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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1935
Page
5
The Monticello country club directors appoint committees for the upcoming summer and fall with fifteen events including nine afternoon bridge parties for women, four dinners, and dancing. Men's stag parties will be held on Thursday nights. The notice lists opening party details and committee chairs for May to July with numerous members named.
Miss Georgia Miller, five year Monticello high school alumna and former Freeport high school teacher, resigns to take an English instructor role in Hinsdale Wisconsin next year with a higher salary. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Iowa and has published in English Journal. Her work on the Polaris yearbook 1935 received high praise.
Florence Kraft and John Yousse were united in a single ring ceremony at the Presbyterian parsonage on Monday June 24 at 9 15 in Monticello The bride is daughter of Axel and Mrs Kraft the groom son of Mr and Mrs Wayne Yousse The couple plan a short wedding trip and will reside in or near Monticello.
The Reformed church annual Sunday school and church picnic is postponed and will be held at the city park next Sunday after worship. If weather turns bad, dinner will be served in the church basement. bring sandwiches a dish to pass and own silver and dishes.
The new Niles Theater held its formal opening in Anamosa today. Manager Charles Niles reports an exceptionally fine line of shows booked for coming attractions and invites readers to turn to the back page for details.
The Monticello Express will be issued one day earlier next week because July 4 falls on Thursday. Correspondents and advertisers are urged to mail letters or deliver them by Tuesday July 2 morning mail to ensure they reach the office. A Farm Bureau picnic at the city park is planned for the community.
Austin B Wilcox 73 longtime Monticello resident died Saturday at John McDonald hospital after a stroke. Born July 3 1862 in North Plain Connecticut he married Mary Louise Tucker in 1888. Survived by widow five children and four grandchildren with funeral held at Methodist Episcopal church and burial in Oakwood cemetery. Peggy Thompson visits grandparents M J Hogan home.
Fifty juvenile golfers from fourth to sixth grade will compete in a local championship flight of a summer reading contest. The event aims to crown the champion summer reader and golf balls are provided to qualifiers. Apply at the public library for details.
Marion and Monticello played a tight golf meet at Monticello city park on Sunday. Marion won by three points 31.5 to 28.5, with Van Fossen medalist on 77 total and Francis Merten low round 35 on the second nine.
An eleven year old boy, son of Henry Dose of Scotch Grove, lost the end of his left forefinger Sunday forenoon while playing at a windmill. He received medical aid at the John McDonald hospital.
The Holbert company of Greeley sponsors a four state Hol bert horse breeders picnic set for Saturday July 13 at Monticello city park. About 3000 horse dealers from Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and Illinois are expected. Last year the prizes included a filly worth 350 and another worth 150. Details will run in The Express next week. Correction note confirms date as July 13.
Miss Evelyn Eby and Owen Sutherland united in marriage June 20 at First Presbyterian Church Monticello in a single ring ceremony. Rev. William J. Grossheim officiated as relatives and friends attended, with Lucelle Schweitzer on organ and Mrs. A F Walker singing. The couple planned a home in Iowa City after July 15 with out of town guests from Scotch Grove Anamosa Chicago Kalamazoo Elmhurst and Iowa City.
Plans are set for a county wide Fourth of July Farm Bureau picnic in Monticello city park next Thursday. The program starts at 10 30 with a 4 H kittenball game, noon family picnic, 1 p m concert by Monticello band and speech by Mrs Ellsworth Richardson, followed by fifteen vaudeville acts. A 2 30 pm Monticello Anamosa baseball game and a half mile bicycle race are also planned. Free rides for children under 12, a seaplane show, and a dance that evening accompany a paid admission with free Farm Bureau access for members.
Elizabeth Charlene Wallis married Alan Byron Darling in the Cornell College chapel Mount Vernon. The ceremony featured Dr George L. Robinson and musical selections by Harold Baltz Ruth Pinkerton and a Mount Vernon high school sextet. The couple will reside in Chicago after September.
Word reached relatives in Monticello of the sudden death of Mrs Ida Miller on Sunday June 16 at Burlington Kansas. Funeral services were held for the former Monticello resident on the following Wednesday. She was the wife of Ed Miller a farmer here about forty years ago and later partnered with Charles Miller in the Monticello livery business.
Forty years ago in Monticello the month of June featured Artie Coyle finishing 40th in a 476 rider bicycle road race. A funeral accident injured Mrs. John Delay as a wagon overturned near Sacred Heart church. Delos Hazard died May 31 at age 60. Charles Schnelter and Margaret Guyan wed at the Guyan home. A snake shipment to Monticello sparked a wild night in the baggage room. Superintendent W. A. Doran served on a Modern Woodmen auditing committee in Madison. Charles Emmett Batchelder married Lucy Worster at Langworthy. Drought pushed farmers to move stock to meadows amid a hoped-for hay crop.
Miss Mona Lightfoot daughter of Mrs Maude Lightfoot Monticello married Kenneth K Schmidt son of Mr and Mrs F A Schmidt of Vinton. Ceremony performed Friday afternoon June 21 at the Congregational parsonage in Anamosa by Rev David M Beggs. Mrs Schmidt, a 1930 Vinton High graduate, worked for the Vinton Telephone Co. Schmidt, a 1932 Vinton High graduate, will live in Vinton where he works at the Gamble store.
John Bateman reports June rainfall of 49 160 inches including yesterday, up from 211 16 inches the same period in 1934. The month saw heavy rains early, then a bad dust storm around June 20 followed by dry conditions. daily figures for June are listed with scattered measurements through June 26.
The Springville New Era and Central City News Letter merge into a single publication for subscribers. Obituaries note Nelson Atwater of Manchester died June 15 in New York City and was buried June 19. he was unmarried. A complaint in Delaware county concerns pensioners cashing warrants for a fee, despite the law. Harold Kiernan of Dubuque was arrested near Bernard for illegal possession of four raccoons and fined 19.75. Frank T. Rubly, 62, died June 20 from burns from a blasting powder accident May 25. his wife and sons are recovering. Mead creamery near Manchester, once a landmark, has been dismantled and repurposed as a machine shed. built seventy years ago by Chauncey W. Mead and A. L. McNeill, it produced butter before cream separators became common.
Miss Clara Tuetken daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Tuetken of Monticello married William Lang son of Mr and Mrs Joe Lang of Sand Spring on Saturday. The ceremony took place in Cedar Rapids with Rev McCullough of the Presbyterian church. The bride worked in Good's cafe after rural schooling and the couple will reside on a Delaware county farm with the bridegroom helping his father.
Roy Morey of the Farmers' Mutual Creamery reports May butterfat paid 31 cents per pound for the last half of the month, one cent below the 32 cent rate for the first half.
Andrew Davidson reaches his ninetieth birthday on Saturday June 29 living with his daughter Mary wife of Dr. Benjamin Budge in Ames. Born June 29 1845 in South Ontario Canada he followed his father into cattle and horse breeding in Jones county Iowa and later lived in Monticello Cedar Rapids and now resides with family. He has three daughters Margaret B Eberhart Jessie Gaylord and resides connected to notable engineers Laurence P Gaylord in New Jersey. Neighbors in Jones county extend birthday wishes and hope he may celebrate a centennial birth milestone.
Beginning next week on July 1 Monticello mail routes will shift times. The Monticello Cedar Rapids leg departs 11:85 am with returns by 5:40 pm, contracted to Charles L. Kay using a Ford V-8 for $1185 yearly. Another extension to Maquoketa adds trips at 7:35 am and 1:00 pm with 1:30 pm returns, contract $2816 to J R Pavan.
The body of Joe Wilcox, 83, a brother of Edwin Wilcox of Lovell township, was found Saturday afternoon in a pasture corner near Baldwin. He had been missing from Monmouth since June 14 and died apparently from exhaustion. Eighty CCC camp workers searched over ten square miles before discovery. Surviving brothers are Will of Monmouth, Edwin of Lovell township, and Noble of Marquette. Burial was at Buckhorn Cemetery.
Monticello Boy Scout troop led by Steve Hong prepares for a summer at Waubeek official camp for Jones and Linn counties. Camp opens the week of July 7 with hikes and activities. volunteers are welcome to help transport and supervise the sixteen listed scouts including John Fraser Jr and Mark Rodman.
Leonard Zeadow twenty two employed on the Henry Rickels farm at Scotch Grove suffered a fracture to his right leg late Saturday night. He says an official’s car backing from its space knocked him down and ran over him. He received treatment at John McDonald hospital and went home Sunday.
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