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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
5
Ben Kellum visited Cedar Rapids last Monday. J. Hall traveled to Milwaukee on a business trip last Saturday evening. Wapsie Valley fair ads invite readers next week. Many residents from Dubuque, Hopkinton, Green River, and other towns visited relatives or friends in nearby towns over the weekend.
Monticello area notes cover visitors from Traer Jefferson and Des Moines, errands at the post office, fair updates, and a harvest sale. Highlights include meteor observations, candidates preaching, and harvest bargains at Deatrick Dry Goods Co. plus local health and travel news.
Andrew Kasper returned from Saskatchewan last Friday with samples of the excellent wheat growing there. The harvest has begun, but until the shocks are set there remains fear of frost threatening the crop.
Lowell Hicks comes home from Rochester New York where he worked with his brother Lyle in electrical work for a period. He will spend about a week at home then travel to Ames to attend the State Agricultural College for the coming year.
The climate has produced a decade's fruit surplus with heavy yields of plums and apples. Housewives report extensive canning while market demand struggles to absorb the abundance as orchards remain heavily laden and worms are not present in apples.
Mrs Nell Phelan and Miss Emma Gesse visited Cedar Rapids while Rev and Mrs R V Porter spent a day in Hopkinton. The 58rd Regiment band of Cedar Rapids provided fair music. Ads from Cross Hardware and Deutrick attract attention. Harry Hicks of Alamosa Colorado shows grain and alfalfa. Monticello Electric moves to a new office. Dr Dwight Smith visits family and returns to Hahnemann in Chicago. Millington Carpenter to teach in Houston. Miss Blanche Hunter travels to Geneva Wisconsin for a WYCA convention. she leads Cornell College WYCA.
Anamosa enjoyed fine fair weather though the aviation exhibit failed to meet expectations as an aviator's Thursday flight ended quickly in an accident. He skipped Friday's attempt, while other local notes mention Harry Locher buying Bert Hench electrical stock and planning to move to Angle street, plus wiring services.
Mr and Mrs R M Marvin of Manchester and Frederick Marvin of Zumbrota Minnesota visited Monticello last Tuesday. They are sons of the late A H Marvin a member of the 1857 constitutional convention. R M taught the first term of school at the old frame schoolhouse 1859 to 1877. Frederick is brother in law of Alfred B Tucker.
Monday evening a horse owned by John McLaughlin, driven by William Minnis, and carrying a stranger named Nash, bolted down First street. The rig slid on the paving near the railroad tracks, the horse fell and skidded half a block. Nash injured his hip, others were uninjured and the horse sustained minor scrapes.
The Jones county fair opened yesterday with banners and crowds. The new floral hall at the midway end improves layout. the vegetable and stock exhibits show top quality, including Jumbo the 4,400 pound bull and Bert's Jungle Dome show. Children’s day drew visitors from many directions.
The schedule lists Wednesday games Onslow versus Oxford Junction and Monticello against Hopkinton. Thursday features Wyoming at Dyersville and Cascade hosting Worthington. Friday matchups include Monticello versus Farley and Wyoming versus Olin. The Tuesday Methodist and Presbyterian game ended Presbyterians 6 to 3 with a complete innings score.
Eddie Hanken two year old son of Mr and Mrs Fred Hanken of Wayne township accidentally drowned in a stock water tank last Monday forenoon. He was missed about eleven o'clock and found dead by the farm hand after a search. The child apparently climbed to the tank edge and fell into the water. The family and friends mourn the loss of the baby who brought daily joy.
A stranger at Monti cello State Bank wired $10 to San Antonio for mixed snakes, claiming they should be sent to Mr Blank. In a separate event, two Boy Scout patrols held a track meet with Koop’s patrol winning 41 to 40 after a tight finish, Northrop of Baker’s patrol topping five events for a 25 point tally.
A Curtis biplane is exhibited in a tent by W. H. W. Kauffman and O. H. Thomsen of Davenport. They built the craft and have flown it twelve times in two months with a four cylinder American engine producing about forty to fifty horsepower. The machine has a thirty foot wing span and spruce framework. Admission is ten cents to view up close, with daily flights planned if conditions permit.
Heirs of William G Wales sue The Modern Woodmen of America for a 3000 dollar policy issued nearly twenty years ago. Wales disappeared after visiting a Monticello neighbor and was never heard from again. The company disputes death proof and a recent by law. Case to be tried this term with counsel Herrick Gash Rhinehart Coxsee.
The public schools start Monday morning with K. D. Miller as superintendent. A modern central heating and ventilation plant will heat and vent classrooms, changing air every twenty minutes with automatic temperature control. New hygienic upgrades include relocated toilets, fresh drinking fountains, and a staff of named teachers led by Miss Mary I. Jarman.
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