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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1936
Page
2
Local notices record frequent visits and travel among residents including Miss Ann Clement in Dyersville and Leonard Iverson on business to Rockford. Many Monticello residents and visitors from Anamosa Cascade Elkader Dubuque and Cedar Rapids are listed with weekday trips and weekend gatherings.
Local residents travel for medical care and family visits across Iowa in the week. Highlights include Will Winans taken to Iowa City University Hospital for treatment. Mrs. Leo Staner visiting Cascade. Elsie Totman from Cedar Rapids visiting relatives. Mrs. Ed Hicks returning from Los Angeles. Hazel Brazelton's death prompting a trip to Tilden. It lists numerous visits among families in Decorah, Center Junction, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, and Monticello, plus local business service ads for Fordson tractors and car parts. A Harvard professor will speak to the Chicago Sunday Evening Club broadcast by WGN. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Myers in Iowa City.
Mrs. Rose McRoberts returns home in Cedar Rapids after a two week stay with daughter Mrs. Harry Schneider and family. Mrs. Clifford Youngstrom of Hibbing Minnesota and her mother-in-law visit Albert Lea and daughter Mrs. Milton Thoent. Miss Sylvia Cooper visits Muscatine with her sister and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sheppard host son Ronald and former Misses Virginia and Rachel Sheppard at Manchester. Miriam Lovell undergoes emergency appendicitis surgery at John McDonald hospital and is recovering well. Wayne township calls for bids May 21 for a new sub district two schoolhouse. old building to be sold later. Mary Demmer entertains guests from Dubuque Sumner Worthington and Los Angeles. Esther Hoag attends YWCA conference at Colorado Springs.
Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Maurice traveled to Marshalltown for a stay with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Denkhoff. Mrs. Maurice stayed while Dr. Maurice attended a Des Moines dental convention. Milton Thoeni underwent gallstone and appendix surgery at McDonald hospital last Tuesday. condition favorable and he is under care of sister in law Mrs. Clifford Youngstrom of Hibbing Minnesota.
Basil Confare a former Monticello merchant now in Manchester won a five dollar cash prize for a slogan promoting his hometown. The prize was sponsored by the Manchester Commercial Club and donors Dr and Mrs L J Swift and Miss Dorothy Stemm.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Chambers and their son John Thomas from Chicago spent the weekend visiting Mr and Mrs George Chambers and Mr and Mrs Rex H Rickless. Mrs Chambers was formerly Miss June Meyer a grade principal in the local public school.
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