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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
2
A Cascade column lists residents and visitors including Miss Verdie Jones in Chicago ER J Lawler of Sioux City Alderman Kearney in Farley and many local transfers. Social visits, travel plans, church notices, bank meeting results, threshing, and a coyotes encounter are summarized with local names and places.
A Cass County notices a flurry of visitors and social calls. J K Hale and Clinton visitor this week. Rev Brimacombe at Tipton last week. Nordmans travel to Davenort and Center Junction. Clem Ladd visits Chris Conrad. Nellie Conrad home for summer. aid society at parsonage Wednesday. Madge Alderman of Lincoln Neb visiting Mrs Stover. Turner in Wyoming. Eunice Loggie at Olin for baseball tournament. Born to A J Lake, a son. James Clark visits Langworthy. Alice Carter and Boylan of Anamosa at Percy Faulk. Cunningham and Harrison visit Cedar Rapids. Croot in Cedar Rapids. thirty Cassites picnic at McQueen’s Grove. Nordman and Frisbie families in Cass. Huseman Ketcham and Chris Conrad Jr on sick list. visits by Printup and Cooke to Hale homes. Kelsey Hanna injured in hay chute. Rev Cresswell and family at Matthew Bruce’s. Cresswell preaches Cass church. Hugh Cunningham in Mercy Hospital for operation.
Castle Grove notes include D. J. Hogan shipping cattle to Chicago last Thursday. Master Clifford Cunningham visited Prairieburg relatives. Rev. John McGuinnes of Prairieburg spent part of last week in Castle Grove. C. R. Wilder and Ford Clark visited Hopkinton. J. W. Mclaughlin of Russellville Kentucky visits his brother and sister. John McLaughlin Jr. returned home after a year away.
Rural Route 2 items bring hometown notes from Angnat to Monticello. Births, visits, threshing progress, and a missing horse are reported along with local strolls, a birthday, and a roadside auto push incident. Residents include Frank Soper family, Alma Johnson, J M Kearns, Anna Scheer, T V Danning, Harvey Smith, Miss Schalloist, John Harms, and Rev H S Jacobs.
August entries list Mrs J A Paul visiting from Pennsylvania and other guests and locals. James Forsyth returns from Tama City to Onslow. Miss Georgie Forsyth and Miss Hoffman from Ama visit. Joey McClelland preached at Wyoming. Mrs Streets and Mrs Tracy relax with friends at Maquoketa. Mr Shuttleworth joins family from Oceyden. Shimerda family visits J Sokol relatives. Mary Carter returns from St Paul with state superintendent ties. Methodist Aid ice cream social nets $12. Dr Vincent and Vera visit relatives. Daugherty and son visit W S Hall and D Hall. School directors stock coal for next year. James Lee and wife arrive from Oregon to visit daughter Mrs J W Orr, after 18 years away.
Esther Nanken daughter of Mr and Mrs BL Nanken celebrated her fifth birthday in Langworthy Aug 14 with a gathering last Saturday afternoon. The invited guests were all local friends and family.
The sixth annual Coe College students and Jones county alumni picnic was held at Pictured Rocks on Aug 10. Many attendees rode trains from Scotch Grove and Monticello, with hay rack trips to Maquoketa. Attendees shared college memories and the current Coe compared with past years. A Wyoming event may host next year’s picnic.
Mary OC Knebel Dautremont wife of Frank Dautremont died at home in Monticello after a long illness from stomach cancer. Born September 2, 1857 in Johnson county Iowa she moved to Monticello in 1908 with her husband. She and her husband had ten children and three stepchildren. Funeral was at the Catholic church in Riverside.
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