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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1929
Page
2
Local shoppers are treated to spring millinery highlights at Devlin Millinery with a focus on new hats and styles. Weekend specials appear for produce and coffee at Steiner Grocery, while several local residents visit nearby towns for business and social calls.
Visitors and residents share weekend trips and greetings as Monticello area residents stop at Cedar Rapids and Des Moines for family gatherings and events. Local businesses advertise hardware sales and home heating promotions while several residents undergo medical care or travel for schooling and family matters.
Hopkinton voters cast 250 ballots in the school election. Russell B. Lux and Will J. Kirkwood were elected directors. A birth reported at McDonald Hospital marks the first child for Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ament, with grandparents Peter Kurt near equally happy. Leonard Howell moves from Cascade to Hard Scrabble near Monticello. Dandruff linked to hair loss. Lucky Tiger Hair Tonic marketed locally. Leo Oswald medically recovered from appendicitis and returned home. Wear Ever cookers advertised at McNeill's Hardware with special pricing. Building show invites customers to learn cheaper home construction. Lon Cowan narrowly escapes chimney fire near Hollywood. Snow recedes under sun. thaw forecast to continue. Garnet, eight and a half pounds, born to Mrs. Frank Ross and sister Mrs. Edward Wenger. Mrs. Boss formerly Trene Egger, daughter of Arnold Egger. Grant Ralston reports two acres cleared and five more for potatoes. Scotch Grove area farming.
Miss Lucile Schweitzer daughter of Mr and Mrs J W Schweitzer graduated from a four years music course at the State Teachers college in Cedar Falls. Sixty seven students graduated with her in the mid season class and two others from the music department. She is visiting her parents for the spring and summer.
The Evening Service of the Methodist Episcopal church presents the dramatization The Seeing Heart on Sunday March 17 at 7:30 PM. The production draws on Luke 10 38 42 and John 11 2 3 with characters Mary Martha Lazarus Aaron Rachel and others including Nadine Kennedy Mary Starks Eugene Rodman Milton Langer and Vivian Bancroft.
County treasurer Harry Holcomb clarifies payment timing for the Secondary Road District Number One special assessment. If no written agreement was made, the entire levy is due with the next March semi annual tax payment and becomes delinquent March 1, bearing standard interest and collection rights. Payments may be made through county banks with regular taxes.
Miss Minnie Rettig hosts Neighborhood Club bringing two bridge tables and high score by Mrs. Thomas M Redmond. St Matthew's Lutheran Ladies Aid sews for church then lunch at Mrs Behrends. Mrs W W Stickford hosts Monday Bridge with three tables and high score by Mrs Harry Stuhbler. Mr and Mrs John Egger host birthday dinner for husband with eighteen guests. Gilbert Ireland marks sixth birthday with cake and gifts. Fortnightly Club meets with three tables and high score by Mrs George Timmins. St Elizabeth Sacred Heart serves cafeteria supper for over 150. bridge plays at tables. Merchan-dist Episcopal Foreign Missionary luncheon yields $53. Mrs Richardson hosts luncheon with Africa study program and devotional by Mrs Lang.
Mrs Halstead Carpenter hosted the Friday club last Friday afternoon at her home. The program featured readings from Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son and selections by Mrs Edward Templeton and Mrs John H Fraser. Also presented were Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son and Roosevelt's Letters to His Children read by Mrs L W Lovell.
Mrs. George F. Tobiason marked her birthday with 35 relatives visiting at her south town home. Sacred Heart high school team coach Lester F. McAleer hosted a St Patrick themed dinner for the Dubuque diocesan winners. A wedding united Miss Nella Margar ite Davis and Carl Robinson McKinstry at the Black home in Castle Grove township. The couple will reside in Chicago where McKinstry works for Bell Telephone.
Assistant secretary Kennedy extols Iowa's soil and wealth linking farm value and industry to growth. Mount Vernon plans Sunday movies after a 360 to 288 vote. Dubuque banker Gindorf indicted for forgery on two $25,000 notes dating 1928. he is free on $10,000 bonds. Job verse ends the item.
Scientists suggest recent tremors travel along the earth’s great faults. Earthquake activity is being studied to map fault movement and assess regional seismic risk.
Mr and Mrs Charles A Doxsey spent the weekend in Cedar Rapids. He attended the annual state meeting of his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in the new memorial building.
At Charles Schneiter school in Scotch Grove township votes favored remodeling the schoolhouse rather than constructing a new building. Directors election followed with Henry Balster winning a majority.
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