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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1917
Page
3
Cedar Rapids and Monticello residents travel for visits and business. Notable names include Mrs Nell Davis Mrs Beulah Wells Mrs Ford Clark and Mrs Lawrence Locher. Local firms promote Valdura farm paint and waterproofing services amid city and rural errands.
Mrs Dora Kellogg and her grandsons visit the Schatz home. Devlin millinery advertises trimmed hats. M H Marks returns from Muray to move to Monticello. University student Stuart Stubler visits parents. Richly painted farm equipment promotion. Mrs W H McClintock and Mrs Lehman visit Roth McClintock. Howard Harrington to spend summer near Belle Fourche on the Voorhees ranch. Valdura coatings promoted for tanks and farm structures. Miss Marie Fitzsimons visiting from Waukon for three weeks. Eloise Welch returns from Dubuque Easter vacation. Petersons from Wellman hosted by A O Peterson. Brainerd family travels to Iowa City. Ames students Waite Hasford Hubbard Northrop visit homes. Genevieve Swarzsberger returns to Cedar Rapids. Byers family from Ames visiting Templetons. Swiss Ball Ringers to perform April 20 at Presbyterian church. church sale postponed to May 2. Lois Cowan visits from Des Moines. Margaret McNeill and Samuel McNeill hosted from Chicago. Robert Austin Wallace, Cedar Rapids contractor, dies of pneumonia. survives two sons. brother-in-law of Hughes brothers.
Miss Lisle Arduser returns from Minneapolis after two months with her father Leonard Arduser. She attended Minneapolis public schools during the stay. Hog prices reached a new high of 1.50 per hundred last Tuesday. A farmer reports buying 12 brood sows at season start for 693 dollars.
Miss Maude Arduser arrived in Cedar Rapids yesterday morning to visit her parents Mr and Mrs Jacob Arduser. She works as a stenographer for a local Cedar Rapids firm.
William Laude returned from an eastern trip to New York and Philadelphia last Saturday evening and says pro German war talk is less in the Hast than recently in the Midwest. Mr and Mrs Gooch and baby came back from Illinois last Tuesday evening. Mrs Gooch and child had visited relatives for a month. Mr Gooch is the mail clerk on the Davenport Monticello Cedar Rapids run.
An unexpected snow storm arrived last Saturday morning then melted quickly due to warm ground. The March library report shows 1648 books issued, 2148 visitors, 3265 dollars in fines, 90 peak daily circulation, and 37 to 34 percent adult fiction, with a note on dry soil for plowing. George Ward of Waterloo died in a Tuesday automobile crash near Manchester when the car rolled over. Miss Ruby Davidson, Iowa State College student from Omaha, visited Miss Donna Northrop for the weekend and attended the annual military ball. Lenox College at Hopkinton, recalling Civil War days, reports its old monument and veteran readiness for service, with A St Clair Mackenzie sending a telegram to President Wilson about readiness to serve.
Edna Smith, a former Monticello teacher, wed Forest J. Chamberlin at her parents' Tipton home and plans to reside after May 15 at 470 South Elm St in Waverly Iowa. Albert Mastin returns from Fort McAllen Texas discharged from the army due to foot problems impacting marches. Wireless stations of Winfred Slauson and Leo Locher in Monticello were dismantled by order of the federal radio inspector. A four year old, Arthur Yossi, required surgery after a spoon pierced the roof of his mouth during a visit to his grandparents near Hopkinton. Libbie and Mary George visited their brother Tom I. George east of town. Libbie teaches in Iowa City's State University primary school methods, while Mary teaches in Aberdeen South Dakota. Sandy Shoemaker updated his Express address to Fontanelle Iowa. The Monticello library bought the “five shot” shelf per Dr. Elliot of Harvard, to be placed at standard length. Mrs. A. G. Hanken visited Iowa City with Frieda Hanken, a nursing student. Improvement Club chorus adjourned to the opera house for a patriotic rally. rehearsal next Monday April 16 at 8 pm at the K P hall. Local men George Sours, Marion McGimsey, and Postmaster Lanigan joined Davenport recruiters. another Olin boy needed parental consent to enlist. Oakwood Cemetery contracts V. L. Hanssen to pave main eastern and northern drives. cost about $1000.
Robert Abel funeral drew many friends with Rev. Charles E Cushman delivering the sermon at the Congregational church. Knights of Pythias from Monticello and visiting knights from Anamosa attended. Interment was in Oakwood cemetery. Cascade’s Thomas Kingsley Jr a Monticello High School graduate has enlisted in the US Army aviation corps. His brother William Kingsley sought enlistment but was rejected due to a foot defect. The pair had studied at the Armour Institute in Chicago in recent years.
A meeting in the interest of food conservation will be held at the opera house next Thursday evening at 8. George Burge First district commissioner appointed by Governor Harding will address the gathering. The Improvement Club approved the meeting last Monday night and pledged support. It will address a practical phase of the war situation.
A in town young woman displayed loyalty by climbing onto a porch roof and nailing the old glory flag to the house corner above her room. Her act aims to inspire wavering young men to enlist and serve their country.
The Improvement club met Tuesday with about 200 members present after a St Elizabeth Society dinner. They unanimously voted to hold a follow up meeting in a month and to celebrate the Fourth of July. County agent Fred F Clark of Wyoming aims to enroll boys ages ten to nineteen in corn club work with free enrollment and letters on corn growing. Iowa Corn Club members reached 2100 last year with averages near 92 bushels per acre for 1915 winners.
The Monticello mass meeting of April 9 1017 urged unity for the flag and government in wartime. Speakers praised volunteers German loyalists and patriotism with songs and a parade to the opera house. The school board offers diplomas to enlistees and provides gym space for a new company drill.
Volney Webster father of John Webster of Monticello died at the State hospital in Independence. His body was brought home Saturday. funeral at Storm Hubbard parlors at 2 pm conducted by Rev. J H Barr. Burial in Oakwood cemetery. He was 86, native of Indiana, married to Katherine Wykott who died four years ago. Survived by sons John Monticello and William Council Bluffs and daughter Emma Cox Rock Island.
In Monticello Mr. and Mrs. August Seibles hosted the wedding of their daughter Elsie to Herman Seehusen son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Seehusen of Castle Grove township. Rev. S Ide officiated at St. Matthew's Lutheran with fifty guests as a four course dinner followed and the couple plan to live in Monticello.
Mayor J A Voorhees urges Monticello residents to support national defense as Congress declares war against a foreign power. He appeals for volunteers to join Iowa National Guard or regular army, offers assistance to enlistees, and asks homes and businesses to display the flag.
A state union strike leaves hospital plastering and cement floor finishing at a standstill as plasterers walked out last Monday and cement finishers fail to show up. The move appears to align with a broader statewide bricklayers strike.
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