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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1912
Page
4
Local notes list Miss Clara Koop visiting in Dubuque and numerous Monticello residents traveling to Davenport Cedar Rapids and Milwaukee. Communities share social calls at Monticello homes and nearby towns including Dixon Dixon and Anamosa with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Michael Uoyle and daughter Frances return from a visit with relatives in Des Moines. M. W. Herrick J. B. Hall and M. W. Kehoe went to Milwaukee on a business trip. O. D. Chase returns from Excelsior Springs improved though rheumatism lingers. Mrs. Don Rathbun of Perry visits her mother Mrs. O. B. Rundle. Effie Binning of Greeley returns home from a cousin’s. George Cropp plans to join the G A R excursion to California for the national encampment. Helen Cramer of Hopkinton wins a Ford touring car in a subscription contest. Rev. Freidli and family return to Ohio from Lovall township. H. Benedix of Blythe and S. Maxwell host visitors in the area. Lizzie Schoenherr departs for Lake Andes to teach. Mr. and Mrs. Urban Haenasler welcome a daughter born last Friday. Mrs. Daniels leaves Chicago after a visit with the Chase home. Grace Podhaski from The Express is on vacation at Clinton. Howard Hicks and baby visit the Hein home in Richland township. Fred Doden from Langworthy recovering after appendicitis. Marion fair attendance noted with Doris Northrop Arch Koop H. S. Lee Albert Stuhler and George Chambers.
Post office holds several letters for James 4G Blaine Warren J Embree Geo Hitchcock and Purman Johnson & Co. The Monticello Electric Co. sold an unused dynamo to De Witt Electric Light Co. County supervisors surveyed storm damage. Various residents traveled for medical, religious or family visits.
The Rev Carl Mardorf of 81 Paul Minnesota will preach at the German Lutheran church in Wayne township next Sunday. He will be accompanied by his wife and son on the visit.
F M Huyck contracted to install an electric lighting outfit in the home of Peter Kurt. The system uses a gasoline engine to drive a 48 light circuit and will be shown in the floral hall during the fair.
Misses Irma and Lorain Springer of Garner, sisters of Mrs. W A Beery, returned home after a week at Monticello. Accompanied by Mrs. Beery and daughter to Strawberry Point, they were sent off with two special trains for the Jones County Fair at Monticello next Thursday.
Prof Crane and Ben Maeussler opened their moving picture show with a free peep. A negro minstrel act and two moving picture shows entertained crowds Saturday evening. The Monticello ball club defeated Worthington 11 to 0 on Friday. Players included L Locher Gilbert Minor F Locher Tom Carson J Carmichael F Stary V Welch H Locher. Eugene Harms of Princeton Kansas visits Monticello relatives and notes good crop prospects despite earlier drought fears. Rev John McCormick Sacred Heart returns from Ireland. Father Erdland leaves for Sparta Wisconsin.
Bert Hubbard travels to Lemon North Dakota to tend wheat crops on his farm while local farmers report abundant yields across North and South Dakota. A West Pocket kodak is advertised at Patrick's Jewelry Store. The old county home buildings were sold at auction to Colonel Bill Daly, who plans to use the lumber on his farm, removing a menace to the new structure.
Dubuque visitors Dorothy Trefler and Hlen Rhomberg stay at the Altman home while a Dubuque mobile party visits. Harry Woollett of New York City spends time with his parents at the Lovell House as his wife visits for her illness. Charlies H. Stockwell to run a gratis daily during county fair. A theft at Dr. J H Gilmore residence yields no clues. Motorcycle races planned for Jones County fair with four riders daily and a winner to race aviator Jimmie Ward. Willard of Clinton, a Tinger agent, is jailed on a fraud mortgage charge and bound over to the grand jury.
J H Perrine invites fairgoers to the Jones County Fair next week and pledges to feed all attendees from his Perrine restaurant. John Perrine, veteran in the restaurant business, emphasizes knowing crowd needs and reliable service. Dr Puleston promotes the fidelity method to cure ruptures with no pain and no work interruption.
The U S pension agent in Des Moines states he cannot answer when soldiers who applied for increases will have their pensions related. He cites many inquiries as prompting a public statement. Under 900 such increases have been allowed in Iowa so far, while 490,000 claims remain to be acted on at Washington and require time.
A. J. Northrop presents a two pound tomato and two tomatoes on the same stems totaling 3 lbs 14 oz. The Wyoming letter notes Dr. Gene Babcock's work, drawing attention to his achievements. Zelma Monroe elected domestic science teacher in Monticello. a Garden Grove and Wellesley graduate.
Rev Mardorf has long led the Wayne township German Lutheran church as its pastor. Mission services were held with Rev M Fritschel Rev T Jansen and Rev O Rombold delivering addresses. A noon dinner fed the congregation and the mission fund collected 300 dollars. Also noted is Hans F Kettlitz planning to sail home September 24 aboard Kron Prinzessin Cecille after visiting Berlin the Rhine and Switzerland. Mr and Mrs Kettlitz and their daughter enjoy a pleasant summer. Miss Cora Huarble wed George Kranz at Rockton Illinois with Rev JQ Eday performing the ceremony. The newlyweds will live with Henry Kranz and receive well wishes from friends.
A thief entered Sam Adamson’s home last Friday morning, stealing bills totaling around $30 and leaving a sack near the cellar window and the bureau drawers ransacked. No suspect was identified. Separately, evangelist Rev. George Stephens stayed in Monticello after a tabernacle campaign and may visit Iowa again this fall with his wife. The Anamosa fair raffled a $500 automobile to George Lehr, drawing strong public interest as the event paid last year’s floating debt and added to the treasury.
Boys entering or unlawfully remaining in enclosures to pick fruit or flowers face fines from five to one hundred dollars for a first offense and at least ten dollars for a second offense. Nighttime offenses carry a minimum fine of twenty five dollars. Sections 4827 and 4828 define the offense and penalty.
Fred B. Magee of Monticello, son of Mr and Mrs F M Magee, highlights physical culture in a half page illustrated feature in the Atlanta Georgian. He has spent twenty years in Y M C A work urging wholesome sport and body strengthening and cautions parents not to fear their children, noting the girl in the illustration lifting a fifty pound weight as a sign of strong training.
An advertisement from James A. McNeal and Company promotes The New Jewelers offering a complete stock of jewelry and silverware in Jones County. The copy urges readers to visit the shop near the railroad for excellent shine and service.
Mrs Barney A Hilers formerly of Monticello died at Westgate Iowa on Saturday August 17 1912 after a prolonged cancer battle. She passed after two operations and near continuous bed rest since last November. Funeral services were held at Monticello Presbyterian church with Rev W Z Allen. burial at Oakwood cemetery. She is survived by husband three daughters and three grandchildren and her parents. Her brothers and sisters are named from Auburn Auburn and Spirit Lake that accompanied the body. extended family details follow.
Mrs. Sarah Secrest widow of a 40 year plus, passes away at home in Oavis township aged 938 years 7 months and 3 days. She was born January 1 1819 in Flatrock Indiana and survived by five listed children and a stepdaughter. The funeral will be Friday at 10 at Frank Benedict’s home with interment at Highland Grove cemetery.
Arthur Young, brakeman on the Davenport to Monticello freight run, fell between a moving car and the high platform at the freight depot last Thursday evening. He sustained facial cuts but was otherwise unharmed and proceeded with his duties the next day.
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