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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1928
Page
2
Cedar Rapids and nearby towns appear in rapid succession as residents and visitors travel through Monticello Delhi and Marion. Many names appear visiting relatives farms stores and shops with several attending or hosting gatherings and excursions in July.
Monticello Public Library expands its shelves with new adult fiction and nonfiction titles. Notable entries include The Cabin at the Trails End and Ginger Ella, plus regional works by Walpole, Terris, and Mukerji. Reading club diploma day and notes on the King of Bookland play accompany the listings. Police report notes 71 traffic violators arrested in Manchester during a law enforcement drive, with many cited for defective lights and failing to stop at signs.
Bids are invited for about three hundred tons of coal for the Independent School District of Monticello Iowa. Bids must reference Franklin or Saline county Illinois or Western Kentucky coal and be delivered to the secretary by 7 30 p m July 27 1928. Bids opened at a special board of education meeting on July 27 1928.
Harrison Construction crews laid 800 feet of concrete starting last Saturday near Toenies corner and continue south toward the Jones county line from Anamosa headquarters. A truck tipping over with mix caused commotion last Monday but no serious injuries were reported.
Neighbors found Mrs. August Thomas on the floor at home after a paralysis stroke. She was taken to John McDonald hospital where she had been visiting her husband, who recently injured a leg operating a sawing machine. she had made two daily hospital trips prior to the stroke.
Miss Georgia Mae Cramer of Vinton visits Miss Specht. A student at the college for the blind in Vinton she will complete a six year course next year and plans to enter Grinnell College after high school. She remains interested in daily affairs and greeting friends from Monticello.
John Hay, nine, celebrated at a family dinner with ice cream and cake after his ninth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. John H Lambert marked their 20th wedding anniversary with a City park picnic for 54 guests. Emily Richardson hosted a luncheon for Gladys Smits and Catherine Stubles, with 12 guests enjoying the afternoon.
Members of the First Presbyterian Church of Monticello held their annual church picnic last Thursday in the church parlors due to unfavorable weather. The plan to picnic in the city park was changed to indoor seating at the church.
Mr and Mrs Siebelt Harms of Wayne township hosted a dinner last Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the eighth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Harold Tedrow and Mrs Tedrow s birth anniversary. Ten guests attended the event.
Members of the Clover Leaf Club gathered Friday evening at Mrs. Fred Matthiessen’s home for a cafeteria style picnic. Mrs. Matthiessen gave each guest a souvenir from Seattle where she recently visited her daughter Mrs. Bert Hosch.
Mrs John G Thomas hosted a dinner last Sunday for the birth anniversaries of her daughter Mrs J T Gravvston of Marion and Q H Brainerd of Town City. On the same day Mr and Mrs Brainerd observed their 49th wedding anniversary with parents of Mrs Colin G Thomas among guests. Other out of town attendees included Dr Grayston of Marion and Dr and Mrs Joseph Hoegan and family of Wyoming.
Miss Adele Meter and Marvin Bartlett wed at the Reformed church parsonage in Cedar Rapids with a single ring ceremony led by Rev. Roland P. Kuentzel. The bridal party included Olga Meier and George Bartlett. A dinner followed at the Montrose hotel, and the couple will reside in Monticello where Mrs Bartlett taught rural Jones county schools after graduating in 1926.
An ice cream social and program to raise funds to paint the Cass Center church will be at A. Parke Ogden’s home on Wednesday evening July 25. The program includes moving pictures, solos by Harry Newlin and Mrs. Parke Ogden, readings by Ida Pillard and Wilma Hanna, duets by Mrs. Parke Ogden and Mrs. Beggs, guitar solo by Thressa Pillard, whistling by Mrs. Parke Ogden, a Lara Hanna solo, and music by Underwood's orchestra. Everybody come.
The Rev. R. P. Kuentgel leads services with Sunday School at 10 a.m. and English Service at 11 a.m. The Ladies' Aid Society annual picnic and Sunday school gathering will be held at the city park with a cordial invitation to all.
Friday 7 45 choir rehearsal 9 45 Sunday School 10 30 English services The Luther League will hold an ice cream social at the city park this evening The Ladies Aid will meet Wednesday July 25 at the home of Mrs Fred Lehman Jr
Sunday School begins at 10:00 a m with morning worship and sermon at 11 00 a m A union service at 8 00 p m in the Methodist church Rev Leonard Duckett delivers the sermon All times cited are local and church events proceed as listed
Leonard Duckett pastor announces services next Sunday July 22 Sunday School at 10 am Morning Worship at 11 am sermon topic Songs In The Prison Christian Endeavor at 7 pm church service at 8 pm in the evening.
Pastor Paul T. Gutknecht announces Sunday School at ten o'clock followed by English preaching at 10 45 at Zion's Evangelical Lutheran. No services next Sunday. The annual church picnic was held at the city park Wednesday evening with a pleasant informal supper. Next week is institute week at the church.
Grent Lake attendance may reach eight hundred as the Epworth League Institute earns high praise for character building. Carl C. Magee, grandson of the late David F. Magee, now edits the Daily News at Oklahoma City and faces sensational accusations from Carroll Herald about Branson. The Mystic worker convention gathers in Fulton Illinois with delegates including Mrs J H Lambert Bertha Mae Goldin Harold Simmer Junior Burris Rose Littlefeld and Mrs Lambert traveling by auto.
Jones County teachers must attend the uniform county certificate examination in Anamosa on July 25 26 and 27 announced by County Superintendent Nellie V Morey. George Sackrider a Civil War veteran aged 83 died five miles south of Maquoketa last Friday.
Train schedule notes list timings and connections from Cedar Rapids to Farley Dubuque Calmar and Marion with freight and through lines. It mentions No 22 31 25 and 27 connections at Delaware Oxford Junc tion and the trips to Omaha Chicago and east and west points. A Hopkinton creamery well drilled by LeRoy Clark and sons reached 382 feet with water 42 feet from the surface and could not be pumped dry.
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