Distressing accident on First street injures Deischers
Friday afternoon a car driven by Mr. John Deischer crashed into a telephone pole on First street in Castle Grove township injuring both him and his wife Mrs. Louise Deischer. Mrs. Deischer suffered a fractured skull base and chest injuries and was placed in hospital in a coma before partial improvement. Mr. Deischer had extensive bruising but no broken bones and was later able to walk with help. Daughters Blanche Los Angeles Lucile Chicago and Mrs Harper Vin ton were summoned to the scene or hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Street
G. Thomas
John Deischer
Castle Grove Township
N. C. Deischer
Deischer
Blanche
Los Angeles
Lucile
Chicago
Mrs. Harper
Vinton
Franklin Equipment Co. Debuts 100-Ton Press
Franklin Equipment Co introduces a new 100 ton press with a 32 rpm drive, capable of cutting four by four inch steel bars or punching two inch holes in two inch steel. The press costs 3600 dollars and is among fourteen similar machines in use. Over 5000 garden plow handles are ordered by January 1st as the firm stays busy through winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Equipment Company
Franklin Company
Sacred Heart School Notes Preview of December Events
The bookkeeping class toured Monticello State Bank to see a new bookkeeping machine, the vault, safety deposit room, and ledgers. The basketball squad trains for the December 28 opener in Ryan. A new drop curtain and stage scenery were installed in the auditorium. Thursday marks the Immaculate Conception feast with a free day for students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Ryan
Auto Crash Near Bridge Injures No One
A Sunday evening collision near the bridge left a Cascade Buick sedan driven by Bert Aitchison and a Chevrolet coupe owned by English brothers of Anamosa badly damaged. No injuries were reported as occupants blamed each other for the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Aitchison
Cascade
Anamosa
Buick
Chevrolet
Monticello Establishes Kindergarten In Public Schools
The Monticello board of education voted at a December meeting to start a kindergarten in local schools beginning January 20, with equipment purchases and a teacher to be hired. A petition from over thirty taxpayers supported the move, under existing law allowing such a department with twenty five signatories. This adds a year of schooling for pupils from twelve to thirteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Monticello Public Schools
Local Town Notes and Disturbances Across Iowa
Reports from Cedar Rapids Dubuque and surrounding counties cover Shrine temple progress Tipton gambling fines jail crowd and court sessions Leslie Fargo injured in a gravel truck crash near Tipton Council Bluffs lieutenant governor Clem Kimball undergoes eye removal Anamosa mourns Fred Kenyon death Bertha West burns while packing pumpkins Upper Iowa University fire and fundraising plans Hilsinger Bank receivers named Jackson County deposits at risk Ryan postmaster Fred L Houston dies with obituary details riverbank deaths and local civic notes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District Court
Dubuque
George C. Scott
B. BE. Rhinehart
U.S
Leslie Fargo
Tipton
Clem Kimball
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Nettie Kenyon
Anamosa
Bertha West
Isaac West
Mount Vernon
Miss West
Mount Vernon High School
Twenty Five Years Ago Events Of Interest
Charles S. Bidwell travels to California by sea via the Panama Canal with an expected Christmas arrival. Monticello receives 85 volumes for its library from George L. Lovell while the Langworthy Methodist church is sold for 700 dollars due to aging membership. A grand jury indicts seventeen saloonkeepers. Local obituaries note William Caldwell’s death at 77. A cold snap records 14 below zero. A Golden wedding anniversary is celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. William Schodde. three saloon cases end in guilty verdicts in district court. Teachers and staff at Ames are listed with salaries from 30 to 111.11 dollars. a tax ferret collects 16,334 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles S. Bidwell
California
Las Vegas
New Mexico
el Paso
Texas
Mr. Bidwell
New York City
Panama Canal
George L. Lovell
Monticello
Langworthy
Fred Coden
William Caldwell
Jones County
Kentucky
Daniel Boone
William Schodde
Fred Hacussler
Margaret Tagg
Castle Grove
John Hacussler
Charles Curtis
Sprague Hosford
Jeff Persons
Frank Powlishta
Oxford Junction
Jans Jergenson
Olin
E. E. Reed
Ames
Superheyong Ae Stuhley
Frank ” Holdere
Stuart Smith
Mary
Jessie Davidson
Edna Thomas
Rush Medical College
Chicago
Clarence McCracken
Mary I. Jarman
Jennie Llaydia
Nettie Hazard
Kate Maurice
Caroline Hicks
Clara Dunn
Bertha Gilroy
Gertrude Lange
F. E. Russel
Estelle Zimmerman
M. F. Mellett
Margaret Young
Clara Rickless
Nellie Turner
Thomas King
Louis Stuhler
State Medical College
Lafayette
W. Lovell
Military Academy
Faribault
Minn
E. E
Fifteen Cars of Freight Shipped This Week
In Monti cello shipments total fifteen cars for the week. Monday saw four cars hogs for Farmers Creamery, two for Adams Adams cattle, and one each for Patrick Leonard hogs Maurice Cashman cattle. Tuesday added one car butter and eggs to New York City. Wednesday reports one car hogs for Steiner Bros Ed Eilers cattle Farmers Creamery two hogs Adams Adams one hogs E J Farley one dressed poultry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Farmers' Creamery Company
Adams & Adams
Patrick Leonard
Maurice Cashman
Farmers’ Creamery Company
New York City
Clyde Stickley Dies At McDonald Hospital
Clyde Stickley eldest son of Mr and Mrs Everett Stickley of Scotch Grove township died at John McDonald hospital last Saturday at 10 am He was born near Center Junction December 27 1911 He attended Center Junction high school as a freshman before ill health forced him to quit Funeral services were held Monday at 1 pm at the family home and 2 pm at the Methodist church in Center Junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
Hilsinger Bank of Sabula
G. E. Hilsinger
Mary Hilsinger
Margaret Boyden
Clinton
W. G. Newsone
Jackson County
Fred L. Houston
Ryan
Ryan State Bank
Cedar Rapids
Delaware County
Hazel Green
Ida C. Woodard
Raymond
New York
Glenn
Davenport
Howard
J. W. Houston
Columbia Falls
Mont
Bert
Belvidere
Til
E. Houston
St. Paul
Minn
W. C. Barnes
Marcus
Iowa
Clara Houston
Hopkinton
Houston
Manchestvr
Methodist
Golden Cemetery
Clyde Stickley
Everett Stickley
Scotch Grove Township
John McDonald Hospital
Center Junction
Pauline
Dwaine
Robert
Everett
Methodist Church
Monticello Plans Large Christmas Program and Tree
The Merchants Association of Monticello plans a community Christmas tree at First Street near the post office with a star and lights. A Dec 23 program at the school auditorium will feature Camp Fire girls carols and a Santa visit for good children. Boxes of toys clothing and food will be distributed to needy families with church and Sunday school participation coordinated by J LeRoy Farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Merchants’ Association of
First Street
Santa
Camp Fire Girls
John Finlay
J. LeRoy Farmer
High School Operetta Received Warmly at Monti Cello High
The Monti Cello High School girls glee club presented The Wild Rose with strong support from music supervisor Rose L Wilcox physical training director Chloe Carson and art supervisor Opie Scott. The operetta featured Rose and Bobby vocal duets with chorus and debutantes plus reporters and a boys double quartet. The second act continued the lively performance with Laura Sinclair on piano and an engaging story about a socialite seeking the stage and facing temporary rejection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello High School
Rose L. Wilcox
Chloe Carson
Opie Scott
Rose
Clive Slauson
Bobby
Ellen Yousse
Mary Starks
Ruth van Buren
Edna Siebels
Mona Lightfoot
Charity
Bertha Goldin
Donna Lewis
Katherine Jacque
Gladys Skelley
Laura Sinclair
Bad Luck For Towns Between Here and Farley
The new train schedule began last Monday with a revised Cedar Rapids to Monticello route reducing passenger service between Monticello and Farley. The Cedar Rapids to Farley passenger train is discontinued, leaving Worthington and Sand Spring with freight only. The Dubuque Southwestern line has not carried passenger service on its east end since completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar
Rapids
Monticello
Cedar Rapids
Farley
Worthington
Sand Spring
Dubuque
J. P. Parley
Duburque
Delaware
High School Notes and Community News
A December high school events list shows a physical education demonstration directed by Chloe Carson and John Finlay set for Friday in the gym. The ninth grade girls held an oyster stew in home economics. A speech by Mr. Sloan discussed independence and success, while the operetta The Wild Rose highlighted Miss Wilcox’s training and student pianists Olive Slau son Ellen Yousse and Laura Sinclair. The issue mentions Christmas seals and wishes Miss Carson a speedy recovery. A Hungarian teaching-school portfolio excited the normal training class, and E. C. Voelpel faces manslaughter charges after a crash killed Mrs. Ella Daniels in Seymour Wisconsin. witnesses cited intoxication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chloe Carson
John Finlay
Sloan
Billy Sloan
Care of Children's Teeth Should Begin Early
After the first molars appear, children should have their teeth cleaned with a small brush. Mothers should supervise brushing twice daily after breakfast and before bedtime to form the habit and keep teeth clean. Boys need sound teeth for proper chewing and nutrition. girls value appearance and smile health.
Farm Bureau Notice on Alteration of Patterns Meeting
Lovell township farm bureau ladies plan a follow up on Alteration of Patterns this Saturday afternoon December 10 at 2 o clock at Mrs Behrends home. Attendees are asked to bring six yards of wrapping paper tape line pins scissors ruler paste pencil note book and a dress or blouse pattern with set in sleeves as near correct size as possible. Mobs are multiplied ignorance Str W Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Lovell Township
B. B. Behrends
Santa Claus Receives Neighborhood Child Mail Bag
A collection of 1927 letters from Monticello and Cascade Town children to Santa at the North Pole requests items such as roller skates, a wristwatch, rubber boots, an electric sewing machine, a sled, a football, a box of colors, and various toy sets. Names include Elsa Ruth Gutknecht Naomi Buddy Johnie Messerle Mary Lucille Rickiefs Eugene Walroff and Alfred Fitosinimoris. December 1927 marks the season’s requests in a local newspaper feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
The
Express
North Pole
Monticello
Denar
Elsa Ruth Gutknecht
Santa's Happyness Club
Mary Lucille Rickiefs
Santa
Ella W
Edna W
Owen W. Ball
Ollie
Eugene W
Bernard W
Albert
Eugene Walroff
Monticello Town
William
Alfred Fitosinimoris
Monticello Town Dee 1927 Wish List from Katherine Renk
A childhood letter from Katherine Renk of Monticello dated December 7 1927 asks for candy nuts pennies a tablet fancy work drawing book colors and mittens for herself and her brothers expressing simple wants from a young reader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Santa Claus
Katherine Renk
Hopkinton Youth Zack Brown Arrested in Duluth Hold Up
Hopkinton dispatch says Zack Brown, sought by Delaware County for leaving the state and a $150 liquor fine, was arrested in Duluth for an attempted holdup. A hotel clerk was shot and slugged. Brown and an Ohio youth were taken into custody. A Duluth photo matched the Hopkinton youth, who had been fined in Manchester last July and released to work and pay the fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinton
Zack Brown
Delaware County
Duluth
Brown
Ohio
Manchester
Court fines railroads and workers in Dubuque case
In federal court at Dubuque Judge G C Scott fined the Chicago Great Western and the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroads $1 000 each for violating interstate commerce rules with discriminatory rates from St Paul to Waco and Dallas Texas. The Chicago Great Western also pled guilty to three safety appliance charges and paid $200 per count. Twenty Dubuque residents pled guilty to prohibition violations and paid a total of $5 750. three defendants received 30 to 60 day jail terms for nonpayment. Morton Schuchart was fined $150 for violating the livestock quarantine shipment act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Waco
Dallas
Texas
Chicago, Great Western
Missouri
Kansas
Dubuque
G. C. Scott
Morton Schuchart
Mitchell County
Hog Cholera Control Prospects in Clear Serum Use
Hog cholera persists but control moves forward with concentrated clear serum. The serum offers storage benefits, lasting about three years versus two for whole-blood serum, aiding rapid deployment during emergency outbreaks.
Potato Matinee At Princess To Aid Needy In Town
A charity movie matinee is planned at the Princess theater likely Saturday afternoon December 17. Admission costs no money but requires five potatoes or equivalent per child. can of vegetables or fruit may be brought. Proceeds help basket and box donations for the town needy. First show at 2 PM with a second if demand allows, featuring a gang comedy and an interesting picture. Organized by FE T Landis and the Maquoketa Camp Fire girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Theater
Bio
Campalen
FE. T. Landis
Maquoketa
Premium Now Paid On Hogs in Jones County
M G Thornburg announces Jones County becomes a modified accredited area on December 1 1927 enabling hog raisers to receive a 10 cent premium per hundred weight for hogs bred and fed in the county. The change follows a three year bovine tuberculosis eradication program with extensive testing and disinfection efforts. Despite heavy infection, testing reduced reactors from 10.3 percent to 3 percent across 46 629 cattle, 929 infected herds, and 2 410 herds with ongoing testing until two clean tests per herd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. G. Thornburg
Town Department of Agriculture
Wortman
Jones County
Old Fashioned Blizzard Rages Through the Night
Severe winter hits with temperature dropping to 10 below zero marking the coldest point this season. Snow and heavy winds disrupt trains from Calmar to Cedar Rapids and a local Christmas tree is blown down. A jitney car powered by steam is planned to replace overdue rail service.
Marjorie Self Earns Sigma Tau Delta Third Degree at Upper Iowa
Miss Marjorie Self of Olin, daughter of Rev. George Self, received the third degree of the Sigma Tau Delta English honor society at Upper Iowa University Fayette. One other student Marion Hamiston also earned the decree. Self previously attended Hopkinton High School and studied at Coe College. She worked as a waitress and in YWCA activities to fund college, later serving as vice president of the YWCA gospel team and member of the igloe club while at Upper Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Self
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
Sigma Tau Delta
Marion Hamiston
Miss Self
George Self
Olin
Hopkinton High School
Coe College
Upper Iowa
Miss Probasco
Lake Geneva
Cedar Rapids
Lake Okoboji
Upper Town
Igloe Club
Old Town Echoes a Bygone Era of Games and Attire
A nostalgic reflection notes lost diversions of the past such as buggy rides spelling, writing and singing schools, and church socials. It contrasts twenty to fifty year shifts in social life from penmanship and dances to movies, dress lengths, and fashion trends, noting changes in headwear and beauty norms.
Ted Koop Elected to Iowa College Press Association Board
Ted F Koop elected to fill a vacancy on the board of directors of the Iowa College Press Association. The 1928 convention will be in Iowa City in April with Blayne McCurry of Grinnell College as president. Ted is a senior in the school of Israelism at the state university and editor in chief of the Daily Towan. Dr Luella Shaw of West Union died Saturday at 59 from acute Brights disease following injuries in a summer auto accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted F. Koop
Iowa College Press Association
Iowa City
Blayne McCurry
Grinnell College
Ted
School of Iseaelism
The
State University
Towan
Luella Shaw
West Union
Bright
Also Mentioned on This Page
Franklin Equipment Co
Sacred Heart School Notes
Donald Burrichter
Kindergarden
W. E. Hunter
R. E. Kent
Dubuque County
General Filling
Linn County
State
Filling
Wes Minor
the Express
McDonald Hospital
Truman, Stevens
State Supreme Court
Linn County Bar Association
Dee
Old St. Nick
Here
Fannie Hicks
E. C. Voelpel
Ella Daniels
Seymour
Wis
Voelpel
Viola Garber
Str
W. Jones
St. Nick
Cascade Town
Paulie
Johnie Messerle
Cascade, Ta
Wily UG
Charles Wright
U. S. Court
Calmar
Anthony J. Popka
Boston Transcript
Charles H. Taylor
Taylor
Felow
Ted Koop
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