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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1940
Page
9
The Monticello Rainbow Assembly plans a public dance on Friday evening June 7 in the Community building with Hal Foreman and his Cedar Rapids orchestra. The event aims for broad attendance and community participation.
Mrs Walter Brainerd hosted the Contract club at Goudys tea room Monday evening with two tables in play. Prizes were won by Mrs Brainerd and Mrs John Shover. A luncheon was served.
Local residents from Monticello and nearby towns entertained guests from Des Moines to Cedar Rapids. The week featured hospitalities, music festival attendances, a Chicago visit, and a fatal illness that brought Gnadenhutten mourners home.
Mrs Lyle McMullen and Mrs Roy Moore hosted a bridge tea last Thursday at a former home with four contract bridge tables. Prizes went to Mrs George Timmins Mrs John Locher and Mrs George Guyan. A repeat luncheon followed Saturday at one pm with four tables and prizes awarded to Mrs A B Grimes Mrs E H DeShaw and Mrs O E York.
Cedar Rapids hostesses for an announcement luncheon announced Miss Charlotte Pinney engaged to William J. Macaulay of Toledo Iowa. Wedding set for May 22. Sixteen guests attended including Mrs C F Luberger sister of the bride from Cincinnati visiting Cedar Rapids relatives. Reverend Macaulay serves as pastor at Toledo First Methodist and formerly at Monticello.
Mr and Mrs Olin Howie hosted a visit from Merle Knight and daughter Merline of Marion. They were accompanied home Sunday and spent the day in Ames with friends from Sioux Falls South Dakota.
A long list of Monticello and Fulton households gathered Sunday at Julius Behnke's Canton home for a family dinner. Separately, Mrs. S. E. Guyan and Mrs. C. A. Doxsee left for the state PEO convention in Fort Dodge, with Guyan as Chapter FP president and Doxsee as vice president.
Mrs Ellen M Hefner widow of Thomas A Hefner died in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a long illness She was born December 29 1867 in Ithaca New York and lived in Farley before moving to Cedar Rapids in 1903 Survived by son Frank step son Thomas K and step daughter Mrs F K Hahn of Cedar Rapids Granddaughter Mrs Carl C Headree of Anamosa Funeral services were held in Cedar Rapids Saturday at 2 p m Attended by Mr and Mrs Ben C Roberts and their daughter Ruth of Monticello
WPA in Jones County plans open house next week for the sewing room commodity room roads record project and library programs. About a dozen workers will showcase clothing relief items surplus foods road records and typed records with a community dinner in Cedar Rapids on opening day.
The third annual Parent-Teachers tonsil clinic will be held at the Monticello public school building. On Friday morning at 10 o'clock mothers with children in need of tonsil operations may bring them for preliminary examination. Four local doctors will examine each child and judge urgency. only twenty children can be served. Mothers must accompany their children. Health Committee members Mrs Bone, chairwoman. Mrs Stuhler. Mrs Byerly oversee the event.
The American Legion Auxiliary of Monticello announces its annual poppy sale for Saturday May 25. Veterans in hospitals craft about 500 poppies weekly aiding recovery. men without dependents may make up to 100 pies weekly with one cent per poppy. No fixed price. donations support welfare work.
Marshall G. McCarroll 35 head of Paramount Newsreel on the Pacific coast dies in a mid air collision near Downey California with a Vultee trainer. The crash also destroys the Lockheed cabin plane as flames engulf both aircraft. He leaves a wife Ethelyn Day and parents Rev and Mrs Hugh McCarroll. Funeral services were held at Forest Lawn.
A Pontiac driven by C. A. Barnes of Des Moines caught fire on First Street in front of Iverson Furniture. The blaze started in the upholstering near the driver's seat, cracking the windshield and discoloring the interior from smoke. Mr Barnes and his wife were breakfasting nearby when the fire interrupted their meal. the car was driven home after the fire was extinguished.
The Thom as Pender family received word that Thomas E. Lyons died at Aberdeen. Details remain sparse as this personal notice confirms a death and family notification.
Thomas E Lyons died at Aberdeen South Carolina on March 18 from influenza and complications. He had worked four days before hospitalization, arriving at 11 and dying at 2 30 that day. Burial was in Aberdeen. Mrs Nelle Lane Lyons, formerly Nelle Lane, lives at 224 Seventh Avenue NE Aberdeen South Dakota. She taught in Monticello public schools years ago and has many friends who mourn his untimely passing.
Funeral services for George Korman 37 were held in Dubuque after a head on crash in East Dubuque last Friday. More than a score of Richland area residents attended. He is survived by his wife, one son Robert, parents G I and wife, a sister and two brothers of Dubuque. Hayden Shield funeral home hosted the service and burial followed at Linwood.
United States backed credit funds a Haitian building boom featuring new roads bridges and irrigation projects aimed at boosting infrastructure and growth across the republic.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church lists Masses Sundays 8 and 10 Holy days 6 15 to 9 weekdays 7 confessions Saturday afternoon and 7 Sunday mornings 7 30 St Joseph in Prairieburg led by Rev Stephen J Kucera Masses Sundays and Holy days 7 30 and 9 80 with English sermon Confessions Sat afternoon and Sunday morning Presbyterian Church led by Rev Wm J Grossheim Sunday school 10 Morning worship 11 One by one our loved ones leave.
A church notices column lists service times and topics for multiple local congregations. Topics include Where Are the Dead and The Light That Has Not Failed at First Methodist, Golden Rule at Congregational, and Disciples Who Would Not See at Evangelical Reformed, with Sunday school start times and upcoming events.
Announcement for Sunday school Bible class and adult class at Wayne Zion Lutheran in Anamosa. German and English divine services, communion, Luther League, and choir rehearsals listed with dates May 16 through May 19. Eastern Iowa Federation spring meeting set for Anamosa next Sunday afternoon.
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