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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 19, 1929

Page

2

Local Items Highlight McNeill’s Hardware Adin Full Page Reach

Budgets and sales chatter fill the page with Seed corn dryer units at six dollars per hundred and a full line of shells rifles and shotguns. Several residents visit Davenport Dubuque Ames and Rockford while others travel to Anamosa Cedar rapids and Washington for family events and shopping.

McNeill's Hardware McNeill’s Hardware

Social Notes From Monticello Area Guests

The column lists local residents hosting and visiting relatives in Monticello and nearby towns, with travels to Cedar Rapids Anamosa Chicago Nashville and North Dakota. It notes births and family updates along with local ads for hardware and a school typing machine.

Carlsen wed in Chicago prompts local notice

Word reached Monticello last week that Henry M. Carlsen, formerly married here, wed in Chicago on September 11. No further details on the marriage are available.

Henry M. Carlsen Monticello Chicago

Entertaining Program at Rotary Meeting Highlights

Ben C Roberts gave an enlightening Labor Day talk on its US significance. James Birklets and Ray Moore shared experiences from a trip to Singapore and Europe. Attendees included Jack Finlay. next week's event will host Rotaryanna and Monticello teachers at 6 20 PM in the Soldiers Memorial gym. Federal officials report 17 thousand farmers use purebred sires in the US.

Ben C. Roberts United States Rotary Tink Mr. Roberts Janes Birklets Ray PR Moore Rotary Club Rotaryanna Monticello Soldiers’ Memorial

Monticello Society Notes Entertainers With Dinners And Bridge

Mrs. Agnes Gearhart hosted six thirty dinner for her Sunday school boys with post meal games and music. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hicks and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Shelley hosted a noon country club dinner for twelve in honor of Harry Hempstead and daughter Alice of Tampa and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mead of Manchester. Miss Janet Hazard hosted a Friday twelve thirty luncheon and a bridge afternoon at Maples Inn with twelve guests and Miss Hazard’s home later for three tables of bridge. Mrs. James Carter of Cincinnati attended as out of town guest and led the high score.

Agnes Gearhart Elmer Hicks Ernest Shelley Country Club Harry Hempstead Alice Tampa Florida Frank Mead Manchester Janet Hazard Friday Maples Inn Miss Hazard James Carter Cincinnati John Fraser Charles Northrop John Locher George Wilkens Halstead M. Carpenter Kate Maurice Ohio Mesdames Charles Luett Clarence Matthiessen Luett

Chapter FP PEO opens fall meeting in Monticello

Chapter FP P. E. O. of Monticello held its first fall meeting with a 1 pm luncheon hosted by Mrs. A. M. Maurice at home. The social committee assisted, decor featured yellow and white daisies, and place cards matched the theme. A business meeting followed led by vice president Mrs. E. J. Noble.

Monticello A. M. Maurice E. J. Noble

Local Social Events Highlight Autumn Gatherings

Cedar Rapids families visit Mrs. Hosford, an invalid aunt, and share a noon dinner. The Methodist Ladies' Circle elected officers for next year and raised funds at a Sunshine bag collection. Autumn luncheons and a bridge series at Maples Inn feature out‑of‑town guests, decorative yellow green schemes, and multiple high scores.

Carl Morse Nadine Mrs. Johnson Cedar Rapids

M E Conference Meets in Dubuque at Grand View Church

The seventy fourth annual Upper Town conference of the Methodist church gathers in Dubuque this week with Grand View Methodist church hosting. Bishop Frederick Leete of Omaha presides as hosts include St. Luke's Grace Ashbury Rockdale East Dubuque Center Grove and Reed's chapel. Notable speakers include Dr J M Attman Chicago in charge of a religious education clinic and Friday lecture. George Mecklenburg Minneapolis. R EK Diffendorfer New York City. and Letha Daubennick evangelist from Jubbulpore India delivering missionary talks.

Upper Town The Methodist Church Dubuque Grandview George Mecklenburg Wesley Methodist Church of Minneapolis Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals R. EK. Diffendorfer New York City Methodist Board of Foreign Missions Letha Daubennick Jubbulpore India

Scout Troop 49 Set for Inspection and New Year Plans

Boy Scout notes invite all troop committee and members to Monday 7 15 p m inspection for Troop 49. Leaders share goals of more Tenderfoot Second Class First Class and Eagle Scouts, merit badge study, and a first week October board of review. An overnight hike is planned for the last weekend of September.

Afonticelo Moore Scout Ricklefs Birkenhead England

Banking Accounts and Soil Fertility in Iowa

The Manson Journal notes that a bank account surviving summer strain by paying taxes and coal bills signals health, while most fail elsewhere. Iowa soils will need commercial fertilizers, says soil men at Iowa State College, as no cropping system can fully return phosphate removed by crops.

Manson Journal Iowa Towa State College

Telegraph mix up sends one hundred barrels from Simmons

A Cincinnati firm telegrammed a Cleveland correspondent for "one hundred barrels per Simmons" but the operator split the name producing "per simmons" instead. The error delivered one hundred barrels of per simmons. Japan proper population rose by 902,781 year over year.

Cincinnati Cleveland Simmons Cincinnati House Japan

Monticello People Enjoy Trip To The Far West

Mr and Mrs W P Kelly and engineers Elmer Brokaw and Robert Cessford rode by bus to Marion then boarded the Maroon Special on the C M St Paul and Pacific to Seattle for a series of entertainments. Before returning they will take a boat ride to Vancouver BC. Only Milwaukee road employees with 25 years service plus their families could join. Bond boxes at McNeills Hardware.

W. P. Kelly Elmer Brokaw Robert Cessford Marion C. M. St. Paul & Pacific Railway Seattle Washington Vancouver B. C Milwaukee Road

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