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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1913
Page
9
A montage of short items notes visits by Mrs Don McAleer in Dubuque Mrs Jacob Jacobsen to Belle Fourche Miss Ethel Young Cedar Rapids Mayor Hoag Chicago Miss Mate Seimering Laurens and other locals. Deitrick Co. ad promotes millinery. Juries and legal notices touch Monticello Cedar Rapids and Anamosa with various residents.
Monticello collects a flurry of odds and ends as residents travel for surgeries and visits, while Farley and Dubuque connections, theater and church events, and local business ads fill the week. Notables include Katie Vernimont’s Dubuque operation, Dorothy Pond visiting, and Kodak printing services offered locally.
The weather brightened last Sunday after a week of wet conditions and became dry by Monday enabling farmers to work fields. Reporters noted better road prospects in rural areas as travel improved. Everything in jewelry at Patrick's.
Scott Monroe, a resident of Anamosa, fell beneath a moving Cedar Rapids bound train last Monday evening. He lost a hand and had his arm amputated between the elbow and shoulder.
C S Bidwell returns from winter trip to Cuba and Florida and observes Terra Haute tornado and floods. Andrew Davidson sells residence and 40 acres near the city to G Kettlesen of Wyoming for 9500. Miss Ethel Cline from Marion wins sophomore oratorical honors at State University. John Bateman silver anniversary celebrated by daughter Marie. Home economics course by Miss Knowles at Iowa State College starts Monday with ticketed lectures. Fred McLaughlin travels to California as father Michael McLaughlin is ill. family plans return after Chloe Brazelton’s arrival.
Mr and Mrs Henry Ladeholt of Scotch Grove township marked a shared birthday on Friday April 11 as both reached fifty. Their children and friends hosted a party across Scotch Grove and beyond, hoping for many more anniversaries with happiness and togetherness.
Jos Davis a laborer with a grading gang was shot by a fellow laborer near Olin on Sunday afternoon. The shooter, described as a negro, was arrested and jailed at Anamosa. Davis died in Cedar Rapids hospital the next day from a lung wound. The suspect faces murder trial at the May term.
Howard T. Smith son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Smith died last Saturday at 6 am from scarlet fever after returning home from quarantine. Born Monticello November 19 1888 he was over 25. He had worked for Hall Manufacturing Company and previously clerked for J H Perrine. The community expresses sympathy as questions about fumigation are raised. Harness repair notice from Renk and Cropp.
Kate Moran of Washington township secured a $600 district court judgment against Martinson for alleged assault in a fence dispute. The saloon keeper appeals to the supreme court from the lower court ruling. Meantime a Lux crossing freight wreck blocked a banana train, injuring several cars and delaying service as crews cleared the track.
Misa Genevieve Lawrence daughter of J. O. Lawrence of Monticello, wed Thomas Connolly of Kalaka Montana on April 6. Rev Fr Repensburger performed the ceremony attended by Hannah Bowler with P B Murphy as best man. The couple left for Bowman then Mont. homestead. Mrs Connolly led North Dakota Independent Telegraph Co. locally. Connolly worked as traveling auditor for Western Lumber and Grain Co, formerly from Vermont.
A scammer style letter claims a Cuban patriot hides thousands of pounds in England and asks Sam Eby to guard a daughter, a classic swindle. Eby notes no money is requested this time but warns it is an old ruse exposed by Dexter Page years ago and warns readers to beware similar letters and the circular warnings issued by the U S government.
The junior class nears United States Civics completion and begins Iowa government study. Students prep for spring gymnastics, plan a picnic, and the reading class tests Friday or Saturday. A new English assistant arrives while Miss McCuskey returns after five weeks away. A radiator accident nearly drowns a pupil, the domestic science class bakes for teachers, and theory of music students prep for finals.
A widower left his three girls to a neighbor guardian who, though unrelated, raised them and paid each more than 1000 on their 18th birthday. The story contrasts guardianship with family belonging and urges keeping a family scrap book as a living record. It also notes a boarding house quip about rising canned corn costs and its impact on meals.
The article argues that greed and neglect of thrift plague heirs who inherit wealth. It cites old maxims about easy come, easy go and three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves, noting waste harms society and prompts moral critique of inherited fortunes.
April events in Monticello include a name change for Starks firm to Starks Squires, Allen Fisher and Mary Van Voltenburg wed, Clara Weir vacationing home, Farwell death at 81, Prof Beals starting Monticello schools, graduating exercises on the 18th with named graduates and teachers, Clara Wales weds J D Langetroth of Monteray Mexico, Edith Sherman triumphs in eastern Iowa declamatory contest, Carrie Swearingen narrowly survives a coral ring in throat after a fall.
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