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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1928
Page
2
Local items report visitors and shoppers from Cedar Rapids Dubuque and Des Moines plus Monticello events. Stores advertise Winchester paint McNeill Hardware Devlin Millinery Denkhoff jeweler and Iverson sewing machine demos. Community notes cover trips, sales, and farm bureau meetings.
The Monticello State bank now has official tax lists for Monticello city and surrounding townships. A local eight pound daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goardke, and Miss Hedwig Christenson arrives from Hamburg to visit relatives while plans to work at Shomont Farm unfold. Others report marriages, training trips, and local employment changes across Monticello and nearby towns.
Albert E Coe pastor leads morning worship at 11 00 am with Sunday school at 10 00 am and Epworth League at 6 30 pm English Lenten services led by H L Adix at 7 30 pm Friday followed by choir practice after services German services at 10 45 am on Sunday
Pastor George W McNary announces Sunday March 11 services with Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. and morning worship at 11:00 a.m. sermon titled Jesus and Riches. Musical selections include A Lenten Supplication Prelude Contemplation offertory, Andante in A Flat postlude. Young People's Hour at 6:00 p.m. Fellowship Circle Thursday at 7:30.
Leonard Duckett announces next Sunday services with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. The sermon titled The Test of Character precedes the Annual Every Member canvass in the afternoon. Evening worship at 7 30 features Salt and Light. Mid week service is Wednesday at 7 30 p.m.
St Johns English service with holy communion pastor Paul T Gutknecht. Confessional service starts 10 15 and regular service at 10 45. German Lenten service at 730 pm. German service at Trinity at 215.
Practical advice covers kitchen craft from sugar selection and butter use in candy pans to cauliflower stalks as a vegetable side. It offers Lent menu ideas, pantry substitutions, and gentle nutrition tips for children, plus linoleum care and cleaning guidance.
Antone Kula tops Jones county cowtesting No. 3 in February with 18 cows at 900 pounds milk and 37.6 pounds butterfat average. Henry Siebels of Anamosa follows with 891.7 pounds milk in a mixed Holstein herd. Monticello fire department fights dual chimney fires damaging roof and shingles.
Beginning Monday March 12 Fred W. Fox will run the Burrichter’s repair shop. He is regarded as one of the best repair men in the region with many years of experience and will put cars in first class running order.
Kensington club met at Mrs. Frank Podhaski's home last Tuesday afternoon for routine fancy work and refreshments. Miss Agnes Maire hosted the Friday Evening Bridge club at her home with Miss Emma Hanken as high scorer and refreshments to follow. Mrs. Carl Clark was surprised with an anniversary party featuring 500 and a basket supper. Neighbors near Olin visited Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kammerman for a 500 game and music, followed by a midnight lunch. The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid met at Mrs. Will Adams' home to elect officers. President Mrs. Edward Wenger, Vice President Mrs. BE. J. Farley, Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. C. Steck, with refreshments served.
Minneapolis Journal notes new currency portraits with Cleveland on the $50 and Wilson on the $1000, while the Boston Transcript reprints Malachi Muleshey’s quip about party images. It also contrasts an old fashioned girl who learned housework with a daughter who pursues domestic science.
A farmer showcases 10,000 one to four week old chicks growing rapidly. He cites three keys to his success and offers to share them with anyone who writes to him in Ames Iowa.
Mrs Henry Helms enjoyed a surprise birthday gathering last Thursday at home arranged by Mrs William Thompson with many couples attending. Other items note dinner bridge parties with high scores by Miss Elfriede Cartano and Mrs F J Kay, plus a fifteenth birthday party for a girl named Bennett who celebrated at her home. Chapter FP PEO met at Mrs Emil Rickless's home with new officers elected including President Mrs Arthur Maurice and Treasurer Mrs B C Roberts.
A lyrical fragment recalls a morning scene as moonset fades and trees whisper while the wind rolls across the land. The speaker hears the angels call and feels a soul stir in the wild March dawn.
A quotation reflects on material wealth and mortality, echoing Seneca’s warnings about clinging to riches. It frames money as powerless after death and urges ethical living over accumulation.
The piece notes Clarence Darrow's assertion that a man could be formed from drug store materials for 1650 dollars, while modern purchases offer a tongue sandwich, razor blades, a whisk broom, and Elinor Glyn’s book for 160 dollars, mocking the feasibility.
The columnist quips that most leapin occurs when men dodge women they fear will snag them during Leap Year.
Canada, through standardization and a grading law, boosted annual egg consumption per person from 201 in 1921 to 313 in 1925.
Henry H Schoon presents the million dollar Model M spreader, a Litchfield style lime broadcaster and spreader on display at the West Side Standard Oil Station inviting attention from Mr. Farmer and all interested in farming equipment.
Dried skim milk added to flour increases loaf volume by about 10 percent and weight by 4 percent while boosting nutrition. Herman Bricker, visiting his parents, traveled from Monticello area to Long Grove. He then joined L. V. Thompson to Grinnell and on to Denver in a Peerless car, hoping to find work.
A meeting of Jones county home project leaders gathered in Anamosa with eight townships represented. Mrs. A. R. Embree chaired and discussed clothing completion and a summer child care and training project led by Alma H. Jones from Ames Extension Service. An achievement demonstration is planned for July 4 at the two county fairs, plus a farm bureau women's picnic and a coop leader meeting before April 1.
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