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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
9
The Express will raise yearly subscriptions from 1.75 to 2.00 starting January 1 1920 as paper costs and expenses climb. Old rates of 1.75 are available in advance through December with display advertising rising three cents per inch after January 1. Locals and want ads remain unchanged.
Local ads show Peterson Clothes Shop and Hoag Duster Co promoting Christmas offers from cheap underwear to heavy wool base wear. Several notices urge fifty local girls for factory work and describe benefits, wages, and sanitary conditions.
Monticello items report real estate transfer of four Oklahoma addition lots to Frank Lux for $800, local trapping and corn prices, a surprise move by the Durst family, and Cedar Rapids and Rock Island wedding notes. Community events include a basketball game against Anamosa, a Methodist sermon series, and the Fuller Civil War pension bill discussion.
A sequence of winter conditions and local disruptions follows Thanksgiving. Sleet leaves roads and hills usable for sleighing as cold snaps drop to 12 below. Monticello Electric reports water-wheel work, a delayed switchboard, and tentative service. Moe stock yards suffer car shortages delaying cattle and hog shipments, forcing hog feeding at yards. Florence Farrell and Rudy Wiedoeft concert moved to Newman Hall with plans for a duet. Marshall Hall marries Annette Carl in Goldfield Nevada. she formerly taught in Monticello. City council discusses coal conservation, store hours, and church wood-use plans as schools face uncertain coal and possible closures.
From Minneapolis Journal November 30: Miss Florence Thoenit daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Thoenit marries Eugene Cardwell Isent at the home of the bride's sister in Minneapolis. Dr Ray Neal of Wesley Methodist Church performs the ceremony before about 40 guests. The wedding party includes maid Libbie Thoenit and flower girl Alice Clinite. The couple will reside at Brown Hotel Des Moines before moving to their own apartment.
Parents are urged to keep children with chicken pox at home until cases are not serious by order of the Board of Health. A Maquoketa area farmer threshed clover seed last week yielding two bushels per acre. Seed sells for 30 dollars per bushel. A sixty dollar profit on land implies a high rate of interest even on expensive land.
Milly Crim reports on a bustling campus week with exams over and teachers returning late due to a Cedar Rapids train. Clara Bess recovers, sports and debates spark activity, and senior girls begin teaching roles while a large Cedar Rapids Older Boys conference draws 1075 attendees and visits to Sinclar Packing and the Y M C A.
Mrs Henry Hedden died at her home in Scotch Grove township on Tuesday November 25 after a long illness. Born Marie Husman in Germany on March 6 1865 she came to the United States at age six. She married Harm Folkerts and had three children before his death in 1891. She later married Henry J Hedden and left three daughters and a grandson Roy H Folkerts. Funeral services were held at the family home and Wayne Lutheran church with Rev John Willis officiating. Burial followed at Wayne Center cemetery.
W C Sheets was elected county agent at the board of directors meeting last Friday afternoon. He comes highly recommended from the State Agricultural College and Clinton County where he has worked with a long standing county agent. The Farm Bureau gains a man with wide experience and many excellent qualifications.
The Board of Education met in special session with four members present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Bills were allowed for School House Fund, lead sand, pump rods and nails, textbooks, and supplies. The meeting adjourned.
A quoted claim from Jol Uuthti describes trying poison and other methods to kill rats without success. Within ten days RAT SNAP supposedly rid the area, with instructions to break a cake of RATSNAP where rats scamper. Sold and guaranteed by W. W. Stickford and druggists everywhere.
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