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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1915
Page
7
This notice promotes comfort and durability of warm footwear and slippers as ideal Christmas gifts, highlighting high wearability and lasting value for cold weather. It stresses comfort and gift suitability without naming companies or locations.
Cedar Rapids and Anamosa visitors mingle in Monticello and surrounding towns. Residents travel to Chicago Dubuque and Manchester for errands visits or business while theater and dance events headline evenings. Local shops promote shirts collars and socks with offerings at Foster Clothing Co.
C B Larkey the Wyoming horse buyer will be at Bart s feed barn Monticello on Thursday December 9 to inspect horses and mares and pay the highest market price rain or shine. Mrs Wm Drinkwater traveled to Oshkosh last week to see her sister Mrs J A Powers who had been in poor health and died November 26.
Mr and Mrs Lyona of Aberdeen South Dakota arrive with baby Mary Ellen for a weekend visit to Mrs Eliza Lane and Mrs Thomas Pender the Lyons relatives hosted in Aberdeen last Saturday night
A meeting of the stockholders of the Jones County Fair association will be held in the assembly room of the public library on Friday evening December 10 at 8 o'clock. Full attendance is desired.
J G Thorn of Clinton has been named paving engineer for Monticello. He led a crew last Tuesday to take grades on First Gill Chestnut Walnut Third and Brad streets in preparation for spring paving.
Mr Woolner resumed playing the Monti cello this morning after several weeks in the East seeking expert eye consultations in New York. Edward Bobbler, a Town State college Ames junior in agriculture, was guest of his sister Mrs Jacob Rohr Jr and the Lawrence Jacobs family late last week.
Tomorrow evening at six o'clock Mr and Mrs Lewis Lawrence host an oyster supper at their north town home for the Methodist Episcopal church. The Presbyterian ladies hold their annual sale and chicken pie supper on Wednesday December 8 at 3 pm, price 25 cents.
Kari Renk shared his joy last Thursday as a newborn son arrived on Thanksgiving day, marking the family’s second son. The event drew a broad smile and festive mood among relatives.
Mrs Palmer returned after a month with her family in Maquoketa nursing a blood poisoned hand. Mr Palmer shared Thanksgiving with his parents in Maquoketa. Catholic and Congregational services were well attended with Father Hauck and Rev Cushman leading. J Rufus Wallingford stories become Pathe pictures now showing at Crave Theatre starting December 5.
C Denecke of Cedar Rapids finished a sale of Deutrick dry goods and moved the remaining stock to Cedar Rapids. The Graves barber shop relocated across the street to a portion of the Youssee billiard parlor. Thies vacates the lower floor as remodeling will begin soon.
The ladies of the German Lutheran church Monti cello Aid Society announce a Christmas sale Saturday December 11 beginning at 10 AM at J B Zimmer man clothing store. Proceeds fund church work and lunch will be served. Buy Christmas gifts.
A. F. Bridenbecker and auctioneer Mr Williams have bought a building in Iowa City to start a bakery making a special bread. Bridenbecker had tried a bakery here before but unfavorable conditions led them to relocate. Both are sociable, and the town expects beneficial business additions.
Misa Harriet L. McCuskey presents a musical play What They Do in Wonder Town at the Presbyterian church on Friday evening December 10. The recital features characters Hokus and Pokus The Giraffe Old Kogy and Up-To-Date Boy with admission ten cents. Other notes include a Bayless Business College ad and local football recap, plus deaths and awards involving Monticello residents.
The new Lutheran church in Johnsontown was dedicated last Sunday with sermons in German and Finnish by Rev. J Deakmann of Cedar Rapids Rev O Jobst of Charlotte and Rev H Kettler of Delaware A large crowd attended and meals were served in the church basement The German Lutherans in Johnsontown are well off and expect strong support from the congregation Meanwhile Rev J H Barr pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal church has a book on early Methodist persecutions accepted by Abingdon Press for spring publication The manuscript praised by Prof John A Faulkner of Drew Theological Seminary is to become a 12 month work for his doctoral studies at Columbia University.
Lester Martin mourns his mother Pauline Mulford Martin who died November 28 at 85. Biographical sketch from Hopkinton Leader states she was born October 26 1830 in Deposit New York and married George Martin October 21 1846. They had thirteen children, five of whom and the father are deceased. Surviving children include Francis James Lester Charles Martin and daughters Marlon Stutt Minerva Grapes Charlotte Mellinger Lillian Williams. Present at funeral were four living sons and most daughters except Mrs John Stutt and Mrs William of Lake Geneva Wisconsin.
The Friday Club hosted a lecture by Miss Mary I Jarman on the Oberammergau Passion Play with stereoptical views. She recalled attending the 1910 production and described the drama, its sanctity, and the actors’ preparations. Knights of Pythias to stage a minstrel show Friday evening with 30 performers, headliners Billy Rohn and Billy Magee Magaw, Rickless Orchestra providing music, and tickets at Kettlett and Kay’s drug store.
A strong woman at the Crane theatre last Tuesday evening toppled a local Samsons team in a staged tug of war. The Amazon supposedly sapped the men’s power by contact grips as a crowd watched veterans Gus Ricklefs John Moore Rudy Ricklefs Charlie Scherrer and others fail in the challenge. Fred Kay teased the moment but did not join the effort.
The page advertises films including Blanche Swest in The Warrens of Virginia and Edward Abeles in The Million, with showings Friday and Monday. Prices range from 5 to 16 cents. Other titles include Who Pays and A Yankee from the West with matinee options and varying admission.
Foster Clothing Co offers sweater coats and mackinaws at reasonable prices inviting customers to try them.
John R Kiburz a well known Monticello citizen died at his home on Saturday November 27 the sixty four birthday date after a period of diabetes and a fall from a ladder. He was born November 27 1851 near Monroe Wisconsin and lived in Richland township before moving to Monticello in 1907. He is survived by his widow three daughters two sons and several siblings with funeral services held at the German Reformed church in Monticello conducted by Rev Balear and Rev Kuentzel. Burial followed in Oakwood cemetery.
Miss Anna Harrington of Monticello died at Mercy hospital Dubuque last Saturday morning following an operation to remove a tumor. Born 1856 in Martinsville Ohio she lived in Richland township and Monticello before her death. Survived by brothers John and James Harrington and a sister in a St Louis convent. Funeral at Sacred Heart Monticello with burial at Cascade.
Frieda Ilanden reports a busy Monticello school week with music theory tests, English humor, and ancient history outlines. Students discuss absent counts after Thanksgiving, a basketball game against Hopkinton looms, and a chicken thief nets a $50 reward. An onlooker jokes about exam exemptions while a local pheasant shooting incurs a $10 fine.
Actress Mary Fuller stars in Under Southern Skies at the Crane Theatre on Thursday December 9 with show details listed for local patrons.
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