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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
2
The August 15 note from Scotch Grove covers a concert lineup for next Saturday including March Invircargill Lithgow and other pieces, plus a Sunbeam social on the D. C. Sinclair lawn with refreshments and sales by local children. Several residents are mentioned with travel plans visits and illnesses as well as local gatherings and upcoming sermons.
Mr. Curry sold his barber shop and pool hall to Mr. Hearn of Monticello who moved into the building on Tuesday. Mrs. Baldwin funeral services were held at the home of her daughter Mrs. A. E. Porter with burial in North Madison cemetery. Reverend Young preached at the M E church. Floyd Love and Henrietta Hanken married at Anamosa August 6. Community notes include Epworth League weenie roast and bake sale plans, visits, and local travel.
An August 21 program at the Onslow opera house directed by Miss Vera Paul ends with a farce to benefit the Red Cross unit. Admission is 25 cents. Local talent including Misses Maud and Ruth Spooner will perform. An ice cream supper follows at the Royal Chatterton home. Other society notes list visitors and travels of residents and friends in nearby towns.
Sand Spring on August 13 reports Mrs. Fred Dean and son Paul visiting sister Mrs. H. S. Pierce, joined by M. Wheeless of Hopkinton. Harold Duncan, staying with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. A. Blair, spent the week with them prior to this gathering.
Prairieburg August 138 reports a camping trip at the river by Mr and Mrs John Fehr Sr and Mr and Mrs Charles Lamont and a Will Walker home shower. Misses Madge and Edith DeLancey visited Central City. Guests and trips include Knapps in Cedar Rapids and Burlingham Sage in Prison City.
Stanly Bright son of Mr and Mrs George Bright of Spring Valley en listed in the army and is now in St Louis. Hazel I Sewell of New Hampton Iowa selected by East Cascade school for science department graduation from New Hampton high school and State University of Iowa. A number of chickens missing from farms suggests theft. Bridget White died at the home of her sister Mrs Ed Parker on Saturday August 4 after illness. She was born in Ballinasloe Ireland May 15 1857 and came to Cascade in 1872 with her parents.
Owing to many conflicting dates and a scarce supply of fruits grains and vegetables the Coggon Harvest Home has been postponed to September 19 and 20. Two big days are planned with agricultural exhibits and efforts to make 1917 Harvest Home the best ever held.
Mrs H Livingston suffered severe facial arm and chest burns from a steam explosion in her kitchen on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs N L Landers left for Minneapolis to visit their son Norman at a training camp. Rev Geo S Coleman and family depart on an over land vacation by auto through southern Iowa to Colorado. A complaint about medical exams for bath before service prompts questions about trench conditions. Mrs Cornelius Delosh dies at 97 after moving from St Lawrence county to Hopkinton in 1865. The town council seeks a replacement. four incumbents and candidates spar over the vacancy. Eighth Grade Rural Examination set for August 17-18 at Monticello High School for entrants to the high school. K D Miller.
By direction of the city council of Monticello Iowa a formal curb and gutter assessment plat and schedule, finished August 6 1917, on the west First street from George Cowan’s east line to the city limits, is on file for public inspection. A hearing on objections is set for August 29 1917 at 8 pm in the council rooms of the public library building. Objections must be written and filed within twenty days from the first publication. Public notice will be repeated in newspapers and by handbills along the improvement line. City Clerk C J Northrop dated August 6 1917. Atchison Globe comment.
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