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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1957
Page
8
Local notes report dinners and weekend visits among Monticello families including the Hogans Rochford and Wernimont clans, plus Linda Hartman of Cedar IA staying with her parents. Several relatives travel to Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Lexington MA, with birthdays and meetings noted.
Cascade Maureen McDonald of Marshall town was a weekend guest in the Louis Gross home and attended the Till and O'Brien wedding. Major and Mrs. Harlan A Eyre and family visited en route to Germany for three years. Mrs. Owen Howard hosted a Friday gathering in honor of Mrs. Harlan Eyre with card winners listed. A lunch was served by the host couple. Mike and Tom spent Sunday with the Bernard Schulte family in Manchester.
Funeral services were held May 15 at the Evangelical United Brethren church for Thomas Albert Hughes 72 who died by hanging May 12 in a garage at his Morley home. Survivors include brothers Otho Anamosa Leslie Morley and Emmett Clinton.
Mrs. John Fraser and her daughter in law entertained sixteen guests at an afternoon bridge dessert. Winning scores went to Mrs. Arthur Shelley and Mrs. Karl Keyes. Fraser Jr also hosted seventy two guests at an evening bridge club.
A Mother's Day program was presented after the Pythian Sisters Mother Daughter pot luck at the Pythian hall. Mrs Hester Sinclair gave The History of Mother's Day and Wilma Cox sang For My Mother with Dorree Streeper on piano. Mrs Fannie Milroy read poems for mothers and Mrs James Robinson showed Japan slides before a business meeting led by Mrs Lula Cass.
Marlene Bohlken daughter of Mr and Mrs Gerke Bohlken Scotch Grove and a University of Tawa sophomore was among 33 dental hygiene students capped May 12. The 4th class to be capped she will graduate next year. Dean William Simon gave the welcome at Shambaugh Lecture Room Main Library. Recreation was sponsored by the Junior chapter American Dental Hygienist Association and Alpha Kappa Gamma Dental Hygiene sorority. Attending were the Bohlkens and Sherrill and Jeryl Goettsch of Monticello.
Rebekah lodge staff will meet for practice at 7 30 p m May 20 in the Rebekah hall ahead of the Ely convention on May 23. Past Noble Grands are set to gather at the Martha Moore home on May 27.
Mrs. Russell Griffith, once a Monticello resident, was chosen to head the Iowa district board of the YWCA. The district serves rural towns and small communities, emphasizing Y-Teen programs with 57 clubs statewide, including Cedar Falls where she now resides.
The Royal Neighbors of America met in regular session on May 14 with Oracle Erma Myer presiding. A birthday party is set for May 21 at 7 30 p m at Gertrude Hessing's home. No meeting on May 28 due to graduation exercises. Next regular meeting is June 11 with a memorial.
Oak Drive Community club met at Mrs Ray Wrights home in Monticello with 18 members two children and five visitors. They donated to a cancer fund and hosted an illustrated talk on personal grooming with progressive bingo.
Sunday dinner guests gathered at Martha Heiken's home while Martha attended her aunt Mrs. Fred Zimmerman’s funeral in Monticello. Ella Schrader had surgery at Mercy Hospital Anamosa. The Ketelsens hosted John Brokens family in Monticello. Five local graduates named from Onslow and Olin high schools and Jeanette Wilcox joined the Order of Rainbow. Administratrix named Edith Blohm Locher for Henry A. Caspers estate in Jones County. creditors urged to file claims. Published May 6 18 20 27 1957 in the Monticello Express.
The chaperones for the Monticello band which played at Veishea in Ames last weekend include Jeanette Ketelsen a band member. Mr and Mrs John Ketelsen and family of Marion and other Ketelsen relatives were Monday evening dining guests of Don Ketelsens. Frank Himenbaugh and Chancey Carson hosted Hopkinton family dinners on Sunday evening.
Janice Huggans of Wyoming participated in Wartburg College's community symphony concert at Knight's Gym Sunday evening May 19. The 60 piece orchestra performed as the season finale while symphony board members hosted a buffet supper for players and families after a Sunday rehearsal.
Nine students from Anderson No. 6 rural school near Anamosa toured the Monticello Express on Wednesday afternoon. They were accompanied by teacher Mrs. Allen Kaufman and Mrs. Robert Hart. The group included Phyllis Hart Robert Klinkhammer Kathryn Barnes John McNamara Marlys Hart Edwin Barnes Rich ard Hart Dennis McNamara and Donna Hart.
Dr R E Savage of Monticello was installed as president at the 23rd annual clinic in Hawkeye Down. The gavel, crafted by the late Dr J J Strandberg of Belle Plaine, was presented by Dr Grant B Munger of Cedar Rapids, who first received the gavel in 1945.
Center Junction notes a school picnic at the school house on Tuesday with all welcome. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. Crane of Volga with grandson Kenneth Smiths, and trips to Dubuque to see Richard and Mrs Loeschell. Families from Cedar Rapids and Cascade visit others in town.
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