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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1924
Page
9
The report lists many individuals visiting various towns including G P Rockstad in Dubuque and John Matthiessen in Anamosa. Devlin Millinery advertises children’s hats and a special week sale while other entries note home visits, shopping trips, and various commerce oriented notes across Cedar Rapids Monticello Oxford Junction and Dubuque.
Monticello residents and guests exchange visits across Cedar Rapids Center Junction and surrounding towns. The column lists numerous households hosting friends and relatives from Ottumwa to Hopkinton, plus church events and fundraisers including rummage sales and bake sales in April and May.
A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Floyd Clark at the Rouf home last Monday. Louis Kavas buys and will operate a shoe repair shop for 3500. Mr and Mrs Robert Adams of Iowa City welcome son Bruce Allen born Friday April 4. Club events, sales, and school notices follow including a box social at Castle Grove No 9, teaching moves, market sale, and farming tips. The town records report missing Albert Siemers, theft from Dr Gibson, a fractured hip for Fred Stuhlken, a lightning strike on the Lux and Schoon homes, and a young Victor Main dies after scarlet fever and pneumonia. Fire partly destroys the Folkert Hedden roof, Monticello high school plans May 23 commencement with 29 seniors.
An advertisement by Seckler and Schoenhut chiropractors in Monticello Iowa claims spinal adjustments relieve nerve pressure and improve kidney function to ensure total body health. The notice also previews an ad urging Holstein milk from Thomas Shover and Wilcox & Sons, Monticello, noting Shover’s recent first place win in Iowa.
The Monticello High School Alumni association met last Monday at the public library to plan the May 23 banquet. Officers elected for the year are Alice Hubbard president Marie Whrisman first vice president Clara Ross second vice president Idon Rohn secretary and Hartley Wilkinson treasurer. Committees were named for decoration Harry Heisey Vernon Orcutt and Lucile Schweitzer program Mrs. Laura Koop menu Mrs. Elmer Hubbard and Mrs. Augusta Hay dance Donald Sutherland and Dr Asa Lambert. The Presbyterian church women's society will provide the banquet and the dance will be in the K P hall.
The Monticello board of education reelected Superintendent F L Mahannah citing his attentiveness and efficiency. The article notes a stable staff and likely retention of teachers for the coming school year along with local marriages, a funeral, a lecture at Princess theatre, and missionary addresses by Mrs E F Lee with proceeds to foreign missions.
The district court featured a verdict for defendant in the Amy M. Watters v Steinhoék case with $500 awarded and property sold by the sheriff after attachment. A counterclaim and damages on an attachment bond were included. Equitable suits dominated the court week along with a Stone v Watters lien priority case. In Chicago Otis Skinner stars in Sancho Panza at Powers Theatre, lauded for vivid stage pictures and Don Quixote satire, with Dapple the donkey portrayed by an actor.
Eliza Zimmerman reports Wayne township students engage in prep for practice teaching, junior senior banquet, and interclass track schedules. Seniors and teachers attended Cedar Rapids convention. a local minstrel show funds athletic needs is planned.
R A Ricklefs, who has run the hardware business for Lathrop and Ricklefs under Frank Furth Hardware Co, Rock Island Plow Co, and Oxford Junction Savings Bank trustees, resigns effective April 1. No successor yet, sale sought but not closed. Rickless may join an eastern firm as a salesman and move his family away. friends hope they stay.
A series of midweek religious services begins Wednesday with Rev. Leonard Duckett at Methodist church focusing on The Value of Retirement from Matthew 26 36 46. Thursday features Rev. Albert E. Coe on A Man s Stature and Matthew 26 17 35 at Congregational church. Friday presents Rev. George W. McNary on Christ Crucified reading Matthew 27 29 50 at Presbyterian church. Special music each night. Services start 745 p.m. Public invited.
Monticello firemen from all companies are summoned to a crucial gathering tomorrow at 7:80 PM in the auditorium of the public library. Mayor A. M. Maurice urges full attendance to discuss important matters.
Notice asks all interested to send written applications to the secretary Dr. Lambert by April 14 for park policeman positions. Mr and Mrs William Rhodes leave for Wagner South Dakota to start a new life near son Doyt. Rhodes a long time Monticello cigar maker and barber shop owner sold his business to Z A Graves. Congressman Cole notes the 1857 song The Little Brown Church in the Vale by W S Pitts, tied to Chickasaw County church.
John Evans aged 69 a farm laborer was killed last Saturday when an enraged bull charged him on the Garry McCarren farm near Maquoketa. The incident occurred after a battery test and related remarks about equipment were noted.
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