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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1919
Page
10
Devlin Millinery promotes hats for women with a special showing for children and misses. Local residents and visitors including William Putnam, Koop, Brown, and Deischer travel to Cedar Rapids, Manchester, Farley, and Worthington for visits and social calls.
A long list of residents and relatives spread through Cedar Rapids and nearby towns. Names include Mrs Amelia Trumbull, Mr and Mrs Gooley, Miss Nola Dennison, J H Place, Mrs Kehoe, Mrs VanMeter, Miss Glatha VanMeter, Dr Teeter and family, Miss Florence Moles, John B Zimmerman, Miss Almeda Bell, Mr and Mrs McCoy, Miss Edith Rettig, Matt Muller, Mamie McMahon, Mrs Edward Turner, Marshall Hall, Rev Edward Lang, Mrs Dodson, Dr L G Stuhler, Henry Carlson, Miss Adele Wilkens, Mrs Isaac Schneider, and others visiting or traveling between Cedar Rapids, Anamosa, Rock Island, Monticello, and Oxford Junction.
Mrs Wm Kness and two children came back last Monday evening from Cedar Rapids where they stayed with her parents Mr and Mrs W H Hopkins Miss Maeme Pasha of Chicago spent last Friday evening with Monticello friends She is private secretary to the treasurer of Critchfield Co Chicago
The Jitney gasoline car was placed back on the Monticello Calmar run yesterday. It operates only in the summer months as it cannot be heated adequately for winter use.
Fred Lang a soldier at New port Rhode Island enjoys fur lough with his sister Mrs Anne Ehrisman and his parents at Sand Spring. A son was born to Mr and Mrs William Byers on March 26, a Monticello native now living in the west.
The bottom dropped out of the trial business in the district court last Friday. Some cases assigned for trial last Monday were settled or continued before then, and jurymen were notified not to return. Judge Ellison handled formal business last Monday. Judge Smith will return next Tuesday to make final entries and adjudicate matters pending and cases taken under advisement.
Mrs E R Spencer of Des Moines visited last Monday evening at her sister Mrs A Miner’s home. She came to aid due to illness affecting both Mr and Mrs Miner.
H L Pyle, formerly of Monticello, has completed embalming studies in Des Moines and earned a license to practice. He joins the firm J B Turner & Son of Cedar Rapids. C N Patrick at 34 West Main Street Marshalltown requests glasses be sent without a case if fitted by him.
Harry J. Korslund of Minneapolis, a junior in architecture at Minnesota State University, spent part of the week with his sister Mrs. Charles A. Coxsee. Monticello merchants resume Wednesday evening hours all summer, with salesmen Frank Page promoting Buick cars and reporting five sales last week. Fred Schone and Anna Schone of Scotch Grove and cousins Mr and Mrs Paul Channing of Chicago were Monticello visitors. Channing recently discharged from the army.
Superintendent Dunlap and family will move into the Harms residence on Brad street. The house they vacate will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. August Ricklefs, purchased by Mr. Ricklefs months ago. Rev. J. B. Corkey of Winterset, overseas service, will address the opera house on Tuesday April 15. Good words flow from Grinnell and other places where Corkey has spoken.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Coon and their son Robert traveled to Cresco last Saturday. Mr. Coon returned Monday, while Mrs. Coon and the boy stay for three weeks with the former’s parents.
Mr and Mrs Godfrey Bader lease the Ferring restaurant and rooming house. They plan a special chicken dinner next Sunday to celebrate the new venture. Mr Ferring says his Delco farm lighting business was too burdensome to run both enterprises.
Mrs Bader received a telegram last Monday that her son Jake Bader had landed in the United States and was located at Camp Merrill New Jersey He has served in the medical corps of the United States Army and seen considerable overseas service.
Burns Lodge No. 173 A F and A M will hold a special communication Friday afternoon April 4 at 2 p m Work on Master Mason degrees A supper will be served at 645 All Master Masons are welcome A class of four fellow crafts will be raised to Master Mason status.
Maggie May Hance, seven, arrived and will live with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pfiel of Castle Grove township. Her sister Dorothy Hance of Siloam Springs will reside with Mrs. A. W. Cramer in the city.
Frank Bolton, a former Monticello boy, visiting today after being discharged from the United States army two months ago. He has worked in the general offices of the Omaha railroad at Minneapolis and is en route to visit relatives in Cedar Falls, stopping in Monticello for a day.
John M. Foster of Cedar Rapids died in Cedar Rapids about ten days ago. Civil War veteran and father of Prof. John EB. Foster of Des Moines and Herbert Foster of Cedar Rapids. He also leaves a daughter Mrs. William Aldrich of Gladbrook.
Ransom Calkins president of the C. M. & St. P. Ry. Co. and other road officials passed through Monticello on a special train this morning. Calkins, a Monticello native who trained as a telegraph operator here, paused to greet old acquaintances.
C Craig of Anamosa was summoned to Monticello to assume temporary charge of the Eclipse Lumber company office. Local manager Harry Rodman and assistant Joel Starks are ill with influenza, and Mrs Rodman and her son Eugene are also sick.
CG H Schipman and Mrs Schipman were riding when their auto suddenly burst into flames. Quick aid from nearby bystanders contained the blaze with only minor injuries to fingers. Investigators suspect a short circuit in the battery caused the fire.
The Cedar Rapids Calmar train derailed at Strawberry Point after a defective switch caused a siding collision. The engine tender and baggage car tipped, a wrecking crew re-railed the cars, and the Cedar Rapids bound service from Calmar ran unusually late Saturday evening.
The Rhodes barber shop moves today from the rear of the Monticello State Bank to the former Peterson Clothing store site. Mr Rhodes recently purchased the new place and fitted it as a first class barber shop. Hours match town shops: 6 pm weekdays, 9 pm Wednesdays, 11 pm Saturdays.
A Ford touring car belonging to J. C. Flenniken of Olin was stolen on a Cedar Rapids street last Saturday night. The vehicle was recovered near Bertram the next day and abandoned by the thieves after a tire blew out.
The cemetery association plans a pressed brick utility building on the site of the old tool house in Oakwood Cemetery. The twenty feet square structure will have a south front porch, multiple rooms, and toilet facilities. It will provide shelter for visitors caught in rain within the cemetery.
William Lange and Miss Violet Carr were married at the Scotch Grove Presbyterian parsonage last Monday at 2 o'clock. The ceremony was performed by the church pastor. The bride is the daughter of Walter S. Carr and his wife of Scotch Grove township, and the groom is the son of Mrs. August Miller. They plan to reside on the Robert Clark farm near Jby's mill.
The congregational meeting will take place at 7 30 PM in the church lecture room. Professor Dunlap will lead a short song service at the opening. Each church group will report its year’s work and new officers will be elected. Refreshments will follow in the basement. All members and friends urged to attend.
Next Sunday April 6 the examination of the Lutheran Zion church Wayne Confirmation class will take place and on Sunday April 18 the Confirmation services will be held. All services begin at 10 30 a m according to new time. The class includes 12 girls and 6 boys Celena Mardorf Anna Dirks Wilma Heiken Hanna Willms Hanna Hagen Anna Wessels Freda Zimmerman Mamie Antons Edna Stutt Augusta Rieken Minnie Behrends Grace Siemers John Rieken John Buscher Hermann Zimmerman John Stahlberg Fred Otten.
Howard Lee age 13 son of Mr and Mrs Carl Lee of Madison Wisconsin won the captured German helmet offered by the Wisconsin State Journal as first prize in the victory loan poster contest conducted by the paper last week. He is in the eighth grade of Madison public schools and his orange and black silhouette poster shows the Statue of Liberty entering New York harbor with the legend Help Bring Our Boys Home Buy Victory Bonds. He is the grandson of Mr and Mrs H J Lang Sr of Madison.
Mrs Emma S Pike a former Monticello resident died at 527 Virast avenue Cedar Rapids on Wednesday forenoon at 11 o clock She was the wife of railway conductor Frank E Pike born in Rockford Illinois and was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star The body will go to Maquoketa for burial Friends in Monticello mourn her passing noting her intelligence and gentle manners
The article notes Reconstruction shaping church life and social structures. Next Sunday at the Methodist church the morning topic is the Unit System with charts, followed by an evening message titled Keeping Grace. A 20 minute choir song service is planned.
Miss Hazel Hoag daughter of Mr and Mrs E E Hoag senior at Wisconsin State University Madison Wisconsin was found eligible for the Perfect Posture fraternity in a university physical examination of women in the physical training course Only twenty three girls achieved the perfect rating with symmetrical upright carriage while less than 20 percent overall had good posture
Mrs. Lillian Harms of Monticello and Mr. J E Thomas of Medicine Lodge Kansas recently wed. They plan to move to Mr Thomas home after packing belongings. They have known each other since childhood with ties to Anamosa. Mr Thomas, a farm owner near Medicine Lodge, served six years as Barber county and Medicine Lodge school superintendent. Mrs Thomas is popular in Monticello and will be missed. They do not expect to depart for ten days or two weeks.
Mrs O A Hall learns her son Charles Curtis Miller died of bronchial pneumonia February 4 in a military hospital in Tours France. A Cedar Rapids wireless operator, he left in 1918 for a southern camp and went overseas six months later. Born Rogers Arkansas, 22 on February 25 1919. He lived in Monticello and worked at Hall Manufacturing Co and Monticello Brick Tile Works. He volunteered for service, not drafted.
Nicholas P. Starks, a longtime Monticello carpenter and contractor, died in Los Angeles at his daughter Mrs. Ben Wilson’s home after a stroke. Born August 5, 1880 in Clinton County New York, he leaves children Charles Starks of Nebraska and Mrs. Ben Wilson of Los Angeles. He served Monticello as a council member and was a Burns Lodge A F and A M charter member.
The girls in the psychology class visited the grades on Tuesday. Soloman Marugg Wilma Neilsen and Celena Mardort visited high school on Monday. Two hundred community song books ordered for the next community sing on April 23. Bernice Podhaski Hazel Harrington Inez Young and Barbara Marugs taught in the grades Monday. Miss James Miss Meyers and Miss Dayton were absent. The Junior Red Cross seeks 16 000 tons of clothing for foreign countries. Monticello school will contribute. The fourth grade has handed in fifty nine garments. This week the gymnasium was open to parents. Fourth grade pupils went through their work Monday. The seventh and eighth grades and high school boys exercises were held Tuesday and the fifth and sixth grades Wednesday. The basketball boys with coach Cartano and yell leader Helsey were entertained at Burton McLaughlin's home Tuesday night. four course dinner served. They wondered why one did not eat his salad. Mr Dunlap was absent. Interclass basketball last Friday: seniors and freshmen beat juniors and sophomores 30 to 2. sophomores beat juniors 20 to 6. Seniors and sophomores will play for first honor. juniors and freshmen in a consolation game Friday night.
Mrs Harold Adams and baby girl discharged. Mr and Mrs Charles Gardner welcome a son born March 30 at the hospital. Tom Murray had surgery last Tuesday. Siebel Harms ill with pneumonia improving. Carl Reuter had surgery last week with favorable condition. Mrs D C Winans recently operated on. John Mettler underwent surgery today. Mrs Hisse W Henrichs medical patient at the hospital. Mrs L E Jones had tonsils removed last week. August Seimering operated on last week and is much improved.
Leland Walker, a Sabula farmer, is held to the grand jury on suspicion of placing a loaded bomb in the car of Elmer Peters, a returned soldier. Peters found a wire on the clutch in his garage. county attorney suspects a love affair over a girl as the motive. Both men are described as well known and prominent.
James C. Phelan a 63 year old traveling salesman from Cedar Rapids was fatally injured in Dubuque last Saturday when a box car pushed by an engine knocked him down and ground off both legs beneath the wheels.
Devlin Millinery announces a smart new hat collection and eye care services. Dr. Stuhler provides eyes tested and glasses fitting at the shop location.
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