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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1937
Page
2
Local notes list visits and weekend travelers from Cedar Rapids to Dundee Des Moines Galesburg and Marion. Families like Behrends Pelly Hayes and Lang share Thanksgiving plans and hospital cards celebrate births and hospital stays.
Local notices report Mrs. O F Otten and Kay and Mrs Louis Barrack attending a shower for Eileen McCormick near Amber. Others plan Thanksgiving visits to relatives in Manchester Waterloo Eldridge and Monticello while John Guler buys freight house lumber for Monticello projects.
Miss Bonnelle Lyon a former Monticello public school teacher died in Waterloo on October 29 after complications from an appendectomy and peritonitis. A 40 year Iowa teaching veteran she spent 21 years at Waterloo schools and previously taught in Monticello. She was born May 14 1878 near La Porte City and lived in Black Hawk county much of her life. Funeral services were held at Grace Methodist church with burial in Fairview cemetery.
Mickey Doyle is assigned as swing brakeman on No 93 and No 94 out of Monticello. He has spent the last month braking on the freight route between Dubuque and Davenport.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Doxsee with sons Wilbur and George and daughter Antonette a Cornell student from Mount Vernon traveled to Eagle Grove this morning to stay two days with Mrs. Korslund and Mrs. Minnie Hanson, the Doxsees’ mother and sister.
Dr and Mrs Thomas M Redmond plan Thanksgiving at Mrs Mary Redmonds Cedar Rapids home with their daughter Maxine an instructor in Geneva public schools Also noted are farmers puzzled by a market drop in grain and stock and seeking causes while bearing a lasting hardship from a noted event.
Mrs Grant Stambaugh returns from Marshalltown where she spent five weeks in Deaconess hospital recovering from cataract operations on both eyes. Friends report full restoration of sight and expect her to resume social activities soon. The region experienced first real winter with snowfall and slippery hills requiring sand on the west approach. Thanksgiving travelers Florence and Margaret Carmichael visit Cincinnati with Nellie Morey and Carrie Page. Mrs Henry Morey to return home.
Monticello V F P W auxiliary members attended the Cedar Rapids Post 88 installation last Wednesday evening. District Commander Ray Echternacht installed the 1938 officers, plus couples including Mrs Echternacht Fritz Hein Henry Helms Will Jarrett Henry Che Rose Hein and Fay Clark. The Monticello group enjoyed the supper and dance after the ceremony.
Miss Nora Workman of Iowa State College led a second year home furnishing lesson for 77 county leaders. Training sessions across Castle Grove Wayne Scotch Grove Greenfield and Monticello covered furniture selection harmony color and arrangements plus slip covers and flowers. The emphasis was on creating beautiful restful homes to improve occupants' lives and spirits.
The weekly Scout meeting opened with 35 boys and Scoutmaster Fuller present. Jack Fraser led the oath as demonstrations in signalling Morse code first aid and knot tying were shown. Harold Yeoman's patrol won a game and a court of honor is planned before Christmas.
The National Hybrid Corn company of Anamosa Iowa mailed fifty gift boxes of selected corn as Thanksgiving table decorations to prominent Americans and major hotels. Recipients include Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt Gov Nelson Kraschel Herbert Hoover and several hotels such as Waldorf Astoria Palmer House New Yorker Russell Lamson and Roosevelt. Also sent to elite clubs like Troca dero Hollywood and Desert Inn Palm Springs. Boxes sourced from Perrine Seehusen and Tyler Downing farms in Jones and Linn counties and many grateful replies poured in including a request for one hundred more from the Hotel Del Coronado.
Seed growers in Anamosa Iowa and surrounding areas received a total payout of 11869 29 for corn delivered to plants at Anamosa Onslow and Iowa City The Jones county share was 1673 84 The company will detassel and inspect fields while plants undergo temporary shutdowns for drying and equipment upgrades Iowa City plant will stay in operation with new machinery while Anamosa Onslow sites suspend briefly for upgrades
The REA approves an extra $19 737.05 for the Maquoketa Valley Rural Electric Co operative in Jones county raising the Jones county project fund to over 28 000. Total project cost listed at 305 000 to construct 318 miles of lines serving 955 customers with most funds for construction materials. Marshall Electric of Marshalltown is the contractor.
W A Beery of Irving Texas asks The Express to deliver his paper to Pincios Texas. He notes the Texas weather is tailor made and mentions a pleasant visit with his daughter Wanda and her husband.
Elmer Walsh a 22 year old truck driver from Garnet Kansas narrowly escaped death in Cedar Rapids after sleeping in his vehicle with the heater running. He woke after two hours unable to open the door and collapsed to the floor then was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Rev George Woodall of the Methodist Episcopal church will speak at the community Thanksgiving service at 10 this morning in the Congregational church. The service unites the Presbyterian Congregational and Methodist churches with Mrs Cecil Goettch as soloist.
The 1937 Iowa corn crop produced 496.62 million bushels with 96 percent matured without frost damage on November 1 and 55 percent husked. State totals exceed 1936 while some western counties underperform. A hunter in Delaware County found a banded goose linked to Jack Miner of Kingsville Ontario.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil argues against war citing unresolved debts from a prior conflict ended 19 years ago. It claims the nation still owes a price for that war and stresses prudence in avoiding new hostilities.
J W Jarnagin recalls 84 years of life and the value of education as John Engstrom of Marion laments limited schooling. A Fremont county boy clings to a car fender in Thurman and is returned to worried parents Roy and Mrs Booker. Ellsworth junior college staff dodge a campus prank when a long forgotten administration parking ordinance resurfaces, involving Dean Sherwood R Jones Dean A L Williams and Principal G T Cowan.
Thomas Hastie of Warren county near Indianola saw a man gathering wild berries and learned they were poison ivy. The traveler from Des Moines claimed the berries were fine, but Hastie warned him, and the man dumped them out.
Youngsters in Kossuth county Algona staged the annual pet show with pets from mice to coyotes. Bobby Kuhn won for his rooster while Col Jeta Forestburg won for her mouse and Margaret H Miller captured prizes with two coyotes.
Chariton city councilors in Lucas county modified an ordinance to expand police hiring. They repealed a section that gave the mayor power to appoint a deputy marshal, changing it to appoint deputy marshals, then passed the revised section.
Lloyd Hanlon of Denbury Woodbury County once known as pig iron for his toughness left Danbury High School where basketball was prized. He earned a film studio job and will play for the studio basketball team in Hollywood.
Alva F. Owen of Carroll and his son Bruce Owen of Lincoln are indicted in Sioux City on a federal theft scheme. The elder, a Carroll post office employee, is accused of altering parcel post addresses to direct items to Lincoln where his son opened them.
Mrs Walter Jensen of near Schles wig Crawford county tried a sandbar diet and swallowed a sandbar caught in her mitten. She pulled it out with her teeth and then swallowed it needing a Sioux City medical removal to locate and extract the weed.
The Gerhart Sorensen family near Hampton Franklin County were astonished when Joe Hollingsworth, their hired hand, appeared at the house wearing corn stalks like a grass skirt. He explained a trap on the farm’s mechanical power caused his leg sock to snag and leave him in the awkward attire.
Martin Anderson buys out O C Stangeland, taking full ownership of a 142 acre Marshall county farm near Marshalltown. Deed records show a selling price of 14 200 dollars, exactly 200 dollars per acre, a rare high price for the region this year.
Clement Thompson of the L. E. Johnson farm near LeGrand Marshall County set a new local record by moving 171 bushels and 60 pounds of corn from stalks to crib in one day by hand. The field average was 123 bushels per acre.
Early morning in Ida Grove Iowa residents woke to a lone thunderclap at 5 15 am with two or three rumblings afterward no rain or lightning and sudden cooler air followed as the new month arrived November 1 and residents reported the unusual Natural event.
Russell Hayes of Denison Crawford County loses five dollars when his son Robert throws a five dollar bill into a yard bonfire while others warned him it was money.
Lee Cook of Thayer refuses a good price for his violin claiming its stamped date proves it the oldest instrument in the region. The interior sounding box bears the year 1716, suggesting the instrument is 221 years old.
Farmers in Danbury Woodbury County cheered as a full carload of Danbury corn left the Danbury elevator for eastern markets. Years of crop deaths depleted supplies and local stock feeders had no surplus to ship, making the recent shipment notable.
In LeMars Plymouth County a five year old boy was caught stealing from parked cars. Mayor Morse Hoorneman attempted to lecture him but was kicked in the shins. Police then jailed the boy briefly and released him calmer and subdued.
Employees at a Cherokee furniture store in Cherokee County discover a remedy to a persistent workplace issue. The newspaper item notes the location and the moment of realization without sensational details.
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