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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1962
Page
5
Local social notes list visits Friday to Sunday among Freeses Engelbarts Taylors Hinrichs Gerdes and others. Guests included Otto Danneman Fannie Hinrichs and Zimmerman. card party hosted by Siebels. Emil Poppe discharged from hospital.
Castle Grove Fortune Finders met at Mrs Eve Schneirs home to plan a window display in Monticello for National 4 H week with the theme Abundant Progress in 4 H Idle Netclub set to meet March 15 at 1 30 p m at Mrs William Delays home Beatrice Brock to teach consumer buying Guests visited homes of Rickels Roth and Bader families. Numerous local residents attended Sacred Heart Mardi Gras and a youth fellowship Easter sunrise service was planned with Cascade Scotch Grove Center Jet churches.
The piece argues life expectancy and political expectancy shape world affairs. It notes Adenauer De Gaulle Macmillan Nehru Khrushchev and Kennedy as long lived or lasting figures with uncertain successors. It cautions that clear stable lines of succession could ease East West negotiations and bloc politics.
Cass 4-H clubs organized a National 4-H Week window display at Tic Toc shop Anamosa with Eva Oltman Diana Larson Ann Brainard Gloria Gerdes Charles Fairbanks Terry Fairbanks and Russell Brown assisting. George M Brainard dies age 81 with services and Cass cemetery burial. Cass Homemakers plan luncheon at Mrs Stoffers home with Mrs Zimmerman hosting and Miss Brock leading a leader training at extension office. Lonnie Hinrickson attends Des Moines captains meeting for Farm Bureau workers.
Mrs. Martin Wade of Monticello will guest speak at the Scotch Grove Women's Community club March 21 at the Arnold Jacobs home. A noon potluck precedes an illustrated Orient slide lesson by Mrs. W. B. Henrichs and Mrs. John Otten. World Day of Prayer observance at Scotch Grove Presbyterian was canceled due to weather. Kathy Sue Wade is named daughter of Donald Schrader and wife.
Amber-Amberettes met at the Amber schoolhouse with 13 members due to bad weather. The club set Sunday April 1 at 1 p m for the husbands dinner and spent the evening making decorative pillows. Prizes went to Mrs. Everett Angelbart and Mrs. Carl Siebels for high and to Mrs. John Siebels and Mrs. Alva Gerdes for low. Lunch was served by Mrs. George Siebels Mrs. Otto Danneman and Mrs. Dena Dirks. Mrs. John Osterkamp left for Dubuque Saturday to bowl for Jones County Grain Co. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Freese.
The Monticello Express is the official Monticello and Jones county newspaper established July 10, 1865. It lists weekly Thursday publication, postal classifications, membership in press associations, and advertising rates including $4 in local counties and $5 elsewhere, with servicemen at $4 worldwide.
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