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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1931
Page
2
Local items note visitors from Davenport Dubuque Cedar Rapids Hopkinton Anamosa Dewitt and Chicago visiting relatives friends and homes. Merchants Locher's Music Store Eye ex amination services Majestic and Philco radios referenced. The piece catalogs numerous social calls and cordial visits across eastern Iowa towns.
Cedar Rapids residents host and visit relatives in a flurry of social pages. Families from Manchester to Chicago send greetings, while many townspeople plan fairs trips and summer activities. A wave of guests and locals, including Besieged by summer travel, fill the column with visits, stays, and community happenings.
The Sunday school and friends of the Presbyterian church held their annual picnic at the city park. Many locals and visitors, including Mrs. Marshall and Master Marshall Zwiefl, returned travelers, and residents from Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, and Madison joined relatives in town and at various gatherings throughout the week, with numerous family visits noted and townspeople planning further trips.
A long list of local family outings and visits spans Monticello and surrounding towns. Families like the Schneiders, Hoags, Kay, Serbousek, and Stuhlers are described as traveling to Rochester Indiana, northern Minnesota, and Iowa locales. Community events include a July 4th injury report, a state park visit, and a planned Farmers Cooperative Creamery at Earlville with substantial subscription progress.
Sunday services listed for St Matthew's Lutheran, St Joseph's Prairieburg, Sacred Heart, and Presbyterian, Congregational, and Reformed churches. Includes masses in German and English, confessions, first Friday devotions, union services, and notes on missionary festival speakers Rev Von Gruenigen and Rev Fresenberg with offerings and schedule details.
The Farmers Mutual Creamery Company of Monticello will pay 26 cents per pound for first grade butterfat and 23 cents for second grade. A Chicago delegation will bring fifty children for a two week country air stay in August. Other notes report local travel, farm yields, a county fair dissolution, and regional population mentions.
Mrs W J First hosted the Needlework Guild last Friday with members gathering for fancy work and quilt making. Mrs Cornelius Steck hosted a birthday dinner for friends last Sunday with thirteen covers and a decorative cake.
Mrs. Ralph Bone hosted a Friday bridge party at her home for Mrs. W. W. Low of Chicago. Four tables played with Mrs. Frank Stimson winning high score and Mrs. Low receiving a guest prize. Refreshments followed. The third summer dance at the Country Club featured Harry Soule’s entertainers. A touring German orchestra surprised guests with several dance numbers and overtures, soon to headline the Jones County Fair.
More than fifty relatives and friends attended at her country home Sunday evening to celebrate Mrs Henry Kuriger fifty first birthday. Cards were played at eight tables with Mrs Walter Hall high for ladies and Matt Mueller Jr high for men. Supper followed.
Last Friday morning a birthday party honored Richard Sutherland at his father Donald Sutherland's home. The five year old wore a suit and played around a lawn sprinkler while lunch was served by Kitty Sutherland assisted by Jean Sutherland.
Miss Maxine Redmond marked her fifteenth birthday with a guest gathering at her residence last week on Wednesday. Bridge was the featured activity with Miss Kathleen Hayes achieving the high score. refreshments followed as the group included Jean Hogan Betty Kay Margaret McNeill Betty Denkhoff Kathleen Hayes Everetta Maloney Elizabeth McLaughlin Winnie Rohr and the hostess Maxine Redmond who received several birthday gifts.
The cuckoo clock originated in Germany in the Black Forest with Frans Anton Ketterer possibly the first maker. Its appeal lay in quaint novelty and precise time keeping, with a bellows mechanism and wooden pipes producing notes. The clocks spread to many homes but have waned in popularity on this continent due to modern homes and competition from other clocks.
The Kansas City Star recalls Leverrier, who calculated Neptune’s position in 1848 and declined to view the planet through an observatory telescope. He valued theoretical truth over empirical verification, preferring mathematical achievement to visual confirmation.
Mr and Mrs John Gerdes left last Thursday morning on a two weeks automobile tour planning to visit Barnston Nebraska and other state points. They may drive to Denver and later visit relatives in Salina Kansas. Mr Gerdes works as a clerk at the L A Iverson Furniture Store.
A catalog style listing from Tin Shop outlines prices for kitchenware and hardware items. Items include enamelled drip pans screen doors springs braces and belts as well as galvanzed tubs tea kettles electric fans and milk pails with varied prices per unit.
Miss Franah Schneider left Cresco this morning for Dubuque to join cousins and motor to Chicago to visit relatives. She plans to return to Cresco after the summer vacation, where she has been a successful public school teacher for several years.
The board of railroad commissioners granted Trans-Mississippi Transportation Company a franchise to operate a bus line between Fort Dodge and Waukon. The route includes a lease on number 20 north on number 10 and east to Strawberry Point via Oelwein.
The piece recalls a second heat spell ending Saturday July 18 with six days of temperatures from 2 to 102 degrees, echoing a similar June pattern and the saying a hot June yields a hotter July. It notes continued records of extreme heat and the season’s pattern. Dr. and Mrs. Elwyn Patterson host relatives including Mrs. Neva Davis and Clinton of Iowa City, plus Barbaria Embree, with two sisters arriving Friday.
W. Guy Frazee 39 prominent Cedar Rapids businessman and chief engineer of Iowa Manufacturing died in a Moose Lake Minnesota auto accident. Also killed were W. W. Curfman Lawrence Kansas schools superintendent's wife and Curfman’s ten year old daughter. Frazee’s wife and J. G. Aldrich of Minneapolis survived with noncritical injuries. Frazee’s eight year old son survived.
Teane Schneider Jr Franah Schneider Ruth Hayes Irma Fagan and Mr and Mrs Henry Coyle with son Raymond and Miss Francis Coyle attended the funeral in Cedar Rapids last Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. L Lee Jones.
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