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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1931
Page
2
Miss Bernice Stout visited town last Saturday. Robertson Bros. offers 10 cent spices and 4 to 23 cent sale items this week. Various residents visit friends in Davenport Cedar Rapids Hopkinton and Milwaukee. Beauty shop specials and local services advertised. Radio shop and electrical fixture ads appear amid community notices.
A roundup of local social activity and visits. Includes multiple household gatherings in Dubuque Center Junction Cascade and surrounding towns with Thanksgiving plans, family dinners, and weekend travel. Notable mentions: Ed and Donald Kurt at Notre Dame game. Miss Mildred Pulver at Cornell. Miss Vivian Bancroft returning home for Thanksgiving. several hospital and operation notes. contests and store ads inserted.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Powers and family from Prairieburg visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Lienen on Sunday. On Monday they hosted Mr. and Mrs. Everett Anderburg of Anamosa as guests.
The twenty fifth annual Christmas seal sale starts Friday November 27 and runs through Christmas. Town health officials highlight a steady tuberculosis death decline over nine years with Iowa leading reductions. Funds from the sale aid local welfare, milk and hot lunches at schools, and supplies, reducing tax burdens on residents. The Monticello sale, run by Chapter FP PEO, channels proceeds to local philanthropic aims. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Stott travel to Beaumont Texas for Thanksgiving, with stops in St. Louis en route.
Superior Permanent Wave Shop advertises holiday perms two for 575 with grooming services priced from 50 to 300. It also notes Paul T. Schultz named deputy sheriff to issue automobile drivers licenses, obtainable at Monticello State Bank with license card, deadline January 1.
Mr. and Mrs. George Chambers report a pleasant stay visiting relatives in Kingston New York the boyhood home of Mr Chambers They have not fixed a permanent residence yet but expect to decide shortly.
Rev. S. G. Gutensohn and others attended a district conference of young people at Manchester Community church with representations from Anamosa Dubuque Earlville and Edgewood. Funeral services for Mrs B T Balcar were held at Cedar Rapids attended by many including Mrs W H Jarrett and George Hein. Dennis Bittner 78 of Jones County and former Olin postmaster died in Cedar Rapids after years in Marion. John Farrell of Marion was injured in a two car crash involving Kenneth Moore and Mrs F G Murray. Farrell was hospitalized while others were unharmed.
A hunting party of four capsized near Linwood Smith's Island Davenport area on the Mississippi River late Friday. Harry Brehmer 42 Harry McDonald 28 and Clement Birline 40 were drowned while Louis Loufek survived with aid from fisherman William Chatfield.
Fortnightly club met at Mrs Milton Thoeni s home with three bridge tables and high score by Mrs Ray Echternacht. Other gatherings include Mrs Perrine s luncheon at her home for twelve and a Needle Work Guild quilting session at Mrs William Corbin s home with out of town guest Mrs J Van Bockern. Lucile Weiland marked her fifteenth birthday with dinner and gifts while Mrs Louis Burrack hosted a Hi Low bridge gathering with high score by Mrs Will First. Milestone birthdays for Milton Tobiason and Mrs Leonard Iverson hosted at Maples Inn and nearby homes with multiple guests and bridge play.
The Reformed church group gathered last Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. William Burrich hosting. Devotionals were led by Mrs. A. H. Tendick. business followed. Lorenz Allam and others read from The Rural Billions as readings continued. Nineteen members and nine guests attended. refreshments were served.
Last week Wednesday afternoon the Congregational church group met at Mrs. Ernest Skelley’s home. Mrs. Fred McLaughlin led devotionals followed by a business meeting and discussions on U S intervention in Caribbean countries and missions in Cuba led by Mrs. Edward Templeton and Mrs. O E York. Refreshments were served by the hostess with assistance from Mrs. Anna Thoens and Mrs. Frank Podhask.
Supt and Mrs A B Grimes hosted a dinner party Thursday at 6 30 with twelve guests then hosted another bridge dinner at Maples Inn Tuesday at 6 30 for sixteen. After dinner bridge was played with high scores by Mr Mrs Emil Rickless and by Mrs Milton Thoeni and J E Heiserman.
Mrs Katherine Kasper hosted a birthday dinner at her home last Sunday honoring her granddaughter Kathleen Carlsen on her eleventh birth anniversary. The table was prettily appointed with a centerpiece, and covers were laid for guests.
The article lists numerous Thanksgiving gatherings hosted by families in Clinton Monticello Olin Stanley and Grinnell College. Guests include Mrs Julius Carlsen sr Mr and Mrs John Carlsen Julia Ann Kay Iverson Thorpe and many others. The tone emphasizes holiday feasting and family reunions.
Local churches list schedules for Sunday schools and services across St. John's St. Paul Gutknecht presides. Milwaukee preacher Rev J W Innes to lead morning service. Catholic and Lutheran parishes announce masses confessions and devotions with times across Prairietown Anamosa Sacred Heart and others.
Prairieburg Protestant Church lists Rev G Wolf of Monticello as pastor with Sunday school at 9:00 each Sunday and worship on the second and fourth Sundays at 7:45. Wayne Zion's Ev Lutheran with J P Willis posts German services at 10:30 next Sunday and a 9:30 Sunday school. Advent program, Thanksgiving practice for children, and a Laid an Aid bazaar to fund care for orphans at Waverly. Proceeds support Lutheran Orphans Home.
All rural schools in Jones County will close on Monday November 30 to let rural teachers attend a one day institute at Monticello High School auditorium. Non teaching certificants seeking renewal credits for uniform county and high school normal training certificates must attend. The theme is Reading. Nellie V. Morey County Superintendent.
A brief on how small classified items hint at larger outcomes in the local market. The piece notes rising prices, shifting demand, and potential business trends reflected in tiny ad spaces and service listings.
Three thousand people were freed at Reno over six months, with many previously free. Stocks of pork and lard fell in October while butter shipments rose in September, signaling possible price movement.
In the Webster City Freeman Journal a reader laments job scarcity for brick layers during hard times. The column notes oats and corn prices determine wages, claiming two acres of oats or over an acre of corn would cover a brick layer’s daily wage.
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