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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1954
Page
1
An examination of the vast leisure market shows Americans spend about 30.6 billion annually on recreation, driven by more free time and rising family income. Growth centers on tangible goods for hands on use like golf gear, boats, tools, and auto travel, while entertainment spending remains more static.
A reader collage from multiple papers reflects concern over youth delinquency linked to home training, calls for personal responsibility, and critiques of government, religion, and economic policy. The clippings express wary views on social change, fiscal policy, and the value of education and investment.
Herbert Hoover tells the American Society of Newspaper Editors that a period of self-denial can cure the budget deficit and reduce taxes without harming defense or government services. He urges cutting government costs as essential to prevent inflation and national bankruptcy, urging public sacrifice in the process.
Mr and Mrs Everett Brunscheen hosted a dinner Sunday for their 15th wedding anniversary in Wyoming. Family groups attended from nearby towns including Ezra Werndt Oliver Brunscheen Herman Brunscheen and others. A group gift was presented to the couple.
Hopkinton resident H. N. Talmadge, born June 4, 1858 in a Bay Vicinity log cabin, marked his 96th birthday. He is among Delaware county's oldest natives, with 82 descendants in a life spent on local farms. He was hospitalized for a strangulated hernia after a family gathering.
The Emporia Daily Gazette on May 24 ran a picture story about a 36 car cattle shipment into the Monticello Cascade feeding area. The cattle were handled by Vincent Donaho, an Emporia livestock broker.
Two Monticello area women joined more than 6 000 delegates at the National Council of Presbyterian Women event held June 1 7 at Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana The gathering drew attendees from 48 states Alaska Cuba Puerto Rico and many international regions Attendance exceeded the 1950 Ocean Grove meeting with national officers elected for four years and plans made to guide local church work Highlights included keynote remarks by Mrs James D Woyker and musical performances by the Maryville College Choir and a National Missions Mosaic Choir Presbyterian women from the area were Mrs Fred L Kromminga and Mrs Gladys McNeilly.
Sunday dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Herbert Balsiger and children Mr and Mrs Colin Tschantz and sons Mr and Mrs John Tschantz and family of Anamosa visiting the Tschantz household.
The Jones County Farm Bureau Women Committee met May 25 at the Farm Bureau building to outline lessons for outdoor cookery nutrition weight control basket weaving house plants storage refinishing furniture slip covers sewing workshops aging citizenship and to schedule events including booths at the Monticello Fair and Cattle Congress Women s Camp Rural Urban Day Contact Day County Music Festival square dancing Citizenship Four and Rural Women s Day. An announcement urged completion of International Relations Scrapbooks by September 1 to be given to Mrs Harry Dierks of Monticello.
Monticello American Legion Auxiliary visited the Clinton Domiciliary Carnival on June 2. Attendees included Mrs. J. H. Lambert Mrs. Charles Lambert Mrs. Mike Brady Mrs. Lena Hogan and Mrs. Fred Aldrich. Twenty rugs were purchased for patients and Mrs. Lambert can be contacted to buy more. Mrs. Brady's rural school donated 104 nut cups to patients and staff.
Mrs Mildred Board Grubbs daughter of Mr and Mrs LeRoy Board was installed as director of religious education at the Central Presbyterian Church in Lafayette Indiana Friday evening Grubbs graduated from Monticello public school in 1935.
Mr and Mrs Harold Egger and Audrey Egger of Chicago Illinois attended the wedding of Gwendolyn Reed and Donald Baker at St Josephs Church in Dubuque on Saturday June 5 Miss Egger and Mrs Paul Lumpa served as hostesses.
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