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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
7
Mont county girls join a Saturday May 4 play day at the community gym. Highlights include basketball, volleyball, bowling, singing, and a skit by the Epworth group. Chief Miss Magana explains the event aims to promote friendship and physical activity among local girls.
Second graders created story poems to share with classmates. Mrs Sutherland visited with her baby daughter as second graders recited oral book reports. Fourth and sixth graders worked on bird projects and Canada geography letters.
The note mentions track tryouts where D. Leggett notes L. Hoag’s pace after not smoking enough cigars, and praises Coach Klumpar for hidden talent revealed at an assembly. It ends with the baseball team winning and a reminder from L Leggett to track athletes to step up.
The movement in the United States mobilizes children to aid homeless youngsters abroad. Endorsed by Eleanor Roosevelt Dorothy Canfield and William Allen White, it aims to raise funds and promote relief through child participation and public support.
A science class hiked last Saturday with a sack tank noted in the report. The piece also mentions Cartomancy as the art of fortune telling with playing cards.
The junior class announces the weekly school paper will be handed over to new editors Janet Howi and Virginia Clark after the current team, including Howie Marvin Sechusen and Betty Leslie Beecett, completes their work.
Don Howie proclaims a shared human conflict from abroad to home as students fight for the honor of their school and town. He stresses that the future generation will inherit the consequence of present actions and urges vigilance against intellectual complacency.
May 10 11 district baseball and track tournament May 14 Xavier baseball May 17 18 junior senior banquet May 18 Marion relays May 1 16 state baseball tournament noted with locations and events.
The piece reflects on juniors stepping into senior next year with renewed responsibilities. It notes upcoming events such as a banquet, class play, and an annual zine sale that pressure juniors to mature quickly.
A fragmentary verse recalls a valley scene where fairies flash and flicker in moonlight. The speaker longs to reach the hidden place, only to find the fairies already vanished before dawn.
A prose fragment notes state tests with a required passing score of at least seventy five percent. It mentions an afternoon testing period and students visiting with friends, but the text is garbled and unclear about names or places.
A humorous local column recalls a parade of names and antics from Kay to Junior and the senior Swirls. Vignettes touch on parties at C. R. Saturday, a cafe waitress quip, and rural schoolyard chatter about spelling taters and life lessons.
Monticello High School announces rights secured from Samuel French to present Anne of Green Gables in the school auditorium on May 24. Adapted by Alice Chadwicke, the production promises a celebrated, homey take on L M Montgomery's novel with rehearsals underway and a new high in local theater.
A volleyball team directed by Miss wins the championship securing first place among payee teams.
Wesley Bryan 94 oldest Hopkinton resident died Thursday evening May 2 at his daughter Mrs Eva Dufoe’s home where he had lived for 18 years. Born November 28 1845 in Ohio he moved to Iowa as a child and married Medora Wilbur in 1870. Survived by seven children 19 grandchildren nine great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at Matthias funeral home with Rev H W Hewitt officiating. Burial in Hopkinton cemetery beside his wife.
Local residents show off new Ford, Oldsmobile, and Studebaker models as families G J Hughes W B Clark and F F Plueger join a busy week. Community events include Presbyterian youth gathering at Lange home and Scotch Grove 4 H meeting set for May 15 at Alvin Weers residence.
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