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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
9
Monticello page lists numerous visitors to Cedar Rapids Davenport Dubuque and Anamosa with dates last Tuesday Monday and last weekend. Local shops promote millinery Denkhoff the Jeweler and diamond rings while eyeglass repairs and calling cards are offered.
Numerous residents and visitors are noted across Monticello and surrounding areas. People including Mrs. Jane Hanna, Earl Locher, Mrs. Henry Rickles, Laura Koop, Miss Wanda Beery, and many others appear in social calls, travels, and family gatherings with mentions of Cedar Rapids, Anamosa, Waterloo, Monticello, and Iowa City. News items also advertise agricultural products, factory hiring, hospitality services, and local announcements.
Mrs. Lloyd Sexton and son Oliver left for Moline Illinois to start a future home. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs H C Balster the second child in the family. Dr George K Meyer saw 40 flat cars of Buick cars pass through Oxford Junction bound for the Pacific coast. Nellie Lane Lyons of Aberdeen SD visits her mother Mrs Lane and sister Mrs Pender. Hon F O Bilison returns to Anamosa from Marion due to illness. Martin Kehoe of Cedar Rapids visits Monticello and praises the town. Train No 23 skirts off track near Worthington causing delays. Vernon Slauson undergoes a second operation at University hospital Iowa City. Rain drenches roads dampening automobilists hopes for travel. Newton Wilkinson plans to move from Monticello to Winona Minnesota. J J Hayes and F W Hein organize a music instrument business. A Tommy Eegan mail cart is damaged by a train. Lucile Prentice Kraft marries Homer Locher in Rock Island Illinois. Kate Maurice appointed Red Cross representative for Jones County rents office space. Excavations begin behind Beery dry goods for a new brick building. Clover seed fetches record high prices. a county man pays $80 for seed and $1 for the sack. Inez Young participates in Greek pageant at Cornell College. Mrs Dayton Cunningham receives copies of The Corregidor Weekly from her son in the Philippines. Mrs Henry Hagen of Wayne township suffers a paralysis stroke. Ballou vs Durgan will contest a will probated in Oklahoma with undue influence alleged. Rural carriers miss routes due to impassable roads. mail delivered in batches. Monticello baseball hopes rise with new directors elected. April 12 meeting to coordinate regional schedule.
Mr and Mrs W R Storm and their two youngest children left Monticello for Clarksville Iowa after Storm bought half interest in a local furniture store. The move ends eight years of residence during which the community watched the family grow.
The cafe marks its first anniversary with a Turkey Dinner service on Easter Sunday. The menu features turkey with cranberry sauce mashed potatoes browned gravy creamed peas potato salad tea rolls ice cream cake and beverages. Regular price 50 cents.
Mrs Frances Thompson died at her daughter’s home in Toledo last Thursday and was buried in Monticello after services at Hubbard Iverson parlors. Born August 1861 in Allentown Pennsylvania she was wed in 1870 to Edward M Thompson and lived in Monticello most of her life. She leaves three children J Wharton Maywood Illinois HW Robertson Toledo Ohio and Frank R Thompson Monticello along with five grandchildren. The death was due to heart trouble with other complications after a brief illness.
Arthur R Darling son of Mr and Mrs Lewis Darling of Cannon City Colorado married Vaunda J Sollora daughter of S W Sellers a pioneer rancher of Appleton. The ceremony was conducted March 20 at the Presbyterian Manse by Rev William A Mast with ring ceremony. Darling is a former U S Navy radio operator now with Mountain States Telephone. They will reside in Douglas Wyoming where Darling oversees the transcontinental line exchange.
The Monticello Improvement Club will hold a banquet and annual business meeting on April 7 at 7 30 in Sacred Heart church basement. Tickets are 75 cents per plate for members and friends. A Holn Olson landscape lecture and stereopticon views titled The City and Country Beautiful will follow. Guests include the county supervisors county engineer and agricultural agent. The event aims to discuss road conditions and maintenance for the year with minimal surfacing costs.
Cedar Rapids Presbytery issues programs for its spring session at Monticello First Presbyterian April 27 28 Commissioners to general assembly elected with nominations Wednesday forenoon and elections afternoon. Trustee to succeed Rev Scott W Smith. vacancies and supply committee elections to replace Jrey W M Kevans D J and Rev Scott W Smith. executive commission elections to succeed W M Evins D D Rev P W Jacobson and Hey E Winslow Brown. State clerk to fill unexpired term of Rev Smith who resigned.
The Jones county convention of the Interchurch World Movement will meet at the Methodist church in Ana Mosa on April 9 starting at 10 a m and ending that evening. Each church should send one delegate per fifty members and as many more as possible with at least half the delegation being men. Special stere opticon slides from the New York office will be shown.
The city election held last month produced a modest turnout with candidates showing limited enthusiasm to contest. Mayor Voorhees defeated ex-councilman G P Rockstad by 41 votes as Republicans won three council seats while Democrats captured mayor and ward two and three seats. A ward-wise table details margins and total votes for each candidate.
The Board of Education held an apo session with members H W Read I M Redmond T B Lavell W Stimson and L Wi Hong present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved and motions funded various expenses and supplies including Perry Picture Co Monticello expense and staff salaries. The board adjourned to meet Wednesday evening with Secretary R U L Rielklots.
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