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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1919
Page
10
Waterloo resident L B Cobb visits. Rev J H Barr and many others plan or undertake visits across Hopkinton Cedar Rapids Monticello Dubuque and Waterloo. Millinery ads for Devlin indicate stylish hats. Several trips for visits to Davenport, Chicago, Chicago and other cities noted with dates last Friday last Tuesday last Saturday.
Monticello residents welcome visitors and notables from Des Moines Cedar Rapids Oxford Junction and Mechansville. Travelers include Miss Bernice Lavousseur Miss Julia Stowell Miss Laura Mole and Miss Tolatta Johnson visiting relatives and attending local events. The Royal Neighbors plan a May social at the M W A hall with lunch.
If you want your glasses repaired take them to C. R. Coon's Quality Jewelry store. He offers spectacle frames nose mountings cases and lenses.
Miss Lorraine Day formerly a Monticello public schools teacher visited the J. H. Heisey residence in Hammond last Friday while teaching in Hammond, Indiana.
Barnum Buttles visits his aunt Mrs. Ben Jarrett after a twenty month overseas service in the United States Army. Henry Behrends returns home on a 30 day furlough from a Michigan camp to spend time with his parents. Miss Marie Bell visits Cedar Rapids and is followed home by Miss Almeda Bell from a Cedar Rapids business college. Mr and Mrs O A Hall take caretaking duties at Monticello Country Club for the summer months and move into the club house.
Mr and Mrs John Miller of Earlville visited Mrs Jacob Rohr yesterday. They traveled by automobile and found muddy roads delaying their trip to Monticello. The Tuesday electrical storm did not reach Earlville.
The dairy depot of Rudolph Bohren will open daily from 9 to 11 a m after May 1st Patrons should note the hours and adjust plans accordingly Miss Augusta Barrack received a three inch shell casing souvenir from Verdun sent by a brother on active duty overseas
A box social and program with music by the Thoeni Jazz band will be held at Wayne school No 9 three miles south of the post office on Tuesday night April 29 at 8 16. Ruth Wilson the teacher invites all. Edna Scott of Des Moines visited Mrs. Co W Bosley and left for Delhi to teach Latin for the rest of the school year.
Siegfried Guyan surprised his parents last Friday by returning home from Camp Dodge on a brief furlough. He serves in the medical corps and has no discharge date, as he remains in charge of overseas medical patients.
J H Milroy, current public school instructor in Vinton, signed a contract to become principal of Vinton High School for the upcoming school year after visiting Monticello friends. The piece also notes local events including the Odd Fellows centennial celebration in Cedar Rapids and Victory loan bond subscriptions.
The Castle Grove Lutheran church will hold confirmation services next Sunday morning April 7 with English observance The Lord s Sniper will be observed in English and a week later in German A list of confirmands includes Henry Stadtmuller Theodore Rieniers William Seehusen Hermann Tapken Fred Weers Emma Weers Meta Tapken Emma Geiken Lina Geiken Lina Caspers Emma Poppe Wilhelmina Knake Emma Streib Dena Willms Christine Neunaher The Twilight baseball league in Monticello opened with K of P vs Southside ending 3 to 3 The K of P beat K of C 2 to 1 and a game vs Northside and Southside is set for tomorrow April 25 at six o clock Dr Thomas M Redmond of this city traveled to Kansas City for his brother James Redmond s critical illness He died and was transported to Cedar Rapids He is survived by Dr W H Redmond of Cedar Rapids and a sister in St Joseph Missouri
Scotch Grove Nursery owned by F. W. Royden & Son contracted with D Hills Nursery of Dundee Illinois to furnish 70 pine trees 16 to 18 feet tall. Hills crews are removing the trees with 43 slated to ship now and the rest next fall. It is believed the trees will be planted on Dodge Motor Co land in Detroit. Only six trees fit per boxcar and two trees take a day to unload, delaying full completion. The nursery also grows fruit trees.
Mrs. Mattie Miller left Spokane Washington to visit relatives in Cedar Rapids and Waterloo last Tuesday morning after meeting with her mother Mrs L J Hickok and sister Mrs BE B Hoag.
The fifteen month old daughter of Mr and Mrs John Hine Jr died last Sunday after a relapse of influenza following an earlier attack Funeral services were held Tuesday and burial was at Oakwood cemetery The same report notes the Gruber Armored Tire Co formed in Monticello last week with officers J T Lanigan J H Bachelder H M Dewitt George Ireland and others to manufacture reinforced rubber automobile tires et al The attorney J S Welch will draft articles of incorporation
Anamosa plans a 4th of July celebration to honor Jones county soldiers who served in the Great War. Monticello and nearby communities will join the town in Independence Day festivities. The Monticello Improvement Club secretary has notified the Anamosa Commercial Club of their readiness to help ensure a big day.
Monticello community sings under the public schools with Grace Fox leading. The program featured old songs, a high school cast in The Victory Loan playlet, and the high school orchestra aiding the audience in song. The article explains Victory bonds 4 and 3 percent, tax exemptions, and benefits of registering bonds.
Lloyd King reports back to school days after vacation. The community sing and patriotic play at the opera house were well received. Windows washed, sidewalks replaced, and teachers toured at Anamosa. Miss Kluss may buy alarm clocks for American Lit. class. Outdoor drills start for boys’ P T, weather dependent. A Williams class project misnames Poland’s ruler as Pat O Risky.
Monticello to honor returned Great War soldiers on Memorial Day May 30 1919 with speeches in the opera house. City council passed a resolution inviting all returned and older veterans to a commemorative celebration in Monticello.
The Monticello Express records April 1889 highlights including town offices and salaries with Dr J I Gilmore elected health physician and John Welch named town attorney for one year at 75. Jim Graves chosen city marshal. New teachers elected for the year. Obituary for William Crusinberry at 88. High school declamatory winner Margaret Young, East Town delegate Misa Young, and lecture by Charles J Gallagher. Hoag Duster factory employs forty workers. Centennial event marks Washington inauguration at the opera house with local youth performances.
Mrs. Victor Schneiter recently underwent an operation at the hospital alongside several other patients. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Slauson, the 17th, at the hospital. Many residents, including Mrs. Lucy Hickock and Mrs. Hd Schneider, remain under care or ill with pneumonia. A list shows patients discharged during the past week: John Lynch, Amelia Adams, John Murray, Bertha Hein, John Mettler, Mary McMahon, and Fred Bristol of Monmouth. Mrs. K S Kendall of Savannah, visiting her mother Anna Gerdes, is ill and operated on last Tuesday morning. George Hennessey is also listed as a medical patient.
A speaker at a local Sunday school asked children what topic had dominated the past four years. A five year old shouted The flu in the front row, revealing the ongoing public health discussion in the community.
The story of Shoo shanig Garabedian an Armenian orphan adopted by the men’s Bible class at the Congregational church will be told next Sunday morning at eleven o’clock.
Two smallpox cases are recorded in Mt Vernon, including Mrs D B Hedges wife of the town mayor. Local health authorities isolate the cases and warn residents to take precautions.
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