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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1937
Page
2
Local notes list dozens of visits and airings across Iowa and nearby states. Ruth Hayes, Ed Hilers, James Donough, Homer Hannah, Lucy Winch, Joe Simmons, Richard Lang, and many others are shown visiting relatives, friends, or attending events in Monticello, Central City, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, DeWitt, Cascade, Onslow, Tipton, Walnut, and surrounding locales.
A long list of visitors and travelers stops at homes across the area. People from Savannah NL Marion Springville Waterloo Cedar Rapids Anamosa Dubuque Moline Chicago and other towns visit relatives, attend shows, or take vacations in Iowa and nearby locales.
Mrs. Vincent Kane and son Ronnie plan permanent residence in DeWitt with Mr. Kane and E J Maloney operating a local print shop. Numerous relatives and friends from Oakdale Chicago Dubuque Strawberry Point Rochester Storm Lake Spillville Centerville visited and traveled, with operations and medical events noted.
Miss Ethel Townsley of Brighton visited last Sunday and spent time in the homes of Miss Minnis Rickels and Mr Oreng Allamand. Miss Wes
Mrs. George Timmins and Eloie returned home from a two week vacation in Bentonville Arkansas visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J Q McDanial. Mr and Mrs Robert Phelps welcomed a baby boy named William Howden born July 28 weighing 6 pounds 1 ounce. This is the couple’s first child. Mrs Phelps formerly Virginian Meier.
Pat Stambaugh and others accompany Mrs Emma Cox to Marshalltown after a week with relatives. The Newtons of Chicago vacationing with daughter Pauline in Maquoketa visit friends in Monticello. Prull family heads to Toledo with Lisa Herrman. Noyes visits Washington sister while vacationing with mother in Wyoming. Stadtmueller on two week lakeside vacation. Klages fills her Monticello post. Cobb family from Peoria visits mother in law Anna Ambuen. Evelyn stays two weeks.
Mrs Siegfried Guyan and family left Saturday for Cedar Rapids where they met her brother-in-law Theodore Thomas. They joined him for a week in the Grinnell home of Dr and Mrs P A Johnson, Mrs Guyans parents.
Local notes document Mrs. W W Stickford visiting Miss Martha Buol in Dubuque where Buol is convalescing at a relative’s home. Other items include Mrs. Mary Sanford’s return from Colorado visits, Monticello attendees at a Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary event, and travels of Sargeant Walter Klein to Camp Custer with forthcoming assignment in Hawaii. Also reported are visits of Murice Cook and family, a fall injuring Mrs. Rodman in Decorah, and a Denver public schools program on Character Education led by Dr C Leslie Cushman with church and ministerial cooperation.
Jones county clerk issued two marriage licenses in the past week. Harley Dighton 21 of Hopkinton and Dora Baldwin 19. Alexander Fil bert 22 of Lincoln Nebraska and Laverna Beightey 20 of Lincoln Nebraska.
An excerpted verse laments youth passing as the dream of youth fades with time. It reflects on loss, aging, and the enduring strength of manhood while longing for the beauty that has vanished. The lines emphasize nostalgia and the irreversible passage of youth.
Early centuries saw European ceramic factories flourish under royal patronage with ownership and distribution often favoring court favorites. The article notes Meissen porcelain marks the blue crossed swords, with AR monograms on some early pieces.
The article highlights Mont St. Michel in Brittany as home to one of the world’s strongest tides that reveal a vast sea bed in minutes. It notes the granite islet’s 250 foot rise, the medieval village, abbey, and castle, plus regional foods like omelettes Poulard and Pre Sale lamb, with seafood abundant.
A Washington Post note explains bird study terminology such as coverts for feather bases, primaries for wing quills, secondaries for flight feathers, and tertiaries near the body. It also details shoulder feathers as scapulars, regions around the ears as auriculars, dorsaltters misprint likely dorsals, frontal for the forehead, crown for the head, and carpal joint as the bead of the wing.
The white potato entered Ireland from the United States and became a staple. Sir John Hawkins allegedly carried potatoes from Virginia to Ireland around 1465, while Sir Walter Raleigh, with Cork estates, expanded cultivation and popularized them as Irish potatoes.
Since the 1898 annexation, over 27,000 acres have been reserved for U S Army and Navy use in Hawaii. Schofield Barracks alone occupy 14,400 acres, the nation’s largest army post. Hawaii National Park adds 118,225 acres on Hawaii and Maui.
A London Answers Magazine correspondent describes Siamese royal rites with a ceremonial bath, eight soakings, and a drying before the king is cloaked in royal robes. The procession includes a nine-storied umbrella, crown, sceptre, sword, and other regalia. Rice features in Japanese coronations.
The article outlines George Washington’s agricultural scale in 1782. He owned 500 acres of grass, sowed 600 bushels of wheat, 600 acres of oats, and similar areas for barley and corn with root crops. His stock included 149 horses, 112 cows, 285 working oxen, and 500 sheep, with 250 hands employed and 24 plows in constant use when feasible.
H H Alp extension poultryman describes eggs used for dog and animal feeds, leather and fur trades, lithography, photo engraving, cementing cork, pharmaceuticals, textiles, inks, photography, gilding, feathers and even egg shampoo.
A plan to honor the future King George when he was prince of Wales grew to include all prominent Georges of Britain. Dukes peers lords ministers high churchmen and parliament members contributed a badge bearing their names and that of a jeweler's worker who sought inclusion and received permission to be named.
If you cannot swim the most important step is to learn. Learn with a companion who can swim and avoid unfamiliar waters. Use supervised pools or beaches with lifeguards, enter slowly, and teach others to swim and stay safe in emergencies.
Reports from towns showing the George W. Adams Rodeo draw strong crowds. In Pecatonica Illinois public demand brought back the show after several years, with a hundred head of stock and a lineup of bucking horses steer pitching and Brahma bulls making the western event famed for speed and spectacle.
Riders who have won across Dinwest contests face off in a real contest where entrants pay fees and judges award prizes. The event promises 60 to 75 top riders roping bulldogging and bull riding as brahma bulls provide wild, exciting action for spectators.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Iverson were business visitors at Vinton Thursday. An upcoming event runs July 30 and 31 at 8 p.m. with August 1 performances at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday night opens the program. Saturday and Sunday shows follow.
Residents on Thursday at 5:30 can hear the radio program broadcast by the enterprising merchants of Monticello Scotch Grove and Sand Spring. The segment promotes local business and community activity across the three towns.
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