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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1928
Page
3
Hopkinton and area residents are recounted in a long column of social and civic updates. The piece covers visits by family members, school and church happenings, club meetings, upcoming elections, and personal milestones including a marriage in Pasadena and a Red Cross drive kickoff. It notes local honors, such as Lenox college ties to Herbert Hoover, a death in Hopkinton, and plans for a PTAs in South Fork township.
The Onslow area reports social gatherings, visits from Cedar Rapids residents, and farm activity. Highlights include the Astrurian club meeting, honoree Mrs. McMaster, and the Greene fifty fifth anniversary picnic. Nelson Reade of Onslow celebrated his eighty fifth birthday with family and a long wartime record. multiple local residents attend church events and plan travel, with Mrs. Hintz Brunscheen passing away at Mercy hospital Anamosa after a short illness.
Onslow Mr and Mrs George Ward and their Illinois-born children visited Mrs Angies home last week and called on old friends. Frank Walker family Monticello spent Sunday with Mrs Walker's father S C Hutton. Church services noted. Leona Johnson caring for new baby boy at Dirks home south of Werco ming. Mrs M J Paul returned from Stamford Conn after two months with son Dr Voyle Paul and family. Homecoming Ames attendance listed with several locals. Ed Paulsen welcomed a son birth last Friday with mother and baby doing fine. I O F hall freshly papered and painted by Knight s and Rowe.
The page records local social events and civic updates including a proposed plan by the Eastern Tawa Telephone company to install a transmission link and rebuild nineteen miles of lines. It also notes Progressive club activities at Myre Flora Campbell’s home, Bay View club meetings with talks on citizenship and Christ life, and a Halloween gathering hosted by Anita Garside’s schoolmates.
The Amher region notes report new residents moving into Wier Peel area within two years and mentions the Amber Church Community Circle planning a gathering at the Mustman home on Friday evening November 16. It also covers Blick Oak school pupils enjoying a Halloween party with Harriet Rohn as teacher, featuring singing readings games and decorations for mothers.
Sunday guests visited Scotch Grove and Anamosa homes including the Oz Zimmers and Otten family while Cedar Rapids shoppers and Ames Farm Bureau attendees are noted. Texas family moves, local farm help arrivals, and an accident near Hopkinton are mentioned alongside a school vacation due to mumps.
The week included weather rain heavy with river levels high and roads poor for travel. Community events featured Halloween party at F M Johnsons and visits by Mildred Johnson, Eliza Wilson, and others. A car of hogs shipped, corn husking resumed, and a Quaker Oats building roof burned in Cedar Rapids. Mrs Moannagan buried at Sir Patrick's Ryan church. she was 86.
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