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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
7
A long list of visitors and locals including Miss Clara Ohe Cedar Rapids visitors Miss Edith Deischer and Margaret Thompson Cedar Rapids with various relatives in Monticello Anamosa Marion Hastings and Omaha trips noted plus purchases and repairs at McNeill's Hardware and Lenox furnace installations.
Local residents gather for school prep and public notices as Mr. and Mrs. Whitford arrive for September 7 opening. Rentals, sales offers, and hardware ads promote Lenox furnaces and South Bend ranges while a squirrel season opens September 1 and hunting waits until September 10. Notables include Miss Josephine F Meyer earning a diploma, a baptism of news from Mrs Keating’s death, and visits by relatives from Minnesota, California, Ohio, and Kansas.
Charles Henry Schipman died Tuesday afternoon after a longtime illness. He was born in 1859 in Germany and came to the United States as a child, later settling in Monticello in 1884 to open a tailor shop with his brother. He was married to Jennie Lounell in 1887 and survived by his wife, a brother Henry Schipman, and sisters Mrs. Henry Wagknecht and Mrs. William Brown. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at the family residence, with burial at Oakwood Cemetery. He was active in the Methodist Episcopal church and local fraternal orders.
Monticello files record August 1885 events including land assessments in Jones and Lyon counties, return of N W Austin to contracting, a family move to Creswell Oregon, and memorial services for General Grant. Notable items include Ringling Brothers lawsuit in Wyoming, circus visit on the 15th, deaths of Benedict Yousse and Matthew Nelson, and farm wage figures for 1884.
Wabun and Maquoketa camp girls spent a week at McGregor Heights attending the Wild Life school. Lectures by Dr. Pammel and others covered botany astronomy bird life and Indian lore. A treaty centennial pageant, river trip to Pictured Rocks, and campfire ranks capped the week with Wood Gatherer Fire Maker and other honors.
Mrs. Emil Rickless hosted the Monday club last Friday in honor of former member Mrs. Gladys G. Smits who was visiting. Guests included Mrs. Clarence Coon of Cherokee and Daisy Noyes and Dorothy Backus from Chicero. The country club party moved to Thursday due to the Jones County Masonic picnic with a bridge session and an entertaining program.
Jones county will be well represented by junior club members at the state fair this year with a girls club demonstration team a poultry club demonstration team a boy and a girl health contestant. The teams are led by Clara Walderbach and Malinda Nielsen of the Wise Owl club Jackson township Reve Ralston and Gretta Brady of the Hiawatha club Scotch Grove township Melba Kellogg of the Jolly Stitchers Oxford township and Owen Miller of the pig club Fairview township. These juniors won under stiff competition and should make a good representation for Jones county at the state fair. In addition to the girls club farm bureau women's booth and the county agent booth the junior poultry and dairy calf club exhibit and demonstrations are attracting much attention at the Jones County Fair in Monticello this week. The poultry and dairy calf exhibits are housed in tents and are a good show. The annual Jones County Farm Bureau picnic date is set for September 29 with Gov John Hammill the speaker. The picnic will be at Apamosa as rain prevented last year. A Market Pig club show will feature the picnic with thirty five boys and girls in twelve townships enrolled. The Willian company of Cedar Rapids offers a loving cup to the champion junior pig and two cash prizes. The Anamosa Community club provides a bronze medal to the junior with the best pig from each township except the champion. Committees will be organized after the county board meeting the first Saturday of September. Preparations will aim for the largest picnic ever held in Jones county inviting all residents and farmers. Mark September 24 on the calendar to attend.
Notices from St. Matthew and St. Peter and Pauls Lutheran churches list sermons, German services, meetings, and mission feast dates. The school announces schedule changes due to rural education cancellation and Psychology addition, with principal Mary J. Jarman. Mrs. Alice Miller dies from kerosene burn. husband William Miller is a rural mail carrier. Dr. Hoffman will be away Aug 29 to Sept 14.
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