Social events fill Monticello week with brid ge and showers
Local society rounds recount bridge parties hosted by Mrs. Matt Muller Mrs. Ed Podhask and Mrs. Clarence Matthiessen with progressive auction games high scores and traveling prizes. Card party benefitted the V F W auxiliary with 600 pinochle and dominoes. A park picnic honored visiting friends and a missionary tea with Latin America program preceded a sixtieth birthday surprise and pre nuptial shower with Wayne Knights. Birthday dinners and a 94 club luncheon wrap the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matt Muller
Ed Podhask
Kathryn Young
Clarence Matthiessen
Delta Dek Bridge Club
Asa Lambert
Anamosa Club Elects GrimesPresident for 1934 35
A. B. Grimes was elected president for 1934 35 with Lydia Guyan as vice president secretary Mrs Byron Abel as secretary and Mrs Albert Stuhier as treasurer The club's May gathering featured an illustrated talk on South America by Mrs Grimes and a call to next year s program Miss Janet Hazard led the program Virginia Matthiessen and Lois Kuhns hosted a May 20 picnic and theater outing at Anamosa with guests from Anamosa Martello Scotch Grove Monticello and other towns
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Grimes
Lydia Guyan
Byron Abel
Albert Stuhier
Janet Hazard
Grimes
South America
Virginia Matthiessen
Lois Kuhns
Anamosa
Miss Matthiessen
Park
Niles Theater
Virginia
Doris Anderson
DeLite Folkerts
Rex Helken
Margaret Fairbanks
Roy Folkerts
Don Thede
Martello
Eunice
Myron
Wilma Kuhns
Edwin, Ray
Esther Plueger
Scotch Grove
Hilda Balster
Monticello
Marriage of Miss Freda Rink to Ernest Ortgies
The marriage occurred Tuesday at 8 pm at St. Matthew's Lutheran parsonage with Rev. H. L. Adix officiating. Miss Freda Rink and Ernest Ortgies were attended by Miss Freda Stutt and Herman Ortgies. The couple will live on the Henry Rink farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freda Rink
Henry Rink
Ernest Ortgles
Will Poppe
Langworthy
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
H. L. Adix
Freda Stutt
Herman Ortgies
Stuhlers Take Lead In Twilight League
The Stuhlers moved into first place after beating the Firemen 13 to 7 on Monday night. The Oilers and Firemen played an exciting extra inning game, 13 to 12, with four home runs by the winners and two by the losers. The Midgets dropped from first after a 9-7 loss to the Oilers, while the Shomont team climbed into a tie for third with a 13 to 5 win over the Oilers. Bud Hogan started for the winners and Blondy Null opposed him for the Oilers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oilers
Stuhlers
Reynolds
Stahler
Ers
Firemen
Maquoketa
Hurstville
Shornoniers
Oilmen
Shomont
Bud Hogan
Monticello Triumphs Over Mount Vernon 28 to 5 in League Play
Monticello hammered Mount Vernon 28 to 8 after taking revenge for earlier losses in the East Central league. Hayes and Lucks led with multiple hits, Lucks collecting five in six at bats including three doubles. Batteries: Monticello Bartlett Smith Kreeb Mount Vernon Jordan Conklin. Monticello Bisons organize and join the Buffalo league of eight teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Mount Vernon
Haya
Lucks
Jordan
Hayes
Bartlett
Smith
Kreeb
Conklin
Solon Sluggers
Monticello Bisons
Items Of Occurrences Thirty Years Ago Continued
Notable occurrences include the incorporation of George Stuhler's Sons company by George WW Stuhler William Stuhler and Frederick P Stuhler. A chain letter scheme circulating 50 progressions prompts reflection on its feasibility. Obituary notes Henry Herren dies at 65 near Monticello. Edna Thomas earns MD and interns at Dunning. High school graduates listed include Mryde Barnhill Nellie Bigley Eda Cramer Mary Drees Valentine Eby and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevieve Stewart
Oxford Junction
George Stuhler
Henry Johnson Herren
Monticello
Edna Thomas
John ‘Thomas
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Chicago
County
Dunning
Allan T. Fairbanks
Vera C. Smith
David M. Terwilliger
Bertha C. Harken
Arthur J. Thoent
Mary Hogan
Walter W. Hubbard
Frank R. Thompson
Public School Closes This Evening on May 31
The annual class day program was held in the public school auditorium at 11 o clock Tuesday. The class history traced the class of 1934s twelve years and the future, with a variety of musical numbers including Monti High and a senior boys quartet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monti High
Esther Schoon
Madona Cotton
Clemma Wenger
Loretta Specht
George Fraser
Porter to Graduate at William Penn College
Miss Margaret Porter formerly of Monticello is named honor student among 31 graduates at William Penn college Oskaloosa. Exercises Monday June 4 in Spencer Memorial chapel with speaker Dr. Edward A. Steiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Porter
Penn College
Monticello
William Penn College
Oskaloosa
Al Hodoval Seeks Sheriff Post With Wartime Service Record
Candidate Al Hodoval, a 37 year old Oxford Junction native from a large Jones County family, built a career in telephony rising from night operator to owner of Oxford Junction Telephone. He served in World War I with the 2nd Engineers and 23rd Infantry, fighting in four battles including Meuse Argonne, with multiple promotions and a recommendation for West Point training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford Junction
Jones County
Oxford Junction Telephone Company
United States
Frances
Jefferson Barracks
Co. E
23Rd Infantry
France
Hindenburg Line
Second Lieutenant Hodoval Honored for WWI Valor
The record notes Hodoval was appointed into the 23rd Infantry US Regular Division as Regimental Signal Officer. He risked his life at Belleau Wood by interpreting a signal to call for enemy shell fire. On July 18 he retrieved a German sidearm prize while advancing toward the enemy. The War Department awarded him a French decoration on January 21, 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
23Rd Infantry
U. S
Hodoval
Belleau Woods
Lucy le Bocage
War Department
Jones County WWI hero rises from ranks to officer
Al earned the Croix de Guerre and is noted as the sole Jones county volunteer to become an officer from the ranks. He has led community efforts as past commander of Wapsie Post American Legion, joined the Knights of Pythias, and currently serves as Master of Masonic lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Wapsie
American Legion
K. of P
Organization and power in wartime veterans rhetoric
Lodge of Monticello, tied to the Officer Reserve Corps and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is quoted criticizing organized minorities and noting that the majority lacks organization. He argues a man’s size equals the forces that anger him, reflecting a wartime civic mindset.
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V. F. W. Auxiliary Gives Benefit Party
Carl Hodgson
Florence Metzenberg
Nancy Adamson
Edith and
Dottis Vertrees
Vivene Hackett
Bob Brandt
James Primmer
la Porte City
Dorothy Sawyer
Berdena Behrends
Garnet Eilers
Olive Clark
Gerd Tuetken
Lyle Hosford
Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
Lewis Hoag
George Rickels
Latin America
E. J. Farley
EB. J. Farley
H. G. Prull
H. G. Prult
William Prult
Martelle
Henry L. Moenk
Wyoming
Evelyn Rieken
George Harris
Siehels Barn
George Harms
Wayne Knights of Harmony
Walter Brainard
E. ¥. Hoag
Izora Bancroft
Virginia Schneider
Arthur Madsen
Jimmie
Mr. Madsen
Lanie Hansen
Katherine Madsen
West Branch
George Barclay
O. A. Godske
Iowa City
George Zeadow
Richland Township
Theodore Richers
Henry Bader
Arnold Bader
F. Zumbrunnen
Gottlieb Zumbrunnen
Robert Zumbrunnen
Jacob Bader
Paul Rodemaker
R. E. Jones
CCC
Cascade
Adolph Zacher
Jimmie Madsen
Thomas Hamilton
William E. Tuetken
Margaret Ann
Ben Helken
Treva
Center Junction
Mary E. Doxsee
Doxsee
Mra
iMr
George Helgens
Wayne Zion ‘Church
C. Mardoff
John Willis
Wayne Zion Church
Joan Herren
Blanche
Minnesota
Gerd Helken
Manchester
Henry Harms Sr
Marion
Anna Smith
Omaha
Neb
Anke Coillman
Cleo Collman
Irene Noble
LeMars
Arthur Oltmanns
Sterling, Ill
Midgets
Stahlers
Oil
Pet. Stuhlers
Ceeese Bes Duenestreessetadee
Clarence Lanham
Ames
Story County
Lanham
the Atlantic Monthly
the Atlantic
America
Arlington St. Beston
Spencer Memorial Chapel
H.C. Gedford
AL Hodoval
John A. Lejusne
West Point
Pershing
Iowa
Stimpson
Party
Tom Stimpson
Firestone
Indianapolis
Wirestone
Washington
D. C
Neiman Motors
Real Tire Service
Kelley’s Tire & Battery Service
Pan
Kellogg’s
Hershey
Japan
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