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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1934
Page
2
Local residents including Miss Clara Koop and A L Lenzen visited Dubuque and Cedar Rapids on business and social calls. Kay's advertises a 2-for-1 sale and bake sale events at Skeller's Variety Store, with various Cedar Rapids and Dubuque visitors noted.
Local notices list visits and greetings among residents of Monticello and nearby towns. Names include Flockhart Tuetken Podhaski Hunter Shover Denkhoff Reichart Breen Balster and many others with travels to Chicago Davenport Des Moines and Hastings. Events include family gatherings birthdays and preparations for the Century of Progress exposition attendance in Chicago.
Dr. Ralph Redmond of Jersey City visits his parents Dr. and Mrs. Redmond. Several locals travel to Chicago to visit relatives including Mr and Mrs Hogan and Mrs John White. Mary Lucile Rickless and John White cousins host visitors in Chicago. Numerous Monticello names appear in guest lists and travels over weeks.
A piano solo and vocal numbers framed a Society and Club meeting followed by a luncheon led by Social Circle volunteers. The Reform Church Ladies’ Aid met in the new basement for business and social time with a committee of Rudolph Winkler and others serving refreshments. Schrernes Order of the Eastern Star opened fall activities with a meeting at the Masonic temple. A Harms family picnic at Monticello Park honored Adolph Jennerjohn and relatives from Wisconsin with forty guests enjoying games and visiting.
Recurring notes detail a Bowen's Prairie resident Matt Faber visiting Luxemburg near the German Belgian front lines and witnessing wounded soldiers in churches and halls. Clara Nores returns from Europe as war breaks out, securing poor Greek vessel passage to New York sockets. Local lawyers attend J W Jemison's funeral in Cedar Rapids. land sales and prices in Castle Grove Township are recorded amid a long list of scattered societal items.
The article notes Death Valley as the lowest U S point at 276 feet below sea level and a national monument under the Interior Department by President Hoover. It highlights Furnace Creek Ranch in the oasis, nearby Mt Whitney, and the valley’s spring bloom of wildflowers amid dunes and desert flora.
The Montreal Herald describes mysterious flames at high elevations. Observers on Pike's Peak report fires seen from clothing and gear while at Nevis summit in Scotland an observatory is said to erupt in flame. Local campers note lights from gear and animal manes appear aflame as strange phenomena persist.
Baltimore Sun reports Kosbury farm penitentiary has no walls or visible guards. Inmates act as officers and instructors while overseeing farm and building work across the grounds. Workers wear blue denim jackets and overalls, with the inmate subculture described as orderly and self governed.
The article argues that Robin Hood lacks proof of existence and notes similar tales across Germany and Scandinavia. It suggests a local hero may have inspired the Robin Hood legend and posits Hood as possibly reflecting remnants of the ancient Saxon people against Norman rule.
Belgium embraces pigeon racing as a national pastime with Homing Pigeon clubs nationwide shipping thousands of birds to France and beyond for return matches in the Grand National of Belgium. The sport stirs more local interest than major American events, while a single man offers a business edge visible during every shave.
Mrs. Joe Trance of Cedar Rapids spent the week with friends. The Congregational church announces its annual chicken pie supper Wednesday evening October 17. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Hicks and family of Boone were weekend guests of E. G. Hicks. Mrs. Amelia Hertz and son Elmer of Solon visited Herman Harms. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Myers and Miss Jessie Joyce of Iowa City visited Labor Day with Lorenz Allamand.
Joseph Kulhavy Sr. a well known Oxford Junction citizen died last week at age 80. He is survived by his wife and two sons. Mrs. Charles Stemm of Menlo and her daughter Miss Dorothy Stemm, a Monticello public school teacher, spent last weekend with the Lorenz Allamand family.
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