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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1934
Page
6
A stream of visitors and social visits fills local life as Miss Kathryn Young tours Oxford Mills, Miss Minnie Rettig vacationing in Madison, Antonia Hanssen visiting Wyoming relatives, and many others like Bob Lake, Helen Stuart, Frances Fagan, and Nellie Lundon guesting with local families. Mrs. Peter Prahm, Graydon Reade, and Abram Myers are noted among residents with travel, illness, and family events.
A string of short notes lists Miss Edith Bebee visiting grandparents in Prairieburg, Miss Isabel Liddy to Chicago for the Century of Progress, and numerous travels between Monticello and nearby towns. Residents visit relatives in Cedar Rapids, Vinton, Anamosa, Moline, Byron, and Hopkinton, with several trips to Chicago and Davenport for summers and expositions.
Residents near Monticello joined a Ryan and Hopkinton party for a week at a cottage near Independence. Several local residents visited relatives in Iowa and Wisconsin, with talks of family trips and a funeral in Oxford Junction.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heisey and daughter Miss Mabel Heisey, and Mrs. Newton Deischer are visiting today in the home of Rev. and Mrs. Charles Pickford in Nevada Iowa. Mrs. Pickford is a sister of Mr. Heisey.
Sunday activities span Maquoketa lake picnic with L J Swift and guests from Belle Vue, Langworthy tiling work near Langworthy, trips to Bellevue by Vernon Aldrich Violet Meyer Leo Aldrich and Philomena Lawrence, plus updates on Karl Renk using a cane after a back injury.
Mr and Mrs Howard Delacher returned Friday from a week with daughter Mrs Henry Uffelman in Richland Center Wisconsin and with son Merle Deischer and family in Rice Lake Wisconsin. Also visiting were Mr and Mrs Earl Ferguson and Mr and Mrs Bert Ferguson of Chicago at G L Cropp home over the weekend. Bert Ferguson's wife was Bettie Grass before marriage and girlhood friends Cropp and Ferguson had not met in 21 years. The visits came on their way home from a month long Yellowstone Park trip and western states.
Miss Purlinsa Waugh of Sacramento California visited with Monticello friends last week. She was joined by her sister Mrs Dalay Millsap of Anamosa. Waugh formerly worked as a linotype operator for The Monticello Express and now is employed in a similar role for the state of California in Sacramento.
Miss Dorothy and Alice McFadden of New London and Genevieve Sheridan of Mediapolis visited Miss Alice Reed last Sunday and Monday. The trio, all Mediapolis public school teachers, returned from a short Lake Itasca trip in northern Minnesota.
Mr and Mrs E d Farley spent last Thursday in Des Moines with Mr Farley on business and Mrs Farley visiting friends. Miss Ruth Cropp and Miss Caroline Helken left Sunday for an automobile tour to the West visiting Denver Colorado Springs and Manitou. They may ride a railway through the mountains to Cripple Creek as mining life revives there. The trip occurs amid heat and telegraphic reports of a snowstorm at Colorado Springs urging faster travel.
Mr and Mrs Glen Hall of Sid ney Montana toured the A Century of Progress exposition in Chicago with Mrs Hall's parents Mr and Mrs H P Bancroft. They were joined home late in the week by Althea Bancroft who had been visiting Chicago.
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