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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1927
Page
8
Hopkinton residents praised the chautauqua as one of the best yet with performances by Jack Wood's bell ringers and voices from Dr. A T Powell and Dr. Frank Church. The program also featured the Croatia orchestra Kendree entertainers and the Bes sie Larcher trio, plus two plays Applesauce and The Show Off drawing crowds. Over 100 signed for next year while local votes on road bonds and tuberculosis eradication showed Hopkins turnout.
The Friday evening program at the Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church drew a well attended audience. Details of the event are limited in the fragment but indicate strong community participation and church activity.
Regular Castle Grove farm bureau meeting set for Friday evening featuring a piano solo by Elizabeth Mc Laughlin and talks by Bertha Harkin and David Glenn. Local events include injuries from a road grader, a toe injury from a wire, churchgoers from Monticello, and community visits and medical updates.
A listing of residents visiting Amber households includes Daisy Maire and family from Sioux Falls and others from Anamosa Hopkinton Allen and Saskatchewan. Storms caused five Jersey cows to die from lightning. a horse was lost near Muscatine. Numerous local medical, religious and social visits are noted with residents from Amber Castle Grove Cedar Rapids Clinton Manchester and Morristown among others. Corn and oats harvests progress after the rain.
A large gathering celebrated Mrs. Marugg’s birth anniversary and welcomed Mrs. Marugg’s Portland visitors with a dinner for about forty at Richland Center. Guests included Frank Richardson and family, Mrs. Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Willard, Dr. C. G. Thomas and family, and many others. The Ladies’ Add society held its annual ice cream social at the city park.
Extended visits and day trips wrap through Richland area as Monticello residents and locals attend a Kiburz spring picnic at Richland Center. Families including the Hoags, Crawnes, Balsigers, Ardusers, and Sackets visit kin, with a TB tester visiting the neighborhood.
Cascade officials and Attorney Hogan discussed paving through the town on primary 161 with the highway commission deciding 18 feet of paving within corporate limits while the city would add 24 feet plus curb and gutters as its share. Roy C. Walters resigns as Anamosa National Bank cashier, set to retire August 1 and travel to Oregon and Washington. Dr. F B Sigworth learns his brother D B Sigworth dies at Blackwell Oklahoma from an apparent self inflicted wound amid long illness. D B Sigworth, 49, formerly in Anamosa, lived in Cedar Rapids and California with two marriages and business in drug trade prior to death.
Onslow Nelson Reade Henry Paul Sam Hutton and Mr and Mrs Oswald attended the funeral of their brother in law and uncle at Marion last Wednesday Mr Kinney lived here for many years and had friends who will miss him T B Johnston returned from Rochester last Saturday to consult specialists He reports his brother OC Johnston is able to be up in a wheelchair since his recent operation
Entries list visits and trips among area residents including Mrs Lillie Buck taking a vacation from the central telephone office and Miss Mary Paul assisting Miss Thelma Johnson. Several families, including the McMasters Sears and Lightfoot households, motored to parks and relatives around Manchester Waterloo Maquoketa and Baldwin with multiple Mrs and Miss participants.
Mrs C C Stevenson and son El don Mrs F J Welter and Margaret Regina and Florence Murray visited relatives in Farley last Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs W H Behrends were dinner guests at the William First home in Monticello Sunday and also motored to Cedar Rapids.
Mrs Bright Doris and Miss Louise Warner attended a chautauqua in Hopkinton last Friday evening. Miss Orpha Garlinghouse spent Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs R E B Chaplin Mr and Mrs Banta son and two nieces motored to Hopkinton last Saturday evening. Mary and Clara Murray and Mrs F J Welter were shopping in Montecello Saturday. Mrs Leonard Brandt entertained her brother and family from Shell Rock Sunday. The creamery shipped 95 tubs of butter and 29 cases of eggs from here Tuesday. Henry Welter visited his sister Mrs Charles Spielman at Cascade recently. Helen Egger returned from visiting friends in Wyoming Thursday. Charles Martin did some repairing on Joe Siebolds tractor Monday. Cap Arduser and family motored to Hopkinton Saturday evening.
A collection of terse social observations notes how mothers pepper speech with baby talk and how silence often follows brief answers. It also comments on public self-satisfaction, a complacent man in a rocker, a widow discussing her late husband, and a failure who questions others’ success.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader quotes a view that socialistic ideas fade as one earns stock dividends from 6 to 8 percent. It also argues there is little practical gain in diluting grain with water due to cows’ digestive fluids.
The article states road building is a long effort, comparing grading bridging and paving Iowa's primary roads to the Panama Canal. It promises rapid progress this year and high gear next year as work continues.
Dr and Mrs C E Thomas of Keystone visited with Mr and Mrs L A Iverson last Sunday. The note uses playful regional imagery to describe a rural scene rather than a formal report.
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