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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1938
Page
3
Local residents and visitors are listed with weekends and visits across Anamosa Manchester Delhi Cedar Rapids Webster City Dubuque and other nearby towns. Names include McAleer Steffy Tuetken Stimson Grimes Geelias Bickel Musgrove Little Long Schoon Accola Skelding and several families with brief travel or guest mentions.
The column lists births at John McDonald hospital including a girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cashman and a boy to Afr. and Mrs. Donald Hennessey, both noted as second children. It also records visits from relatives, travel to care for ill family members, and local notices such as a St Matthew's Ladies Aid bake sale at Zimmerman's store.
Waterproof shades three feet wide six feet long available in misty ecru dark ecru and green with roller, priced at 39 cents each. Also note Mrs. C A Coxsee attended the Cornell College play Beyond the Horizon in the new fine arts building last Saturday evening.
Major and Mrs. L W Lovell spent a week end in Chicago with daughter Miriam. Mrs Lovell later visited in El Reno Oklahoma to meet her new grandson Word was received that Mr Balsley’s father was seriously injured in an automobile accident in Charles City. Frida Zimmerman and her sister Clara attended the cosmetologists convention in Des Moines last week.
Leigh Clark and his wife called at St Luke's hospital in Cedar Rapids last Thursday. They found Mrs Macaulay feeling much better than a week ago and her friends here are glad she is much improved.
Mr and Mrs Eldon Rohn of Cedar Rapids visited the farmer's mother Mrs Jennie Rohn. On Sunday Mrs Rohn and her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Gwen Cornwell spent the day in Wheatland with relatives.
Sacred Heart offers Masses Sundays 8 to 10 and Holy days 6 15 to 9 Weekdays at 7 Confessions Saturdays 3 30 and 7 St Johns Luther English services at 10 30 and Lenten service March 23 1745 Trinity English services 130 Sunday school 130 Castle Grove German services 1045 Luther League evenings St Matthews H L Adix 945 Sunday school 1045 English services bake sale March 19 at Zimmermans Reformed Church Tendick teaches 11 Sunday worship the Tenderness and Forbearance of Jesus Lent audience strong last Sunday and ongoing through the year
Samuel G. Gutensohn will lead the Congregational Church with a church school at 10:00 and worship at 11:00. The sermon theme for this third Sunday in Lent is The Deed and the.
A meeting of the Davenport association is set for Sunday at the First Congregational Church from 2:00 to 7:30 p.m. The Union Lenten service is planned for Wednesday at the Presbyterian church. George Woodall will preach Choosing The Good at 11:00 a.m. at the Methodist Church. A children’s story Grandpa Loring is listed. A Sunday school workers council with pot-luck begins Friday, March 18 at 6:30 p.m. The membership training class for children aged ten and up starts Monday, March 21 at 4:00 p.m., with Mrs. Woodall as instructor.
Troop 49 of Monticello launched an early spring hike Friday night from the Scout hall at 5 30. A line of 29 boys and Scout master Fuller marched single file along the highway toward Hanging Rock above the dam carrying knapsacks and gear like a military detachment.
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Marching in orderly fashion the troop climbs a slippery hill to camp. Chuck Ross slips and Ralph Bender falls as scouts gather wood and build a large fire. Bacon sizzles while beans and a hearty menu tempt the group.
A 95 cent can and shared meals accompanied a Scout outing as boys hunted snipe after supper. Some were sent down Tenderfeet Hill with a guide rope, while two returned to ensure the dam fire was out. Mr Fuller, the brush man, found a rubber mid climb, underscoring safety first.
Virginia Matthiessen, a Cedar Rapids student at the Paris Beauty Academy, was selected to model at the Cosmologist event held at the Fort Des Moines hotel in Des Moines. She won first prize for the workmanship and style of the Paris model's hair.
Mr and Mrs Albert C Smith move this week from Monticello to Brook Park Minnesota to work for their daughter Ethel and her husband who spent the weekend visiting at Waterloo and Waverly.
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