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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1936
Page
7
The Monticello Public Schools announce honor roll and perfect attendance lists for the year. Honors include students across grades from first through twelfth, with many named in each class for maintaining averages of 80 or better and for never being absent or tardy.
Mr and Mrs A J H McNeill and daughter Janet travel from Jefferson to Mt Carroll Illinois for the Frances Shimer junior college commencement. Margaret McNeill daughter of the McNeills graduates and served as president of the 1936 class and literary editor of the Shire Record. The family returns to Monticello with Miss Elizabeth McLaughlin as guest.
The Junior Band welcomes Clark Shannon and Jack Chaplin as new clarinet players. The school seeks four alto players and about three trombone players. contact Mr. McMullen in the music room on Friday June 12 before 3 o'clock or call 69-J. Rehearsal schedule: senior orchestra on Tuesday at 7:30, band on Thursday at 7:30, junior orchestra on Wednesday at 2:30.
Reverend Samuel G. Gutensohn will travel by automobile from Davenport as a delegate to the general conference of the Congregational church in Mount Holyoke Massachusetts. The conference runs from June 16 to 23 with three other Davenport district delegates.
The First Ladies' Country Club hosts a Tuesday 2:30 PM party with cards, led by Mesdames Shaffer Helser Locher Stuhler Bone Hodson. Clover Leaf Club met for sewing and lunch, while the Methodist church circle held its regular meeting with president Mrs. Huibregtse. The day included a luncheon shower for Miss Georgia Linter, guest of honor Eunice Howland celebrated her fifteenth birthday, and various ladies hosted and attended gatherings.
Mrs. Harrison Loomis hosted a Friday party at her home for her daughter Eileen Loomis on her eighth birthday. Guests played games and stunts, enjoyed a birthday supper, and received favors. gifts were given to Eileen and her friends Shirley Shelley Ann Marie Shelley Roxy Yeoman Adelia Marsh Lucretia Fairbanks Claire Shannon Ellen Mae First.
Miss Lethna Steffenson of Vinton wed Marcus Hobert son of Mr and Mrs A H Hobert of Monti cello on October 3 in Harpersfield New York. Witnesses were Mr J R Champlin and Mrs Champlin. Mrs Hobert resigned from John McDonald Hospital where she worked two years and was a graduate of St Luke's Hospital nursing school.
In Cedar Rapids Mr Hobert works as freight clerk at the Monticello depot after two years with the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul lines and studied at DeKalb Teachers College in DeKalb NL. The Congregational church Women's Missionary society met at Mrs E G Hicks home with devotion led by Mrs F D McLaughlin and a program by Miss Janet Hazard on Women in South American Civilization followed by tea hosted by Mrs Hicks and assisted by Mrs Samuel Gutensohn and Mrs Cora Brockhaus.
Mrs. Lawrence Balster and Mrs. Will Hiller hosted a double birthday dinner for Hilda Balster and John Hiller at Balster home. Guests dined at two tables for seventeen, then attended a band concert. Also reported are Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian ladies’ aid events, a third birthday party, a 39th birthday celebration, and League of Women Voters activities with reports from state convention attendees.
Mrs. A. O. Nutting of Waverly Bremer county ages 82 hand crafts 188 square quilt blankets for the Dionne quintuplets second birthday. Each 16 by 2 inch quilt features 12 rows of 14 squares and is made entirely by hand. She and her husband Mr Nutting recently marked their 65th wedding anniversary.
June 1911 Monticello Express items include Robert Williamson and wife golden wedding celebrated May 27 in Monticello. revival attendance from Monticello to Manchester. Edith Jarrett and Urban Haeussler wed. large union prayer meeting led by Rev. George Stephens. Sheriff Hogan captured a Jones county indicted forger in Fowler, Indiana. Clara Butler Boland body brought to Monticello for burial after dying May 26 at Sioux City. Fox cubs found near Prairieburg by John Eileen. William G. McConnon sent to Europe to supervise Westinghouse electric plant work. Billie Sloan noted as 24 year Monticello school janitor. Many local deaths and graduations. 94 95 degree heat days. Spanish War reunion in Cedar Rapids. Edna Suter and George Buol wed. Leroy Lang earns MS from Illinois university. Max Randall killed at Peter Kurt farm near Sand Spring.
Colin G. Thomas son of Dr and Mrs C G Thomas graduated from Shattuck school Faribault Minnesota at the annual commencement exercises on Thursday June 4 He was first Lieutenant of Company A in the cadet corps and a member of the Shattuck Crack Squad He earned the rector s silver letter Cum Laude and athletic letters in football and track serving as track captain He was vice president of the senior class and worked on the Spectator staff
Florence Marsh daughter of Rey and Mrs. Herbert Marsh of Spirit Lake in Dickinson county finds her pet cat a handicap to schoolwork. The cat named Cutie jumps on the lap and punches keys, ignoring spelling. Cutie demands cocoa at night and enjoys fudge and chocolate cake.
A dog once believed dead reappeared at W. F. Marten’s home in Lyon County near Rock Rapids. The animal was missing a hind leg, hobbling on three, with a broken rope snagged on its collar, suggesting it endured rough treatment during its absence.
The account traces Brazilian coffee from seed to Santos port, describing volcanic soil, climate, and four years to production. It details picking, drying on concrete floors, and machine processing, then explains conveyor-loaded ship berths at Santos with cross belts and manhole dumps, before moving to Montevideo and preparations for the voyage to the Río de la Plata.
President H J Burgstahler of Cornell College Mount Vernon reports a donor funded Mercer Hall dormitory to be built and ready by September 1 An annex reconstruction to Rood house will add twenty five girls with fasolarium connection Bowman hall dining room enlargement expands seating to 125 A Fine Arts building is planned as further improvements to the campus.
A playful meditation asks where to buy a cup for the knee and a key to the lock of hair. It wonders about eyes as an academy and pupils, gems in the crown of the head, the bridge of the nose, and toes used as nails. The verse ponders jail for the elbow crook and other curious body riffs.
A fragmentary verse excerpt echoes a plea for liberty. The speaker, nearing the end of life, seeks a chainless soul and courage to endure, invoking the lines of Arthur Hugh Clough in a meditation on freedom and resilience.
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