Local visitors and travels noted in Monticello area
Mrs J H Perrine visited Wyoming relatives last Tuesday. Pete Altman and daughter Helen tour Oxford Junction. Numerous locals visit Cedar Rapids Dubuque Des Moines Chicago and other nearby towns. Highlights include births travels and family visits across multiple towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Perrine
Wyoming
Pete Altman
Helen
Oxford Junction
E. E. Reed
Alfreda
Des Moines
C. C. Schneiter, Jr
Balcar
Cedar Rapids
P. D. Bell
Mrs
Donald Bell
George Waite
Beachl T. Perrine
Frank Peckosh
Altman
Florence Hoag
John Goodhue
E. E. Hoag
Spokane
Washington
Local residents share visits and travels in Monticello area
A string of social visits and trips highlights Monticello life as Dr. O E York and Mrs. Webb host relatives, Miss Edna Steege attends a convention in Cleveland, and many townsfolk visit family in Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Tipton, and Chicago. Numerous summer trips, airport dedication, and a birthday gathering mark a busy week in the community.
Monticello News Roundup Highlights Local Travel
Monticello residents staged a busy week with visits to relatives in Platte South Dakota Cedar Rapids Dubuque and Farley and Michigan Niagara Falls Detroit and Spokane. Families Harley Kurt Gutknecht Podhaski Robertson Stambaugh and others arranged trips and gatherings while nursing students and clergy planned summer duties and vacations.
States envy Iowa for record highway mileage
The Cherokee Times notes states once scorning Iowa as mud roads now envy its 300d mileage record. No state west of the Mississippi can match Iowa's total highway length and acclaim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
Mississippi River
Iowa
Teachers' exam for uniform county certificate at Anamosa
The teachers examination for uniform county certificate will be held at Anamosa on July 23 24 and 25. Nellie V Morey county superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Nellie V. Morey
Local Club and Mission Groups Gather for Teas and Meetings
Mrs. Carl Hodson hosted the Delta Dek bridge club with two tables of play and high score by Mrs. Asa Lambert, with Miss Lucile Chaloupka of Dubuque visiting. The Woman's Foreign Missionary society met at Mrs. L H Lang's home for devotionals and a paper on agricultural missions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delta Dek Bridge Club
Carl Hodson
Asa Lambert
Lucile Chaloupka
Dubuque
Congregational Missionary Society Meets at McNeill Home
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Congregational Church held a mother and daughter gathering at Mrs. Albert J. H. McNeill's home last Wednesday afternoon. Betty Kay led reflections while a group of boys and girls presented a play titled Mrs. Budget with Alma Buol starring. Refreshments were served by Janet and Margaret McNeill and Alice Palmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Presbyterian Church
W. H. Behrends
Sand Spring
Will Adams
Charles Clark
Adam Hein
Fred Eilers
Frank Walker
John Schweitzer
John Lubben
Hans Kettlitz
Paul Petersen
Chisman
Ladies’ Aid Society of
St. John's Ey
Woman's Missionary Society of the First Congregational Church
Albert J. H. McNeill
Betty Kay
Mrs. Budget
Alma Buol
Janet
Margaret McNeill
Alice Palmer
Leslie Burrichter Celebrates His Sixth Birthday
Leslie Burrichter son of Mr and Mrs Otto Burrichter marked his sixth birth anniversary with a Monday party at home. Friends played games and enjoyed a birthday luncheon served by Mrs Burrichter. A pink candle decorated cake and guest favors highlighted the celebration with gifts for the honoree. Invited guests included Geraldine Schneider Eloise Timmins Mary Lou Luett Dicky Landis Jimmy Bone Bobby Eeger Everett Clark Gerald Taylor Charles Boss Frank and Norman Duckett and Eugene Burrichter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Burrichter
Otto Burrichter
Everett Clark
Gerald Taylor
Charles Boss
Frank
Norman Duckett
Eugene Burrichter
Knake Marries Winter in Monmouth Community Ceremony
Miss Anna Janette Knake daughter of Mr and Mrs John Knake of Monmouth wed Lee R Winter son of Mr and Mrs Ingwer Winter also of Monmouth The ceremony occurred Sunday June 20 at 6 30 pm at the Presbyterian parsonage in Andrew with Rev A J McConnell conducting a single ring rite The couple will reside on a farm south of Monmouth with the groom helping his father on the farm
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Janette Knake
John Knake
Monmouth
Lee R. Winter
Ingwer Winter
Presbyterian Church
Andrew
A. J. McConnell
Alma Knake
Henry Knake
Winter
Jimmy Matthiessen Celebrates His Fourth Birthday
Mrs. Clarence Matthiessen entertained a group of children and mothers at her home last Saturday to honor Jimmy Matthiessen on his fourth birthday. Games on the lawn followed by refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Matthiessen
Jimmy
Guests Attend Social Gathering At Local Home
A list of attendees includes Mrs Ed Hui bregtse and daughters Lucile and Gayle Mrs Will Corbin and son Billy Mrs Tom Hamilton and son David Mrs Charles Luett daughter Mary Lou and son Bobby Mrs Will Holmes daughters Jean and Callene and sons Berkley and Billy Mrs James Anderson daughter Phyllis and granddaughter Joan Reichart Mrs Will Rohn Miss Hariet Rohn Marthe Matthiessen sister of the guest of honor and their grandmother Mrs Jake Matthiessen Also Mrs Clarence Kline of Mechanicsville sister of the hostess was an out of town guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Huibregtse
Lucile
Gayle
Will Corbin
Billy
Tom Hamilton
David
Charles Luett
Mary Lou
Bobby
Will Holmes
Jean
Callene
Berkley
James Anderson
Phyllis
Joan Reichart
Will Rohn
Hariet Rohn
Marthe Matthiessen
Jake Matthiessen
Clarence Kline
Mechanicsville
Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls Hold Meeting
The Scotch Grove Sunshine girls met July 9 at Ben Ottens home. Dorathy Otten and Lois Kuhns hosted. Roll call and minutes read by Carol Naylor. Wilma Kuhns spoke on testing jars rubbers and lids and examining canned foods. Miss Redfern demonstrated canning chicken. Two new members Pauline Stickley and Alfreda Husmann welcomed. Three visitors attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotch Grove
Sunshine Girls
Ben Otten
Dorothy Otten
Lois Kuhns
Carol Naylor
Wilma Kuhns
Miss Redfern
Pauline Stickley
Alfreda Husmann
Raymond Naylor
Harrison Loomis
Recaptured Prisoners Face New Charge in Court
Two reformatory escapees were arraigned before Judge Moffit last Monday on escaping from the penitentiary. They were rearrested after escaping sometime in the past year and now face a new charge that will extend their prison terms. Two other trustees escaped the day before and are expected to be caught, increasing the chance of longer imprisonment. Fingerprint dissemination aids detection but can entangle the offender in future arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reformatory
Moffit
United States
Some Other Very Hot Julys In Former Years
July is the hottest month with average temperatures higher than each summer month. June occasionally reaches 100 degrees or more, but July has more such days. In 1856 June hit 102 while July reached 100, and in 1870 June peaked at 192 with July at 191. Between 1884 and 1889 the record continued.
July Heat Record Reveals Rising Temperatures Since 1884
The text notes June highs reaching 97 in several years, and 1901 July peaking at 108 the hottest day, with 100 in June that year. In 1902 July highest was 92. It claims no data since 1909 but asserts July has trended hotter since 1884.
Five year old Patricia Grassfield dies in Waverly
Patricia Ann Grassfield aged five, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Grassfield, died at home in Waverly after months of illness. She was born October 4, 1925. Funeral services were at First Congregational church Waverly, Rev. Bacon presiding, burial at Grassfield plot in Coggon. Survivors include her parents and brother Bruce. Attending relatives from Monticello and Ben C. Roberts family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Ann
Norman Grassfield
Waverly
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
First Congregational Church
Bacon
Coggon
Grassfield
Monticello
Little Patricia
Bruce
Helen Hefner
Ben C. Roberts
Greenwalt Nominated for Secretary of State at Iowa GOP
At the Republican state convention in Des Moines Gilbert C. Greenwalt of Des Moines won the secretary of state nomination on the first ballot with 822 votes to 548 for Saunders. A. G. Spangler of Cedar Rapids became Fifth district committeeman and was later elected chairman of the state central committee. The platform praised Hoover and Iowa GOP members of Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Gilbert C. Greenwalt
W. E. G. Saunders
A. G. Spangler
Cedar Rapids
State Central Committee
Hoover
Iowa
Congress
Pledge of Republican Party Central Committee Selections
Mrs. J. E. Remsey of Anamosa was chosen as the woman member of the central committee representing the Fifth Town district, as part of the party’s observance and enforcement of its laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
J. E. Remsey
Anamosa
Central Committee
Alleged Bank Robber Taken Into Custody in Eau Claire
George Stubblefield alias Robert Johns alias George Phillips is under arrest in Eau Claire Wisconsin on an assault charge and identified as a Straw berry Point bank bandit from June 24 He has a long prison record including a recent parole from Webster county Iowa reformatory and prior time in California Utah and a naval prison
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Stubblefield
Robert Johns
George Phillips
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
Strawberry Point
Iowa
Double Trouble Women Talk Before They Act Quote
A Chicago News quotation asserts that women are less dangerous than men and tend to talk before acting, framing behavior with a witty, gendered bluntness in a brief editorial aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
One Good Mother Worth More Than Hundred School Masters
The saying attributed to George Herbert extols a mother’s value above many teachers, reflecting a belief in maternal influence over education and virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Herbert
America Rebuilt Every Forty Years Statement By Dickinson
A. E. Dickinson, president of a national limestone company, asserts that America is rebuilt on a roughly forty year cycle, highlighting industrial and infrastructural renewal patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
A. E. Dickinson
National Limestone Company
Photographing a Bullet as It Exits a Pistol Barrel
A new imaging technique captures a bullet midflight as it exits the gun barrel. Researchers demonstrate high speed photography that freezes the moment of muzzle exit, offering insights into ballistic behavior and firearm dynamics for science and forensic study.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tom King, Sr
West Union
Joe King
Kathryn Young
Mildred
Helen Pulver
Mount Vernon
John Breen
Paul Becker
Cascade
John Franks
Los Angeles
California
Harry Bricker of
Newton Parrott
W. L. Hanssen
Mildred Pulver
Baldwin
Anna Schultz
William Balsiger
James McAleer
Lisbon
William Beery
Ray Schaeffer
Chicago
F. P. Stahler
J. L. Bader
Town City
Mat
Albert Null
le Mars
John Null
Bud Gutknecht
Rudy
Hank
Ted Oltman
Martello
Ray Overly
Opal Porter of
Truro
J. W. Hoult
N. Chestnut St
Earl Locher
Rose Wilcox
Cedar Falls
Mare Siemering
Minneapolis
Ray Echternacht
Walter Marshall
Fulton, Ilinois
William Marshall
Ted Vernimont
J. B. Oswald
J. LeRoy Farmer
Milton Theens
Iowa City
William Roben
Addie McConnell
Denver
Cifo
Reno
Nev
Mer
Donald Torrence
Marion
O. E. Torrence
John McKugh
Mary
Bertha Locher
Helen Rohr
Edwin Lightfoot
Vinton
Miss
Beth Lightfoot
Arthur M. Maurice
Miss Margaret Maurice
Oklahoma
Clark Brokaw
McDonald Hospital
Brokaw
Rose Littlefield
D. R. Webb
Oakdale
O. E. York
Bragelton & McLaughlin
Shelley
Edna Steege
Cleveland
Ohio
Fred Ellers
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Ralph Moon
Warren, Illinois
Karl M. Keyes
A. W. Gault
Pittsburgh, Pa
Lou Stambaugh
LaVetta Perrine
Town State Teachers College
Harry DeWald
Watertoo
Sam Adamson
F. W. Buxton
Harry Buxton
Wheatland
W. F. Rohn
Carl Reuter
Stephen and
James
Waterloo
Fritz Reuter
Fred Madieson
B. H. Smith
Hopkinton
Omaha
Neb
O. EF. York
Brezelton & McLaughlin
Marjorie Diedrich
Billy DeWald
L. Brenneman
Leonard
Emma Berry
Sarah B. Hosford
Bud Oltman
Vernon Wright
Joseph Chaloupka
Ed Chaloupka
W. W. Low
Richard
Bernice Rodman
Coe College
Matt Rodman
E. J. Maloney
Everetta
Naomi
Texas
George Hubbard
Clarksville
Mr. Hubbard
E. A. Hubbard
John Bateman
O. E. Brainard
Tipton
Westside Park
Harry Mead
Harold Mead
Manchester
E. E. Hicks
Marion Hayes
Mercy Hospital
J. J Hayes
C. L. Jacobs
Edgewood
A. B Jacobs
Edward Supple
Nativity
du Luque
Thomas Supple
Castle Grove
Albert J. Stuhler
Wwor. Emmons
Walnut
Stahler
H. W. Bol
Leone and
Merlin
Princeton
Margaret Stadtmueller
L J Swift
Warren
Larned Kansas
Delhi
Barbara Brainard
Camp Fire
Walter Kiburz
Margaret Elizabeth
Amarillo
Jake Arduser
Kiburz
Mrs. Arduser
R. H. Moncrief
Eb, J. Lightfoot
Beth
Fern
Edwin
Platte, South Dakota
Joe Locher
Leo Locher
Lawrence Locher
Farley
Harvey Kurt
Peter Kurt
Harvey
Naomi Gutknecht
Lutheran Memorial Hospital
Paul T. Gutknecht
Heath
Purcell
William Podhaski
Detroit
Mich
Niagara Falls
N. Y
George Cowan
West First Street
Clark Street
James Robertson
Donald of
Rite-Way
Palmer's Drug Store
E. J. Farley
John Hay
Hans F. Kettlitz
Sawyer
Wis
George R. Gould
Marylin
Colin
Conrad
Donald Henderson
Pennsylvania
Edwin Wilcox
Black Hills
South Dakota
Henderson
Blanche Tompkins
E. E. Stambaugh
Betty Jean
E. E. Emhoff
Longmont
Colorado
G. R. Dale
Madison
Minnesota
G. Stambaugh
Dale
Rev. Emhoff
F. E. Stimson
Antonia Hanssen
Muscatine
Theodosia Pulver
Helen and
P. A. Britt
H. F. Kettlitz
Bill
Dorothy Hance
State University Hospital
McDonald Brenital
John E. Cameron
William
Ray Adams
Merle Knight
Roy Sell
Knight
George Knight
George Bonfour
Olin
Carolne Wiflan
Lincoln
Nebraska
Sarah Bier
Roy V Porter
Margaret Jeft
Count Bluffs
Porter
Jones County
Express
Foreign Missionary Society
L. H. Lang
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Louis H. Lang
Roy V. Porter
H. S. Richardson
Harriet Coughlan
Maples Inn
Barbara
Edward
Northampton
Mass
Mrs. Coughlan
John Innes
Milwaukee
Ireland
Stewart Stuhler
Edward Templeton
L. W. Lovell
Presbyterian Aid Society
St. John’s Ladies’ Aid
Congregational Missionary Society
Albert McNeill
Anna J. Knake
Lee W. Winter
Jimmy Matthiessen
Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls
Hler’q
Kerr Fruit Jars
Doren
Alc
UHLER
Patricia Grassfield
G. E. Greenwalt
Princess
Ken Maynard
Sun and Man
Nancy Carroll
Comedy News
Wm. S. Hart
Sand
Lightning Express
Thor
Blanche Sweet
Double
Kodak
Kodak Film
W. W. Stickford
Ceder Rapids
Montlerlin
Mx. Sun
Virginia Cafe
Rannie
Lovell State Bank
Ford
Wei
Otor CO
Monticello, Iowa
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!