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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 05, 1915

Page

9

Weather Week Message Forecast For Upper Mississippi Valley

The U S Weather Bureau announces a generally fair week for the Upper Mississippi Valley and Plains States beginning Wednesday August 4 1915 with some Friday showers in the Dakotas and Missouri Valley. Temperatures will be moderately low for a day or two then rise. The notice also lists local social notes and visits across Cedar Rapids Anamosa Hopkinton and surrounding towns.

U.S. Weather Bureau Washington, D. C Mississippi Valley Plains States Dakotas Missouri Valley L. G. Stabler

Monticello area social notes feature visitors and travel

A long list of Monticello area residents is noted visiting relatives and friends across Iowa Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin. Returns include Misses Doyle Nelson Swift from Cornell college Mt Vernon and Josephine O Briain Cedar Rapids. Weekend trips include Yellowstone and Excelsior Springs. A large Swiss gathering celebrated independence.

Frances Doyle Marjorie Nelson Gladys Swift Mt. Vernon Cornell College

Monticello News Briefs Include Visits Licenses and Weather

Glendale and Monticello residents travel for visits to Dubuque and Clinton while Harlan Starry Cuba Merrill Ed Smith marry locally. Mo. Starry and Podbaski plans, plus safety inspections, wells drilled, and a Carles Madison trip color the report. A heavy rain floods Maquoketa streets as farms suffer crop damage and a cold August front halves summer wear.

George A. Fisher Harlan Starry Cuba Merrill Ed Smith Mary Henriksen Anamosa

Rain Storm Cuts Oats Hay and Corn Across County

A Sunday rain storm tore up oats and timothy in some areas while leaving others intact. It toppled corn in places and delayed farming for three days, spoiling much hay before curing. Harvest workers saved a large portion, yet overall crop preservation is now harder after years of better conditions. Sale on dress goods Doutrick's.

Maquoketa

Cascade Auto Supply fire and near miss at station

A blaze at Cascade Auto Supply Co. destroyed many automobile supplies and damaged six cars. The upper opera house story was saved by volunteers. The origin was a gasoline torch used during repairs. Damage around $1500 with no insurance.

Cascade Cascade Auto Supply Co L. Gearhart

Great Jones County Fair Opens in Monticello August Days

The sixty second Jones County Fair runs August 23 to 27 in Monticello at the city park. Attractions include LaRose Troupe acrobatics, Niigata on a slack wire, the six flying Herberts, Fink's Comedy Mules, and O Karan wonders jousting on foot. Music by Burd Regimental Band daily plus a night carnival with fireworks. Races allot $2,000 in purses with pacing trotting running and auto events. Baseball contests daily with top brush leagues. Livestock and premium exhibits welcome entries.

Monticello LaRose Niigata America Herberts Fink Jim Karna O’kara Jones County Fair Burd Regimental Oscar Rapids Iaat Fair Fair Association Freworks 58Rd

Aristocracy at Princess Theatre and varied August program

Princess Theatre announces a multi day program starting Friday August 6 featuring Aristocracy a Paramount picture in 6 parts with 5 and 15 cent admissions followed by a Saturday lineup including Which Shall It Be two reel Than houser He Wouldnt Stay Down Keystone comedy at 65 and 10 cents. Through August 12 the schedule lists Theodore Roberts in The Circus Man plus The Six Cent Loaf 2 reels At the Hour of Eleven Crossed Love and Swords Devil The Human Octopus 2 reel Kay Be Mutual Weekly No 207 and Nerdy Finx Salstuff comedy all at 5 and 10 cents. John J Grafft pioneer Jones county settler dies at Stanwood aged 82 survived by widow and five children. Frank Porter buys Henry Smith farm near Anamosa 125 acres at 210 per acre.

Thanhouser Theodore Roberts Paramount Reliance Keystone Comedy The Devil Mutual Weekly John 8. Grafft Jones County Stanwood Mr. Grafft Walnut Grove Rome Township

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Adt Marchard J. W. Doxser Chas. A. Doxsee E. G. Burrichter Home News Missa Fannie Drees Dubuque Cecil Curtis Hopkinton O.N. Patrick Russell Stuhler Cedar Rapids C.B. McKean Harry Bricker V. O. Welch Deutrick’s Fred Lehman Dana Iowa Lawrence Locher Chicago R. W. Franklin Arthur Reinke W. H. L. Schuetz St. John’s Lutheran Church Hugo Hahn John Pound Sterling, Illinois Htta Welch Nell Kellum Marie Bell Mary and Carrie Clark Katherine Hines Roland Kuentzel Inez Fagan Cedar Rapida Fred Fagan John T. Tobin Mitchell, South Dakota O. B. Rundle Cora Wilson Hartley J. W. Nelson Josephine Foley H. W. Stabler Essie Hoag Sioux City Mrs Elmer Hoag Gerald A. Senniger Marion OU. B. Rundle Marie Meyer Esther McAleer Lamont, Iowa Star Meat Market Jacob Schneider Janae Sears Davenport William Rohn Gg. H. George Grayling Minnesota Fred Puleston Utica New York Mary Fuller Crane’s William Beery Wanda Eagle Grove Norman Rickels John Garden City Kansas Edward Templeton W. A. Mirick G. P. Rockstad Mrs. Williams Pennsylvania Frank F. J. Smith Iowa Telephone Co Catherine Lovell Michigan Mesdames M. W. Herrick J. S. Hall Harriet Marshall Yellowstone Park Lon Webster Carl Schatz George van Buren Robinson A. Cramer Jesse Grayson Cook County Hospital C. G.,thomas J. W. Innes Ames H. M. Carpenter Harriet Coughlan Rudolph Rickless Clarence Robert August Schatz Jessie Cartano Richard Cartano Springville Frances Koop Elsie Noble Waterloo Harry Rodman and Son Plainfield, Iowa Samuel Reade William Hubbard Edgar Dwight Smith Mason City Ed LeClair Mary Welch Lyle Stanbury Kansay Samuel Read Edna Pool Martello J.N. Pool James Kiburz Florence Ray Hoag Excelsior Springs Frank Becker Sumner Daniel Albertson Vinton John Sutton George Norton and Baby William Podhaski Mary Jarman Libbie George Iowa City University Clyde Marshall Will Young Peter Young Garrett Harms Olive’s William Putnam Manchester Ray Nandel Joe Patterson Charles Eberhart Margaret Eberhart Jennie Porter Berea Kentucky J. W. Gilroy Josephine O’'Brian Henry Matthews Kohren Josephene Sutherland Glendale Montana Scotch Grove Mesdames John Barrack Henry Behrends QO. Senst Ewald H. F. Podbaski Toronto Clinton J Harlock Leroy Clark Hoag Duster Co H. P. Wilcox Mankato Iowa State University H. H. Bye Elmer Hicks F.A. Hefner Ethel Petty Hall Manufacturing Co District Court Minneapolis K. D. Miller la Porte City Bayless Business College Cor, 8Th and Locust Sts Dubuque, Iowa William Podlaski Carles Madison Wisconsin Doutrick’s Olive Smithson Ed Brazelton Women’s Civic League Paramount Pictures Princess Theater Strand Theatre New York City Strand Princess Theatre Mrs. Black Rose of the Ranch Conaspiracy Adv Roy M. Peterson Cooper College Sterling American Academy Rome Peterson J. N. Peterson Topeka Capital Fraf. Peterson American Academy At Greece Coe College Harvard University Goosebury Green Steen tRocky Young Fellows Antaeus Mother Earth Robert Young David Young Des Moines Knights of Pythias Lodge Princess Theatre Program Frank Porter Henry Smith L. Q. Stubler Montague Kayser Royal Worcester and Warner Hicks & Rickless Cadet Black Cat Kayser’s Kehrer Hicks & Ricklefs C. H. Schipman MAIN Square Brand E. A. Hubbard L. H. Lang
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