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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1933
Page
6
Local residents and visitors fill Monticello with social calls and shop news. Highlights include hardware store ads at McNeill's, Keyes' Jewelry sale, and dozens of neighbors from Dubuque Cascade Cedar Rapids and Anamosa sharing visits, trips, and family news.
W B Tuetken and J A Liddy attended a Bankers Life luncheon in Rapids last Saturday. Numerous Monticello locals are listed visiting relatives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Des Moines, and other cities, with a mix of births, illnesses, travel, and family events.
A city council order to clear Manchester sidewalks of merchandise sparks a months long dispute over displays once common outside shops. Vendors used sidewalks to attract pedestrians with a wide range of goods from brooms to beer, while opponents push for stricter regulation and displays above high water mark. The outcome will determine whether sidewalks are cleared or widened.
The Monticello kittenball league starts Monday evening May 8 at 6 30. The season runs through August 1 with postponed games after that date. Bob Hogan elected secretary treasurer and teams donate 10 cents per player to buy balls stored at the school. Schedule lists five games from May 8 to May 12 including Ollers Es kimos Shomont De Molay Midgets and Stuhlers.
Jimmy Bear of Marion defeated Joe Petrusch in a mixed boxing and wrestling feature on Thursday night. The card also saw Bud Calvin of Council Bluffs beat Young Gotch of Chicago two falls to one, Louis Hanken of Scotch Grove KO Joe Moran of Cascade in the boxing semi finals, and several four round preliminaries including Leggett, Ferrell, McDaniel, Hall, Rice, and Netcott. Cyclone Tommy Thompson Bob Rush stopped Jackie Malone of Louisville in the ten round bout.
Rev Samuel Gutensohn Monticello Congregational pastor recalls hitchhiking from Independence to attend a Sunday school conference. He rode an old bus to Independence and later rode to Anamosa Monticello on return. Questions linger if he sought Boy Scout honors or springtime thrills. Possible involvement of two local Sunday school teachers discussed but not verified.
Envoy W L Lowe of the Iowa Salvation Army led the annual May appeal in Jones county Monticello from Tuesday to yesterday. Funds totaled $70.98, compared with $119.50 last year. Local treasurer F E Stimson at Monticello State Bank received the report. No further canvass for funds is authorized here for one year.
Rail and radio firms announced new schedules as daylight saving began at 2 a m last Sunday. About 142 million people were affected as clocks moved ahead one hour. The period lasts until 2 a m September 24 with seven countries sixteen U S states and many cities observing the change.
Center Junction schedules a special election for May 6 to decide issuing 2,500 dollars in bonds for an auditorium at the new schoolhouse and to use 2,000 dollars of surplus for the same purpose. Twelve thousand dollars from insurance after the old building fire will fund the main part, while classes meet in churches since January.
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