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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1938
Page
2
Cedar Rapids and Monticello residents figure in this roundup of weekend visits and family gatherings. Edith Behrends visits relatives in Monticello as Mr and Mrs Maire host in Cedar Rapids. several others travel or stay with kin in Monticello and nearby towns.
Ada Egger of Cedar Rapids was at home Sunday. A long list of guests visits Tipton, Conrad, Ossian, and Monticello homes, with travels to Du buque and Des Moines. Officials and families attend events, dinners, and church functions as local ads promote storage chests and wardrobes.
A consolidated parish page lists Sacred Heart Catholic Church services and confession times, Castle Grove and Wayne Zion Lutheran schedules with confirmations on Palm Sunday, Congregational worship with sermon theme The Personal Touch, Methodist Episcopal Lenten services, and Ladies Aid meetings. It notes church council, Sunday school, and family event details with several pastors named.
St Matthew's Lutheran Church lists Sunday school at 9 45 with German services and English worship at 10 45. Palm Sunday communion by announcement after worship at 7 45 p m. Luther League meets. Presbyterian Church notes include 10 am Sunday school, 11 am worship with sermon Pilate the Faithless, Christian Endeavor 6 45 pm. Officers elected for April to next year Donald Maire president Leona Taylor vice president Jack Ritchie secretary Frances Collins treasurer Evening Hour 7 30 pm.
The Reformed Church led by Rev Tendick lists Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. with English and German services. Themes include Jesus Silence and Confession before Caiaphas. Other items include Ladies Aid meeting next week, Epworth League devotion, and a joint lent service April 6 with Rev Grossheim.
Funeral services for Frank W Booth 82 of Hanover New Hampshire were held in Anamosa last Friday afternoon. He died in Hanover Monday evening. His son Robert Booth accompanied his body. Booth educated himself to work with deaf people and led the Nebraska state school for the deaf at Omaha from 1911 to 1936.
Edmund, a Dartmouth professor in Hanover, is named in a local memory piece. The article recalls Frank Booth and notes last week's Express referenced the class of 1877 at the Iowa State College at Ames with Mrs. Mary F. Carpenter and J. W. Coxsee of Monticello listed as members.
In Rolfe Iowa teacher Irene McNee saved pennies after each game and collected 1140 pennies to fund her trip to Des Moines for the state basketball tournament. After one game she saved 94 pennies as part of the season long fund. The piece notes Rolfe’s ardent basketball culture. The Worlds Fair will showcase a vast railroading exhibit in New York.
The American Legion auxiliary met Wednesday night in the Legion rooms. After business, members collected twenty pounds of carpet rags for Knoxville veterans hospital to make rugs. Refreshments were served by the committee.
Community members from Monticello joined the Women's Farm Board gathering at the Anamosa courthouse last Saturday. They discussed final plans for Achievement Day scheduled for April in Onslow.
Members are invited to the Schreiner chapter meeting at Seath Temple Monday evening. The gathering will begin promptly at 8 o'clock.
Mr and Mrs Gwen Cornwell of Brasstown NC conclude a two week vacation staying with Mrs Cornwells mother Mrs Jennie Rohn and at Eldon Cornwells Cedar Rapids home They depart Monday to resume work at John Campbell Folk School Mrs Cornwell serves as secretary and Mr Cornwell leads the poultry department after completing a UW Madison course two weeks ago.
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