Clover Leaf and Local Clubs Host Gatherings and Birthdays
Mrs. John Schoon hosted Clover Leaf club with sewing and visiting and a plate luncheon. Mrs. Ernest E B Shelley gave a farewell tea for Mrs. Bert Horsch of Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schneider held a shower for Mr. and Mrs. Lindy Null, recent newlyweds. Mrs. George Sutherland led Five Hundred and Domino games with prizes won by Mrs. Ray Slauson and Mrs. Nancy Adamson. Mrs. James Farley joined the evening. Mrs. Maurice Cook and family visited Decorah for a birthday dinner honoring her mother in law Mrs. Rodman, who observed her 8th birthday anniversary with gifts and cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Schoon
Clover Leaf Club
G. Schoon
Ernest EB. Shelley
Bert Horsch
Seattle
Washington
Ben Schneider
Lindy Null
Mrs. Schneider
Mrs. Null
George Sutherland
Tarry Awhile Club
Ray Slauson
Nancy Adamson
James Farley
Maurice Cook
Jimmie
Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society Meeting Recap
The regular meeting of the Presbyterian church Women's Missionary Society met last week Wednesday at Mrs. E. J. Farley's home. Mrs. Asa Lambert led the devotional service and chaired the topic Challenging Facts presented by Mrs. Maurice Cook. A memory poem honored Mrs. Leonard Duckett. Tea at 4 30 p m featured a single long table with Mrs. Lambert presiding. assisting hostesses were Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Lambert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
E. J. Farley
Asa Lambert
Maurice Cook
Leonard Duckett
Cook
Lambert
Luncheon Honor At Mrs Halstead Carpenter Home
Mrs Halstead Carpenter hosted a Friday luncheon at one o clock for members of the Friday Bridge Club. Twelve were seated at an attractively set table. Three bridge tables followed the meal with guests Mrs Donald Sutherland Mrs Fred Kay and Mrs Raymond Thomas attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halstead Carpenter
Donald Sutherland
Fred Kay
Raymond Thomas
Carl Hodson
Clarence Matthiessen
Milton Thoen
Lloyd Clark
Agnes Gearhart
Asa Lambert
Ray Echternacht
Fred Endsley
W. E. Corbin
E. J. Farley
Earl DeShaw
Lambert
Endsley
Echternacht
Milton Thoent
Siegfried Guyan
Ralph Bone
Arthur Skelley
A. B. Grimes
George Timmins
Chapter FP PEO Opens Fall Meeting at Mrs McLaughlin Home
Chapter FP PEO opened its first fall meeting with a 1 30 dessert luncheon hosted by Mrs Clarence McLaughlin and the social committee. Out of town guest Mrs Laura Koop of New York joined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence McLaughlin
Hans Kettlitz
F. Stewart Stuhler
Albert J. McNeill
Will McLaughlin
Riess Stuhler
William Grossheim
Laura Koop
New York City
Union Thresher Company Holds Fall Picnic
More than sixty members and families gathered at the Adolph Bohlken timber for the Union Thresher company annual picnic. A noon dinner was served and the afternoon featured ball games tug of war and other activities. This was the second picnic since organization with plans for an annual event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Bohlken Timber
Union Thresher Company
Postnuptial Shower Honors Buols at Home
Mrs. Raymond Buol and her husband were guests of honor at a post nuptial shower hosted by Mrs. Buol's parents, John and Mrs. Coden, with over a hundred relatives and friends in attendance. Officers Adolph Bohiken and Lou Oltman were noted, games were played, and a midnight plate lunch was served by hosts and relatives. Stanley Steiner celebrated his twelfth birthday with gifts and two decorated cakes from aunts Mrs. John Brecht and Mrs. Will Lubben, as well as guests Will Lubben family and John Specht family, plus Alvin Barrack of Strawberry Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Buol
Arthur Steiner
Stanley
John Brecht
Will Lubben
John Specht
L and
Alvin Barrack
Strawberry Point
Anniversary Party Honors Geraldine Schoon
Geraldine Schoon celebrated her tenth birthday with a home party last Thursday. Guests included Phyllis Schneider Lillian Howell Jean Bender Gail Huibregtse Lois Barrack Irma Tendick Helen Sawyer Ann Strasburg Elaine Havlichek Georgia Bartlett Dorothy Bartlett Ver nita Vernon Burdena Stutt Doris Schoon Verna Stutt Vernona Vernon and teachers Miss Belle Markovitz and Miss Dorothy Stemm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geraldine Schoon
John Schoon
Hallowe'en
Phyllis Schneider
Lillian Howell
Jean Bender
Gail Huibregtse
Lois Barrack
Irma Tendick
Helen Sawyer
Ann Strasburg
Elaine Havlichek
Georgia Bartlett
Dorothy Bartlett
Vernita Vernon
Burdena Stutt
Doris Schoon
Verna Stutt
Vernona Vernon
Geraldine
Belle Markovitz
Dorothy Stemm
High School Notes from Waterloo District Schedule
The district teachers convention means no school Thursday and Friday. LaVern Schatz, a senior, returns to school Tuesday. Seniors and sophomores picnicked in Anamosa Wednesday night. juniors and eighth graders did so Tuesday night. The mixed chorus began at noon Tuesday and aims to sing at the centennial next week. Class soccer teams are set for an upcoming tournament. The junior class discussed rings and students audition for the class play under Miss Brindley. Tests mark six weeks of the term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
LaVern Schatz
Anamosa
Brindley
Swindler Merle Fear Identified by Iowa Store Managers
Sherrif Henry Eichhorn and two store managers traced Merle Fear, inmate at Tipton jail, suspected of passing false checks for a $1.79 blanket and a $1 wrench in Anamosa area stores. Fear allegedly altered checks and dressed as a farm hand during the purchases. He faces charges in Delhi Manchester Strawberry Point Monticello Oelwein Tipton and Anamosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Henry Eichhorn
L. O. West
Graham
Henry Dorgeloh
Monroe Hardware
Tipton
Merle Fear
Fear
Delhi
Manchester
Strawberry Point
Monticello
Oelwein
Hopkinton Buyer Acquires 80 Acre LeClerc Farm
Mrs. H. J. Dunlap of Hopkinton purchased the 80 acre A. D. LeClerc farm on the edge of Hopkinton for 3200 dollars. The article notes table forks have been in use for more than 300 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Dunlap
Hopkinton
A. D. LeClerc
Local church notices for October 11 services and events
A compact list of area church services and activities with pastors named. German and English services at V Churches and St. John's, Catholic Mass schedules at St. Joseph's, Hopkinton programs at St. John's Lutheran, Center Junction M E Church, Castle Grove, Methodist, St. Matthew's Lutheran, Congregational, Reformed, and Presbyterian notices include Sunday schools, divine worship, confirmation classes, Epworth League, Ladies Aid events, and centennial observance in Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Dion Lutheran Church
J. Willms
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Paul T. Gutknecht
Trinity
St. John’s
Hopkinton
St. John’s Lutheran Church
J. A. Pannhuk
Ladies Aid
Luther League
American Lutheran Church
Center Junction M. E
H. W. Farnham
Vera Moats
Epworth League
Endeavor
Castle Grove
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wm. J. Macaulay
Dorothy Rolf
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church
H. L. Adix
San Antonio
Texas
Pannhuk
Karl Fass
Reformed Church
Armin H. Tendick
Christ
Jesus Christ
Presbyterian Church
Wm. J. Grossheim
Israel
Beery Plans Extended Trailer Trip to the Southwest
W A Beery outlines an extended road journey in a custom trailer. The unit features seven large windows, a Buddy stove, ball and socket hitch, electric welds, and a Gypsy Boston bulldog companion. The Beerys expect to leave in two weeks heading toward Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Beery
American Legion to Elect County Officers in Olin
R J Kieinek county commander of Jones county American Legion calls a meeting in Olin at 8 p m Friday October 9 to elect county officers for 1937. All ex service men urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Kieinek
Jones County Organization of the American Legion
Olin
Centennial celebration events planned at Monticello
Monticello hosts a two day centennial event October 14 and 15 with history talks music and parades. Featured are early settler recognitions by Dr Millington Carpenter and Laura Hicks Koop plus performances by the high school band glee club and various local organizations. Sixth generation descendants urged to report to Mrs J H Fraser and all old photos due at Matthiessen Auto and Supply Co by Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imogene Dunham Stuhler
Sarah Sherman Wood
Nina Miller Harris
Gene Byers
Lyle McMullen
Millington ‘Carpenter
Laura Hicks Koop
Louis &. Hoag
High School Glee Club
Dale McConnell
Kate Maurice
Clara Palmer
Louis E. Hoag
Monticello
Charles Sloan
Maude Mirick Cooper
Pocahontas
Pioneer
Parent-Teachers Association
Doctor—League of Women Voters
Mother
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Lincoln
P. O
Grandmothers—League of Women Voters
J. H. Fraser
Lightfoot
Hayden
Kettlitz
Johnson Palmer
D. F. Hosford
Orlando Hosford
Maude Lightfoot
Beth Alcorn
Marilyn Alcorn
Sarah Ann Tobine
John Hayden
Frank Hayden
Neal Hayden
Sara Lou Hayden
Haeussler
Ben Haeussler
Rena Kettlitz
Dora Low
Dickey Low
Matthiessen Auto and Supply Co
A. P. News Editor Ted Koop Receives Washington Post
Ted Koop former Monticello resident and son of Mrs. Laura Koop has been named news editor for the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press. He will leave the New York city editorship after the November election to join the Washington bureau. Koop's mother will move to Washington with him. Harold Kann of Guttenberg remains hospitalized after a Town City auto crash with a broken right collar bone and concussion but his condition is improving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Koop
Laura Koop
Monticello
Washington
Associated Press
Koop
New York
Harold Kann
Guttenberg
Town City
University Hospital
Harold
Unclear Wartime Pork Policy and Farm Unemployment
Roosevelt administration orders led to pig culling by American farmers. Foreign farmers shipped over 12.5 million pounds of pork into the U.S. market in 1938. Washington denied an unemployment census, arguing farm employment was already high due to farm policies. Construction began on a $1,000 air base on Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Brain Trust
Terminal Island
Los Angeles Harbor
The Origin of Petroleum and its Life History
Path finder Magazine explains two theories of petroleum origin. It favors an organic origin, formed over hundreds of millions of years from plant and microscopic animal matter, buried in Earth’s crust long before modern life. It notes vast past and present oil reserves and the enormous time scales involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pathfinder Magazine
Two White Swan Species Dominate North American Birds
Ornithologists identify two native swan species in the United States, both pure white. The whistling swan is common in Great Lakes waters, while the trumpeter swan remains rare in the West. The whooping swan is extinct north of the Arctic, and the Australian black swan is small and seen only in zoos, often mistaken for black brant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
West
Arctic Circle
Greenland
Detroit News
Entangling Alliances in Washington Farewell Ad dress
In his farewell address dated September 17 1796 Washington questioned entangling alliances arguing against tying American peace and prosperity to European power dynamics. He cited Jeffersons 1801 inaugural line warning against entangling alliances with none.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Europe
Jefferson
Insects Show Extraordinary Migration Pattern
The article notes insects possess a superior directional sense beyond humans and birds. Insects migrate with infallible directness, though unlike birds they do not undertake a return journey or use seasoned guides, instead migrating only by a new generation each season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mmainkind
Jimson Weed Origins and Revolutionary Masons
The Jamestown weed is noted as American in origin and not from the datura family. The Patriots Secret Society on Nathan Hades the orator with a Revolutionary War sacrifice was a member of St. John's Lodge in New York. Maj John Andre, a British spy, is noted as also having Mason association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
Nathan Hades
St. John's Lode
New York
Tfe
Yale University
John Andre
Mrs C B McKean Dies in California
Word was received of the death of Mrs C B McKean at Long Beach California on Tuesday October 6 at 2 pm Her body will be brought to Monticello for interment at Scotch Grove An obituary sketch will appear next week
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. McKean
Long Beach
California
Monticello
Scotch Grove
Mcilean
Gerdes couple to retire from Knoake farm this spring
Mr and Mrs John Gerdes longtime tenants on the Henry Knoake farm for 16 years will retire next spring due to Mr Gerdes health. The note corrects a prior misstatement that they owned the farm. Attendees at Mrs George Moenk’s funeral included Arthur Oltmanns and wife of Sterling T Elmar Christgau and daughter of Rochester Minn and H A Hanken and son Carl of Brownsdale Minn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gerdes
Henry Knoake
Gerdes
George Moenk
Arthur Oltmanns
Sterling, T
Elmar Christgau
Rochester
Minn
H. A. Hanken
Carl
Brownsdale
Ownership and Management Statement for Monticello Express
The Monticello Express weekly at Monticello Iowa lists editors J W Doxsee and C A Doxsee publishers Doxsee & Doxsee and owners J W Doxsee and C A Doxsee with no bond holders of 1 percent or more. Sworn before notary J E Helserman on October 5 1936 with commission expiring July 4 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Express
Monticello
Iowa
J. W. Doxsee
C. A Doxsee
Doxsee & Doxsee
C. A. Doxsee
Towa
Co. A. Doxsee
J. E. Helserman
Ee Notary Public Commission
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs
Lindy
A. G. Rodman
Women’s Missionary Society
Bridge Club
Delta. Dek Bridge Club
Stanley Steiner
Clara Schatz
Lorraine Hein
Donald Miller
George Stuhler
Velma Schatz
Mrs. Ritchie
Ellen Mae
Ramona Hoffman
Doreen Lambert
Harold Rynerson
Darlene Shaw
Doran Power
Donald Hackbarth
Eien Mae
Milton Bader
Roxie Ann Yeoman
Sunshine Club
Ellen Mae First
Miss Searles
Miss Kirch
Jones County
ST. Martin’s
K. C. Hall
Cascade
Prairieburg
St. Joseph’s. Catholic Church
Stephen J. Kucera
Congregational Church
Samuel G. Gutensohn
W. A. Beery
American Legion
A. P
Jimson
Patriots Secret Society
Harry Carey
Hoot Gibson
Tom Tyler
Henry Walthal
Navy
Hene
Paramount Picture
Fred Macmurray
Jack Oakie
Jean Parker
Ioy Nolan
Edward Gllis
Lip Ahn
Fupeye
Jack Holt
Donavan
Popular Science
Stuhlers
Clothing Department
Monarch Coffee
Monarch
P. D
Nash’s
O. K
Kraft’s
Tokay Grapes
Grocery Department
Stahlers
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