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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1938
Page
2
Community figures including Jean Hogan Rose Moorman and many others spent weekends with relatives in Cascade Dubuque Cedar Rapids Monticello and Chicago. Trips included church sales visits to Manchester and Des Moines for Drake relays. dental society meeting in Davenport. and family time in Ames Ames Iowa City and Muscatine.
A flurry of visits fills a Monticello week as relatives from Ida Grove Chicago Heights Tipton and Cedar Rapids gather at homes of Meltesens Wilk ens Perrines and Moreys. Guests include Mrs Walter Illgen and daughter from Chicago Heights and Mrs George Sutherland and Florence Carmichael with Mrs Henry Morey who is ill.
Ray Helgens returns from California after tending at a Diesel Motor Co school and meets Emil and A J Ricklefs in Green River Wyoming as they head to Omaha and Monticello. Arthur Thoeni returns from Rochester Minnesota and travels with his sister to Minneapolis to visit relatives. A group from Hopkinton visits Mrs. Roy Slauson and her ill mother Mrs. Mary Egan. Attendees from afar attend the funeral of Harold Frederick Mann Jr in Dubuque with multiple relatives and friends listed.
James and John Waddick traveled to Arnold Nebraska to attend the funeral of Mary Ann McKenna age 25. She died in Gothenburg Nebraska from a infection thought to have arisen from a small scratch. She taught rural schools north of Gothenburg and is survived by her father a sister Catherine of Cheyenne Wyoming and two brothers John and Leo. Her mother passed away nineteen years ago.
The past week at John McDonald hospital saw four births with three boys and one girl. New arrivals include a son to Carl Himebaugh of Scotch Grove and a daughter to A J Bisenius of Cascade. Discharges list Ruth Littlefield Carl Broneman Elizabeth Sampson George Rickels Robert Moulton Mrs Henry Martens and baby Mrs A L Schemmel and baby.
Alfred Boss, farmer from near Coggon on highway 13, filed papers for the Republican nomination for Linn county third district supervisor. He owns a 128 acre farm east of Coggon and has 21 years farming experience. Boss breeds spotted Poland China hogs, participates in farm fairs, and served six years on Nugent's Grove school board. he is married with five children.
Mrs. Fred Graham of Scotch Grove received word of a triple murder near Rye Gate Montana. Lee Simpson, living near that town, killed two brothers Robert and Gerald McDonald and Deputy Sheriff Burford. Some Jones county residents formerly lived near the Simpson ranch in Montana.
Robert Harrington of Postville, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Harrington, was notified he passes entrance requirements for the United States Military Academy at West Point and will enter July 1. A 1935 Postville High School graduate, he completed two years at Cornell College Mount Vernon, with a strong scholastic record substituting for mental exams. Two years earlier he passed Annapolis entrance requirements except for height being a half inch short.
Jurgensen feeder near Olin sold 255-pound Chester White pigs at 8.30 per hundredweight, 268-pound averages at 8.10, 293-pound at 8.25, two 535-pound sows at 7.25, and a 300-pound stay at 9.75, all top prices for those weights in Chicago.
The Davenport district Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church will hold its annual convention at Monticello Methodist church on Friday May 6 session at 9 30 a m and a children and youth session at 4 p m A 35 cent lunch will be served at noon Speakers include Mrs Thomas Nicholson Dr W Glenn Rowley Miss Mabel Reid and Mrs Beck with officers and all ladies invited District has 42 churches and 26 auxiliaries Mrs H E Deischer presides local society and Mrs E H Huibregtse is secretary
C Jurgensen, noted Jones county purebred Chester White hog breeder, shipped six months old hogs to Chicago Stock Yards achieving an average 255 pounds at six months. He sold 13 head of five month hogs at 167 pounds for 8.30 per cwt and included heavier September and October pigs at 8.10 and 8.25 per cwt. Two 535 pound sows brought 7.25 and a 390 pound stay sold at 7.75 per cwt as top prices.
The V F W Auxiliary in Monticello announces a ninth anniversary dinner led by Anne Echternacht Helen Barrack and Inez Lubben. A memorial service for Nancy Adson will be sent from the Gold Star Mother Reynor Calmar Iowa, with greetings for Mothers Day. The event precedes a Cedar Rapids state convention and a Clinton May 16 meeting.
Eastern Iowa Methodists gather for Aldersgate at St Pauls Church Cedar Rapids on Thursday May 5 with two sessions. At 3 30 Dr McCutchan editor of the New Methodist Hymnal will discuss hymns of John and Charles Wesley and early Methodism. At 7 30 Bishop G Bromley Oxnam will speak on Wesley After Two Centuries. Public invited.
Des Moines reports 31 counties received emergency state aid in May, 11 fewer than April. Counties cut from May include Calhoun Carroll Crawford Franklin Fremont Humboldt Jackson Jefferson Page Pocahontas Taylor Warren and Wright. Black Hawk and Madison gained aid not on April list. several counties remain on the aid list. Jones County is not listed as a borrower.
A joint birthday party was held last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Winans for W. H. Winans and his daughter Shirley Lorraine Winans aged 1. Shirley is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Winans and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Winans. The great grandfather has 26 grandchildren.
Three new cars were registered at Monticello last week. R. Hister Dodge pickup Merle Buck and Stuhler are listed among registrants.
The Social Security Board in Davenport explains cash death benefits for Iowa wage earners who worked after 1936. Surviving spouses or children may file, with probate-appointed executors or administrators handling estates. employers must furnish a wage statement to determine benefit amount. Officials offer forms and free help to eligible claimants.
H. E. Nichols of Iowa State College says frost damage to fruit trees should be minimal before May 10 though April’s wet spell favors fruit diseases especially apple scab. First spray before blossom, second after 90 to 95 percent petal fall. County agents can provide spray guidance. Canker worm threats may be controlled with standard sprays. Sake alcohol content noted.
Marshall W. Herrick dies at 73 after a paralysis stroke, a Monticello resident since 1868 and senior member of Herrick & Reed. Iowa Bankers group meets in Monticello May 7 with 140 guests at a K of P hall banquet, toast by Henry M. Carpenter. May items include birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. J A Liddy, school board buying Dr L G Stuhler property for domestic science, and Dr C G Thomas leaving May 15.
A birth sequence reports a daughter for O B Crane on the 18th and a 9 pound son for John Tschants on the 16th. Obituaries note Opal Hofacre at Delhi aged 19, maiden name Clary. A wind storm in Scotch Grove township destroyed a barn and scattered parts 80 rods. Ben Kellum wed Ella King in Cedar Rapids. Lia M Sanford wed Elmer Anderson in Denver.
Fragmentary report from Scotch Grove mentions a son born on the 24th named Albert J. Carlson of Monticello, with references to illness and October 1916. Details are garbled and names uncertain.
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