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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1934
Page
2
Local notices list pianos tuned by Gene Byers and optometrist Karl M. Keyes. Residents visit, travel, and family gatherings across Monticello, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, and surrounding towns. Community ads promote car heaters, a bakery special, and public programs at Castle Grove and Wayne Center.
Social visits span Dubuque Center Junction Kildeer Richland Center and Whitewater with guests at the Prahm Cramer Deischer and Nash homes and a Armistice Day holiday announced for November 12. Local car service ads urge oil changes and antifreeze while Lovell No 6 school hosts a program with plate lunch.
The Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls held a masquerade party last Friday November 2 at an unoccupied house near the Harry Kuhns home. About fifty people attended including Scotch Grove Future Farmers and guests. Leslie Balster won a best costume prize. A Gypsy Reveler read fortunes and the event featured games refreshments and dancing to a radio supplied by the committee. The ghost personaje departed with the guests at midnight.
A Monticello Iowa letter dated November 1 1934 asks Santa for a wagon toothbrush toothpaste a bicycle and a red wagon with a white rim. The child requests delivery by December 7 and December 1 for items with a note about discipline and a plea to keep the letter.
The George Stuhler shoe store held a Halloween pumpkin contest for children twelve and under on October 31. Prizes ranged from footballs to roller skates with many participation rewards. About 80 youngsters entered, and winners were announced in The Express with several honorable mentions listed.
The following petit jurors have been summoned to appear at the court house in Anamosa on December 3, 1934 at 10 o'clock to serve for the November term of the Jones County District Court. Judge Atherton B. Clark of Cedar Rapids will preside. Listed jurors include Monticello residents George Chambers Harold Egger John Fluckiger Sr Ed J Herren and others from Anamosa Oxford Junction Cascade Stone City Wyoming Bernard Hale Martelle Center Junction and Morley.
The Express prints tested KC Baking Powder recipes from a new cookbook. Instructions cover buckwheat pancake and prepared flour mixes with sifted flours, salt, and KC powder. suggests storage, steaming bread, and serving with salads or oysters. Brief notes merge with a UK army recruitment statistic and avalanche fatalities in Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Slivken and the former's brother traveled to Minneapolis to visit relatives. Mrs. Slivken stayed for a two week visit, while Mr. Slivken and his brother returned to Monticello on Sunday. In Manchester, a 10 wheel oil truck from American Petroleum overturned on primary 10 last Thursday night, spilling 300 gallons of gasoline and causing 300 in damages. Fred Smith, the driver from Manchester, was uninjured.
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