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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1934
Page
6
Local notes show Edna Buol and Mrs. John Moore visiting in Dubuque and Cedar Rapids, with numerous others traveling to Des Moines Anamosa Monticello Oelwein and Rock Island. Advertisements promote Kay's fly repellent and Neal animal care services. communities share weekend trips and familial visits across Iowa and nearby states.
Local residents and relatives expand travel across Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin with numerous weekend and midweek visits. Families like Stuhler Locher Adams and George welcome guests from Rochester Dubuque Independence and Milwaukee. Special ads announce Friday Saturday bakery specials and a Century of Progress outing in Chicago. Alvin John born July 6 to Mr and Mrs Soppe marks first grandchild.
West Union hosts Ralph Humphry family as Presbyterian Sunday School teachers hold a park picnic. A stream of out of town guests visits Monticello including Voight in Chicago, Beatrice Bailey in Platte, and many others visiting relatives and attending dinners. The town notes new births and library and school connections with local families and travelers. Dr. R G Jacobs, surgeon, plans move to Tulsa. A son is born to Walter Muller on July 4 at John McDonald hospital.
A. T. Madsen, newly appointed Goodrich tire dealer at Monticello, notes the investment in new tires before old ones fail yields returns in confidence and security. Langworthy couple August Dirks welcome a baby boy Merle August born July 6 weighing seven pounds four ounces. Fred J. Kay family attends Elizabeth Hahn wedding at Westminster Presbyterian Church Cedar Rapids.
Mrs Ray Adams and her daughter Ruth visited Monday at the home of Mr and Mrs Merle Knight in Marion. Ruth stayed longer for a Camp Fire ceremonial.
Henry Helms a Monticello photographer returns from a month in a large North Platte studio. The special training gained should improve the service he offers Monti cello clients.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bateman spent last Sunday in Rock Island Illinois visiting with Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bateman of Ottawa and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Airford and daughter Peggy Ann of Aledo Illinois. FL W. Bateman is a brother of J. E. Bateman and Mrs. Airford is his niece.
Mrs J G Schoon and her son Gerald and daughter Irma with Mrs Andrew Carmichael traveled to Hannibal Missouri last week Wednesday. They visited Mr and Mrs Gene Carmichael with Mrs Schoon staying longer for an extended visit.
East Cass Township notes show Mr and Mrs Harry Fairbanks and their children Lloyd Richard and Doris of Mason City traveling to visit Lester Fairbanks in Castle Grove and Monticello around the Fourth of July weekend. They also visited relatives in Castle Grove township and Monticello before continuing their trip with Mr and Mrs George Dirks.
Children of Castle Grove were visitors at the Carl Brockhorn home Sunday evening. Viola Wilgenbusch of Monticello spent Sunday with the Henry Stuken family. Adelaide Darrow returned home near Morley after a week with her sister Mira. Grace Benedict appears in the notice. A heavy rainstorm with high winds Thursday evening caused significant damage at the Owen farm including a wrecked barn and wind mill and a damaged house with most windows shattered. Two barns were blown down on the Thomas Stimpson and Arthur Fairbanks farms.
A brief call to action urges readers to get an eye examination due to light sensitivity and possible need for glasses. The notice frames vision check as preventive care and highlights common eye strain concerns.
The report notes slight damage to silos and windmills on nearby farms near Castle Grove. Lois Newhard returned home from Mercy hospital in Anamosa after a five week illness following appendicitis surgery. Sunday visitors gathered at several local homes including families from Monticello and Cedar Rapids.
Miss Bernice Stout and Opal Porter study summer courses at the University of Wyoming in Laramie and enjoy weekend sky trips. Monticello girls at Camp Huaga near Walker this week include Margaret Olive Delscher and Josephine McNeill. Frances Bone Mary Esther McLaughlin and Antonette Doxsee returned from camp last Sunday.
Jackie Beeks, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Beeks, suffered an unusual accident last week while walking along the river bank east of Monticello. He fell and sustained a gash in his person.
Mason City relatives and friends joined kin in Monticello for the Fourth of July. Extended family visits included A B Grimes hosting nieces Le0ta Odekirk Randalia and Gretchen Rolf Elgin. Hicks Wilcox Balster families traveled to Baldwin for a large picnic with forty five relatives attending.
Rev W E F Meter of Manson Rev F Welker of Oclwein Rev 8 Sandrock of Bellevue Rev EB Senst of Ryan and Rev and Mrs C G Gerlach with Miss Lauretta Gerlach R N of the Lutheran hospital Milwaukee were guests in the Rev H Adix home this week.
Miss Irma Rohr a Newton teacher spending the summer supervising playground work visited her mother Mrs. George Sutherland last Sunday. She was accompanied by Miss Rafaella Whitehead a guest in the Sutherland home.
Mrs George Guyan and her son George R Guyan travel Sunday to Chicago to visit Mr and Mrs Siegfried Gruenstein. They will sail to Mackinac Island with the Gruensteins and visit the Century of Progress exposition before returning. Fred Smith of Casey covers The Express with Emma Stadtmueller on vacation at the exposition and Mammoth Caves. From Monticello, attendees at the Mission Festival in Delaware Lutheran church include Mr and Mrs Fred Pleuger Mr and Mrs Ed Heeren Mr and Mrs Robert Balister Delphia and Robert Balister John Eden and Leo Bohiken.
Mr and Mrs Leigh Clark and family left Sunday for a two week vacation in Denver Colorado. They were joined to Cedar Rapids by Mr and Mrs Howard Skelley and family and Mr and Mrs Will Skelley. The group enjoyed a picnic breakfast in a park before the Skelleys drove to Vinton to stay with Mr and Mrs Carl Schneider.
The Winterset Madisonian recalls that it has been 40 years since Towa failed to raise a corn crop and notes 1884 saw a fair small grain crop despite a terrible drought. It also references an 1934 drought and asserts Towa remains a steady crop state.
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