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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1931
Page
5
In Iowa's third academic test Monticello high school placed in the upper fourteen percent among 375 state schools. Class B district results show Monticello fourth of thirteen and seventh in C and D classes. Monticello excelled in algebra geometry physics economics English literature and overall scholastic achievement.
Grinnell college students led by George Cushman plan a one reel motion picture titled Treasure Won during commencement week. Cinematographer Cushman will be assisted by William Haskell. Directors Maurice Birdsall and George Guyan lead a cast including Wynona Ewoldt Leland Gleysteen Katherine Hobart Edward White Margaret Ross and Fern Hulsebus.
Dr. John R. Mott former YMCA world council leader and current world missionary council chairman will deliver the Upper Iowa University commencement address in Fayette Iowa on June 10 He is a renowned figure in world religion and Iowa native who once lived in Postville as an Upper Iowa student and shared a dorm with Dr John W Dickman the college president
George W. Beaubien, longtime editor of the Dubuque Herald and son of pioneer innkeeper Mark Beaubien, died in New Sharon, Iowa at age 99. He was the first white child baptized into Chicago’s Catholic Church, St Mary’s, in 1833 by Father St Cyr.
Bert Watters proprietor of Snow White Bakery in Monticello expands business with a new grocery department. The official opening is observed today and The Pleasing canned goods are carried. A full line of bakery goods will be baked daily and sold on a cash basis with Isaac Littlefield of Hopkinson assisting in the grocery department.
Memorial day activities in Monticello are set for next Saturday May 30 at 10am with a joint American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars committee. Programs start at the public school auditorium with band selections and America singing followed by a keynote by Milton W. Strickler of Des Moines. A post ritual and taps conclude the day with cemetery ceremonies at Oakwood and Sacred Heart.
The music appreciation notebook contest sponsored by Miss Maurine Hamblin for seventh and eighth grades closed last Friday with judging by Miss Opal Porter and Miss June Meyer. Herbert Adix won first prize a bronze Mozart bust. Ada Egger and Helen Havlichek took second and third and received ribbons.
The Monticello Red Cross chapter schedules its annual meeting at the public library on Friday evening June 5 at 7 oclock. Officers will be elected annual reports submitted and standard business conducted. Members who joined the Red Cross in the past year are urged to attend.
Wreaths for soldiers graves to be made in the Memorial building gym tomorrow afternoon May 29 starting at 1 pm. All town ladies invited to assist in making the wreaths as many are needed. Mrs Grace Hucker and her son Main of Hopkinton were guests last weekend with Mr and Mrs Cliff L Main.
Arch Byard Chamberlain, longtime Monticello resident, died May 12 in Winterset Iowa at 74 after an eight week illness. He married Florence Curtis in 1881 and lived on farms in Warren and then Winterset. Survived by widow three children five grandchildren and a stepmother. Funeral at Winterset Methodist Episcopal church May 14 with Earlham cemetery burial.
D. E. Lane of Manchester launches Velma Beauty Shop in the Williams Schoon building with a sea green interior and two service booths for permanent waving and marceling. Lane, a licensed cosmetologist and Thompson School of Beauty Culture graduate, staffs the shop with Mrs. Charles Schneiter and reports strong local patronage from nearby women.
Reverend Father M F Eardley longtime pastor of St. Patrick s Church Anamosa died after a surgical operation early Saturday funeral held at St Patrick s with Archbishop Beckman presiding Burial followed in Grand Rapids Michigan He was born near Grand Rapids in 1870 and spent most of his priestly years in Iowa Survived by four sisters and two brothers.
J. T. Staff plans an auction of Lovell House furniture and fixtures on June 2 at 10 o'clock. Staff has run the hotel in Monticello nearly twenty years since moving from Terre Haute on February 23, 1912. He will relocate to a farm fifteen miles from Terre Haute with his son Earle after the sale. his wife died on Christmas Day 1929.
W F Hintz departed for Pittsburgh to attend the general assembly of the Presbyterian church for ten days as commissioner from the Cedar Rapids Presbytery. The assembly convenes in Pittsburgh.
In the Maquoketa Valley League opener Monticello edged Dyersville 8 to 7 at home after a seventh inning comeback. Thenhaus homered and tripled, Meredith pitched well, as Monticello rallied from a 7 6 deficit in the ninth. Cascade visits Monticello next Sunday after a bright home crowd.
The Monticello high school senior class staged Skidding last Friday to strong approval. Vivian Smith as Mrs Hardy drew praise for realism while Howard McLaughlin and Vivian Bancroft played the central couple. The cast also included Bertha Mae Goldin Edith Winkler Fred Hanken and Milton Langer with Eugene Rodman and the choir and orchestra enhancing the program directed by Georgia Miller and Frank Royden.
Mrs. Lyman Aldrich born Alice Luella Boyles died Sunday at John McDonald Hospital following months of heart trouble. A Scotch Grove township native aged 64 years 11 months and 20 days she was survived by her husband and a son living in Tipton. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 pm in Tipton with burial there.
Mrs D Pirie Beyea state health lecturer will speak at the annual achievement day and picnic at the Monticello country club house on June 3. Exhibits open at 10 a.m. with judging, township stunts, a talk by Harry Newman, county report by Mrs E C Gotsch, and a community singing finale after lunch.
Raymond Cole age 32, a World War veteran, died at University hospital in Lons City from an infection linked to a scratch sustained during a scuffle on May 16. Born November 30, 1898, he married Clara Larson in 1925 and leaves wife, two children Eleanor Ruth and Gene Ray, mother Mrs. Ella Cole Robertson, and several siblings. Burial was at Wilcox cemetery after a military funeral conducted by the Arthur McCullough post of the American Legion.
Monticello store proprietors plan a two hour Memorial Day closure from 10 to 12 morning. Some businesses will close all day, while others remain open after the midday period.
Loyal Lodge of the Rebekahs in Monticello hosted the thirteenth annual Linn and Jones counties convention. Cedar Rapids will host next year as officers from Cedar Rapids led by Margaret Norbett and Elsie Cherry governed the gathering with committees appointed and a $30 endowment gift noted.
Paving of connecting links on both sides of the Wapsipinicon River bridge at Anamosa is advancing. The south end break is done by the Davenport contractor, while the opposite side will finish this week. The Maquoketa River bridge paving east of Monticello by Haegg Construction is complete and traffic uses the south side during curing.
The Capital Construction Company of Des Moines began pouring concrete on the first hard surface road north of Manchester to the Delaware Clayton county line ten miles north. About seventy five workers will be employed as setup starts one mile north of Manchester and the initial pour is at a schoolhouse two miles north. Expansion joints every eighty feet prevent cracking and allow contraction. The project aims for completion by October.
Miss Pauline Meier of Lovell Township underwent a second operation at John McDonald Hospital last Saturday for an abscessed wound from a previous pus appendicitis. A handkerchief shower was held for her friends to cheer her during illness.
Jones county board of supervisors in special session called a special election to issue 500 000 paying bonds to fund hard surfacing four county roads. The vote is set for Wednesday June 10 from 8 am to 8 pm. Interest and retirement of bonds will be covered by gasoline and license taxes with no direct taxes on taxpayers.
Mrs Marian Clark observed her 95th birthday as a war widow. James Treland, Civil War veteran, marked his 94th birthday at Central City with friends. The notes also report a motor crash damages suit, obituaries, near-drowning, and a Cedar Rapids shooting incident.
Plans for Community Daily Vacation Bible School set for public schools begin Monday June 8 lasting three weeks. Prospective pupils aged 5 to 12 must register Friday June 5 at 9 o clock. The program includes worship talks Bible stories memory music and handwork. Parents urged to cooperate. Further announcements in The Express.
Cascade will host two baseball games this week with Dyersville on Saturday and Monticello on Sunday May 31 to open the Maquoketa Valley league season at Cascade. EB Kean, league president, will throw the first ball and Mayor Dolphin will receive. Maloy of Dubuque will umpire the 2:30 p.m. Sunday game, following a 1:30 band concert.
Eighth grade graduation exercises for Jones county rural schools will be held in Monticello at 2 30 PM next Friday. A class of 86 will receive diplomas with Rev. Roy V. Porter delivering the address and the Monticello high school orchestra and rural choir performing under Frank Royden and Kauffman of Cedar Falls. Readers from Cass township to Wyoming and other townships are listed as graduates. public invited.
The Monticello high school graduating class held its annual baccalaureate service at St Matthew's Church with a capacity crowd. Lydia Adix played Victory March on the organ and Rev Adix’s nephew delivered the Scripture and liturgy from Wartburg seminary. Edna Schoon sang A Graduation Song after the sermon on Determination in spiritual and non spiritual matters.
Wayne school No 4 led by teacher Miss Helen Lieneman closed its year with 71 attending the program and picnic dinner. Fourteen pupils are enrolled. three earned certificates for perfect attendance, and eight graders Harry Dierks will receive a diploma at Monticello on June 5. The school earned a 190 percent Dental Honor Roll. Alumni banquet and dance scheduled at Monticello Masonic Temple May 29 with advance ticket sales at local stores.
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