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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1916
Page
9
Local residents visit family and friends across Iowa with trips to Manchester Mount Vernon Monticello and Chicago. Visitors include Mrs Cornelia Shelley Mrs E B Aloka Mrs Mary Frieden Mrs H S Richardson Mr Wayne Campbell Mrs George Lovell and Mrs George Schoonover. Business ads promote savings on insurance auto care and vulcanizing services.
Lowell Hicks, who has visited his brother in Detroit, yesterday stayed with his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Elicks. He leaves tonight for Montana to resume duties in the U S forestry service for the federal government.
A large audience welcomed the Canadian Jubilee Singers last Monday night at the Presbyterian church. The program, under the Sun day school class of the church, was well received and praised as excellent by attendees. Miss Leah Hubbard, Cedar Rapids junior, visits in the Hubbard home with her relatives, Mrs. and Mrs. Elmer Hubbard.
The Kettlits Kay pony contest crowned Catherine Reishart first with a Shetland pony harness and buggy. Ola Pierce placed second and Andrew Tobiasson third, followed by Lucile Hogan, Carl Cullup, Lily Lewis, and Marie Schatz, who won roller skates.
A 31 car special train from Flint Michigan loaded with eighty Buick machines arrives via Illinois Central to Linn County. The flat cars and coal racks carry two to three machines each valued over 90000 dollars. Guards of six officers accompany the convoy from the Buick factory to Cedar Rapids.
George Ellingwood Joy the boy specialist launches a week long campaign in Monticello from April 16 to 21. He holds a mass meeting at Presbyterian church on April 16 and speaks each evening through Friday. Joy lectures on Childhood and Youth and focuses on better community life with psychological insight and practical advice, also engaging with 7th and high school students to gain their confidence and guidance.
Mr. Joy will lead an independent nonsectarian campaign to showcase the boy’s high ideals. Local committees take charge with executive, finance, advertising, and music chairs listed. a chorus for meetings will rehearse at the Congregational church next Sunday afternoon April 9 at 4:30.
Mrs Lina Mohl nee Burrichter born November 18 1881 in Sharon township near Lost Nation died after a three week illness at age 34 years 4 months and three days. She leaves husband four children and extended family. Funeral at Lutheran church with Rev Vollmer sermon from First Corinthians and large turnout. Burial in Lost Nation cemetery with pallbearers named. Relatives from Monticello Davenport Fayette and Wheatland attended. The column also urges public school brothers to build rustic bird houses to aid returning migrants and protect wrens from English sparrows.
The Board of Education invites bids for renting the opera house with a lease for three years. Bids will be received until April 10, 1916, at 5 p.m. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. C A Doxsee, Secretary.
Dr. L. Q. Stubler fits glasses after eye examination with careful measurements and lens selection to suit the patient’s vision.
The body of Mrs. John Schone was found in the Maquoketa river near the dam after being missing since Sunday. Investigators report possible suicide due to unsettled mind and recent family separations. Her funeral was held in the city, with burial at Oakwood cemetery. A young boy, the son of Mr and Mrs Jed L Lehman, drowned in a water tank, with funeral services held at the Lehman home and interment at Oakwood cemetery.
Notices posted at city limits set speed expectations and traffic rules for buggies and autos. Citizens must keep right and travel in a single direction when stopped. Property owners must connect sewers and water before May 1 or have the city do so. J A Voorhees, mayor. The piece also covers a local wedding and community notices.
In an open letter from Governor H. W. Clarke, Monticello Mayor J. A. Voorhees urges a clean-up week starting April 24. Citizens are asked to tidy their property to keep the city neat and attractive.
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