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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1926
Page
9
Monticello and area residents appear in social items, business visits and family news. Names include Louise Barrack Arlington J H Pertine Anamosa B E Brokaw Davenport Halstead Carpenter Cedar Rapids Sturhler Danke Cook Enabait Minnie Harris Motley Crowe and others. Memorial Day bank holiday noted and local events announced.
Mrs J W Anderson and daughter Phyllis visited in Marion with Mrs Andersons brother. Several residents travel for business and family events in Cedar Rapids Clinton Dubuque and Lovell township. Canopy lighting work begins at the Princess theater and the Laude Huntoon bus line starts Monticello to Dubuque service with twice daily trips.
Monticello news notes Miss Mae Byam graduates in Wisconsin. Teachers Nellie Wilson and Frances Coyle visit families. Tennis courts near Masonic Temple near completion with wire netting. WOC broadcasting trip and visits to Oxford Junction. Farmers' Mutual Creamery extends egg hours and buys poultry. Out‑of‑town visitors arrive for Mrs Lane’s illness. Weather brings rain aiding crops. Knights of Columbus delegation to Davenport. Helen Hoy leaves Monticello High for Spring Valley Illinois. The American Legion screens The Man Without a Country. Refinishing furniture course attended in Anamosa. Miss Thelma Smith attends Iowa State sorority charter in Ames. Margaret Greer undergoes emergency operation in Anamosa. City plans oiling 33 Monticello streets before June 15. Funeral for Mrs Edward F Ross at Monticello. Sacred Heart seniors class day events. Infant death of Joseph Alden Tuel in Richland Twp. Howard Skelley buys Sanitary Kash and Karry. Lambert remains at opera house. Nurse Pauline Jacobs visits family. will move to Long Beach after Iowa City nursing graduation.
Paul J. Kehoe son of Mr and Mrs D E Kehoe Monticello becomes partner in the new firm to be known as Carr Carr and Kehoe. He previously worked with Leo F Tierney and is a Monticello high school and Creighton university alumnus. Memorial Day cemetery rules address auto and nonauto access and parking to reduce confusion.
Five Monticello young women will graduate this month from colleges: Ella McCue and Lucile Detscher from Town State College Ames. Florence Noble from Coe College Cedar Rapids. Heith Detscher from the University of Iowa Iowa City. Carolyn Stuhler from Wellesley College Massachusetts. The 1894 club closed a summer program with a luncheon at Maples Inn and elected officers for the coming year.
On Friday May 28 the home economics and manual training departments hold their annual exhibition of work for the school year. The display runs all day in the basement home economics rooms, with an 8 pm auditorium style show titled The Dream Show. No admission charged. attendance urged. Miss Dorothy Smalling leads home economics, W. G. Parsons guides manual training.
Seniors anticipate banquets at the Masonic Temple and Lutheran church. Dr Morehouse of Drake will speak at baccalaureate and class day exercises are set for Thursday morning with commencement at 8 pm. Alice Reed hosts a class party on June 1. Alumni banquet, Philomathean banquet, and toast program feature students Irma Rohn Gladys Shelley Edwin Lightfoot. Officers elected include Ruth Cropp Robert Ricklefs and Gladys Shelley. The day includes exams style show exhibitions and a geometry contest, with a baseball loss to Olin noted.
Mrs Eliza Lane born Eliza King in Kingston Canada February 2 1841 died at her daughter Mrs Thomas Pender home after a long illness. Survived by four daughters Mrs Hogan of Minneapolis Mrs Lyons of Aberdeen Mrs Graham of Dubuque and Mrs Pender of Monticello. Funeral Friday at Sacred Heart Church Monticello at 9 AM with Rev George A Hauck. Burial in Castle Grove Catholic cemetery beside her husband.
The Monticello Municipal band begins a twelve concert series with a first show on Wednesday June 2 at the city park. Remaining concerts occur Thursdays with a potential Sunday fallback if weather requires. Rex H Rickless manages. Frank A Royden directs. program includes Vander Cook Cincinnatus Light Cavalry Overture and other pieces.
The Peacock Shop offers Fireside Chocolates at 55 cents a box in hard centers soft centers bonbon and chocolate assortments. Buy them once and you will be a regular patron as they are delivered fresh every ten days.
A candidate announces seeking the office of supervisor for Jones County for the term starting January 1, 1928 subject to Republican primary on June 7, 1926. The signer M. Hosford asks for voters support and appreciation.
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