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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1936
Page
8
A long list of social calls and gatherings from Oxford Junction and surrounding towns. Highlights include Mrs W A Hicks visiting with relatives in Oxford Junction, Ed Hodoval and Ronald Hodoval visiting Mrs Kate Hodoval, and many club meetings, parties, and church events in Clinton, Davenport, Monticello, Wyoming, and Cedar Rapids.
Center Junction announces the boys and girls basketball season schedule beginning Nov 20 at Martelle and continuing through Feb 26 at Wyoming. Harley Bwuigren coaches both teams. Local clubs report meeting notes and community events including hospital visit updates and a cottage gathering.
A series of social events across Hopkinton Monticello Anamosa and Colesburg includes birthday celebrations for Mr Behrends Mrs Albany and Mrs Albany attended by families and friends. a five hundred parlor game and lunch for 22 guests. birthday parties for Donna Jeanne Cox with a list of attendees. and visits from Betty Wilson Norma Jean Lasche and others.
Scotch Grove Women’s Community club will host an all day meeting at Mrs. D. O. Sinclair’s home on Wednesday November 18. Afternoon program includes roll call favorite movie life of Will Rogers poems by Edgar Guest and a stunt. Mrs. M. M. Sinclair and Mrs. James Hughes perform. Mrs. Chauncey Carson organizes a paper. Nearby residents Clifton Abbott and Mrs. Nichols visited Central City.
The article outlines expected party distribution in the Seventy-fifth Congress with Democrats holding the majority in both the House and Senate, detailing current seat counts and comparing to the Seventy-fourth Congress. It notes a large voter turnout in the 1936 election and mentions various local community events, births, school programs, and residents’ activities in Monticello area.
The Rev A Alyea will speak at 11 AM in the Wyoming opera house for Armistice day with high school pupils and public school rooms taking part. A 10 30 AM program at the school precedes afternoon programs in Onslow and Center Junction. The article also notes numerous local club meetings and social visits.
A Irish American tale follows Molly and her sister Catherine as they vie for a red dress with Timothy McBride in a Murphy store setting. Molly hides envy and longing while Catherine seeks work and a chance at romance during a dance night. Oliver Cromwell is referenced as Lord Protector in a parallel historical note.
Castle Grove residents attend junior class play in Monticello with Vernon Steiner as the butler and Clarence Hosford a pirate. Dr. Booser of Cedar Rapids lectures at the chapel while Dr. Hodgson will preach next Sunday. Alva Stadtmueller trips to Rock Island for a business matter. Two hundred ninety eight votes cast for president in the township with 95 for Landon. Betty Leytem and James Otten as Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hosford. Hog cholera concerns rise locally. Mary Esther McLaughlin returns to Monticello high after mumps. Henry Husman back from Amber farm work. C A McLaughlin drives two carloads of fat cattle to Chicago. I R Hintz attends Jones county farm bureau past presidents meeting near Wyoming. Mrs. E J Noble ill in Monticello.
In Greenfield township’s south part an open quail season is noted as problematic for farmers who rely on quail as a partner in farming. Severe winter weather nearly wiped out quail in this area, prompting calls for protection. In the north half, a follow up meeting at Mrs. F. C. Cramer’s home is set for Friday afternoon to discuss unusual vegetable cookery with notes to bring pencil, paper, and recipes. Community visits include Mildred and Jerry Swaton and Edward Webster of Cedar Rapids dining with the Herman Hahn family, and Mrs. E. J. Noble and others attending a ladies aid gathering at Will Hiller home. Alva Hahn and Manchester relatives spent Sunday with family in the township.
Sheffield ware predates electro plating and was used for over a century to make fine silverware. It involved copper between ingots of silver pressed and heated, then silver edging and engraved designs. The method waned after 1850 as silver became cheaper and electro plating emerged as a simpler alternative.
A Detroit News writer describes the traditional deer hide tanning process used by Native Americans. Scraping fat and flesh, rubbing fat into the flesh side, repeated rinsing, and long smoking over smut fires produced two buckskin types, white and stroke-tunped, ready for fashioning after weeks of work.
A quiet ceremony was held Tuesday at 9 am in St Marys church with Miss Monica Dandl marrying Elmer Murray. Witnesses included Mrs Monte Powers of New York and Louis Dandl. Monsignor J B Albers officiated as Alvina Otting played Mendelssohn. The bride wore a rust velvet Russian suit.
Marie Therese Dandl, daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Dandl, marries Dr N C Cahalan at St Marys Cascade on Thanksgiving morning. The couple plans to reside in East Cascade after a Chicago honeymoon. The story notes recent Knights of Columbus events and memorial activities in Cascade.
Dr O W Esslinger of Cedar Rapids and his wife returned from a Canada hunting trip with a massive bear. The animal reportedly stretched 9 feet 3 inches and weighed about 1600 pounds, believed among Canada's largest. Ma Vestinger contributed by bringing in a long specimen as well.
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