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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1928
Page
2
Local items list visitors and travelers to and from Cedar Rapids, Monticello, Hopkinton, Marion, and nearby towns. It notes barber shops, hardware ads, cream stations, farm implement sales, and various relatives visiting relatives.
Carl Lee and family stayed with H J Lang and Stella Lang in Monticello returning via Madison to resume studies at the university. Miss Lucile Schweitzer plans a summer course at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls. Mrs Anna French of Harlem Ky visits relatives and plans state university summer study. Mrs Harold Schemmel and Joann of Beaver Dam visit Mrs George Rettig as she recovers. Two Jones County students, Walter Buchholtz and Ethelwyn Wilcox, earn high honors at Ames Town State College. Rosalie Spiers and Jack Midcalf visit Lovell House. Jack may attend Monticello schools next year. Mrs C B McKean moves to Hopkinton to live with son Dr Alec McKean. Miss Helen Pulver to partake in the Pageant of Cornell College as part of its 75th anniversary. Decoration Day attendees from Monticello include Norman Smith Loren Palmer and family Fred Kempf and family Ida Kempf Marshall Hall and family Lee Jones Betty Haeussler Louis Peltier Lillian Mack Louis Gardner and two sons.
Rev Edwin F Lee elected foreign bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church is known in Iowa He married a Fayette woman active in missionary work in Singapore Mrs Lee visited Monticello on a home trip and spoke at the local church Straw berry shipments from Hammond Louisiana reached 2851 carloads by May 20 1928 bringing over three million dollars to growers The item also notes obituaries and local church activities including Mrs Chloe Grace Stocker’s funeral and other community notices
Readable text fragment mentions Castle Coscomeey and names such as Louis Helken and Pauls Lutheran. No coherent event or date is discernible. content appears garbled OCR with scattered names and places.
Mrs. John Schoon hosted the Jolly Twelve club in Monticello last Thursday evening May 24. Euchre was played at three tables with Mrs. Ethel Farley taking high score and Mrs. Martha Mentiler low. Refreshments followed a brief business meeting.
A birthday party was hosted at Mrs. John Woellert’s home last Tuesday to celebrate Doris Schoon’s fifth birthday. Attendees included Hilda and Arlene Balster and Elsa Ruth Gutknecht. Emma Dirks received a bridal shower at Royal Neighbors hall with many useful gifts and dancing to close the evening. Miss Dirks, daughter of Harm Dirks of Langworthy, is to marry Her man Tapkin. In Castlegrove, John Van Buren wed Velma Rech near Decorah last Sunday. Van Buren, son of George J. Van Buren, plans to farm and supervise county roads while the couple will reside on the Van Buren farm.
Mrs. Lewis Ainsworth aged 92, longtime Castle Grove resident, now living in Orange California, spoke toRotarians sharing her eight major cross continental journeys begun after her 1854 Iowa marriage. She described 1854 56 treks with her forty niner husband, dangers of cattle stampedes and Indians, wagon teams driven by women, and a 400 mile muleback return from California in 1856.
The notice reminds all women over 21 and voters to participate in the upcoming primary next Monday. It notes contests in both parties but says county races mainly involve local candidates. The Express declines to endorse county contenders, praising incumbents and urging citizens to go to the polls. John Locher and E. E. Reed visited Cedar Rapids for business. Reinald Werrenrath endorsement referenced.
Boy Scouts inform families the Monticello troop will attend Camp Mishawaka June 16 to 23. Ten pre-registered with plans for at least twenty youths, aided by Rotary club funding to reduce costs from seven to three dollars per scout. Camp directors, Eagle Scouts Kent and Mirick, plus local leaders, will oversee a seven day program at Cedar Rapids area council camp near Stone City.
Miss Ruth McGlade,Hopkinton high school graduate,regained her power of speech days before commencement. She had lost her voice nearly two months ago,doctors found no cause and she spoke only in a whisper,still attended classes.
Miss Ruth completed her graduation on Friday night and was among the happiest class members. Advice suggests applying limestone to corn with spring seedings and rotating residences for young birds to stay healthy.
A short note describes a boy performing somersaults and wintersaults, the latter being a backwards version of a somersault, illustrating playful movement and curiosity.
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