue and faith.
The 1774 bridge at Shrewsbury was dismantled during enlargement, its stones numbered and reused in the broader new structure. The rebuilt bridge retains its distinctive features, a feat regarded as unique in engineering annals.
A National Geographic bulletin extols the Isle of Man as a magnet for holidaymakers. It recounts Norse and English rule, unique Manx cats, old feudal castles, smugglers, glens and moors, and the island’s appeal to culturally minded visitors.
Lynn Massachusetts Charles Littlefield former pastor and Republican candidate to Congress waited decades to receive a Wesleyan University varsity letter for his 1884 85 and 86 ballplay on the third base team. The college recently notified him of the award confirming the long delayed recognition.
Quote attributed to Samuel Smiles warns that neglect in small things causes downfall for individuals or nations. It asserts neglect of minor duties is the rock upon which ruin rests when societies or people break down.
Psychologists identify adults aged forty five to fifty as most valuable to the community for their experience stability and potential contributions. Experts note social roles and civic engagement bolster communal well being and resilience.
A reflective note argues that small events shape history and questions whether anyone can truly claim credit for great outcomes. It ponders pride in personal choice against larger forces and fate.
The piece discusses how the term eye span appears in reading theory. It explains that eye span denotes the number of characters read in one fixation and touches on the idea of scanning phases along a line of text.
Reader instructions suggest using ammonia to remove ink stains and rinsing hands with claw water after washing. The fragment ends abruptly without full steps or context.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a candidate and timing near a calendar. Readable pieces include references to a person and dates, but many words are unclear. The piece lacks verifiable names or events to form a full card.
The sword dance, an early dance in Northumberland England, shows dancers forming an unbroken circle and twisting under each other as a forward thrust creates interwoven blades. It preserves a long standing regional ritual through movement and steel.
The 1825 Hansard record praises Kell for introducing the round 9 in stead of the long form as an improvement in printing. It credits his Kell edition of the British Theatre published 1791 to 1802 with this change.
Browningwell argues that ignorance grows as knowledge increases and faults by neglecting to seek information in banks, conversation, and daily incidents. He warns that failing to invoke knowledge is an inexcusable fault.
The official who once lamented funds diverted to six acre baseball lots now extols a 200 acre course that he says includes the entire county. He fears the project would keep the county within bounds and offers praise to the development.
A garbled OCR note describes a claimed veterinary cure by an unnamed author. The text mentions an elephant and mentions Thomas Prime and Upper Nerwand in a disjointed, unclear context. No clear event or verification is provided.
The Town Department of Agriculture reports the hog cycle has emerged from a low point with an 2.2 percent rise in the 1931 spring pig crop. Six pigs per litter beat 5.8 in 1930, due to more sows farrowing and higher litters, with sows bred for fall litters up 28.7 percent. If fall farrowings trend holds, next fall could see about 20 percent more farrowings than last fall, implying roughly a 6 percent rise for the year.
A humorous exchange contrasts the Army Air Forces with the Navy, noting their status as entirely separate units within the U S military. The quip uses domestic life humor to mirror wartime organizational splits and authority.
A Minnesota village scene unfolds with a drug store clerk offering a whiskey joke and a Swede quip about not flying but jumping. Jimmy and Ole Olaon share wordplay about calves and debts, highlighting humorous misunderstandings and a playful town banter tone.
Deeds filed show O K Wing trustee transferring to Phillips Petroleum corp west 43 feet of lot 2 and south 48 feet of the west 8 feet of lot 3 in Cronkhite’s addition to Olin for $1.00. Robert Stark transfers to Mary L Stark a lot in Scott and Skinner’s addition to Anamosa with a described 214 by 60 foot parcel in section 11 township 84 range 4 for $1.00.
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