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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1936
Page
7
The Taminola Camp Fire group met at 4:15 PM with plans for a Halloween party and regular Tuesday meetings. Various Ladies' Aid and Missionary societies gathered for sewing, luncheons, and talks. Out of town guests attended dinners and birthday celebrations for local families and honors for speakers from Geneva and Philadelphia.
Virginia of Castle Grove and Berned Ohe of Coe College Cedar Rapids attended a breakfast hosted by Mr and Mrs James Morrissey at their country home Sunday morning. Mrs John Fraser and her father Henry George hosted a six thirty dinner Friday evening for Clara Wales Blut of Chicago. Others at the events included Mrs Fannie Ross Miss Ella Little Ed Little of Spencer and Monticello residents Mrs Henry Carpenter Mrs Edward Templetor Mrs George Wilkens J W Coxasee Mrs Ella Hicks and Miss Kate Maurice. An informal evening followed.
The Monticello area lists multiple church schedules. St John Evangelical Lutheran with pastor Gutknecht, Sunday school 9:45, English service 10:30. Methodist Episcopal with Macaulay, church school 10, morning worship early, Epworth League 6:45. Congregational with Gutensohn, church school 10, morning worship 11:09, sermon on The Need of a Spiritual Reserve. St Matthew's Lutheran led by Adix with 9:45 Sunday school and 10:45 worship. Presbyterian led by Grossheim, services 11, sermon A Great Home, and Christian Endeavor 6:45. Castle Grove Lutheran under Thalacker holds fall meeting next week, Holy communion dates in November. Reformed Church under Tendick sets Sunday school 10 and English morning worship 11 with a preaching mission Nov 15–22. Wayne Zion Lutheran with Willms schedules Reform festival messages on Oct 25 and Nov 1. Community notices include visits by Oscar Newton and Nellie Stege with relatives in Monticello.
Willard Beverlin, 22, escaped from the Reformatory Farm at Anamosa last Friday night at 7. Beverlin, in prison clothes, was on the dairy farm when authorities linked to the escape with a car theft from Albert Wink. A local woman reported a strange man attempting to start her car at 9 p.m. and Beverlin fled. He had been sentenced in 1933 to ten years for auto larceny and had 18 months remaining.
Postal authorities crack a national scam of fake eye specialists preying on the elderly. The pseudo optician poses as a prominent doctor offering at home operations under secrecy to steal savings. fifteen arrests have been made. Travelers in England may now travel one way by rail and return by air or water.
In a centennial speech, Dan Varvel recalls Monticello pioneers and leaders from education to industry. He praises Elmer Hoag and McDonald Hospital founders, local doctors, lawyers, and schools, praising faith, thrift, and communal progress shaping Jones County’s prosperity.
A laborer laments repeated election promises while toiling in a feed mill. He notes the grinding dust of work, the hope for prosperity, and distrust of hustlers as he jokes about voting and the WWV radio. The piece ends with an ad parody urging hog feed and mash products.
A reading notes that two files can yield in a single summer a family total of 5 600 and 900 000 000 units. The statement highlights scalable production across time with high aggregate figures.
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