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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1951
Page
3
Park improvements include a Miracle Wheel installed by Park Commissioner Gerald Rohr and Raymond Wright. Trees of white elm and white ash planted on the hillside near the clubhouse, with future tree planting planned north of the 4-H bunk house.
Castle Grove reports Mr. and Mrs. A T Glass spending part of summer with their son in Marion and Mrs Glass in poor health. Mr Glass is aged ninety one. School district updates include No 2 taught by Irene Wittengle and No 1 Miss Mary Jane McDonough closing. A picnic at the school house, family night at Peniel chapel, and various closures and visits up to Monticello and Cedar Rapids are noted along with a long list of attendees at a funeral in Monticello.
Mary Jean Billmeyer of Hopkinton wed Bert Stierman of Dubuque at Holy Trinity in Dubuque on May 26 with a nuptial mass and reception for 250. The couple will live in Dubuque and both hold local education careers. Former Hopkinton resident Roland Willard married Marcia Smith in Manchester as they plan teaching posts in West Bend after a Canada trip. Visitors from Florida and Chicago hosted and visited area residents, with multiple family gatherings reported across nearby towns.
Dale Marshall will earn a Master of Science in Mathematics from the State University of Iowa in Iowa City on Friday June 8. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ruel Marshall of Cascade. His wife Dorothy Ricken Marshall has worked as secretary of medical services at University Hospitals. The couple will move to Chicago Heights Illinois in August where he will teach mathematics at Bloom Township High School.
Invitations issued for St Luke's hospital first year nursing students cap and reception at St Pauls Methodist church Cedar Rapids next Sunday at 2 30 pm. Joanne Wright among the class. Also reports on polio X ray program by Marian Serbousek and return home of Henry Heiken after hospitalization. A H Neller 77 Fairfield killed in auto crash while en route to his wife’s funeral.
The community church calendar lists services and activities across several congregations. Evangelical and Reformed, St Matthew’s Lutheran, SS Peter and Paul, St Luke’s Methodist, First Presbyterian, Wayne Zion, First Congregational each announce worship times, Sunday school, and midweek meetings. Special items include nuptial at Wayne Zion on June 4 and pipe organ recital June 10.
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