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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1917
Page
7
Local notices feature Valdura farm paint from Ricklefs and McNeill with mentions of visits by Dubuque and Cedar Rapids residents, furniture and millinery sales, and travel notes. The column promotes Valdura paint as pure and safe and notes various customers and shop names throughout the region.
Local shoppers inquire about Easter watches and jewelry from R Coon while Devlin millinery advertises hats. Many residents travel to visit relatives and attend plays with notices of travel, schooling, naturalization, and public events scattered through Monticello society.
The Congregational church ladies cleared more than 200 at their second hand sale held last week. Funds are slated for furnishing a room at McDonald hospital. David Winans went to Cedar Rapids last Saturday evening and secured broom factory work. He was formerly with Hoag, familiar with the trade. Fritz Ide, vacationing with his brother Reverend S Ide, spent Tuesday in New Hampton Iowa. He is a senior at the Dubuque Lutheran Theological Seminary. James Young Sr left this morning for White Sulphur Springs Montana to spend the summer after wintering with his son Harry Young in Rock Island Illinois. Monticello public schools are on spring vacation this week and teachers living outside the city are visiting in their homes. School resumes Monday, April 9.
Monticello and nearby towns report new foundations for a Country Club house, land sales, and public library sessions. Members travel to Chicago and Des Moines for work and training while volunteers join a regional war effort and a Co. M and St. P. railway reserve unit forms as war looms.
The O M and St P railway updates train times at Monticello and Oxford Junction. No 22 from Cedar Rapids shifts to 7 85 am arrival and 7 50 am departure. No 94 freight north now at 10:00 am, No 95 departs 12 45 pm, Davenport Monticello train arrives 7 38 am and leaves 5 am, with evening 7 25 pm run. Oxford Junction freight leaves Monticello at 4:00 am, affecting Chicago connections.
The author rants about women wearing airy spring outfits amid snow and cold. He mocks the trend of filmy attire and deep necklines, wonders if warmth or prudence governs fashion, and questions the so called progress of modern dress. The piece cites silk hosiery and far flung styles as evidence of resilience or folly.
About twenty to thirty young men in Monticello signed a petition to form a drill company and meet Monday April 9 at 8 p m with a drill master. The aim is to reach full company strength for potential US service. The signers include Roy Adamson and others. Henry Moenk Sr died at his daughter’s home after a brief illness. He was born in Hessen in 1842 and remarried in Germany before emigrating to the United States in 1881. He leaves six children. Funeral services are set for Friday at 1:30 p m at the Heeren home and 2 p m at the German Evangelical Lutheran church, with interment following.
August Schatz marked his 87th birthday with family celebrations on March 27. Born March 27, 1880 in Hernegarde Germany he later emigrated to the United States and settled in Cascade Iowa. He lived in several towns, worked as a cooper, and is survived by three children eight grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren.
Robert Abel died unexpectedly last Sunday afternoon after months of poor health. Born June 5 1870 in Monticello he worked as a clerk and partner in Bacher and Abel before a career as a coal salesman. Survived by his mother Mrs James Abel and several siblings, his death ends a loyal, lifelong community member.
George J. Bohlken formerly of Sand Spring and Davenport resident, 69, was struck by a Rockingham street car at Second and Scott Monday morning. He suffered severe scalp wounds skull fractures and extensive bruising. He remained unconscious at St Luke's Hospital with little hope of recovery. Relatives identified him as the Davenport victim and his family briefed staff as his condition remained critical.
Judge Hili son closed the March term of the district court last Saturday with the last jury case being the State of Iowa versus Hubert Shaw. Shaw was found not guilty of killing Emerson near Olin after a self defense defense. In a divorce case Blanche Hunter versus W W Hunter the court granted a divorce and the financial part was settled out of court. The court overruled a new trial motion in Fritz Yossiva Olive Hos ford versus plaintiff and entered judgment for the defendant for 163.85 dollars.
Mrs Albert A Steadman Myd birthday will be observed tomorrow April 6 at the home of her sister Mrs William Drinkwater. She was born Charlotte Jane Camp in Cherry Valley Ohio on April 6 1831 and has lived in Wisconsin most of her life. Her marriage was in Janesville in 1860 and after her husband died in 1880 she moved to Milwaukee Whitewater and Monticello where she has worked as a dressmaker with her sister for years. A play A Rose of Plymouth Town will be staged April 13 by Monticello High School seniors with tickets available at Kettlitz Kay drug store next Tuesday.
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