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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1930
Page
2
Local notes list ten cent paints and a $3.98 bird cage with stand at McNeill’s Hardware. Several residents and visitors are named including J H Whalen engineer and surveyor in Anamosa Iowa and Georgia visitors.
Mrs L Carlson and daughter return to Iowa City after six weeks at the Howard Skelley home. Various visits outline trips to Cedar Rapids, Marion, Anamosa, Sioux City, and Beaver City. Family news includes a new birth at John McDonald hospital and couples visiting relatives in Neb, Minn, Wis, and So Dak.
Mrs Anna F Korslund of Eagle Grove travels from Dubuque to Norwood Massachusetts to visit her son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Harry J Korslund in a Boston suburb. She has been a guest at her daughter Mrs Charles A Coxsece's home for several weeks.
A Dubuque representative surveys Star Route mail service to supply La Motte Zwingle Bernard and Cascade from Dubuque twice daily by truck. Two routes planned one via Zwingle to La Motte and back leaving at 7:00 am and 4:15 pm the other via Bernard Cascade to Monticello with departures at 5:50 am and 3:10 pm. Morning trip to connect with train No 25 at Monticello.
William Penfield who sat atop the Strawberry Point flagpole for six weeks was toppled by a Friday night storm but returned to his post. He plans to stay until tomorrow when a town celebration honors him amid his world record claim.
Readily listed are services at Castle Grove Lutheran G Wolf pastor St John’s Ev Lutheran Paul Gutknecht English 10 45 German Trinity English at 9 00 Presbyterian Leonard Duckett Sunday Sept 21 10 00 Sunday school 11 00 worship Christian Endeavor 6 45 evening worship 7 30 Sermon Christ at the Door St Matthew’s Ev Lutheran H L Adix 10 30 communion 10 00 confessional Ladies’ Aid Sept 24 no Sunday school Methodist Episcopal Roy V Porter final church year worship 11 00 8 00 prayer meeting Epworth League 7 30 Congregational Samuel Gutsohn guest book notes Rally day Reformed Armin Tendick Sept 21 10 00 11 00 7 45 Rally day Sept 28 Saturday rehearsals Bally day junior choir Oct 4 2 30 message The Danger of Procrastination Young People convention Ur sinus Classis Oct 4 5 banquet Oct 4 Legion hall to 8 00 pm
The Anamosa contesting event August 9 selected a representative for the Dairy Cattle Congress judging contest. Judge Ames oversaw the event with Earl Schultz of Town State College as extension chairman. Milk production trended down with Livingstone & Burmeister leading grade Holsteins at 1,005 lbs milk and 36.5 lbs butterfat. Other top entries include Jones Country Home 861 lbs milk 29.1 bf, Men’s Reformatory 821 lbs milk 28.9 bf, Knake & Gerdes 768 lbs milk 28.2 bf, Armstrong & Robertson 738 lbs milk 26.8 bf, White & Russell 523 lbs milk 25.6 bf. Howard Kline top tester.
A report suggests higher magnesium levels in local soil may help prevent cancer among people living in the district, indicating a possible environmental factor in cancer incidence.
Two Anamosa youths, Nichols 19 and another, were wounded while fishing on the Wapsipinicon river near Tom Bemrose’s farm. They allege a shotgun attack. Bemrose denies. Nichols in critical condition with abdominal wound. other boy shot in left side arm and hand. Police say no arrests yet.
The Jones county 4 H clubs plan their annual county banquet next Tuesday evening in Center Junction served by the Presbyterian Ladies Working Band. Medals and special awards will honor members, with Royal Holbrook of Cedar Rapids as main speaker. Plans were finalized at Mrs. B D Heiken’s Center Junction home with reps from Monticello Anamosa Martelle and Wyoming.
Members of George Washington chapter DeMolay of Monticello held a regular meeting in the Masonic Temple building last Monday night. Eleven boys were conferred the DeMolay degree including Thomas George Kenneth Burris Richard Calkins James Rickless Frederick Kreeb George Stott Charles Eby Bill Kettlitz Berkley Curtis Russetl Hughes and James McLaughlin. The drouth has helped butter prices.
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