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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1937
Page
2
Local notes from Monticello include a rummage sale at the Methodist Church on October 30 and Harvest Festival events at the Legion hall. Various residents visit, travel, or host family in nearby towns, with church and club announcements recurring throughout the week.
Looming guest visits and travels fill the week from Sebastopol to Cedar Rapids. Local families host relatives, report hospital visits, a wedding in Dubuque, and a 88th birth anniversary celebration. Police arrest two men in a theft probe in Dyersville.
Mr and Mrs John Schweizer and others visited in Zearing with Mrs Daken returning home Sunday. Miss Laura Holst, from Center Junction, is named dean of girls at Eagle Grove High School. Mary and Bertha Locher and Frances Baldwin left for San Francisco to attend the National Postmasters convention, traveling via Dubuque and St Paul and will be away a month visiting several West Coast cities.
A historic bulletin outlines daily food essentials to protect teeth and prevent decay. Key items include milk calcium rich, vegetables and fruits, butter, eggs, cod liver oil for vitamin D and A, meat or poultry, and cereals. Adequate vitamin C from citrus supports gum health. A well rounded diet boosts both body and dental health.
A shark grows multiple rows of reserve teeth embedded in the gums rather than in jaw bones. When a row wears or breaks, a new set erupts to replace it, ensuring the animal always has a full dentition for feeding.
Local churches list Sunday schools and service times for St John Ev Lutheran St Matthew's Lutheran St Josephs Catholic St Johns Lutheran Congregational and Preasoyterian. Notices include Ladies Aid meeting October 20 in Luther hall chicken pie supper next Wednesday and a temporary church move to the high school October 17 due to repair work.
Wayne Zion Lutheran Church announces English service with holy communion at 10 30 a m on Oct 17 and confession at 9 30. An offering will be lifted. Ladies Aid bazaar next Friday evening at the schoolhouse with a plate lunch from 6 30. Everyone welcome.
The Reformed Church Armin H Tendick pastor outlines Sunday services with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. The Sunday message asks what brings us under and keeps us under the smile of God. Mrs W F Leich will speak next Tuesday at 10 30 a.m. and 2 p.m. with assistance from Maquoketa and Zwingle church ladies.
Community notice lists the Harvest Festival this Friday at the Legion hall with films plays re ents fortune telling and booths and free admission. Methodist Church service features a sermon The Church in the Modern Day with Epworth League events and choir rehearsal plus a pledge next Sunday. District and forum meetings in Prairie chapel and Mount Vernon include speakers Senator Gerald Nye and topics Neutrality and Experience.
October is half gone and the next month brings the real opening of winter. Get ready now before you are faced with shortages or cold. People have frozen to death in this county, but you can avoid danger by warming and preparing while it is still warm.
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