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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1914
Page
9
Several residents travel between Anamosa Cedar Rapids Dubuque Clinton Monticello and Mechanicsville for visits and business. Advertisements highlight Easter promos and low lace curtain prices at Deatrick's and Doutick's while Dr. L G Stabler offers eye exams.
Monticello and nearby communities report travel to Excelsior Springs and Shenandoah, polling for district judge candidate H B Boies, and arrivals and visits across Iowa towns. Births, illnesses, travel, and social events fill the week with church activities, school matters, and a federal grand jury inquiry into Anamosa bootleggers.
Keith Vanter and C O Collett visited Monticello last Monday to arrange for the chautauqua assembly set to begin July 29. Marriage licenses issued include Forrest Doland and Elizabeth Corbitt. L E Merrill and Nettie Lienen. Lawrence Schoon and Johanna Rickless. Paul Schuetz and Clara Hanken. A Percheron stallion named Kersulat, imported from France, was purchased near Monticello.
Ed Le Clere was summoned to Coggon by the illness and death of his mother Mrs Charles Ee Le Clere. She died last Monday at age 72. Funeral was held today. Born Theresa Kimling, she lived in Dubuque county at marriage and spent most of her life in Linn county. She was mother to thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters, all living.
The wife of William R. Weir of Davenport and former Monticello resident Jessie Davison Weir died at her Davenport home last Monday night. She was the daughter of a well known Davenport lawyer and left two homeless children in her care. Her husband and Monticello friends mourn her loss.
Miss Clara Hanken wed Mr Paul T F Schuetz at eleven today in a ceremony at St John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. Rev William H L Schuetz, the bridegroom’s brother and pastor, officiated before invited friends. The bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs B H Hanken of Langworthy. The groom came from Wisconsin to lead the parish school and has made friends in the town.
Viola Kaufman of Cedar Rapids argues in a letter that women must gain a voice in lawmaking to curb long worker hours for women and improve future motherhood. The piece contrasts growing church attendance with Sunday newspaper reading and praises regular worship as a sign of a community’s intelligence and morality.
It describes an in school exam week with a board event and student rewards. It lists Republican candidates for county offices in Jones County including Walter O. Rowen and D A Downing and notes others such as W K Pearson and Rudolph Bohren. It also covers the Katie Moran versus Martin Martinson case reversal and upcoming retrial.
A Connecticut Courant issue dated April 13, 1795, treasured by John E H Pond, surfaced from his late father’s effects. It features foreign news, a post office letters list, and a state lottery drawing, with local ads for dry goods and rum. A Knights of Pythian Roosters banquet included a humorous incubator ceremony and knighting of two members as cocks of the high roost.
The board in special session approved last meeting minutes and bills for school funds. Salaries set for superintendent 1650 yearly and for several teachers with monthly rates. Frances Dearborn elected primary principal at 70 monthly, others named in the specials. Minutes show adjournment by secretary H B Reed.
The Keith Vawter chautauqua assembly opens in Monticello on July 29 for five days with varied programming. Highlights include American Girly entertainers, Joseph R. Hanley on American crusaders, Ringadorf Co, J H Richards lecture on Dustpan Kuss and His Wife the Devil, and Byron Lick on Panama.
Howard Putnam the city assessor submitted his roll to the board of equalization and it was approved as filed. The city’s total assessments excluding real estate include moneys and credits 731074 other personal property 170804 new buildings 18500 and bank stock 398400, all higher than last year. Miss Margaret Hogan of Castle Grove and Mr M Smith of Cedar Rapids wed at the Church of Immaculate Conception Castle Grove. the bride a stenographer with Cedar Rapids law office experience, and the groom a Chicago lace house traveling salesman.
An observer notes that war has visited the country only five times and predicts that any future conflict with Mexico would begin in April. He cites the rapid movement of battleships toward Mexican ports and Huerta’s call to salute the American flag as indicators of potential hostility.
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