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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1921
Page
9
Local notes list Cedar Rapids visitors Mrs. A J Jackson Mrs W J Farrell Joe Oswald and Dr Redmond. Advertisements promote Eskimo Pies at The Peacock Shop and phonographs at Locher's with Christmas sales and engraved cards from The Express office. Other items highlight H H Schoon stock waterers and Denkhoff the Jeweler gift offers.
Monticello residents and visitors are noted in a December roundup with Ruth Young and Mrs. Dougherty among those stopping in Cedar Rapids Davenport Clinton and Anamosa. Bazaar bake sales gift shops and Christmas preparations fill Monticello stores churches and schools as families plan purchases and community events.
Local couples wed in Monticello and nearby townships. Mr. and Mrs. Lund of Minneapolis married at Stratford on the 29th, and Miss Goldie Himes wed Herman Schoon at the Presbyterian parsonage. The Anna Schafer and Carl Gerdes marriage occurred at Zion’s Lutheran church Wayne township with a four course dinner following.
A community meeting at the opera house backed Near East Relief with Rev. R C Hufstader addressing supporters and fundraising. The issue of bootlegging trials for Peter and Nettie Mundinger continues as federal action grows. Local court cases include Hoffman v Newman and a Greenfield township auto collision. Monticello High vows to return to debate with a Philippines independence topic led by Millington Carpenter. Mrs. O P Shiras of Dubuque, aged 84, suffers a hip fracture after a small dog knocks her down.
The Monticello school scene buzzes with plans for the Monti Eye yearbook sale next week and a big football banquet after a solid season. Starters on the girls team include Jennie Bodenhofer Ruusta Siebels Anne Hauss Edna Hanken Marcella Wonalick and Hannah Willing. John Farrell joins Monticello High as a junior. A December 21 Christmas break leads to January 4 reopening. Acknowledgment of state arithmetic and reading score collaboration with City schools and the State University. A trial team will test progress in January as top pupils join a declamatory competition and a Northeast Iowa sub district meet is set for March. The first basketball game December 16 pits the locals against Hopkinton with strong scores noted by prior wins.
District court actions include State of Iowa cases on liquor sale and bootlegging with continuances to next term, parole violators from the reformatory, and demurrers under advisement. Civil suits feature trials, verdicts, fraud findings, settlements, and default judgments totaling several hundred dollars.
A Methodist church talk on December 11 explores Jesus links to Mary Martha and Lazarus at Bethany. A Waterloo referendum to curb Sunday movies failed by 1,260 in a special election.
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