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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1932
Page
6
Local items advertise low prices on tools and hardware at McNeill's Hardware including 35 cent forks 92.76 per 100 pounds barb wire and sale on lawn mowers. Several residents visit Cedar Rapids Moline and other towns while buyers seek paint telephones and furnace work.
A miscellaneous column lists visits by residents to relatives in Cedar Rapids Davenport Dubuque Anamosa and Iowa City. It promotes root beer and canned goods at Stuhler's and McNeill's Hardware and Ware. It notes radio tubes tests by Ray Hearn and a valve grinding special at Madsen Motor.
Local residents and visitors frequent Monticello this week with attendance at family gatherings, hospital births, and camp trips. Notables include Emile Grief and family from Hopkinton, Stewartville guests, Cedar Rapids visitors, and Camp Waubeek attendees Tim and Jack Fraser. Regular business ads for radio and electrical services appear alongside community notes.
Members of the Needle Work Guild and families held a Friday park picnic with twenty five attendees. The event featured bridge and social visiting as several members hosted relatives visiting Monticello and area towns.
A large crowd gathered to pay respects at the funeral service for Edward Templeton with many friends in attendance reflecting on his life and service.
Jake Goldman longtime Lago Marcino Grape Company salesman from Davenport visited friends in Monticello last Saturday. He has been seriously ill and hospitalized for five months. Mrs. Matt Muller left Thursday for Dubuque to join her brothers Dr. Joe Locher and Dr. Lawrence Locher and families for a two week trip to northern Minnesota lakes.
Dr and Mrs P A Johnson of Grinnell were supper guests of their daughter Mrs Siegfried Guyan as they headed to DeWitt for a church anniversary where Dr Johnson would speak. In Princeton Merlin Bell’s fifth birthday was celebrated with Margaret Stadtmueller and daughter Mary aiding, then returning to Monticello for the week. Diverse Monticello attendees joined the Delaware Lutheran mission festival including Rev P T Gutknecht and multiple couples. Additional visits included Mrs Frank Patterson and grandson from Cresco hosting Dr Elwyn Patterson, with guests from Rochester and Iowa City. A Cedar Rapids trip capped by a Cedar Rapids visit and a Bever Park family picnic followed. A Sunday picnic near Delhi included H W Helms, J B Freeze, the Perkins brothers, Velma and Clara Ohe, and John Price.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Otten Glen and Clell Miller of Monticello Mr. and Mrs. Hans Thordsen and Mr. and ae Will Thordsen and children and Mrs. Honis Reedgerie and fam all of Tipton Mr. and Mrs. Ed Timms
St John’s Ladies Aid met at Mrs. Fred Stadtmueller’s home with Rev. Paul Gutknecht presenting a talk before the meeting. Eighteen members and guests attended. Mrs. John Van Bockern hosted a surprise birthday party for her mother-in-law Mrs. M. Van Bockern with gifts and refreshments. Several clubs held meetings and picnics including the Friday club, Hi Low Bridge Club at Anamosa State Park with out-of-town guests, and the Castle Grove 4-H group led by Olin Howie Jr discussing dairy calves. Other social events featured visits to Manchester and a country club bridge party with prize winners and decorations.
Herman Rickels was guest of honor at a family birthday party last Sunday in the city park. About twenty six relatives gathered for the birth anniversary with a noon picnic. Out of town guests included the Freeses of Amber and multiple Mardorf and Rickels families from Anamosa and Wayne Township.
Mrs. Harry Hoag hosted a Friday afternoon birthday gathering for Loyal Hoag's twelfth year at the city park. Ball games and a six o'clock picnic supper followed, featuring two large birthday cakes for Loyal and Donald Robertson, who also turned twelve. Guests included Laverne Berends, Roy Graves, Harold Yeoman, Charles Field, Jack Fraser, Glen Lambert, Leo Kiburz, Donald Robertson, and Carl Howland.
The country club hosted the third of its dancing parties last Wednesday evening with hydrangea and hollyhock decor in red white and blue Fourth of July colors. Twenty couples attended and enjoyed dances including gag roulette polo pilot and plane balloon. Refreshments were served by hosts Halstead Carpenter Stewart Stuhler Charles Luett and Colin G Thomas with The Commanders providing music.
Hostesses praised a Monday evening picnic at the city park for six top scorers of the season. A 6:30 supper for twelve at a long table featured red white and blue flowers and favors. Afterward at Mrs Ed J Farley’s home three bridge tables saw Mrs Siegfried Guyan win high score and Mrs William Corbin claim the traveling prize.
Monti defeated Manchester in a doubleheader with three Hawks pitchers Anderson Cart y and Shotgun Heyer each seeing action Meredith pitched all five innings for the locals fanning eight. In another close game the Month seconds beat Stanwood 5 to 4 after a ninth inning rally with Rhatigan Bartlett Luck and Null keying the offense. The Stanwood bats totaled fifteen hits off Bartlett and the Seconds plan an away game next Sunday with opponent TBA.
Towa Electric employees and families enjoyed a chicken fry picnic at Anamosa State Park last Sunday with 24 attendees. Exra men who worked in Monticello recently left for Manchester, honor said. A hypnotist performed as a joke prompting a spectator to claim a $10 debt.
The United States operates over 30,000 miles of domestic air routes with about 19,500 miles lit by runway lights. Military terminology in use is predominantly French.
Six members of the Fortnightly Bridge Club held the season's low scores in a series of games at Pic.
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