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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
8
Cascade area student Marjorie Graham, valedictorian of East Cascade High School class of 1940, receives the Reader's Digest scholarship certificate upon graduation. The award honors scholastic achievement and leadership promise.
Residents and visitors noted for weekend and weekday activities across Sand Spring and nearby towns. Dinners, calls, and business visits include Cap Arduser, W H Behrends, Andrew Glass, Esther, Prairieburg, and Davenport trips for a Chevrolet. numerous gatherings in Clement, Batchelder, Egger, and Cox homes. cooking school attendance in Monticello. and trips to Anamosa Tipton Manchester and Winterset.
Refreshing summer treats include Orange Ginger Cookies with milk and chewy fruit crumb cookies. The recipe outlines ingredients for cookies and fruit crumb treats, plus steps to mix chill roll bake and yield about five dozen small cookies or 3½ to 4 dozen fruit crumb treats.
Onslow’s year end PTA meeting elected officers led by Mrs. D. J. Wasson as president and Mrs. L. B. McKinstry as vice president. Lucille Eickelberg was named secretary treasurer. Rev. Frank Schroeder spoke, refreshments were served, and a May 23 commencement talk by Rev. McClurg of Oelwein was announced. The 50th Onslow school anniversary includes a dinner and alumni events with local officials and guild volunteers noted.
The report notes L. J. Hanson and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Longfield visiting the McKinstry home in Anamosa on Sunday afternoon. Jerald Ritenour returned home from Maquoketa for the weekend.
The Wright brothers achieved the first successful airplane flight in history marking a milestone in aviation. Their breakthrough followed prior experiments and signaled a new era of air travel and technology advancement.
A Traer county agent Burns Byron received a letter from a South Carolina man expressing interest in an Iowa farm. He asked if the land around Traer had been cleared and whether housing was available to live in.
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