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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1934
Page
3
The Point Pleasant church near Iowa Falls marks 75 years with a homecoming on September 30. Rev. Dewey Lamprecht leads the congregation as past celebrations draw hundreds of former members back to the Har din county site.
The Purcell farm near Ida Grove Ida county will propagate Chinese golden pheasants under the state fish and game commission. Several hundred birds are expected next season for sale to the state game department for distribution to game preserves.
On the Har rison county farm of Co. A. Myers near Logan a silo filling crew faced confusion when Harve Spencer reported a missing purse containing 50 dollars. A search failed to recover it as the ensilage cutter was started while the hood was up and several crew members narrowly escaped harm.
Escaped injury reported as a car from the silo to a house ran into another vehicle on a highway cutting through the farm, leaving the hood badly battered and one driver involved.
Tickets priced at ten cents weekly for fifteen weeks grant access to all home football and basketball games, the winter lyceum, and the senior operetta. Holders join the Monti High Pep Club and may win a theater party through class contest. Monticello’s recent 14 to 7 practice win hints at a strong season.
Miss Berryhill's sixth grade studies Rom ancestry and history. Alta Rathbun broke her arm. Betty Brokaw joined fourth grade last week. Fourth graders read a chart. art circles form. Miss Rabe's sixth grade has 4.53 in savings. June Brokaw entered first grade this week. Miss Newton's classes create a Home and Animal Friends booklet with student illustrations or clipped pictures. A turtle visited first and second grades. Second graders are building a store. Juanita Rickels joined second grade this week. Two students, Phyllis Snyder and Glen Taylor, are on the dental honor roll. Third graders bring moths to watch cocoons form. Alma Brokaw enrolled in third. Fifth grade has 11.64 in its Thrift and Savings fund and will make transportation posters in history. Carl Behrends returns after missing much of last week due to illness.
Continued from page one, list of court actions and final reports approved. Guardianships, estates, and numerous civil judgments including foreclosures and divorces. A Seattle cafeteria drug store note appears in the docket under miscellaneous items.
Cornell College Dean urges letting children bear responsibilities while avoiding overprotection. He says adults should offer constructive activities, minimize nagging, and allow achievement to follow. The talk closed with a group singing led by Earl Holtz and Beth Wallis at the piano.
Short local notice asks anyone with information on a missing black and white pig to contact Tony Kammerman. A second item advertises a four to five room rental with full basement and new furnace through Bob Aldrich, plus a funeral thank you note from Mrs Hartman and family for Christian Hartman.
In the northern district of Iowa a bankruptcy petition by Edwin Wilcox of Monticello seeks a composition or extension under section 75. The first creditors meeting is set for October 5, 1934 at 2:00 PM at J. J. Locher’s office corner First and North Sycamore Monticello. Conciliation Commissioner J J Locher presides.
Classified notice offers native timber and wagon parts from R. J. McNeill including wood, wagon tongues reaches and eveners. Contact details not provided.
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