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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1933
Page
5
Prairieburg records report attendances at Catholic Foresters events in Cedar Rapids and a summer vacation school led by Mount Mercy College staff. Local marriages, a Corpus Christi observance, a bench warrant for drunken driving, a dune of farm visitors, and illness cases are mentioned along with several residents visiting relatives and care of chickenpox in Monticello.
The Cascade W C T U marks Flower Mission Day with Sunday services and inmate bouquets. In Anamosa reformatory Mrs. Marie Jones leads planning. Alma Math and Helen Stuber provide solo. Norman Rabenberg to give address “The Law.” Local residents and others are noted in a series of brief items.
A brooder house and about 360 one week old chicks on the Orla Dawes farm six miles west of Wyoming were burned Tuesday morning. The cause is not definite but suspected to be a faulty old brooder stove. In related notes, local social events include a bridge club picnic for Mrs. Alta Ahrendsen, and Mrs. Hattie Dieckman hosting the Diana Fret club. Regular farm activity reports mention sheep shearing ramping up, wool yields of seven to nine pounds, and 15 cent per head shearer charges.
Ex t superintendent consent of schools at n Fred Schwind son of Joseph Schwind of Cascade returned here Thursday from Schoenden Kan sas where he has been teaching for the past several years before leaving there he was notified that he had been elected principal of the school for the ensuing year Mr Schwind is a graduate of Columbia college Dubuque while at Columbia he distinguished himself as a football player and ranked about one of the best ever turned out by the school Mrs Thomas Stewart left for Mc Gregor last week where she has accepted a position Monica Dandl student nurse at Mercy hospital Dubuque is apend ing her vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs Louis Dandl Miss Marcella Till of Bellevue returned to her home in Bellevue after a visit with relatives here Rev Harold Ginter left this week for Chicago where he will attend the Worlds Fair Angeline Albers Clara Turnis and Viola Turnis are attending the fair in Chicago Mr and Mrs John Becker Mr and Mrs Thomas McNally Thomas Geary and Mr and Mrs T J Lane and Loretta McNally attended the banquet at Columbia college Monday evening The party also attended the graduation exercises on Tuesday The graduates from Cascade and their honors were Paul John Becker Thomas C Geary cum laude Loras Thomas Lane Nally The graduation address was given by the Most Rev Francis C eel s D D bishop of Oklahoma City
Onslow and Sterling residents host family visits and gatherings. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kerr, Ada Jones, and John Barnes with Marjorie, plus Dr. G C Smith and family traveling to Richland. Provan celebrates 10th wedding anniversary with lace table cloth gift as Ladies Guild plans a church basement meeting.
Castle Grove chapel hosted a well attended Children’s Day program with recitations songs and readings by many classes led by Will Hiller and Dr. Kremers. Visitors from Monticello Buffalo Township and Kasota joined local families for fellowship and a baptism.
Sunday visits and social calls thread through Sand Springs, Hopkinton, Monticello, Anamosa, Langworthy, and Colesburg as families and relatives from Cox, Bohiken, Kammerman, Hicks, Prader, and Moser connect. Nearby enterprises and clubs host gatherings including the Embroidery club in Hopkinton and the Hicks reunion at Anamosa Bunny.
Amber Bailey attends brother Ben Wilson and Beulah Patterson wedding at Maquoketa Methodist. Visits from Cedar Rapids and California residents. 4 H girls Mary Jo Day and Lucile Siebels to attend Iowa State College conference June 14 16. William Werdeman ill with mastoid trouble taken to Iowa City. Antioch circle hosts gathering. Jackson township Farm Bureau met with program. July 4 H meeting planned by Wise Owl club. Rhinehart Wessels welcomes new daughter Cai Chase born June 7 in Topeka Kansas, and Maxine visits.
Local social notes recount visits and stays in Richland Center as Mrs Hoffman and Mrs Schweiter among others spent time in Iowa City. Family members from Prairieburg Cedar Rapids and Dubuque are noted with extended visits and returns home after summer breaks. A separate political jab questions Senator Couzens tax practices.
The town mourns Maj. S. H. M. Byers, its poet laureate, who died this week in Los Angeles at 95. He lived many years in Oskaoosa and Des Moines and was known for song and verse.
State of Iowa Jones county district court announces probate of the will of Henry E Ahraken deceased. The court schedules June 26 1933 at 9am for final proof and probate at the May term. Interested persons may appear and contest admission to probate. Clerk See Byerly. Attorney J J Locher for the estate.
Denominational notices list service times for Wayne Zion Lutheran St Josephs Prairieburg Sacred Heart Congregational Castle Grove Reformed St Johns Lutheran and St Matthews with mass times confession schedules and special observances such as Fathers Day Mission Sunday and church picnics.
Adix pastor announces Sunday school 0:30 and divine worship in German 9:30 and English 10:30. Ladies Aid meets June 21 with Mrs Carl Fass hosting. Vacation Bible School opened June 6 with 60 enrollment and about 98 percent attendance. Sunday School service June 28 due to district meeting. Methodist and Episcopal-Roy V Porter minister. Children’s Day planned with 11:00 o clock service. baptism and member reception offered. Sunday school 10:00, Epworth League 7:00. Presbyterian Wm J Grossheim pastor, Sunday school 10:00, worship 11:00. Sixth Commandment study. Christian Endeavor 6:45. Frances Steck to lead. evening topic Christianity’s Foes at 7:30. Everyone invited to worship.
Anamosa visitors Mr. and Mrs. Newell Stout and Glenn Stout arrived from New Orleans for a visit with Mrs. Hilda Stout. Mr. and Mrs. F W Henke were called to Chicago by word that Mrs. Henke's mother suffered another stroke. A June wedding united Miss Berniece McNamara and Kenneth P Quinn in St Patrick's church. Lieut Lacy Gee of the army flying corps made an unannounced visit with Corporal Sells. Stone City offic 1als were sworn in at the first meeting. Miss Julia Fearde named deputy county clerk and city clerk pick. Letha Taylor and W G Yount married at Congregational parsonage.
The piece argues that congressional power to delegate rail regulation to the Interstate Commerce Commission expands to allow commissioners to define fair competition, set minimum wages, hours, and determine who may conduct business, shaping policy across industry and agriculture.
A 1933 warning portrays a gradual shift toward centralized control as experts expand powers, likening it to a commissar system. It argues that bipartisan figures in Congress would transform the U.S. government away from constitutional limits, driven by technocratic authority rather than democratic precedent.
A concise quotation attributed to Abraham Lincoln emphasizing public awareness as a safeguard for the nation, reflecting a historical stance on truthful governance and civic duty.
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