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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1933
Page
4
The Monticello State Bank in Iowa resumed operations March 15 1933 with federal approval. Deposits totaled 92 590 02 that day while withdrawals reached 57 263 88, a net increase of 35 326 12, including gold and gold certificates.
A joint meeting committee of Jones county supervisors and county farmers found sufficient Farm Bureau members to justify a county appropriation. The group included Nick Kleitsch Ben Fegan John Buel N C Holst and John Matthiessen among its members.
The George Stuhler's Sons shoe department features an unusually attractive window display. Manager Riess Stuhler has purchased new backgrounds and floor coverings that give the display an air of Fifth Avenue, New York.
Last Tuesday, March 14, three Monticello families observed wedding anniversaries. Edgar R. Hubbard celebrated his sixty first, Frank L. Serbousek his fiftieth, and Howard Delscher his thirty third. Hubbard is noted as one of the oldest active morticians in Iowa.
A sub district declamatory contest will be held in the Monticello public schools auditorium this evening. Competing sections include Anamosa Grant High Cedar Rapids Hopkinton Marion Monticello and Washington High Cedar Rapids with acts from Florence Back Allen Edwards Loree Gillian Charles Ireland Cecelia Ellington Miriam Fairbanks Eileen Ferreter Betty Rapaport Pauline Cooper Robert Deme Elmer Rosenbaum and more. Admission is 10 or 25 cents at the door to cover expenses.
Friends learn Mrs. Fannie D Winsor passed away at her Pasadena home on March 1. Funeral held March 3 in Pasadena chapel with Dr. Leslie E. Learned in charge and burial at Mountain View cemetery. She was widow of James Windsor, former Monticello station agent, who died six years ago after a stroke. Born in Monticello, she was daughter of D Dewey. Dewey settled in Monticello in 1853 and bought the mill site later forming Deweytown near the river, the first improvements there.
The annual school election at the Memorial building drew 595 votes with seven spoiled ballots. Ralph J. Bone and O. E. York were elected directors for three years, succeeding E. C. Rickless and Ben C. Roberts. The board also includes F. E. Stimson Tom Shover and Dr. C. G. Thomas.
Raymond two year old son of Mr and Mrs Ben Eiben of Castle Grove township was badly burned by scalding water last Thursday. A pan of boiling water on the stove toppled onto him as his mother turned away to wash a separator. He suffered serious burns to his chest abdomen and one shoulder. his face was spared. He was taken to McDonald hospital for treatment and his romper suit made removal difficult during the emergency.
Mead W Sanford died at his home on primary 113 in Monticello last Tuesday evening at 7 35 after four years of illness with heart and other complications. He was born April 3 1864 near Edinburg Jones County and married Mary A Pierce January 24 1887 in Monticello. He is survived by his widow six children nine grandchildren and one brother Delano Sanford. Funeral services will be held at the family home tomorrow at 2 30 pm under Rev Wm J Grossheim with burial at Oakwood cemetery.
Joe Menzel a 30 year old father of four in Dubuque attacked his daughters Geraldine 10 and Anna May 6 with a hammer while they slept. He fractured their skulls and is confined to a sanitarium while the children fight for life at Finley hospital. The motive cited was to spare them suffering due to his unemployment.
The Congregational Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal churches hold midweek Lenten services each Wednesday at 7:30 with steady attendance. Rev. W J Grossheim led the sermon at the third service. The next service on Wednesday March 22 will be at the Methodist Episcopal church and all are invited.
A fire at 2:50 a.m. last Thursday on the Mrs. C. R. Weiss farm near Anamosa destroyed a chicken house with 105 baby chicks and a hog house, damaged the barn, and was traced to a brooder stove. Anamosa firefighters arrived but could only use chemical extinguishers.
Lieutenant Governor Kraschel cried the Holbert sale at Greeley yesterday. The Holbert firm offered 60 imported and American bred Belgian and Percheron mares and stallions at public auction to close a partnership. Kraschel has long served as an auctioneer, earning the title of Colonel.
Members of the Monticello League of Women Voters drove to Grinnell to attend the state convention held there Tuesday and Wednesday. Attendees included Mrs. Byron Abel Mrs. Earl DeShaw Mrs. A M Bollinger Mrs. John Beetloveen and Mrs. Elwyn Patron.
Monticello will host the sub district music contest next Friday and Saturday March 24 and 25 with 600 contestants from Alburnett Dubuque Coggan Manchester Maquoketa Marion Monticello Mount Vernon Preston Springville Winthrop Wyoming performing in Monticello High School. Twenty six events and 105 entries across vocal and instrumental groups will be judged by faculty from Drake University and the State University of Iowa. Admission is 10 cents for children and 25 cents for adults with performances scheduled through Friday and Saturday evenings.
The Monticello American Red Cross chapter received 43 barrels of flour last Saturday ground by Quaker Oats Cedar Rapids and transported by Cass Transportation. William Jarrett is local flour chairman. applications contact him. Flour is for the unemployed and needy, stored at Lovell House and distributed on the 1st and 15th each month after approval. This is reportedly the final shipment per Red Cross headquarters in St Louis.
Mr and Mrs Will Shelley celebrated their forty third wedding anniversary last Sunday. The day also marked the second birth anniversary of their granddaughter Mareleigh Clark. A family dinner was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Leigh Clark with guests Mrs Julia Balcom and Mr and Mrs Howard Shelley and children of Monticello and Mr and Mrs Carl Schneider and son Paul Donald of Vinton.
A damage suit between H. J. Robertson and M. E. Burgess was dismissed in Jones county district court last week. The plaintiff was ordered to pay costs. The collision occurred October 19, 1932 near Bennett, with both cars damaged. Cedar Rapids attorneys tried the case before the judge after a jury waiver.
Two Iowa Democrats were named to major House panels on Friday with Representatives Jacobsen of Clinton and Bierman of Decorah joining the appropriations and agricultural committees respectively. The moves are viewed as notably advantageous committee assignments.
Martin Petersen 37, son of Mr and Mrs Ford Petersen of Monti cello died at his home near Center Junction March 8 His body was brought to Monticello and interred in Oakwood cemetery A full account of his life will be found in the Center Junction correspondence in this issue of The Express.
United States meteorologist Charles D. Reed notes Iowa has recorded seven distinct earthquakes since 1872. Quakes shook Sioux City in 1872 and Keokuk in 1905, with minor shocks in 1911 and 1912, and the trend is attributed to better record keeping and geology not prone to large quakes.
Mr and Mrs George Paulsen of Onslow welcome a second daughter born by Caesarean section last Tuesday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Mr Paulsen is cashier at Onslow Savings Bank.
March 1903 items include marriages of Matthew Sackett with Bessie King and Alfred Meier with Lizzie Bulzener, sale of Star Clothing Store interest, and Marshall county moves. Deaths include E A Morse Leonard Hitchcock Bridget Head John A Chandler and Alfred R Doxsee. A snow storm impedes roads. public library vote passes 275 plurality with 397 yes 122 no.
Rev Albert F E Coe former Methodist pastor and Anti Saloon League worker led a play titled Protec tion at the Presbyterian church last Sunday evening. The audience filled the auditorium and the program stressed a strong law enforcement message. Sponsored by Congregational Presbyterian and Methodist churches. Rev A A Alyea of Center Junction gave the opening prayer.
John Galli former Monticello resident now of Prairieburg died Saturday afternoon at 2 30 after falling from a carrier at a log sawing mill on Warren Blake farm in Green's Grove five miles south of Center Point He fell onto the saw and was killed instantly Survived by his wife and two children.
Cropp Brothers advertise a special on A-1 grade harness in this week’s display. With a horse and mule shortage easing as farming areas recover, customers are urged to see Cropp Brothers for harness supplies.
The Monticello VFW auxiliary No. 1683 sponsorship closed the Americanization essay contest on March 10. Schools across Jones county submitted papers on Why I am Glad I am an American. Judges were Mrs. John J. Locher Miss Helen Pulver and Alfreda Reed. Winners to be announced soon.
Jones county supervisors met in the auditor's office to plan emergency relief from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. They toured Des Moines officials to secure funds for road work in April and May, aiming to employ up to 120 men, with preference for married workers. Governor Clyde Herring is expected to appoint the county relief committee.
Approximately 125000 in gold and gold certificates were returned to the First National and American Trust and Savings banks at Dubuque last Friday and Saturday according to officials in a Sunday report. St Wenceslaus parochial school Cedar Rapids won the Iowa Catholic high school basketball championship at the Drake field house by edging Our Lady of Good Counsel academy Fonda 29 to 25. Paul Lauser of Prairieburg plans to open a new hardware store April 1 in the Leeds building at Manchester. W B Miller and Son formerly ran a hardware store in the same building but stock sold to Archie Lege. A Manchester dispatch says a 160 acre farm two miles north of Manchester was sold to Amasa Work. Mrs Luther A Brewer, Cedar Rapids Art club founder, died last Friday morning after a month of illness. Mr Brewer, former Cedar Rapids Republican publisher and Torch Press owner, survives. Dubuque high school Class A sectional winner fell to East Waterloo 31 24 in a district game at Waverly. An unidentified assailant attempted to murder John R Miller near Cedar Bluffs Cedar county about 9 p m Monday with a silenced revolver. Miller was shot twice but expected to survive.
Fred Butschi, a farmer near Prairieburg and known in Mon ticello, was injured in a Friday night automobile accident. He suffered multiple rib fractures while Arthur Came and his daughter were cut and bruised in a head-on collision on the Prairieburg road. Smoke from burning grass obscured driver visibility. Came had facial and arm cuts, his daughter a lip gash. All were taken to a private Ryan hospital.
Sheriff H G Utley searched Monticello for W L Scanlan 51 retired Manchester farmer who disappeared Monday. Ray Clarence and Howard Noyes overtook him while driving to Monticello and left him there at noon after he said he was going to Monticello to get horses. A man matching Scanlan's description walked Monticello streets most of Monday.
Banks in the area have resumed operations after the holiday. Dyersville National and Baldwin Savings are among those open, with Onslow Savings Hopkinton and several Cedar Rapids, Anamosa institutions reporting readiness. More banks are expected to open this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Serbousek of Monticello celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with an open house last Tuesday. Their six children, fourteen grandchildren, and two great grandchildren attended along with neighbors from Center Junction and Monticello. The couple both spent most of their lives in Jones county with Bohemian-born Mr. Serbousek arriving in 1878.
Lovell's Laboring Lassies met for their regular monthly gathering on Saturday March 11 at Clare Adams' home. Roll call prompted progress on health, with Lorraine Hein presenting the Last Supper memory work. Lucille Yossi reviewed Indian music as garnet Eilers demonstrated bed dolls and framing pictures.
We intend to form a birthday club for boys and girls up to 14 in Monticello and surrounding territory. Join today to receive a souvenir and a membership card plus a present on your birthday. Free to join with no obligations or shoe purchases. Shoe department George Stuhlex's Sons Company.
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