Playground notes highlight kickoff turnout and planned clubs
Rough weather did not deter about thirty children at opening show of the playground program with enrollment rising to fifty next day. Boys dominate, girls urged to join. activities include camping, kittenball, hiking, fishing, tennis, skating and baseball. Chuck Field won Tuesday’s checker tournament over Gene Taylor. a Collectors Club meeting is planned Friday for stamp, leaf, rock and bug hobbyists. a summer schedule outlines tennis and kittenball across days with a story hour and a collectors gathering noted.
Mrs. John Hoult Dies After Long Illness at Home
Mrs. John Hoult died yesterday afternoon at the Sherman farm northeast of Monticello after a long illness. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Thomas Oliver. She and her husband lived on the Sherman farm seven years and in England a year before returning to Monticello area. Survived by husband and six children, including Clara Mae Smith and John F. Hoult, with two children predeceasing her. She was active in the Congregational church and Royal Neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Hubbard
Ladies’ Working Band
Royal Neighbors
Light Vote Cast At June Primary Election
Voters cast a light turnout in the June primary with numerous names listed as participants from Cedar Rapids Muscatine Grinnell and Des Moines including Paul Hindley Johnson Mohnssen Wood Hanson Jackson Williams Davidson Benson Silver and many others across multiple counties. Railroad and railway commission candidates are named along with U.S. Representative and state district contenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul L. Hindley
Oliver. Johnson
Cedar Rapids
B. Mohnssen
Muscatine
Henry Wood
Moville
Frank M. Hanson
Garner
H. A. Jackson
Grinnell
Frank L. Williams
Cedar , Rapids
Harold E. Davidson
Clar- R. M. Uhl
Des Moines
Secretary of Agriculture
Co. A. Benson
Elkader
Seth S. Silver
Cantril
LL. H. Childs
Fort Madison
Harry L. Fisher
John Hamilton Cruickshank
Sioux City
Robert J. Shaw
Sigourney
L. W. Evans
Lake City
George L. McCaughan
Ankney
Harry C. Paulson
Clinton
John H. Rae
Marion
Congress
Frank W. Elliott
Davent
Rural Schools Graduate 112 Students Friday
Rural districts graduated 112 students in a Friday ceremony. The event lists multiple townships with student names and teaching staff, including Pleasant Hill and Madison Pine Grove, along with Wyoming Baldwin and Pleasant Ridge. The program features teachers Lucille Heiken Roberta Helgens Leona Sanford Marie Schatz Laura Like Elda Buel Ruth Reuter Kathryn Wilson Mae Andrews Vera Ireland Lester Turner and Arnold Lazare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Siebels Newport
Gertrude Gerdes
Lucille Heiken
Pleasant Hill
Gladys Feddersen
Leo Waggoner
Merlyn Glick
Waggoner
Marjorie Humpal
Lowell White
Lowell Township
Mabel ‘McVay
Roberta Helgens
Pauline Cramer
Leona Sanford
Marie Schatz
Laura Like
Pauline Oltman
Elda Buel
Elenore Cooper
Ione Benesh
Russell Etten
Marie Paulsen
Ruth Reuter
Kathryn Wilson
Madison
KITTENBALL Schedule Preview for June Events
Local schedule lists six matchups across Friday Sunday and Monday. F and K teams face City Club Jim’s Cafe Stuhlers DeMolay Franklin and DeMolays compete in a sequence at Jim’s Cafe and venues, highlighting community youth activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim's Cafe
Stuhlers
Franklin
City Club
Jim's Cafe F
DeMolays
Summer Work In The Music Department
The school board offers free weekly lessons and summer practice for high school band and orchestra. Senior orchestra meets Tuesday 7 30 p m while senior band rehearses Thursday 7 30 p m Junior orchestra sits Wednesday 2 30 p m Lessons run 9 a m to 4 p m Beginners may join on oboe alto trombone cornet or clarinet with alto in highest demand. Listed beginners include Cor nets Yola Rodman Charles Ross Louis Havlichek and others.
Monticello High School Alumni Banquet Held
Monticello alumni association members gathered in the public school gym last Friday for a banquet hosted by Methodist church ladies. Paul Kehoe of Manchester served as toastmaster during the post dinner program with several toasts, followed by a dance. The class of 1936 was honored.
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Monticello
Stone unearthed bones may mark old Indian warrior grave
F. W. LaDux found human bones beneath a large stone in his Spirit Lake farmyard. Local lore suggests the remains may be of an Indian warrior laid to rest before white settlement. A nearby jaw and teeth imply a very large man.
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F. W. LaDux
Spirit Lake
Dickinson County
Jake Thompson
Windy day wrecks poultry house and kills cow near Cedar Falls
A severe windstorm battered Cedar Falls destroying a $1,000 poultry house housing 200 chickens. Some birds remained. many were stripped of feathers and scattered across the countryside. A cow on the Lewis Nordman farm was hurled about 20 feet and killed.
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Cedar Falls
Jack Hawk
Witte
Lewis Nordman
Valuable Letter From Hindenburg Maiden Flight Recovered
Victor Nocolaisen of Spencer Clay county collected a first flight cover from the Hindenburg dirigible. The letter traveled from Germany to Lakehurst New Jersey in 61 hours but took nearly five days from New York to Spencer, marking it as a future valuable curiosity.
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Victor Nocolaisen
Spencer
Clay County
Germany
Atlantic
Lakehurst
N. J
New York
Roosevelt orders 1936 baby chicks for Hyde Park farm
A Monona county hatchery in Onawa handles a special out of town order for 1936 baby chicks. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered five hundred birds for his Hyde Park, New York farm including white leghorns Plymouth Rocks and single comb Rhode Island Reds.
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Onawa
Monona County
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Hyde Park
N. Y
Rhode Island
Robins Return to Sumner Home Nest Viewable From Street
Arthur Miller of Sumner Bremer county reports a pair of robins that nested at his home last year and have returned this spring. The nest sits on a decorative piece over a window in the gable at the house front and is visible to passersby, offering a clear view of activities in the nest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Miller
Sumner
Bremer County
Eleven Seniors Graduate at Sacred Heart School
Father A L Lorenz presided at Sacred Heart School graduation awarding diplomas to 11 senior students and a music certificate to Lillian Margaret Locher. The benediction followed with the Blessed Sacrament sung by the school choir. Assisting priests were Father Eugene Lorenz from Temple Hill, Father Ginter of Cascade, and Father Landolt of Sand Springs.
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Father Lorenz
Lillian Margaret Locher
Eugene Lorenz
Temple Hill
Ginter
Cascade
Landolt
Sand Springs
A. L. Lorenz
Monticello Golfers Trek To Manchester
Monticello golfers will trek to the Manchester Country Club Sunday afternoon for the first inter club match of the season against the Delaware County group. The meet starts at 1 30 p m and marks the opening in a series of home and home tournaments within the Eastern Iowa circuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Manchester Country Club
Delaware County
Iowa
VFW Post Meeting Set for June 10
The Mon ticello post No. 1683 Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary will hold its next regular meeting on Wednesday June 10. Elections of delegates to the national convention in Denver Colo will be one key item on the agenda. Hal Helms leads the entertainment program and Oxford Junction auxiliary members bring Bohemian refreshments for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary
Denver
Colo
Hal” Helms
Oxford Junction
Kolaches
Rural buying shifts boost demand for branded goods
G I consumer Doran of Lever Brothers in Monticello says rural households now favor branded packaged products as income rises. He notes grocers will push the Greater Builders contest to lift local sales and Iowa could lead by year end. A lightning strike split and destroyed a large barn at Gus Thim farm near Ruthven, Palo Alto county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. I
Doran
Lever Brothers Soap Company
Monticello
Greater Builders
Gus Thim
Ruthven
Palo Alto County
Proposals For Erection Of Schoolhouse In Cass Township
Proposals for erection of a schoolhouse in Cub-district No 2 Cass township Jones County Iowa will be received at the bidder's Cass township home Anamosa Iowa where plans and specifications may be seen until 1 00 p m June 12 1936 The school board meets at Sub-district No 4 school house to consider bids and award to the lowest responsible bidder The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids June 2 1936
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass Township
Jones
Iowa
Anamosa
Lost Cat and Local Classifieds Mixed Here
Lost light gray housecat return to 126 N Sycamore Monticello Iowa. Pasture for rent 250 acres good grass fenced running water White peak posts 15 cents delivered Gottleaber Bros Scotch Grove Iowa. Strawberries crimson beauties order now a few boxes for table or canning A F Walker phone 46F21. Wanted blue grass seed suitable for stripping Farmers Grain Co Scotch Grove phone 95 F 22. For sale used band instruments bargains one cornet 7.95 trumpet with case Boehm clarinet Gene Byers Music Shop. Townsend Club No 1 meets in Odd Fellows hall Friday June 5 Mrs Forsythe Cedar Rapids speaker. Marvelous trip to Rocky mountains Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles Alaska trip prices two people lower berth 157.10 or 177.10 single lower 160.10 upper see us for reservations. For sale 62 acre farm near Central City Federal loan accept Monticello house equity McTavish Company Cedar Rapids. For sale 120 acre farm Langworthy immediate possession residence in Monticello opposite school L Lovell, Fred Kellum.
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Gottleaber Bros
Scotch Grove
Iowa
al Tf
John Wallace
Wallaces' Farmer
Iowa State Board of Education
Wallace
Alaska
Uncle Sam
Rocky Mountains
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Des Moines
John
Central City
Monticello
McTavish Company
Cedar Rapids
Farm Equipment Sale Includes John Deere GP and B Catalog
Farmers Implement Co. lists used farm machinery including a John Deere GP tractor a John Deere B tractor cultivators hay loaders side delivery rakes and associated cultivators in a local sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Deere
Farmers Implement Co.1
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Roy B. Moore
Chuck Field
Gene Taylor
Chuck
Gene
Boyd Shannon
Meeting of
J. Foley
Anamosz
al Hodoval
Oxford
Csbe
George Miller
Wyoming
Harry Holcomb
Martello
Roy C. Lawrence
L. F. Balster
LeRoy G. Dirks
Center
Vumchon
J. G. Thede
Martelle
Bess E. Sherman
3. E. Heiserman
Monticcllo
Glen J. McLaughlin
Ana- Trtosel A Ciiessenep Sts
Eden
Board of Supervisors
Wm. J. Bailey
Herman Helgens
S. M. Hosford
W. H. McDaniel
G. E. Shoop
Stanley Waggoner
Olin
J. H. Willson
H. J. Mayberry
H. D. Miller
Morley
J. C. McConaughy
Mar- Pong
Thomas Sherrie
Lettin
George F. Specht
Monti
Charles Hanna
Jefferson
H. L. Irwin
DeWitt Leslie
Ross
Sidney
C. W. Storms
Clair E. Hamilton
William P. Welch
Logan
Mike P. Conway
T. E. McNamara
Henry Eichhorn
Mines
Terse Hubert Utterback
Des
Dubuque
Lee Byerly
Noble C. Mershon
J. L. Cave
Ethimune
J. J. Hayes
A. G. Bohlken
Pat Callaghan
Bernard
F. ©. Cramer
R. D. Finnigan
E. M. Russell
Mechanics- Ville
Henry Siebels
Tom George
Heiserman
McLaughlin
Cass
Castle Grove
Center Junction
Clay
Fairview
Greenfield
Hale
Jackson
Lovell
John Hoult
Sherman Farm
Thomas Oliver
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Kittenball
Bob Spooner
Yola Rodman
Charles Ross
Louis Havlichek
George Coxsee
Eileen Appleby
Bill Holmes
Jack Beeks
Jo Ritchie
Clarence Hosford
Ann Marie Husman
Robert Husman
Betty Otten
Bud McNeill
Robert Liddy
Bernice Havlichek
Lucille Huibregtse
Glenn Speight
West Branch
Cedar County
Speight
C. H. Beenk
Davenport
Scott County
Beenk
Mississippi River
Moon
Sacred Heart School
Manchester
V. F. W. Post
H. F. Kettlitz
Henry Haintine
Creston
J. L. Adduser
Kay's Drug Store
E. J. Farley
Plymouth
Wn. G. Schoon
T Foot McCormick
Fred Schneiter
Farmers’ Grain Company
Farmers Grain Co
Matthiessen Auto & Supply Company
Jones County
F. C. Cramer
Ida M. Lake
School Board
Board of Education
Clark
Stimson
Thomas
York
Shover
A. B. Grimes
Bell Telephone Co
Town Electric Co
Paul A. Schmitt
Midland Chemical Laboratories
Harriet Brindley
Margaret Wachtel
Mary Stoddard
Bethel Merrill
Roy Moore
O. E. York
C. EB. Podhaski
F. E. Stimson
A. F. Walker
Findler
Sycamore Street
Farmers’ Grain Co
Boehm
Gene Byers
Scotch Grove Nursery
Sanitary Rendering CO
Langworthy
L. W. Lovell
Fred Kellum
McNeill Hardware
A. W. McGregor Merchants Bank Bldg
Towa
W. E. _Luetken ie
Bankers Life Man
McNeill Bros
R. J. McNeill
Byrd
Antarctic
Fred Shover
First Street
Loar
General Electric
Hotpoint
W. H. Null
F. G. Matthiessen
Ralph Bone
Miliz
Bank Nite
Rochelle Hudson
Bruce
Ronald Colwan
Claudette Colbert
Vortar
Mel Aglen
Rosalind Russell
Tee
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Hudson
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