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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1940
Page
3
Local residents and visitors fill monticello area as Elbert Heiserman handles legal business in Iowa City. numerous guests include Miss Mary Coxsee in town from Sheldon and Mrs. Hodgson of Anamosa visiting Monticello.
Miss Kathleen Hayes RN of University hospital Iowa City spent Sunday and Monday at the home of her father J J Hayes continuing her family visit in Iowa City with relatives and staying with her father.
Local residents travel for summer schools in Madison Wisconsin and Iowa City. job changes include Lenore Hein joining Schultz Bros candy department. several families host or visit relatives across Cedar Rapids Davenport Anamosa and Lost Nation. A Monticello resident Del McVay undergoes leg amputation at Iowa City University hospital.
LaVon Lambert visits Kathryn Ward in Ryan Miss Ward a Mount Mercy junior Cedar Rapids. Families from Blairsburg Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids travel to Monticello Grinnell Des Moines for visits and vacations. Jean Hansen teaches in Monticello and attends Iowa State Teachers College summer session. Luella Oltman RN from Mahaska County hospital Oskaloosa spends a month at home before taking a supervisor role in Ottumwa City Hospital.
The Monticello Welfare League donated $50 toward tennis courts at the Monticello public school grounds. Coach Emil Klumpar added $2, bringing the total raised to $167 for the project.
A Behrends family reunion was held Sunday at Siloam Springs Iowa Falls with attendees from Monticello Hopkinton Pomeroy Pocahontas Cedar Rapids and Sioux City. Included were many Behrends and related families such as Reuter Jacobs Tobiason and Dahlke along with spouses and children.
Eugene Chaloupka and Miss Josephine Welton of Independence were Sunday guests at the Mr and Mrs Henry Chaloupka home.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Adams and guests visited in Decorah with Mr. and Mrs. John Rickela. Matt Muller and wife welcomed a son at John McDonald hospital weighing 8 pounds 15 ounces named Ralph George. second child in the family. Mrs. H F Mann left for Dubuque to join St Matthew's women en route to Galena for the district missionary society convention.
Mrs Charles Stevenson hosted the Sand Spring gathering with Mr and Mrs Howard Travers and son Frederick. Dyersville visitors Mr and Mrs Fred Benning joined Fred Gray's family for a Sunday dinner and afternoon trip to Monticello races with the Egger party.
Behrends home hosted multiple visitors including Mrs Ray Chaplin and Paul Chaplin from Dubuque, and Will Balsiger and James from Monticello. Leo Bohlken and son attended Batchelder home supper, Cyril Stevenson visited near Prairieburg, and a son born to Leon Wilson at McDonald hospital Monti. Women’s group attended Ladies Aid in Monticello.
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