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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 22, 1934

Page

7

Toast to the team and school backs big high school season

Norma Jean Bevan reports a school notes feature praising the football team's season with a student poem A Toast. The piece cites the coach crowd and school as key supporters and mentions upcoming broadcasts and student activities from WMT Don Kelly George Fraser. It also covers Azwelikit club debate Outward Bound projects English book reports and science biology terrarium work.

WMT Don Kelly George Fraser Azwelikit Lauretta Cooper Rex Hodson Dorothy Sawyer Shirley Mae Hoag Beulah Came Eugene Reichart Lewis Burrichter Ruth Schneider Miles Standish Jo Royden Constance Naylor Pompeii

Kindergarten Plans Mother’s Party Next Tuesday Morning

The article notes a kindergarten preparing a mothers party for next Tuesday morning. Pupils have worked on an Indian project including wigwams burlap outfits and clay bead necklaces.

Kenneth Brokens Donald Hackbarth Donna Irma Schoan Dwayne Fluckiger Miss Newton Red Cross

Lovell 4-H Club Met on November 17 in Lovell

Lucille Yossi hosted the Lovell's Laboring Lassies 4-H meeting with Garnet Ellers presiding. Minutes by Kathleen Eilers. reports by Margaret Hanssen and Mrs Will Balsiger. plans for a November 13 party at Mrs Ray Stivers home and a Christmas mothers’ party. collar making demo by Mrs John Yossi. Attendees invited rural girls to join. next meeting at Mary Jane Veitch home. Several local visitors and out‑of‑town guests noted.

Lucille Yossi Lovell Laboring Lassies Garnet Ellers Kathleen Eilers Margaret Hanssen Will Balsiger Ray Stivers Olin Margaret Ingel John Yossi Mary Jane Veitch

Thanksgiving church notices fill Prairieburg area schedule

Local notices list multiple Prairieburg churches with service times devotions and confessions at St Josephs Sacred Heart Center Junction M E St Mathews Lutheran Congregational St Johns Ev Lutheran Wayne Zion and Presbyterian. Thanksgiving services and events include bake sales bazaar and youth activities with dates November 23 25 and 27 and notes on special offerings and anniversary celebrations.

Community church notices and holiday services

Good Shepherd invites all to a stereopticon lecture on Changing Japan during Christian Endeavor at 6:45 and 7:30 p.m. plus the Missionary society Praise Service. Union Thanksgiving Service set for Thanksgiving Day at 10 a.m. at Congregational church. Reformed Church outlines Sunday and Thanksgiving observances including Maintaining the Church Today, Kingdom Roll Call, and Why Give Thanks. Ladies Aid bazaar December 6. Young People bake sale at Iverson's store this Saturday.

Center Junction M. E S. W. Williams Epworth League Union Alyea Congregational Church Samuel G. Gutensohn Young People’s District Welsh Congregational Iowa City Wayne Zion Lutheran Church J. Willms Harvest Home Ladies’ Aid Wolf Wayne Zion Lutheran Good Shepherd Christian Endeavor Japan The Missionary Society Friends of Missions Reformed Church Armin H. Tendick Kingdom Iverson

Fober Elected President of Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance

J L Faber of Cascade and H F Gross of Des Moines were elected president and secretary respectively of the Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance association by its board of directors at Des Moines after the annual meeting Tuesday. John Evans Grinnell was re elected treasurer and Harry L Gross Des Moines was re elected assistant secretary. Faber has long been connected with the company and proven an able executive.

J. L. Faber Cascade H. F. Gross Des Moines Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association John Evans Grinnell Harry L. Gross Faber

Monticello BPW Hear Talk On Educational Trends

The Monticello Business and Professional Women's club held its regular dinner meeting at Ann's Cafe on Monday November 19. Mildred Meyer Adelaide Gray and Georgia Linter chaired the education program ahead of the business session. A B Grimes Superintendent of the public schools spoke on modern trends in education.

Monticello

Reading club diplomas for sixteen summer readers

The library awarded Vacation Reading Club diplomas and pins to sixteen boys and girls who read ten or more books this summer. The article emphasizes the library’s vital role in children’s lives and the importance of fostering reading habits early.

Vacation Reading Club

Jones County Losses Two Successful Farmers

Obituary memorial for James R. McNeilly of Center Junction who died, leaving wife Mary E. Livingstone and children Marguerite Burr and son James, plus eight grandchildren. The text lists extensive family ties, civic roles, church service, and a large funeral with attendees from multiple towns.

Mary E. Livingstone James R. McNeilly Center Junction Marguerite Burr Monticello Harold Hudson Maurice Jean Ruth John McNeilly Pauline Carol Eldon Burr Mae Livingstone W. FP. McNeilly Springville Farmers’ Co-Operative Creamery Company Farmers’ Telephone Company Pioneer Cemetery Association Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company Center Junction Savings Bank Presbyterian Church Abram Alyea Philip Palmer Cedar Rapids McNeilly Samara Smith Selma DeShaw Lyle Thompson Gus Dreibelbis Mary Leech North Madison Pioneer Cemetery Francis James Woodworth John Charles Livingstone F. E. Livingstone Will Smith Winterset James Smith Des Moines Mabel Hudson Muscatine E. F. Burr Castle Grove Frank McNeilly Falcon John Alexander Will Smola Central City Marion Nell Miller J. B. Ellis Maquoketa H. M. Hill C. A. Burmeister Alec Taylor Anamosa Wyoming Onslow

Mrs Hanssen Visits Davenport Then Heads to Missouri

Mrs Antonia Hanssen spent days this week visiting relatives in Davenport before leaving for Excelsior Springs Missouri to spend the rest of the winter. Mr and Mrs Dick Lee and their three sons of Iowa City visited Rose Hines, sister of Mrs Lee, and Mrs Lee visited her mother Mrs Peter Oeschger who is a patient in John McDonald hospital.

Antonia Hanssen Davenport Excelsior Springs Missouri Dick Lee Iowa City Lee Rose Hines Peter Oeschger John McDonald Hospital

Children’s Book Week Party At Public Library

The library hosted a Children's Book Week party with over two hundred children attending. Seventy dressed as book characters. prizes went to Marilee Matthiesen as Huckleberry Finn and Doran Powers as Little Black Sambo. Judges included Mrs. Albert Stuhler Miss Blanche McLaughlin and Miss Mildred Georgia Linter.

Marilee Matthiessen Huckleberry Finn Doran Powers Albert Stuhler Blanche McLaughlin Mildred Georgia Linter

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