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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
3
Local residents welcome guests from Cedar Rapids Hampton Anamosa and Dubuque. Travel and family visits fill weekends while church and club activities highlight May events. In preparation for Mother's Day candy and a Welsh event at Iowa State College are noted.
Mr and Mrs Clark Hubbard of Missouri visited last week at Elmer and Mrs Hubbard’s home. Also staying were their daughter Mrs Max Wilson of Waterloo.
Mrs. Ernest Reichen and relatives visit I H Schneider and J J Bogers homes. Harvey Green and Mrs. S Green host in Jackson Illinois with planned return trip. Theodore Albertson family and Grant Albertson visit Podhaski home Cedar Rapids Dephas Kansas. Royal Neighbors plan Cedar Rapids district convention June 19. Will Burrichter and son Lyle return from Slater while George Burrichter hosts Arsenal Classis delegation.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Keith of Delaware and Jones counties observed their 59th wedding anniversary at the home of their daughter Mrs. Clara M. Dunlap in Manchester. The couple farmed in Union township before retiring in 1917 and moving to Monticello. They have four children, ten grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
Walter Zubler, manager of the Monticello division of the Iowa Electric company, announces in The Express this week a free cooking school to be held in the community on the afternoon of Thursday May 16. Ladies interested in hot point electric cookery are urged to attend the ad in The Express.
Dr Frederick Stock renowned conductor and Chicago Symphony director brings his 107th concert to Cornell College for the 42nd May Music Festival in Mount Vernon from May 9 to 11. Stock and the orchestra have appeared here for 38 years, Iowa's oldest festival west of the Mississippi.
Six couples received marriage licenses at the Anamosa clerk of court office last week. The entrants include Harry Hover 21 of Cedar Rapids with Alberta Kessler 18 of Lisbon, Albert Morehead and Alice Sherwood both of Cedar Rapids, Melvin Skalsky 25 of Mount Vernon with Lorene Thuman 25 of Anamosa.
Hilda Balster, a University of Dubuque junior, was recently elected president of the Gamma Phi Delta sorority for the coming year. She was also elected vice president of the student YWCA.
Henry Gisler was sentenced to ninety days in county jail for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Judge J. E. Heiserman handed down the ruling in district court after Gisler, arrested April 28 by Anamosa officers, appeared before Justice Ross McIntyre and requested immediate sentencing.
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