Practical Gifts For Everyday Use In Old Time Ties
In Ye Olden Times practical gifts were valued for real value and saving cost. People increasingly seek useful items such as shoes or house slippers, with a fine assortment to choose from.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
11
In Ye Olden Times practical gifts were valued for real value and saving cost. People increasingly seek useful items such as shoes or house slippers, with a fine assortment to choose from.
A collection of short social notes lists visits and activities in Monticello and nearby towns. Mrs. Hogan, Mrs. Templeton, Mrs. Jackson, and Miss Becker are among residents visiting Cedar Rapids. several locals travel for shopping, Christmas gifts, and family events.
Advert covers Denkhoff jewelry offering an $85 diamond to lucky customers with contests and ads. Nearby notes report local moves, hospital stays, and social news including Mrs. Fraser teaching, J. Miller's return home, and Christmas shopping guidance at Peacock Shop.
Burns Lodge 178A F and AM elects officers for the year led by H W Wilkinson master and D P Young secretary. Oil found SW of Edgemont SD near Monticello homesteads including O P Hanssen and Alva Like. Charles Schweitzer buys Willard Battery Service. John Hgger returns from Europe with emigrants bound for America. Community notes cover a charity auction, court term activity, Christmas shopping ads, high school party plans, Christmas envelope stamps placed on back, and local civic installations.
Ralph Gibson a young farmer living two miles east of Shell Rock was strangled when his coat sleeve caught on a set screw of a small corn sheller driven by a gasoline engine. The accident occurred last week, leaving no chance to cry out.
The Monticello Express records a December 1895 month in review with deaths births and marriages. Highlights include Miss Katie Wilkinson killed by a freight train near Anamosa, A. H W. Hanten marrying Mrs Henry Jacobs, Isaac Orcutt and Charlotte Ricklets wedding, and several births and aging deaths across Castle Grove Lovell and Onslow townships. A new steel bridge was begun north of Monticello for the GC M. & St. Paul line, and local civic notes include census growth and a 15th wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Thomas J Peak.
The Manchester Press notes Rev. W X Miller, now in Cedar Falls, returns to the Methodist church in Manchester after 63 years to preach. The event is described as a historic Iowa Methodist milestone with Miller at age 84 delivering a notable sermon to a dwindling audience of former parishioners and new listeners.
A humorous local column presents riddles and puns about young people on North Cedar and nearby streets. The items joke about appearances and manners with playful quips about a law yer, a goad goat, and a tie factory, structured as light domestic humor in vintage tone.
Frederick W. Pohlmann aged 74 of Davenport died by hanging in his bed last Sunday morning. Police and medical staff found him and declared death at the scene. The event is being investigated as a possible suicide with no foul play suspected at this time.
December 16 set as sale date for all items to be cried by auctioneer J P Waddick. Tim Connolly listed among claimants for the sales.
Public notice states Administrathrux signed and appointed as administrator of the estate of Laska W. Orcutt deceased in Jones County Iowa. Creditors are notified to file claims with the clerk of court within legal time and to make immediate payment to avoid costs. Dated Antmosa Iowa November 20, 2020. Orcutt, Administrator. Locher, Attorney for estate.
Public notice announces Carrie Culver executrix of Carrie My Blake de Conged estate. Chadbatriet court appoints and swears clerk to oversee probate. Creditors must present claims, and all parties warned to settle debts at Animosa on November 20, 32 Wo. Locher attorney for the estate.
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