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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1928
Page
2
Milton Thoen and many residents visited Cedar Rapids last week while McNeill's Hardware advertised Voss wash machines and Winchester paint. Numerous locals spent days with relatives in Hopkinton, Delaware, and Monticello as area businesses promoted film finishing and hardware supplies.
A parade of neighbors and relatives head to Miltona Ottumwa Madrid and West Bend for vacations teaching jobs nursing duties and family visits. Notables include Miss Mary Stadtmueller starting a second year in West Bend. Miss Alma Balsiger training in Rochester. Siebert Harms ill in Cedar Rapids. Siebert Harms and others travel for care and work across Iowa and Minnesota.
Langworthy residents Mr and Mrs Henry Stuhlken and children Marie and George travel to LaCrosse Wisconsin for a family reunion at Mrs Stuhlken’s parents home. Miss Tolatto Johnson assists in Monticello as bookkeeper at Roberts Hardware and temporary freight office worker. Merle Deischer of Seattle visits Monticello relatives. Mrs Deischer formerly Helen Hoy. Henry Monck Langworthy and Will Rickels Castle Grove return from Winthrop Minnesota and visit Le Mars on return trip.
Rev S M Ide and sister Miss Lydia Ide with a group from their Bellevue congregation toured Montice last Monday. They found the fifty mile route generally good with excellent roads overall. James Laude returned to Rockford Illinois to begin his fourth year as athletic coach at the high school. He will coach the lightweight football team and later supervise basketball.
Mrs O A Hall of Monticello dug three potatoes weighing over five pounds each, an unusual yield for gardeners. Miss Gladys Shelley and Miss Helen Lieneman spent time at a teachers' institute in Dubuque. Lieneman begins her second year near Sherrill and Shelley will start teaching at Specht's Ferry next Monday.
Rev. Paul T. Gutknecht and Laur ence Baister attended the annual synodical meeting of the Evangelical Lutheran church in Paullina. Gutknecht returned home while Baister went to Des Moines for a few days at the state fair. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Steiner visited Hopkinton for the harvest home picnic and she jokingly restrained his airplane dream by hanging on to his coat tails.
Brazelton and McLaughlin report the sale last Monday of the Joe Loetscher farm four miles northwest of Monticelo to George Mead for investment. The farm is described as a smallholding but productive and well improved.
Public timetable shows C M St P and PR trains at Monticello with arrivals and departures for passenger and freight service. Notes include connections No 22 to Dubuque via Delaware and No 1 to Chicago via Oxford Junction, plus No 25 from Dubuque and Marion to Omaha and west.
Mrs. Ralph J. Bone hosted a bridge party last Thursday at her home with three tables of play and Mrs. Wilbur Cartano winning high score. The first OES meeting of the season is set for Sept 11 at 8 pm in the Masonic Temple. The Ladies Aid of First Presbyterian met at Mrs. E. J. Farley’s home for refreshments. Helen and Ruth Hayes hosted a six o clock dinner in honor of Misses Trene and Inez Podhaski before their departure for Dubuque to enter Immaculate Conception academy.
A family dinner last Sunday hosted by Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Noble celebrated the birthdays of Wil McLaughlin on Saturday and Mrs. Clarence McLaughlin on Sunday. An out of town guest was Dr. John MecLaughlin of Chicago.
Sixty two relatives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Darrow of Cass township for their annual reunion. A noon picnic dinner followed with games and music. Guests from Anita Atlantic Charles City Springville and Cedar Rapids attended. The Ladies Aid of the Methodist Episcopal church held an afternoon social at Mrs. Ray Hoag’s home with a business meeting led by vice president Mrs. Clyde S. Bixler and two piano solos by Miss Elfriedo Cartano.
Guests at the Lovell township farm home of Mr and Mrs Edwin Wilcox included Mr and Mrs William Wilcox and daughter Wilma of Center Junction. Wilma, a recent Iowa State University history master's graduate, attended with other visitors Bernard Cass of Wyoming and Walter Wilcox of Moline Illinois. Walter plans to begin a master’s program at the Illinois State Agricultural College in Urbana in two weeks.
Last summer Ruth Gould of Des Moines, a Monticello high school teacher, married Harry Heisey of Anamosa. Gould, Oberlin graduate and Monticello history teacher, resigned from the serial board to marry. Heisey, a registered pharmacist and Highland Park College alumnus, works at Stoughton Drug in Anamosa and is the youngest son of Monticello residents Henry B. Heisey and wife.
Mr and Mrs William Jarrett returned last Thursday evening from a three weeks wedding trip through the cast. They wed Aug 13 in Anamosa by Rev Joslin of the Methodist church. Mrs Jarrett was Mabel Baade. The trip covered 2700 miles with one flat tire and 450 miles driven on the last day. Bessie Baade and Edith Baade of Sibley joined the party.
Reported to the Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association hog cholera outbreaks hit many farms in Olin Coggan Hills Wellman West Branch Iowa City Cedar Falls Morse South English Ionia Keokuk Oasis Ida Grove Carroll Center Point Keswick Keystone Vining Preston Marengo Montezuma Louisa Monticello Mitchell Toddville St Ansgar Radcliffe Maxwell Davenport Williams Jefferson Perry Nevada Story City.
Miss Luella Gibson of Cedar Rapids visited Monticello friends last week. Her sister Mrs Libble Robertson has taken a job at a Pasadena boys preparatory school. The Gibson family ran a local Monticello brick yard for years, later sold to Frank d Autremont and then to current owner Mr Ward.
The town of Wyoming in Jones county Iowa will sell 5500 Town Hall bonds at 10 a.m. September 17 1928 in the council room Wyoming Iowa. Bonds are optional one year from issue with no bids below par plus accrued interest. Bids and the opinion of Attorney H N Rogers Davenport Iowa will be furnished by the town.Signed Mary A Brown Clerk Town of Wyoming Iowa.
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