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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1932
Page
8
A district No 4 program in Scotch Grove drew a well filled audience as Miss Hasei Eby’s pupils performed music recitations and short plays. Alumni perform with violin cello and ukulele while local performers joined in accordion and vocal numbers. The event raised funds for equipment and featured a popular pantomime through Scotch Grove and Anamosa.
Onslow The Ladies' Guild met in the church basement with Mesdames Irma Paulsen Mina Sears Frances Rowe and Ida Cass hosting The business meeting led by president Mrs Harriet Lamey yielded 30 54 in quilt proceeds The Astraman club hosted by Mrs Ruth Fayram heard a program on The Cancellation of the War Debts or Revision Dowward The club voted 5 to the Des Moines Children s Home Next meeting set for Friday November 18 at 730 pm hostess Mrs Macauley The junior class play Yimmie Yonson s Job drew a full house with 35 in proceeds A rhythm band directed by Mrs Macauley and high school quartets provided music Friends of Miss Ralphia Moyer celebrated her departure dinner at Mrs Jessie McMaster s home Miss Moyer cared for the late Mrs Belle Johnson for five and a half years with many friends she will miss The event included candlelit caveres a pumpkin centerpiece and a birthday tribute to Mrs Harriet Lamey The article notes Mrs Henry Rutenbeck of Lost Nation visiting to close the home
Aunt Belle Johnson and visitors from Marshall town are noted. Family gatherings, a dance at the Taylor home, and Marjorie Provan’s football trip to Town City are mentioned. Alvan Hanna’s Los Angeles marriage to Mary Evelyn Flannery is reported. Fourteen stock cars were shipped to Chicago, and Leonard McKinstry’s birthday party with a sixty three game is recalled. Basketball practice begins at the high school with girls’ team upcoming schedule.
Red Cross seal sale will start the day after Thanksgiving in Castle Grove. Election results show 294 votes with Republicans winning 29 straight and Democrats 71 straight. Will Hiller reelected trustee, Democrats reelect Steve Petersen as trustee, H. F. Kuriger clerk, George Behrends assessor. Community notices include meetings of the Town Association of Mutual Insurance, Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance, and Iowa Farmers Mutual Reinsurance.
Community items report family gatherings at the Bodiker home with multiple relatives present. Local church Ladies Aid plans a Thursday meeting at Mrs. George Andrews. John Daly is on a forced school vacation due to whooping cough. Landscaping work advances at Wayne township schools with six new buildings built recently without bonds. Farm Bureau women attend a Home Grounds Improvement lesson by Nord W. Davis.
Sandy Spring Mr and Mrs Herbert Cox visited in Oneida at the Fred Woelschon home Sunday. Lester Wilson of Ryan dined with Dave Wilson. Mr and Mrs J Batchelder spent Sunday with Hari Batchelder at Central City. Tree friends entertained Mr and Mrs Ernest Brondel and
Social events and minor mishaps across Monticello Cedar Rapids and nearby towns include birthday honors for Mr Behrends and Mrs Arduser family visitors from Cedar Rapids. A car crank accident injured Howard Schnelter while Zenobia Bright visited relatives in Anamosa. A large card party at Herman Welter’s featured five hundred and euchre prizes.
East Cass Township residents and others visited family homes near Monticello Anamosa Cedar Rapids Morley and Dubuque. Guests included the Prull and McVay families, Stulkens Benedicts Darrows Fish Paynes and Fairbanks clique with sixteen guests at Lester Fairbanks home and many kin across the region.
Tom Snyder sustains a neck gash from a wood splitting accident and contemplates handing the task to others. Obituaries note Mack D. Lake dies in Portland at 61 after chronic myocarditis, and Enoch Watson, age 83, dies in West Anamosa after a life spanning Iowa and Oregon.
Richland Center reports visitors and guests from Des Moines Castle Grove Monticello and Iowa City with families including Mr and Mrs Will Balsiger Mr and Mrs George Hein and Mrs Hoag hosting. Edward Buol recently discharged from Iowa City hospital and John Buol welcomed a baby boy. Alma Buol and Robert Adams joined relatives in Iowa City at the Luol home.
Monticello Iowa council session November 7 1932 approved minutes filed treasurer report for October 1933 and adopted a resolution allowing city claims including Auto & Supply Co and Mesdian Beaker Co for small amounts to cover supplies and labor.
Financially dense record shows city council and board of supervisors through bills, salaries, and supplies. Items include Bell Telephone Co. for service, Century Electric Co. motor, and Doxsee & Doxsee printing fees, with multiple labor and gravel expenditures and published claims.
Dr. L. J. Swift is a general practice osteopathic physician with an office in the Burrichter building and a listed phone number 236.
Office in the Monticello State Bank building operates from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The phone number listed is 26 in Monticello, Iowa.
The page promotes storm sash window glass coatings roof coatings and flatter paint tips. It markets Libby Owens Ford glass and Mule Hide coatings with pricing by calling 105. It includes light humor and home maintenance reminders for fuel efficiency.
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