Harvest Festival and Local Visits Highlight Small Town News
Local notices report a rummage sale on October 20 hosted by Methodists. Many residents listed for weekend visits, trips to Dubuque and Chicago, and family gatherings.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1937
Page
2
Local notices report a rummage sale on October 20 hosted by Methodists. Many residents listed for weekend visits, trips to Dubuque and Chicago, and family gatherings.
Mrs. Roy E Chaplin travels to Clinton for a week with relatives while Mr. and Mrs M C Holscher visit J C Benders in Earlville. John Schmidt and family welcome a second son born Tuesday. Major and Mrs Lovell plan a Oklahoma visit with daughter Mrs George LeVan. Several attendees travel to Cedar Rapids for services, dairy congress in Waterloo, and hospital events.
Mrs A J H McNeill announces the annual fall festival at St Josephs church Prairieburg with a chicken supper at five followed by a bazaar and dance on Wednesday October 13. John Woellert and Lorenz Balster return from Washington DC with a report of a fine trip and scenery. Numerous Monticello residents attend weddings visits and family gatherings in Cedar Rapids Spirit Lake Waterloo and Dubuque with many relatives named including Yount Lyons Doxsee and Wren among others.
A lyrical excerpt reflects on nature and endurance amid winter. Verses compare earth and stars with hawthorn snows and purple grapes, and express readiness to entrust life to a divine plan while imagining celestial imagery.
The piece surveys famous epithets such as The Iron Duke Wellington The Liberator O Connell and Old Abe Lincoln alongside nicknames of street fame like Old Hickory Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt It notes Woodrow Wilson is never called Woody and reflects how nicknames arise from deeds and public perception.
The British Museum houses relics claimed as the oldest furniture, including the throne of Queen Hatshepsut from around 1500 B C with bull carvings and cobra motifs. American Southwest chests dated before 1600 feature paneling, tracery, large storage sizes, and iron locks with wrought nails and dowel pins.
The hoe drove the shift to permanent settlements in the Stone Age with forked sticks and shells as blades. It evolved through materials from antlers to metal tools, leading to the adz and Bronze Age plow, shaping crops, festivals, and enduring symbol of agriculture.
The article explains tongue as the spoken language of a people and notes that deaf individuals use various languages. It cites Mieillet and Cohn indexing 6 760 named tongues and writes that The Languages of the World classifies speech by country town village island tribe and includes dialects. It also mentions the French Academy’s estimate of 2796 Jan Euases.
Mr and Mrs Lester Schofield and Jr and Mrs Abe Allamand spent last Saturday at the Cattle Congress in Waterloo. Other Monticello residents at the Waterloo event included Mr and Mrs Ed Buibregtse. Clara and Freda Zimmermann, Mr and Mrs Fred Cramer, and Mr and Mrs L F Balster also attended.
Property deeds dated September 24 to 30 show Hattie N Myers transferring Lot 17 Block 17 in Wyoming to Adolph Ben ning for 1.00. Several Guhl family deeds to Charlie Guhl and others in Rose Add to Olin for 1.00 and other considerations. Minor Dortha Guhl's guardian sale to Charles Guhl. Frank W Starks to First Farm Land Co. 431 RR Adds Monticello with debt assumed. Leonard Boss and Alvina to Mary Boos for multiple lots in His ber's Subdiv Anamosa for 1.00.
Property deeds show Rainbowf company led by Henry Feltgen and E W Pender transferring assets to Barns dall Refining at the grantor’s rail lease site in Anamosa including storage tanks and pipelines. Also listed are life interests and multiple parcel transfers in Anamosa townships with various heirs and associates named and nominal consideration noted.
Thos W Fagan and Margaret wife Bernard M Fagan and Grace wife David Powers widower Frank Fagan and Frances wife transfer to Nicholas H Koppes NW and NW SE in section 17 85 1 as heirs under the Margaret Powers will deed totaling 3600 dollars. V C Shuttleworth and Frances L wife transfer to Frank Matejka GC DN SW SW section 15 84 2 for 1 dollar and other valuable considerations.
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