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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1940
Page
9
The Business and Professional Women's club Hallowe'en party at Monticello Community Hall on Monday October 28 featured a member written poem. Guests wore play clothes and enjoyed games, pumpkin pie, coffee and candy, with informal fun and a lunch service.
Burial for Mrs Henry C. Luett of Baldwin took place Sunday. Born Davenport June 17 1874 she married Henry C. Luett in 1898 and spent life on a Baldwin farm. Surviving are husband and children Emile Blanche Currié Charles Edward Ruth Fleming Frank Bernice DeWerdt Arnold Bruce.
Young Democrats frolicked Tuesday night to Louie Buresh music at the community building carnival dance. About 400 Democrats from across Jones County attended with Mr and Mrs Bill Jansen of Amber winning best waltzers and Imogene Brady of Anamosa taking the best costume prize.
The event awarded prizes to Margaret Strang of Monticello for best costume and to the Frazer couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Frazer of Anamosa as oldest participants. Phyl Lasack and Otto Hansen of Oxford Junction won the schottish dance, while S. E. Locher introduced the office candidates before prizes.
Local churches list weekly services for Sacred Heart St Josephs Wayne Zion Castle Grove Presbyterian and others with details on mass times confession and festival observances. A tax breakdown explains Monticello property tax burdens totaling 65848.41 with 85 funds across county and state allocations.
World conditions prompt two new Red Cross programs including a proposed reserve medical corps of over 60,000 technologists and a national blood bank. In 1940 the organization issued 380,000 First Aid and 94,000 Life Saving certificates, aided 100,000 disaster victims, and logged over 1,000,000 nurse visits in a record year.
The nursing reserve now has 42 000 registered nurses and Red Cross committees plan to strengthen it next year. Over 500 000 volunteers support wartime relief through clothing and surgical dressings production, delivering 1 200 000 garments and 10 000 000 dressings for European war victims and preparing for National Defense needs.
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