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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1921
Page
7
Local notes report residents visiting relatives in Cedar Rapids Manchester and Delhi. Promotions highlight Keyes store goods including engraved cards watches and novelty jewelry with Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping hints. Battery service offered by Monticello Exide Battery Station and Denkhoff the Jeweler advertises Victrolas and solid gold rings with special prices.
Monticello residents and visitors are noted in a long list of Thanksgiving and holiday movements including Helén Wetner visiting her mother Mrs Dora Hefner, William Rickels returning from Coe College for breaks, and numerous relatives from Cedar Rapids Hopkinton and Monticello enjoying time with family. Odds and ends cover local ads for batteries car work Christmas cards and a box social at Lovell township schoolhouse.
Numerous social and civic items from Monticello and surrounding areas. Mentions visitors to Mrs Dora Wegland, a shower for Miss Anna Schafer, and Florence Moses joining Marion high school staff. church programs at Zion's Lutheran and the American Legion meeting with boxing bouts. Subscriptions, church construction, and farm bureau elections are reported along with doctor changes, an upcoming Loretta Michel Mitchell wedding, and Lenox College’s farm dispute resolution. Also notes the death of David Hanna and funeral details.
Monday brought exam results promoting students to higher classes before a Thanksgiving break. The annuał board, seniors' proofs, class photos, and Girls’ Athletic bazaar are featured along with injuries, a venue change in a civil case, and the death of Miss Charlotte Andrie, a Belle Plaine nurse.
A large community mass meeting is planned at the Olympic opera house next Sunday night December 4 under Rev R C Hutstader, promoting Near East Relief with church cooperation from Monticello. The program includes a short address, singing, and a three reel film Alice In Hunterland about Near East famine and persecution. No admission charged. attendees urged to compare their lives with the starving.
An 91 year old resident of Wayne township died at his daughter Mrs Diedrich Dirks home on November 26 from heart trouble. He was born February 22 1830 in Hilmachburg Ostfriesland Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1894 with his children. He is survived by two children and three stepchildren and was the oldest man in Wayne township at his death. Burial was at Wayne Center cemetery after a funeral at Zi on's Lutheran church conducted by Rev M Schell.
Frank Stary died at McDonald hospital yesterday at 2 pm from acute Brights disease. Born November 8, 1879 in Monticello, he was 42. He married Vera Smith on February 11, 1902, and left four children Frances Sibyl Helen Margaret Annetta Christine. Funeral at Sacred Heart Church tomorrow at 10 am.
Governor Kendall endorses Christmas seal drive to fund tuberculosis fight in Iowa. Pupils selling two dollars of seals earn a certificate, with the Iowa Tuberculosis association coordinating effort. Kendall emphasizes disease battle and public support. Meanwhile, post trial news reports Crawford repaid $15,000 after swindle, with seven year sentence, and Roy also given seven years in Fayette county. The appeal court denies Dr. Walter Matthey a rehearing on espionage conviction. he faces a $1,000 fine and a year and a day in Leavenworth.
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