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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1937
Page
2
Miss Loretta Krause of Worthington spent Sunday with friends. Numerous listed visitors and relatives frame a weekend of travels to Racine Belle Plaine Dubuque Anamosa Monticello Des Moines and Cedar Rapids among locals Mrs Clara Widmier Brayner Mo Mrs Will Hunter Morley and many others are named with travel or hosting details.
Local names feature visits from Chicago and Cedar Rapids relatives, hospital cases, births, and travels across Iowa. Families like the Meads, Monk, and Hubbard host kin while others welcome guests from Denver, Milwaukee, and LeMars. A new son joins the Rickless and Fahrni families at McDonald hospital.
The longtime Monticello house east of the Congregational parsonage, owned by John Hagen, is torn down after 65 to 70 years as a social center. Built by Simington and then owned by the Dunham and Hayen families, the site will be replaced with an eight room house by Adolf Egger. John Hagen and son Gaylon will move in when complete.
A long list of visitors and relatives converges in Monticello with trips spanning Berkeley California Waterloo Iowa Des Moines Columbia Mo and Decered. People include Ida Thompson Carl Reuter Tead Govan Peterson Palmer Schmidt and Rodman among others sharing meals picnics and family gatherings with local households and churches.
Mrs Frank Byserly and Mrs John Kayberry attended a county home project meeting of women at Mrs Hoffman s Martelle home Friday afternoon Sept 3. County chairman Mrs Bernard Cass presided with sixteen women present. Plans were made for teas by township groups inviting all farm women. On Tuesday Sept 28 Castle Grove Richland Lovell and Washington meet with Miss Harken as chairman.
Wayne Jackson Fairview and Cass groups meet with Mrs. Glen Jones as chairman on Sept 29. Scotch Grove Wyoming Clay Madison Oxford group chaired by Mrs. John Mayberry on Sept 30, and Greenfield Rome Hale group chaired by Mrs. Harlan Russell on Oct 1. Annual election kept officers. Mrs. Bernard Cass re-elected county chairman. Mrs. Morse named music chair and Mrs. Mary Brown health chair. Home beautification hobby noted. iced tea and cookies served after adjournment.
A 1 to 2 ratio of beef to pork is recommended for a stuffed meat loaf. Ground meat seasoned with onion salt and pepper is packed around a moist bread dressing inside a greased leaf pan. Top with bacon slices and bake at 359 F for about an hour.
St Matthew and St John Lutheran churches list pastors Paul Gutknecht and H L Adix with 9:45 Sunday school and 10:30 English services. Trinity English services at 9:00, Prairieburg St Joseph’s Masses at 7:00 and 9:00 with confessions Saturday. Castle Grove Lutherans meet 10:45, Hopkinton St John’s 10:30 worship, mission status noted. Reformed Church names Tendick and 9:30 Sunday school, English and German services 10:30. Congregational Church holds 11:00 worship after 10:00 school, fall plans discussed. Methodist Episcopal reports 10:00 school, 11:00 worship, Epworth League 6:45.
A cordial invitation extends to all for Sunday morning worship ending the conference year. Pastor will attend the Water loo annual conference Sept 14 to 20. Lucile perce will lead Sunday school at 10 and morning worship at 11 with a sermon on a sinner and a religious moralist ending with Jesus words this one went to his home justified. Christian Endeavor 6 45 p m Frances Taylor leader. Evening service 7 30 p m studying Jesus miracles with the theme Changing Water Into e.
Over the past week John McDonald hospital admitted Art McDonald Harold Richter and Paul Warner. Tonsil patients included Keith Ritter Laura Boner and Elsie Schlemmer. Births were recorded to Sands Ridenour Hayden Davidson and Rickless families. Dismissals included Leo Dierks and Clarissa Houston.
Mrs Emilie J Moore wills 200000 to the Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln Nebraska for a new building to provide care without fees or discrimination. The estate valued at 1675643 in 1934 will fund operating the hospital after legacies are paid. An iron lung fund is also provided by a Lincoln man for infantile paralysis care.
Rockefeller Center stands as the largest building project ever financed by private capital according to contemporary reports. The immense development at the heart of New York showcases unprecedented scale and investment by corporate backers.
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