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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1930
Page
2
A dense list of local notices and shop ads from McNeills Hardware and nearby residents. Purchases include paint, padlocks, brushes, cream cans, enamel pans, and kitchenware. Many residents visit relatives in Cedar Rapids Ames Dubuque Monticello Hampton and Chicago.
The column lists numerous transients and visits across towns: Mr. and Mrs. Van Beckern and Miss Mabel Harper depart for Horicon Wisconsin. Misses Helen and Mildred Pulver weekend with Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Britt. Mrs. Donald Sutherland visits Cedar Falls. Ernest Iverson of Lake Geneva Wisconsin visits his mother Mrs. C. S. Iverson. the Ireland family from Rubio stay with Mrs. Mary Wolf. Cedar Rapids guests visit the Cassidy home. many others attend dances and almuni events. teachers and residents travel or return for summer breaks. a Bell Grocery store opening in Cedar Rapids is announced. birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Husman. visits to Los Angeles and Chicago noted. Decoration day plans mentioned.
Miss Hazel Brazelton, normal training critic in Manly public schools, returns to spend summer with her parents Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Brazelton. Miss Florence Black of Castile Grove township also returns home for the summer. she taught at a rural school near Durango last year.
May 27 marked the eightieth birthday of Sarah B. Hosford a longtime Monticello resident born in Willimantic Connecticut May 27 1850. She moved with her family to Anamosa Iowa in 1858 and has lived in Monticello since 1888. Hosford widow of Cecil W Hosford died 1919 and a reception with many visitors and a cake was held at her home Tuesday.
Miss Eleanor Baur of Wallaces Farmer will be the main speaker at the Jones county 4 H Club Rally Day on Tuesday June 3 at Monticello city park. Committees manage hospitality music memory and registration with aims to draw 75 percent of local 4 H girls plus many parents.
Rev and Mrs William Mitch ell of Eldora visited relatives in Eldora and Rockford Illinois. Mr and Mrs T E Ainsworth Irma Cushman and Frances Cushman spent Sunday with Rex Rickless. Irma Rohr returns from Belmond to teach in Newton. Maire Schatz and Marvin Maire visit Cedar Falls. Mrs Mark Lewis Violet Lambert attends graduation of Hugh Lambert Monticelo High School class of 1930. Mrs John Lambert attends Mystic Workers rally in Mason City. fifty new members inducted at meeting led by Mrs Lambert.
Miss Ethelwyn Wilcox returns to spend the summer with her parents Mr and Mrs Edwin Wilcox who live south of Monticello. She has taught home economics at Martello High School this past year.
Mr and Mrs William G Magee of Perry arrived last Saturday to visit Mrs Margaret Eberhart in her home for her eighty fifth birthday celebration. Mr and Mrs Glenn Netcott of Ames are also visiting in the Eberhart household.
The Monticello Country Club plans its first card party for women on June 11 with chairs Mesdames Hicks and Kettlitz and committee members Echternacht Richardson Ehrisman Matthiessen and Bateman plus Miss Page. Remaining committees to be announced after membership completes.
Mrs. Thomas Redmond hosted Alpha Delphian at her home for a regular meeting. The program featured papers on German and Italian opera and a solo from Cavalleria Rusticana. Officers were elected: president Mrs. Ervin E. Reed, vice president Mrs. Ray Exchterhlacht, secretary Mrs. Margaret Pfeil, treasurer Mrs. Rudy Lanner. Meetings set for the first and third Tuesdays monthly.
The Woman's Missionary society of the Reformed church met last week Wednesday at the parsonage. A missionary salad of pictured fruit and vegetables opened the program with tasks on the reverse. Mrs. Ed Meter and Mrs. Lorenz Allamand delivered messages, with poems and the third chapter of The Crowded Ways read. Tea and coffee were served by Mrs. Jack Maire in a Japanese garden setting while guests sang Banzai Nippon.
Mrs D P Young hosted a Sunday birthday dinner for her mother Mrs Margaret Eberhart who marked her eighty fifth birth anniversary. Twelve relatives gathered around a table with a large cake and exchanged presents. Out of town relatives included Mr and Mrs William Magee of Perry and Mr and Mrs Glenn Netcott and two daughters from Ames.
Miss Gladys Stickford receives shower honors at Monticello Country Club with Virginia Schneider and Ruth Glass hosting. High bridge score to Virginia Schneider. Alfreda Allen guests prize. Vera Laird weds Myron Hubbard in Elkader. August 10, 1929 ceremony with Rev. Kilbourne. Hubbard couple to live at Oak Hill cottage, Clear Lake after June 15.
Cedar Rapids based Miss Maurine Hamblin is named supervisor of music in Monti cello schools for 1930 31. She trained at Coe College Cedar Rapids and succeeds Miss Rose Wilcox who moves to Marion. A F Walker of Lowell township is elected to public school for next year after serving as manual training and agriculture instructor. He is a University of Illinois graduate with five years teaching Strawberry Point High and runs a fruit farm near Monticello. LaVetta Perrine will again lead kindergarten with plans for extra summer training to introduce updated methods. The kindergarten department will continue in 1930 31.
County Auditor LaVern Rockstad and his wife from Anamosa attended the Monticello high school alumni association banquet held at the Masonic Temple last Saturday evening. Edith Deischer returned from Radcliff where she taught at the high school this year and plans to attend summer school at the state university in Iowa City. She will return to Radcliff next year. Edward Marrienter was a McDonald hospital patient this week with a severe finger infection and needed drainage. his condition improved late in the week.
Miss Beulah Rearick married Kenneth Helsel on May 21 at Edgemont South Dakota. Helsel is son of Washington Rearick of Castle Grove township and studied three years at Brookings College. The couple will reside on a 1000 acre ranch operated by Helsel’s father at Rumford South Dakota.
Clarence J. Doxsee of Redwood City California visits in the homes of his brother J. W. Doxsee and Mrs. Ervin Reed this week. He plans to leave Saturday morning with J. W. Doxsee and his grandson Wilbur K. Doxsee for Chicago where the two will stay ten days on vacation.
Mr and Mrs Ervin E Reed drove to Shenandoah last Thursday and returned Saturday. They were joined home by their daughter Miss Alfreda Reed a Shenandoah High School instructor who has signed a contract to return next year with a higher salary.
Rev. Paul T. Gutknecht, pastor of St. John's Lutheran, Wayne township, came home after a month aiding a campaign in Illinois Indiana and Ohio that raised about 1.5 million dollars for the Lutheran University at Valparaiso Indiana. He declares the effort very successful.
Miss Margaret Maurice, who taught in Silver City's public primary department this year, has returned to her parents Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Maurice. She accepted a position as primary teacher in the Valley Junction schools for the coming term.
Miss Juliette Johnson arrived last Saturday for a two week visit at her sister Mrs. A. B. Grimes home. She plans an automobile trip through the western United States and will return to Tipton public schools for the 1930 31 year as music instructor.
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