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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1933
Page
6
Many residents and visitors are listed in a sequence of social notes across Monticello, Farley, Lost Nation, Davenport, Anamosa, Manchester, Dubuque, Waukon, Cascade, and Cedar Rapids. Guests include Anna Ranson, Belle Devlin recovering well, Dale Greenawald visiting grandma, George Hallouer’s Davenport trip, and Albert others. The item also notes local scholarships, sales positions, and a brief magazine ad.
Mrs C A Doxsee hosted the Monday Bridge Club with three tables and high score won by Mrs W W Stickford. Women hosted birthday and anniversary gatherings, dinner clubs, and out of town guests. Multiple clubs met for bridge luncheons with prizes, social hours, and refreshments served by hostesses.
Mrs. Grant Stambaugh welcomed Clover Leaf club members Friday afternoon. The ladies shared needlework and social time while a three course luncheon was served at small tables by the hostess and her daughter Mrs. Luther Howland. Mrs. D. R. Webb of Oakdale attended as an out of town guest.
Mrs Gutensohn welcomed the 94 club to her home for a postponed Friday evening session. Mrs McNeill spoke on Economic Pressure in Politics followed by Tariff discussion. Mrs Reed performed a sketch on International Improvement in Politics and members debated The Gold Standard and The Honest Dollar led by Mrs Gutensohn.
Members of the Royal Neighbors lodge held a benefit bridge party in their rooms last Tuesday evening. The event was well attended and bridge was enjoyed throughout. A two course luncheon was served by the committee, a group comprising one third of the members. The lodge is divided into three groups with one third serving as a committee for a series of benefit parties until warm weather returns.
A fragmentary notice recalls a Tuesday gathering of relatives at a house on a street with attendees including a political attorney. The brief hints at a social event and the presence of legal counsel.
The article notes a large gathering for the ailing Mrs. Etwil Null and Carl Huaman’s move, a Ladies Aid quilting session for the orphanage in Fort Wayne, and officers elected for Chapter FP P FE O. Presbyterian Ladies' Aid met at Maples Inn with a program by local students. J W Hoult celebrated his birth anniversary with family and friends, including Eilers, Hoult, Folkers, Zimmerman, Hubbard, and Lang.
Mrs J J Van Bockern entertained the Neighborhood club at her home Tuesday afternoon for her mother Mrs A L Van Bockern a guest in the Van Bockern home. Ladies brought needlework and enjoyed visiting and sewing. Guests included Mrs Boyd Shannon Mrs Henry Hanken Mrs Donald Sutherland Mrs Bone Mrs Harper Mrs Madsen and Mrs Barclay of Wyoming. Light refreshments were served.
Mrs E E Skelley welcomed members of the Congregational church missionary society on a Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Palmer led devotional exercises with Hiawatha selections and high rights readings. The program included papers on The Future of Indian Missions and The Indian and the White Man with map study. Mrs Fraser spoke, Mrs Wilkens read Americans All, and refreshments followed as social time circulated.
The Methodist church group gathered last Wednesday at Miss Mary Doxsee's home for a short program. Gladys Howland and Pauline Cramer presented preliminary declamatory readings, with Alfreda Reed and Lucile George giving violin numbers. Light refreshments followed, hosted by committees led by Mrs. Fred Matheson. out of town guests included Mrs. W. R. Crabb and Mrs. Carl Schneider.
Mr and Mrs William Stout and Earl Stout of Cedar Falls visited Monticello last Friday at the home of Mr and Mrs Minard Stout. Miss Bernice Stout accompanied them back to Cedar Falls for an overnight visit.
J. J. Hayes and his daughters Marian Ruth Margaret and Kathleen, along with son Jimmie, visited Washington on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Snyder and their baby Patsy Jean. Mrs. Snyder is formerly Helen Hayes.
The nationwide banking holiday proclaimed by President Roosevelt may extend several days as Congress convenes to craft scrip and banking measures. Banks may stay closed pending new legislation while trust deposits are secured. Arkansas leaders seek limited reopenings while Treasury Secretary Woodin clarifies the gold standard stance.
Rub butter on baking dishes for milk dishes to prevent sticking. Soak dried beans and prunes with a teaspoon of baking soda per quart of tepid water. Moisten the pie crust edge with cold water to stop juice leakage during baking.
The article urges public libraries to expand reading, listing new acquisitions in fiction and non fiction. It highlights Sinclair Lewis Anne Vickers Rosamond Lehmann Invitation to the Waltz H G Wells The Bulpington of Bulp Meeting on the Bounty Odyssey Nicodemus West Is Still Wild Foot loose in the British Isles Can America Stay at Home Cakesbury Party Book and a note on weed patch cleanup at Iowa State College.
We thank neighbors and friends for sympathy and help during the sickness and at the death of our beloved husband and father. Special thanks to mail route patrons for flowers from Petra, Alice Overholt and children. Guests over the weekend included Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Grimes with M. P. Odekirk and children, Berneal, Elinor and M. J. Randalia residents Herschel Rolf, Bob Evans, and Archie Rolf and daughter en route to Newark New Jersey.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Klinkhammer of Wyoming and Edward Klinkhammer of Dubuque visited their aunt Mrs. Dora Brucks in Albia last Thursday. They were summoned by the illness of their mother, sister of the late Jacob Brucks, whom Mrs. Brucks had not seen in over twenty years.
Mr and Mrs Edwin Taylor and their two children left their North Sycamore Street home and relocated to Springville where Mr Taylor will oversee an oil station.
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