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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
11
A long list of Cedar Rapids visitors and residents is given with brief mentions of trips to Dubuque Davenport Cresco Oxford Junction Monticello and Council Bluffs. Notes include Dr Stabler Miss Bernice Rouf Mr and Mrs Hicks and more as well as fair week promotions at Gildners Hughes and the Peacock Shop.
Wishek and Monticello residents visit friends while Carl Schmidt and Rev Fraymann plan calls. Peacock Shop advertises $1.39 ladies silk hose. fair week discounts on oxfords, tennis shoes, and winter outerwear. Various towns report travel, illness, and community events including a circus arrival and school notices.
Local notes report Mrs John Thomas and Miss Hen setta MacHugh heading to New York City visiting Dr and Mrs Heegan. Monticello residents share sermons events real estate sales and social doings including weddings and trips across Iowa and Michigan.
John Heger plans a Swiss visit spending time in Grindelwald after leaving New York by French liner. The body of Corporal Alexander S. Dreibelbis arrives in New York and heads to Monticello for burial at the family home with American Legion Post 209 participation. The Lutheran Zion mission festival in Wayne township features multiple ministers and evening stereoptical views. Mrs. Carrie Schultz of Rochester, Minnesota, widow of Forest H Schultz, dies. her twin sons Hart and Evelyn survive. A reader note reports coal supplies myths predicting soft coal lasting thousands of years, with officials forecasting no real worry before 7920.
Castle Grove resident Thomas F Kehoe unveils a corn stalk reaching 13 feet 6 inches while Floyd Shew counters with a 14 feet 6 inches stalk. The pair display the rival heights as a friendly wager while S Richardson Newton Smith and his son prepare a fishing trip and a novel angling theory for the Mississippi. Harvey will chronicle the results and supervise the carp strings.
Miss Margaret Nichols daughter of Judge and Mrs C Nichols of Vinton will marry J H Milroy of Monticello in a forthcoming ceremony announced by a dinner party at the Nichols home attended by 25 friends Miss Nichols Grinnell College graduate 1919 with highest honors taught last year at the Iowa College for the Blind and plans to continue next year Milroy former Vinton high principal now in business positions the marriage date not yet fixed
Judge Moffit rules against the plaintiff on the line separating the two parcels but grants an injunction against erecting a so called spite fence on the boundary. Costs taxed to the defendant. Also reports on a Woman's Cox and Roosevelt club organized at the Princess theatre with remarks by Miss Anna Lawther and local speakers. Ida Johnston of Perry dies after long illness. services at home and Violet cemetery. Dr. Redmond advertises eye tests.
Anamosa and nearby report a rash of robberies over the past week. A man named Joe Bayles lost 16 dollars to three highwaymen on a bridge near town, with one robber possibly a woman or in female disguise. A companion with Bayles carried a larger sum, about 100 dollars. In Newport, Jake Main encountered three armed highwaymen and 64 dollars was taken from him while his car was halted in a narrow stretch. One robber fled in Mumn’s car and disappeared. No arrests reported and trackers found a small foot impression suggesting a woman’s involvement. A separate burglary at Murphy & Brady’s store failed when a night watch could not muster help in time. Another burglary occurred at Mrs. Respaugh’s residence but was interrupted before any loot was taken. The town police and sheriff are investigating, with no suspects yet identified.
Monticello events note Upper Town university boarding, an infant death from cholera infantum, Reformed church organ dedication, Chandler & Sons’ pump factory may move to Cedar Rapids, land sale by William Schodde, Monticello beat Wyoming 21 to 3 in baseball, funeral travels of Mrs. Fawcett, a rare doe sighting on Caldwell farm, births at Palmer and Harms weeks, Edith Sherman takes Rockford Female Seminary post, butter prices on Elgin market, Dr. Mershon dies in Des Moines, long Kansas-Des Moines cattle journey, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Short deaths, Diamond Creamery work, Monticello beats Anamosa 16 to 10, Snowden dies and trial near Edinburgh with acquittal.
The August examination for rural eighth grade pupils will be held Monday August 23 1920 at 8 30 a m in Anamosa Monticello Center Junction Olin and Wyoming Nellie V Morey County Superintendent
I will sell my farm one mile east of Onslow Iowa consisting of one hundred twenty acres. Price 55000 dollars if sold before October 16 1920. Address Thomas J Corbett R F D 1 Hackensack New Jersey USA. Dyersville plans visit Sunday to teach Monticello in baseball with expectations of a stronger game than last week.
Notice from the probate court of Jones County Iowa sets September term 1920 for hearing the purported last will of Carrie Blake deceased. The filing occurred August 10 1920 with readings on September 27 1920. The clerk Clarkis and attorney A Locher represent the estate and invite all interested to contest probate.
Joss Martinson sues to quiet title in a large Iowa land dispute involving numerous defendants and unknown successors. The 1920 petition seeks to confirm ownership, bar adverse claims, and prevent future encumbrances, with plaintiff asserting 20 years of continuous, exclusive possession under color of title.
In Jones County Iowa a 1920 district court notice advertises Carl Rickels as owner in fee simple of a large property described by sections and quarters. The petition seeks quiet title and bar against all defendants and unknown claimants after more than ten years of possession. The case requires appearance by Sept 27 1920 or default will be entered.
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