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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1910
Page
2
Local notes report visits and travels across towns including Cedar Rapids Monticello and Canton. Obituaries mark the deaths of Matthias Nissen and Henry Henderson, with details on families, ceremonies and burial in Wyoming and South Mineral. Community events include the Wyoming Dramatic Company performance of The Spy of Gettysburg to aid Decoration Day funds.
Onslow reports include D. W. Russell of Anamosa visiting earlier in the week. Miss Carrie Mackrill travels to Platt South Dakota to visit relatives. Cement work begins locally. H. D. Hall and N. B. Noyes install walks on Main Street with T. H. Lighfoot holding the contracts.
Prairieburg readers recall Wm Trefz Sr from Coggon visiting Thursday while Anna Scheer sews in the McCrea home and Josephine Leonard travels to Anamosa. Others host guests, shop, attend meetings, and report travels. a lightning strike at the Aiken barn burns stock and gear. landseekers head to Texas. home talent presents The Face at the Window in Ryan on a stormy Friday night.
Sam Ganfield ill list. C L Kay and wife of Farley sun dayed at Cascade. Mrs M A Weir visited Davenport after stay here. Gerald Hamil hosted friends Friday. H H Bryant in Finley hospital for war injury. J P Hunter in Dubuque for eye injury from January gas. O H Huntington Sr called to Monticello for relative’s death. Protestant cemetery held semi annual meeting. O E S gave reception for Mrs Pearl Ingamels of Stanley. Miss Rose Supple married John Gearhart of Mason City by Rev L Roche. Dan Sweeny bought a steel range, later missing range and 4 sacks of oats. investigation expected.
Center Junction reports residents traveling to Tipton Laurel Nebraska Chicago Monticello Freeport Monticello and Anamosa for visits business and social events. Notable items include Mrs J F Livingstone and daughters visiting Monticello and Mrs Kellogg selling the livery and feed stable to James Mead.
Kellogg and Lon Webster and wife relocate to Monticello. No church service at Center Junction Presbyterian on Sunday morning or evening April 24 due to Pastor R. A. Brough traveling to South Dakota.
Mary Schoon erects a new wind mill. Charles Thompson of Clinton visits local merchants today. Aug Siebels unloads a car of machinery and binder twine. Road drag advised for road work. Charles Farragher travels to Cass county Minnesota last week to reside.
Miss McCuskey announces a Friday evening recital on April 22 at the opera house. The program features G A Grant Schaefer's The Circus and Florence Maxim pieces for youth, plus works by Frank Lynes and Theodora Dutton. It showcases American women’s contributions to children’s music and includes German composers Heller Qurlitt Kolling and Henselt.
The concert closes with a two piano march and includes Schubert Liszt pieces. Miss Frances Peterson reads The Lie by Annie Hamilton Donnell. Soprano Misa Cornellia Parkhill of Hopkinton, praised after singing for Madame S Hern Heink, headlines the program. Recital begins at eight, tickets 35 cents at Soetje's drug store.
Resolutions of sympathy from Dale Camp No. 5658 Royal Neighbors of America Monticello Iowa dated April 20 1910 honor Rose Steiner a beloved neighbor and friend The camp drapes its charter for sixty days and records these resolutions for the family Mary Waugh Ida Hubbard Caroline Howard.
A public notice announces W. G. Brock of Martello Iowa as a Republican candidate for County Recorder subject to June 7 primary voters decision American Fence at Cross Hardware Company promotes the want column.
Attorneys at law advertise offices with Monticello State Bank and Citizens State Bank Anamosa. Special attention given to probate business collections and contested claims.
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