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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1910
Page
2
Wyoming April 26 items cover social visits from Cedar Rapids to Onslow, Monticello teaching appointment for Miss Thomsen, a junior senior class banquet with nautical themes, and local updates. Obituary for Rosa Saggi notes Swiss-born teacher and Monticello funeral, with weather and seed corn trade details.
Castle Grove reports a new green tower windmill by J A Howie. Mrs E F Hiben and Mrs H C Bohlken have been ill. K F Hiben repaired part of his dwelling roof. F C Cramer visited Anamosa last Thursday. Mrs Frank Brady remains ill. Fred Bert and A K Cramer visited from Hopkinton. Mr and Mrs Bert King celebrate the birth of a daughter.
Local residents visit nearby towns for shopping and business. Notables include Mrs. O D Deene in Rapids and Royal Fisher in Anamosa. Mrs J O Drexler visits near Central City while H S Joslin returns from a Montana survey. Public events cover a ladies auxiliary gathering and music class arrangements.
T B Johnston is on the sick list. Will Smith a Milwaukee road fireman is at home today. T J Kerney of Paralta called on old friends here. Rev T B McClelland and wife attended the Presbytery meeting at Mount Vernon last week. Cal Chase and Sam Conley went to Waterloo to seek city work. Miss Adah Walters returned from Hopkinton with Miss Parkhill and Miss Brazelton. Otis Gates now in Tennessee after earlier real estate work here. Mel Spencer and Olin Shaffer spent last week in South Dakota on a land deal. Rev H F Dorcas held meetings in the M E church this week.
Center Junction notes include remodels by John Carson and multiple visitors from Cedar Rapids Wyoming Monticello and Chicago. Mrs Marl Stingley hosts K Ks gathering while Mayme Magee heads to Chicago. John and Sam Alexander travel to Stanwood to stay with their parents.
April records show Alice Hawkins in Portland Oregon. N J Mertz at county capital. Ben Donovan from Jackson County visited city. L M Roux and daughter Myra visiting St Louis Missouri. Mrs James Cooley visiting Farley with Kay family. R Linehan of Dubuque visiting. Birdie Baldwin and Maud Linn visiting Savanna Illinois. Tessie Curley and Nellie Welch visiting Cedar Rapids area. Mrs Knepper's body to arrive from Phoenix for interment. community extends sympathy to husband.
Thurston the magician recounts an historic tour including an exhibition before a Fiji chief in Pagopago. A crowd of slaves watched as a duck trick morphed into a head swapping joke that a royal interpreter framed as turning a yellow head onto a black man and vice versa.
A playful exchange unfolds as a guest asks which cook is behind the soup at the restaurant. The waiter asserts familiarity with the kitchen staff, prompting the guest to joke that knowledge comes from tasting the soup.
For sale an Angus bull aged three years described as a good one. Prospective buyers are asked to call or address J. B. Moses at Center Junction 4311.
Successor to Drs Dalbey and Carroll advertises eye nose and throat specialty practice in the Ely Block at 215 South 3rd Street Cedar Rapids Iowa. Office hours are 9 to 12 a.m and 3 to 5 p.m.
Incidents from April 1885 include deaths of John Wybel aged 55 and Joseph Hickman aged 78, and a fire at J H Bacher's drug store. Other items note David Young’s return from Canada, law student Gallagher at State University, W Hartsough resigning from United Brethren church, Carrie Daniels replacing Miss Platt as assistant high school principal, and 233 Sunday School scholars with 184 average attendance. A Nevada trip for a declamatory contest involved Prof. F A Jackson and Jessie Preston. John Finnigan eloped with Bridget Dolphin, followed to Minneapolis where Dolphin found seven deserted children. Capt. F A Whittemore visited Chicago to model for Gettysburg printing, and a list of attending little girls names from Eidith Curtis’s ninth birthday party is given.
Monticello Iowa school board in special session on April 20 1910 elected K D Miller as superintendent with a 1300 salary for the year Miss Mary I Jarman chosen as principal at 90 per month and Ruth M Pagett as music and drawing teacher Clara Thomsen German teacher Maude Mirick mathematics teacher Names of board members and committee appointments listed with responsibilities adjourned by Secretary J N Peterson.
A Harrison woman proves her cleverness when attempting to cash a check at an unfamiliar bank. Bank staff demand identification and the woman declares she can always be identified by a mole on her cheek, revealing a witty, defiant stance against gender bias.
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