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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1915
Page
7
Local notes report social visits across towns including Dyeraville Cedar Rapids and Anamosa. residents attend church Easter events and family gatherings while ads promote Doutrick stores and Crane Theatre showings with forthcoming April 15 engagements.
Mrs John Rice and son from Rock Island visit Monticello with Monti cello relatives. Henry F Burrichter and daughter from Lost Nation guests of Monticello relatives. Ed Kiburz and daughter depart Cedar Rapids for Austin Minnesota. O D French of Waterloo visits Monticello. Ed Schneider and health concerns seek medical advice in Iowa City. Nellie Kellum goes to Rochester Minnesota as nurse for a patient. Edith Eastman Iowa City and Myrle Hughes Osco guests of Mary Coxsee. Charles Huntington of Cascade in town recovering from crutches. Frank Hicks and George Drinkwater at Easter vacation in Monticello homes. Ira Krause visits parents in town. Edith Haeussler returns home from Anamosa sanitarium. Gladys Fairbanks visiting parents west of Monticello. Will Adams buys Studebaker automobile. Paul Balecar visits from Waterloo to Switzer settlement. Lucetta Albery expresses transfer misstatement of sale price. Wayne Coykendall and Deva Coykendall visit from Strawberry Point. Helen Ford of White Sulphur Springs Montana visiting uncle Arthur Young. Crane Theatre offers The Master Key and For the Mastery of the World with matinee and evening show. Lucile Chase, Helen Hosford and Helen Hefner visit Wyoming. Minnie Wilker accompanies them home. Fred Dahling, Canning Co manager, to Chicago on subpoena for can suit. Early gardeners boast as Charlie Chase grows radishes in cold frame. Rev W C Allen of Glenwood Minnesota and Dr Paul E Allen of Alburnett Iowa visit Presbyterians manse with family.
Mrs. Ben Harms traveled to Rochester Minnesota for consultation with the Mayo Brothers after multiple surgeries failed to restore her health. The case reflects ongoing medical efforts and unresolved condition.
F B Bonniwell, once a Monticello hardware dealer, is now in St Louis hardware trade. He recently met Dr D A Paine, another former resident, at the San Diego exposition and Paine wrote OC W Hosford about the meeting.
George Abel, recently in a responsible Buffalo post, goes to San Francisco to head a selling agency for an automobile wheel with an improved steel spoke across seven western states. A party of five Swiss nationals, including one young woman, arrived from the Alpine country and were taken in by Mrs. John Ross. Most have relatives in the United States and plan to settle here.
A striking photoplay titled Hypocrites written and directed by Lois Weber will be shown at the Crane Theatre for two days starting Wednesday April 21. The Bosworth release stars Weber under her own direction.
QO D Chase returns from a several week trip for the Hoag Duster Co. noting a persistent business downturn across the southwest while Eastern Iowa appears in comparatively better shape and offers hopeful signs for improved times.
Ahab DeWitt sold his residence to Haye Haven of Langworthy for about $5,400 and will take possession in the fall. DeWitt also purchased the James Young property once owned by Tom Carson.
Miss Kate Maurice was re elected county superintendent by presidents of school town ships and city independent districts at the county seat last Tuesday. She received all but one vote, a forecast result to those who understood the situation. Deputy pay set at 400 dollars.
Last Tuesday afternoon the congregational meeting reported strong church health with good feeling and elders indicating the church is in its best condition in every respect. George L. Lovell offered city land near Lang mill to build a fire station in the central business district where most fires occurred.
W L Rosa resumed work as a traveling salesman for J W Farwell Co of Chicago after a California winter with Mrs Rosa based in Los Angeles. Miss Lucile Runkle's wedding to Harry Kurtz of Fort Dodge is noted with Master Simon Locher as ring bearer, while Miss Runkle once taught at Monticello public schools.
Miss Irma Thoeni daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Thoeni and Mr Fred H Fagan were married yesterday morning by Father George Hauck at Sacred Heart church parsonage. They will honeymoon in Des Moines and Minneapolis then reside in Monticello where Fagan has worked in the drug trade for years. The town notes water use drops from 250000 to 100000 gallons daily after metering and price cuts are possible as the cityowns its system.
At all churches large crowds attended Easter services with sermons and special music from pastors Cushman Allen Turner and others. Monticello high school earned accreditation from the North Central Association, with notable attendance growth and regional draw. A photoplay Hypocrites! drew strong acclaim for its dramatic and allegorical content. Plans for a Monticello packing plant proceeded with initial stock pledges of 13 200 and a target of 150 000. Federal grand jury subpoenas sent to four Monticello men tied to alcohol tax cases.
The Express records events from April 1890 including marriages of Ed J. Albinger to Mary Like on the 16th and Fred Stuhlken to Lilly Bell Oxley on the 4th. It notes school board organization, milk prices at 50 cents per hundred, a pipe organ purchase, a second son born to the Stabler family, and the death of Charles Robinson at 85. It mentions teachers reelected, Max Suhr signing with a Dubuque club, a new Monticello grocery store, a preaching arrangement for Reverend Hugh Robinson, and March telegrams receipts of 55 dollars. Includes Parrott obituary, visits by several locals, a high school declamatory win by Mamie Keen an, and the death of Miss Lucy L. Leech.
The board of equalization announced proposed property assessment changes early in the week and set a later date for hearings on complaints. These changes are tentative and will take effect only after final action at the adjourned meeting.
The April 6 1916 school board special session approved bills for the Contingent Fund and appointed committees for Buildings and Grounds Opera House and Gymnasium Janitor and Supplies Text Books and Course of Study Finance Insurance and Printing Teachers Complaints and Rules. Crane Theater program lists shows from April 8 to April 16 including Rex and Universal features and a variety of matinees and evenings.
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