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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1913
Page
9
County Attorney Gorman visited last Tuesday and several locals made trips to Cedar Rapids Muscatine and Chicago. Names appear with shops and events offering glasses sales beds breakfasts and auto sales and a May 1st congregation breakfast.
Mrs L D Carhart of Marion visits with children placed in Monticello area homes. City bonds worth 5000 dollars sold to Isaac Schneider at par plus interest. Mrs J W Coxsee returns from two month trip with relatives in Oberlin Cleveland and Brooklyn. Local jeweler ads and optometrist notices appear amid school and church news.
Urban Haeussler sold his meat market to Hallauer and Widmer due to illness. Hallauer, son-in-law of Jacob Schneider, and Widmer, longtime market employee, continue the business. Haeussler, previously prosperous, is noted as stricken with a brain tumor and is now blind after a successful operation in Boston with Dr. Cushing and Iowa City doctors confirming the diagnosis.
Charles W. Rigby died in Los Angeles on April 22 and his widow notified Monticello of plans for interment there. He was son of the late John and unknown wife, survived by his widow with no children, and had moved from Colorado to California over a decade ago.
Mrs Heywood once Miss Mary Qualer was brought before Iowa commissioners of insanity and ordered to the Independence asylum after returning from Omaha with evident dementia. A.L. Peet’s guardianship suit against Otis N Newman and Susie A Newman ended with a verdict they are of sound mind. Two men faced charges for a Sunday park disturbance. they were discharged as park management faces crowd issues.
Preparatory to constructing a new gym, the school board has purchased the Locher building on the east side of the heating plant. The gym will be built where it stands with entrances from First street and the school grounds. The second story will house classrooms accessible from the grounds without a stair. Purchase price is 2500 now and 1000 one year hence without interest.
Mrs. Alice Lynch Snyder was brought before the commissioners of insanity last week on her sister’s complaint. Friends believed overwork during aid to the Rhatigan family caused a hysterical condition, not a mental illness. The commissioners ordered observation at the county home before transferring her to Independence for treatment. It is hoped she will recover and return to health. Miss Elizabeth Campbell of Hopkinton has been visiting Mrs. L. II Lang.
Miss Neale 8 S Knowles of Ames captivates Monticello housekeepers with a series of daily home economics lectures and live cooking demonstrations. She uses an improvised kitchen to show planning and night cooking, juggling tasks while lecturing about omelets custards and puddings.
Anamosa high school notes report visits by Supt Clevenger Mrs Perrine and Miss Franks and talks by Miss Knowles Ames. A senior boy strains eyes in physics lab and another cuts a finger during experiments. Freshman hears about execution as a topic. Margaretta Hanken of Scotch Grove dies of diabetes at 63, survived by husband and four children. Aletha Hanna dies at 19 in Anamosa from cancer. funeral at Cass Church tomorrow.
Thomas Kasper a respected Richland township resident died at Rudolph Kasper’s home in Wayne township after illness. He was born in Switzerland in 1852 and came to America in 1864. Survived by his brother Andrew Kasper and several nieces and nephews, funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. at Rudolph Kasper’s home.
Reading from The Express files for April 1878 details local life in Monticello and surroundings. Notable items include deaths of Alien G. Jewett and Flugh Matthews, a bridge bid by the Masillon Bridge Company, bank plans by Carpenter Lovell, a Strawberry Point branch, a marriage of Samuel Fluckiger and Lizzie Lynch, a protracted Methodist meeting, and market prices for oats corn hogs butter and eggs. also notes on road conditions saloon license hikes and school rankings. The ownership transfer of The Express to John Blanchard is recorded with a nine‑man owning association list.
Miss Knowles reports strong local interest in her meat cooking lectures. More than seventy women joined this forenoon's demonstration, and the ladies who attended share her pleasure at the event.
Special sale of 50 dozen men’s pure silk base socks with foot defects called seconds. Available in black blue and brown and guaranteed 60c value but priced at 20c. Also Stablers Edison and Victor machines priced from $10 to $200. Dr Redmond offers eye testing.
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