Died Tuesday at 77 Cathie W King Dies at Home
Mrs. Cathie W King longtime Monticello resident dies at 4 p.m. Tuesday after a year of declining health. Born January 15 1856 in Wisconsin she married Joseph M King April 2 1874. Funeral Friday at the Methodist Episcopal church with Rev Roy V Porter officiating. Burial at Oakwood cemetery beside her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph King
North
Cedar Street
Adelbert King
Theola
Fannie
Pryor Tinsley
Berkeley
California
Monticello
King
John K. Wood
Tinsley
Frost
Wisconsin
Joseph M. King
Gillen
Anamosa
Castle Grove Township
Royal Neighbors of America
Monticello Alumni Banquet Set For Friday Evening
The Monticello high school alumni banquet will be at 6 30 Friday evening June 2 at the Monticello country club. A post banquet program follows with toastmistress Mrs Laura Koop and class of 33 speakers and singers. A dance to Jimmy Ricks orchestra ends the evening with 50 cents per couple charged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello High School
Monticello Country Club
Laura H. Koop
Monti High
Bill Kettlitz
Gangplank
Pauline Cooper
Edna Schoon
Edna Siebels
Imogene Dunham Bruhler
Alice Reed
Lydia Gruenstein Guyan
Jimmy Ricks
Sacred Heart Senior Class of 33 Graduates
Sacred Heart bids farewell to the class of 1933 noting faithful cooperation and loyal spirit. The school awarded two scholarships from Briar Cliff College and Clarke College to Helen Louise Stuhler and Maxine Redmond with best wishes for their futures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart School
Briar Cliff College
Bronx City
Clarke College
Dubuque
Helen Louise Stuhler
Maxine Redmond
W. E. Tuetken Relocates Office in Town Building
The office once housed by W. E. Tuetken in the old Jones County Trust and Savings Bank building has moved to the former Bam Reade Shoe Shop building just north of Beery's store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Tuetken
Jones County Trust & Savings Bank
Bam Reade
Beery
Adv
Laura Sinclair in Mount Vernon Student Recital
Laura Sinclair daughter of Mr and Mrs M M Sinclair of Bootch Grove appeared among fourteen students in a Mount Vernon recital on May 4. The event was sponsored by the college conservatory of music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Sinclair
M.M. Sinclair
Bootch Grove
Mount Vernon
College Conservatory of
Muaste
Monticello Pupils Qualify For State Brain Derby
Four Monticello high school students Helen Holst John Hiller Edward Sherrer and George Bridges qualified for the state brain derby at the University of Iowa June 5 and 6 after 50 000 high school students took tests in 13 subjects. Holst and Hiller will contest plane geometry John Hiller placed eighth in the state Sherrer will enter biology and Bridges will compete in world history with Bridges seventh in that subject. This marks Prof E F Linquist first year announcing the top ten in each subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Holst
John Hitler
Edward Sherrer
Bridges
Monticello High School
University of Iowa
John Hiller
John
Monti High
George Bridges
E. F. Linquist
Monticello High Holds 1933 Graduation Exercises
Monticello high school conducts its 1933 commencement in the school auditorium at 8 pm with the class entering to music by the high school orchestra directed by Frank Royden. Dr. Harry Morehouse Gage of Coe College delivers the main address as Miss Pauline Cooper is valedictorian and Miss Dorothy Barlow salutatorian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello High School
Frank Royden
Gutensohn
Harry Morehouse Gage
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Supt. Grimes
F. E. Stimson
Board of Education
Armin H. Tendick
The
Reformed Church
Pauline Cooper
Dorothy Barlow
June Lee Bollinger
Miriam Mae Fairbanks
Ruth Eugenia Howie
Anne Elizabeth McLaughlin
James Seven Rickless
Mary Lou Stickford
Poppy Sale Brings In Over Twenty Dollars in Monticello
The Americanization committee of Monticello Auxiliary No 1683 Veterans of Foreign Wars thanks residents for the Buddy Poppy sale. All flowers sold, raising over $20 for the relief fund. Fern Lightfoot and Esther Cass were top sellers. One hundred eighty seven wreaths decorated graves in local cemeteries, with thanks to the volunteer group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Fern Lightfoot
Esther Cass
Honor L. Clark
Starks Girl Graduates From Mercy Hospital Program
Miss Helen Starks daughter of Frank Starks of Monticello graduated from the Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids nurses training school last Monday evening. Twenty two nurses constituted the class with exercises at McKinley junior high school auditorium. Rev D J Lenihan Cedar Rapids delivered the address to the graduates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Starks
Frank Starks
Monticello
Nurses’ Training School of Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Mary Starks
McKinley Junior High School
D. J. Lenihan
Fred Kellum Suffered Stroke Of Paralysis
Fred Kellum is seriously ill at home after two strokes causing paralysis. His family has gathered at his bedside as doctors monitor his condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Kellum
Local Items Of Passing Interest To Our Readers
Janet Schemmel travels to Beaver Dam Wisconsin to visit her mother Edith Schemmel and sister Joann. Memorial day visits, hospital updates, and farm notes color a day with weather pleasant and a late corn plant season. Local families gather, travels noted, and town news cover social visits and graduations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet Schemmel
Beaver Dam
Wis
Edith Schemmel
Joann
Callahans
Scotch Grove
Charles Butler
Bertha Wolf
Cedar Rapids
Butler
Fred Matthiessen
Harry Lang
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
Hersom
Bobby
Joe Cook
Shirley
Phyllis
Harriet
Joe
Rickey
George Sutherland
O. A. Gadske
West Liberty
Clarice
Monticello
Daniel Gilchrist
Lawrence
Dakota
O. C. Bencely
Ardis
Donald
O. O. Spooner
Bencely
Spooner
Iowa City
University Hospital
Harold Houston
Grandalia
Lora Houston
Hazel
Margaret Houston
Emma Lansing Buried At Wyoming Thursday
The funeral of Mrs. Emma M. Lansing former Wyoming and Monticello resident was held Thursday afternoon in Cedar Rapids conducted by Rev. August Cremer. She died May 23 in Cedar Rapids at her daughter’s home after a short illness. Born February 10 1851 in Calamus Ohio she lived near Wyoming most of her life later moving to Monticello then Cedar Rapids. Survived by children Lucy Roberson Oskaloosa Daisy Toben Chicago Earl Lansing Lincoln Neb Libbie Barman Cedar Rapids twenty one grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. She was a member of the United Presbyterian church at Wyoming. Attendees included several relatives and friends from Cedar Rapids Monticello Chicago and Lincoln.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma M. Lansing
Wyoming
Monticello
Cedar Rapids
August Cremer
Lansing
Lucy Robertson
Oskaloosi
Daisy Toben
Chicago
Earl Lansing
Lincoln
Neb
Libbie Barman
United Presbyterian Church At
John Toben
Michael Gedman
Eloise Gardner
R. N
Nadine Gardner
Willis Mastin
Nebraska
Charles Podhaski
Double Drowning Near Dubuque Claims Two Lives
Charles Kruse and Mildred Sabers both of Dubuque drowned early Sunday when a flatboat capsized during a lakeside party at Frontress Lake near East Dubuque. Coroner and Illinois officials say nine youths were at the cottage. Kruse and Sabers were recovered four hours later after seven firemen helped raise the bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kruse
Mildred Sabers
Dubuque
Frontress Lake
East
al Didesch
Dubuque County
Daviess
Illinois
Kruse
Miss Sabers
Doctor Dolan Severely Injured in Cascade Car Crash
Dr. Harry F. Dolan of Anamosa was injured in a May 24 automobile accident near Cascade. He was returning from visiting a patient with Dr. Betteman when their car slid into a ditch. Dolan suffered a fractured pelvis and was taken to Mercy hospital Anamosa for several weeks of recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry F. Dolan
Anamosa
Cascade
Betteman
Dolan
Beiteman
Mercy Hospital
Anamoss
Jones County Rural Graduation 1933 Honors at Monticello
Eighth grade exercises for Jones county rural schools are set for Tuesday at 2:30 pm in Monticello high school auditorium. The event honors 85 graduates with an address by John J. Locher and diplomas presented by County Superintendent Nellie V. Morey. Honor roll pupils from Wayne, Castle Grove, Cass and others appear with teachers noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Monticello
Monticello High School
John J. Locher
Pauline Oltman
Nellie V. Morey
State Department of Public Instruction
State Department
Wayne
Wilma Craig
Craig
Gladys Skelley
Castle Grove
Irene Freese
Edna Osterkamp
Onica Nolan
Vera Jansen
Washington
Sister Sylvestra
Myrle Morrison
Mary Kenny
Chimney Rock On Jordan Now Easily Reached
The new Richland township road east of Monticello opens Chimney Rock on Jordan creek to the public. The 100 foot rock tower topped with an ancient cedar sits near the Jordan creek and was once rarely seen by locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan
Richland Township
Monticello
Chimney Rock
Jordan Creek
Perry Miller
Advertising as the Key Ingredient for Success
A quotedBusiness-era note from Arthur Bris ne praises advertising as the crucial tool to signal demand. It compares effective ads to an electric light that reveals what the large industrial plant is producing. The statement emphasizes outreach as essential for market attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bigge
Arthur Brisne
Hicks Takes Forestry Charge At Mount Pleasant
Lowell E. Hicks travels to Mount Pleasant to supervise government forestry reconnaissance work. He will organize civilian reforestation laborers who report in two weeks. Hicks graduated from Iowa State College forestry program in 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell E. Hicks
Mount Pleasant
Mr. Hicks
Iowa State College
66 102 Fewer Cars Registered In Iowa
Iowa automobile registrations for 1933 are 66 102 behind 1932 registrations. Lew Wallace, superintendent of the state motor vehicle department, said Thursday. Registrations on May 1 this year totaled 508 083, compared to 574 185 in 1932, Wallace said. Nearly every county of the state showed a decline, including Woodbury 2 868 behind Potta watamie 2 100 Scott 1 757 Linn 1 869 Black Hawk 1 678 and Dubuque 1 350.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Lew Wallace
State Motor Vehicle Department
Wallace
Woodbury County
Pottawattamie
Scott
Linn
Black Hawk
Dubuque
Madsen Family Welcomes First Child Carlisle James
Mr and Mrs Arthur T Madsen announce the birth of their son Carlisle James on May 24 at John McDonald hospital. It is the first child in the family and pledges of a bright future ahead are hinted as the Madsen Motor Company may soon become Madsen and Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur T. Madsen
Carlisle James
John McDonald Hospital
Madsen Motor Company
Madsen & Son
June 1913 Monticello events and weddings list
Monticello records from June 1913 note teaching moves and graduations. Millington Carpenter returns from Houston high school post as Halstead M Carpenter earns a Chicago university degree and brings a Packard. Multiple June marriages include Marie Bateman with Ossian Brainerd, Eunice Hanna and Burton Brown, Emma Gess and Henry Coyle, Esther Eilers and George Tift, Emil Ricklefs and Louise Olmstead, Iva Reade and Harry Redmean. The Monticello high school commencement graduates 18. Deaths include Tobias Henrichs near Center Junction and Rebecca J Hofacre. Mrs. John M. Linnell dies after 55 years in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Express
Millington Carpenter
Houston
Texas
Iowa State College
Lowell Hicks
Burgess Terwilliger
Reuben Hubbard
Marie Bateman
Ossian E. Brainerd
Charles L. Gould
Anamosa
M. A. Breed
Monticello
Eunice Hanna
Burton Brown
A. L. Fairbanks
Cass Township
Emma Gess
Henry Coyle
Halstead M. Carpenter
Chicago University
Davenport
Florence Barnts
Marcella Britting
Lois Cowan
Lillian d'Autramont
Blanche Deischer
Alice Hanawalt
Eda Hein
Frank Hicks
Rachel Hofacre
Howard Hosford
Fern Hubbard
Arch Koop
Joseph Locher
Josephine Meyer
Laura Moore
Ward Peet
Ethel Taylor
Edna Wenger
Doris Northrop
Clara Rickless
Green River
Wyoming
Edith Rettig
Beaver Dam
Wis
Gottlieb Bronemann
Emma Tschantz
Roland P. Kuentzel
Lovell Township
Presbyterian Parsonage
Esther Eilers
Barney Eilers
George Tift
Westgate
Emil Ricklefs
Louise Olmstead
Willow Point
New York
Ricklefe
McNeill Hardware Store
Iva Reade
Harry Redmean
W. E. Allen
Tobias Henrichs
Center Junction
Jones County
Rebeecca J. Hofacre
Michael Hofacre
Bertha Locher
Cedar Rapids Business College
Cross Hardware Company
Michigan
Pat Fagan
Clay Township
Dirks
Hopkinton
Rex Rickless
Gem City Business College
Quincy
Illinois
The
Hall Manufacturing Company
May Hoult
J. W. Hoult
Harry D. Smith
Douglass Smith
John M. Linnell
C. H. Schipman
Simon Locher Graduates From Notre Dame
Simon E. Locher, son of Mr and Mrs J J Locher, graduates with honors from Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters at the eighty ninth annual commencement. He ranks seventy fifth in a class of five hundred twenty three with an 87.4 average over four years and plans to pursue a law degree next year. He is a member of the Notre Dame concert and marching band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon E. Locher
J. J. Locher
College of Arts and Letters
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Car Accident South of Town Injures Mrs Morey
Mrs Roy Morey suffered a broken wrist and bruises in a car collision south of town last Tuesday evening. Her car bumped the parked Lyett vehicle while assisting a stranded motorist Catherine Redmond, who had run out of gas, and then hit Luett’s car as another vehicle approached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Morey
Morey
Charles Lyett
Catherine Redmond
Luett
Twenty Young Men Leave for Des Moines Forestry Camps
Jones county will furnish twenty more young men for reforestation camps in Town within the coming week. Today the following group will go to Cedar Rapids and then Des Moines for a two week training. Final group to go Sunday morning June 4 includes Monticello and Cascade residents and several named individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Oxford Munction
Charles Sobotka
Lavern Barrett
Raymond Bisinger
Anamosa
Albert Wink
Perry Joslin
Leo Lloyd
Charles Koppenhaver
Monticello
Carl Hartman
Eldon Haeussler
Raymond Flu
Memorial Day Observed In Monticello In 1940s Era
Memorial Day exercises were held in Monticello with preliminaries at Soldiers Memorial Park. Ex service men Boy Scouts and the Americanization committee hosted activities including a poster prize to Catherine Renk. Services continued at Oakwood cemetery with prayers songs a main address by Rev S G Gutensohn and military honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Soldiers' Memorial Park
V. F. W. Post
Catherine Renk
Honor L. Clark
Oakwood Cemetery
Soldiers’ Monument
America
Hartley Wilkinson
Messrs
Frank Royden
A. B. Grimes
Emil
Rex Ricklefs
S. G. Gutensohn
Monticello Congregational Church
Anamosa Girl Among Cornell's Most Beautiful
The Cornell college yearbook Royal Purple lists the twelve most representative students. Helen Von Behren Mechanicsville tops the list followed by Mildred Green Anamosa and Margaret Herrick Minneapolis. Names include Margaret Herrick Clinton Ruth Miller Waterloo Jane Hayes Freeport TL Margery Jensen Detroit Lakes John Mount Wheaton Newell Madison West Chicago Richard Tims Tama Richard Baker Mount Vernon Gale Henke Hampton Arthur Crosby Rockford Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredric March
Cornell College
Helen von Behren
Mechanicsville
Margaret Herrick
Minneapolis
Mildred Green
Anamosa
Margaret Harris
Clinton
Ruth Miller
Waterloo
Jane Hayes
Freeport
Margery Jensen
Detroit Lakes
Minn
Graduation at Broadlawn Hospital Des Moines
Mr and Mrs Guy Hogan traveled to Des Moines on Wednesday May 24 to attend graduation exercises for their daughter Viola and Miss Elsie Sechusen from Broadlawn nurses training school. The two graduates were transferred here from John McDonald hospital when the training school closed. Both have accepted jobs at Broadlawn and will remain there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Hogan
Des Moines
Viola
Elsie Sechusen
Broadlawn Nurses’ Training School
Broadlawn Hospital
John McDonald Hospital
Miss Hogan
Miss Sechusen
Broadlawn
Wright S. Frazier Buys C. B. Pauls Law Books
Wright S. Frazier of Anamosa has announced he bought the law library and office fixtures and leased the office formerly occupied by the late C B Paul. The Paul Cash partnership has been dissolved and Frazier will practice in Anamosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wright S. Frazier
Anamosa
C. B. Paul
Frazier
Paul Cash
Heiserman Delivers Memorial Day Address in Anamosa
Edward Heiserman gave the Memorial Day address at the Niles Theater in Anamosa last Tuesday. The program was organized by the American Legion post of Anamosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Heiserman
Niles Theater
Anamosa
American Legion
Independence Defeated by Monticello on Rain-Shortened Game
Monticello beat Independence 3 to 1 in five innings before a rain delay ended play. Two Monticello rallies in the second and sixth frames produced all runs, aided by Independence errors. Guttenberg topped Cascade 8 to 3 after a lengthy umpire delay. Manchester-Dyersville and other Sunday games were rained out or postponed. Next, Monticello hosts Dyersville as the standings show Guttenberg leading Manchester and MonticelloFollowed by Dyersville and Cascade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Lavel
Monti
Ravel
Yann
Kronkhite
Wilson
Michels
Koob
Independence
Fox
Lke
Thenhaus
Jack
Michaels
Duane
Savel
Guttenberg Giants
Cascade Reds
Reds
Johnson
Ump
Guttenberg
Manchester-Dyersville
Dyersville
Manchester
Cascade
Manchester Monticello
Independence Cascade Oo
Dyersville Dutchmen
Illustrated Lecture At Masonic Temple June 6
An illustrated lantern lecture on Revolutionary Heroes will be given at Burns Lodge A F and A M at the Masonic Temple next Tuesday evening June 6. All Master Masons are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burns Lodge
A. F
A. M
Masonic Temple
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cathie W. King
Sacred Heart
Methodist Episcopal Church
Roy V. Porter
Methodist
Porter Ake
Ruth Burnstedt
Emma Lansing
Dr. Dolan
Bath of Wayne
Augusta Behnken
Waggoner
Lucille Dearborn
Esther Brainard
Cass
Marcella Kahn
Trene Freese
Mildred Freeman
Newport
Malinda Neilson
Freda Osterkamp
Wilma Reese
Anna Lubben
Corrine Robinson
Hazel Hill
Sylvia Cooper
Phoebe Hiller
Verna Loomis
Hazel Eby
Evelyn Moenk
Edward Rubey
Oxford
Mariella Kahn
Francis Allen
Leslie Boner
Dorothy Julfs
Mabel Moss
Helene
Matthias
Hermina Cordes
Viola Crowley
Johannes Schafer
Henry Ehits
Bridge McCusker
Robert Howie
Mark McDonald
Kathryn Gerdes
Evelyn Monk
Irvin Lubben
Helen Ortgies
Florence Black
LaVern Schatz
Esther Glass
Harold Zumbrunnen
Lillian Schlemme
Fairview
Howard Klinefelter
Ethel Kempshall
Robert Conrad
Russell Larson
Donald Joslin
Margaret J. Davis
George Ellison
Merle Davenport
William Albers
Louise Theilen
Mildred Schoon
Wilma Smeltzer
Rollie Shover
Hanle
Agnes Inglis
Helen Port
Henry Petersen
Josephine Poppe
Grace Esther Root
Geraldine Wood
Gertrude Gerdes
Richland
Edna Mae Crane
Lucille Rickels
Maxine Ely
Mildred Wilcox
Nicholas Radloff
Rita Duffy
Paul McGrane
Anna McQuillen
Lester Schlemme
Michael Moes
Erma Hamil
Elmer Hodge
Minnie Husmann
Myron Kuhns
Dwayne Stickley
Jean McNeilly
Pauline Prahm
Selma Antons
Maurine Stingley
Mahlan Morrison
Bernadine Callahan
Robert Callahan
Harriet Stanton
Bernadine Honerbaum
Helen Waggoner
Meta Ortgies
Marvin Dirks
Helen Lieneman
Louis
Matie Harms
Clay
Virginia Supple
South Temple Hill
Regina Duffy
Herbert Kedley
Raymond Keating
Leo Keating
Victory
Leo Koppess
Greenfield
Viasta Hartman
Jackson
Ruth Mann
Antioch
Leona Gierhart
Malinda Nielson
Carl Wehling
Midland
Nellie Straesslin
Clarice Manwiller
Pleasant Hill
Varietta Taylor
Lovell
Rudolph Monk
Emil Prull
Harold Steiner
Velma Morrissey
Marguerite Sngel
Marie Widmer
Ray Prull
Irene
the Express
Simon Locher
Samuel Gutensohn
William H. Jarrett
Sacred Heart Cemetery
Scotch Grove Cemetery
Cornell
Royal Purple
Richard Baker
C. B. Paul’s Law Books
Heiserman
Fenelon
Clark
Felder
Yanu
Chuck
Cascade Protests
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