Derg and Mighters Spotlight Across Christmas Treat Co
Readable fragments highlight a Christmas treat collaboration between Derg and Mighters at a local shop. The item lists suggest a festive lineup and product showcase during the holiday season.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1926
Page
9
Readable fragments highlight a Christmas treat collaboration between Derg and Mighters at a local shop. The item lists suggest a festive lineup and product showcase during the holiday season.
Local Monticello merchants promote Christmas gifts from McNeill s Hardware and Palmer s Pharmacy. Residents head to Rochester and Anamosa for visits and care, with births and hospital stays noted among families. Community events include bake sales, Kiwanis meetings, Camp Fire dolls for Perkins hospital, and radio sales from Zimmerman Harms.
J LeRoy Farmer returns from Des Moines after attending sessions of WinIona State Conners association where he recently completed a term as director. A bazaar and bake sale is set for December 11 at J B Zimmerman store hosted by St Peter and St Paul Lutheran Church Castle Grove Township with lunches served. Milton Thoeni named assistant postmaster of Monticello effective December 16. Love of football recognized as Leyland Shelley receives a sweater and an I for past season at University of Iowa banquet. Several local officials elected by Masonic lodge officers include Norman Davidson as Worshipful Master and George Lovell as Treasurer. Community notes on weather and civic events fill pages with calls for helping birds during sleet storms and reminders to seek Osteopathy. Local hospital and school news add graduations, Christmas seals sale, Red Cross fundraising, and a junior class play. An automobile accident near Springville involved Co F Weiland. no injuries.
Miss Katherine Farmer, northern Jones county public health nurse, resigns effective January 1 1927. She cites misalignment with Monticello work and seeks county health and welfare roles. Funding gaps, transportation limits, and a county plan to secure school-district support are noted. She will join county health work in Jackson County Arkansas with headquarters at Newport.
Motorists must renew 1927 automobile licenses this month. File your application at Monticello State Bank, where full schedules and rate books are on file. Bring last year's registration card, 224-4.
The Monticello Express details December events from 1001 including a church organ dedication, a near gas asphyxiation at the Benedict home, deaths of Mrs. Isabella Bacher and Emma Dawson, and a fatal derrick accident at Loop quarry. It notes anniversaries for Rodick, Austin, Balster, and Hanken, new druggists firm Bacher & Abel, and plans for rural delivery and bank renovations.
The high school auditorium hosted Advertige with positive reception. Supt Mahannah and Miss Hattie L Specht attended Cedar Falls conference, allowing senior normal training girls two days to observe rural schools. Football banquet in home economics, decorations by Miss Smalling, toastmaster Mahannah, and a surprise turnout of students at school Monday. Basketball season begins post Christmas with Captain Robert Rickles, and a Friday gym dance festival is urged with strong backing for Miss Carson.
The Independent School District of Monticello invites sealed bids for 100 tons of 6x3 Franklin county or Saline county coal. Bids must be received by 7:80 PM on December 23 at the board of education office in the public school building, with Chas Luett serving as secretary.
Burton Burelaon of Maquoketa area suffered multiple broken ribs and a broken arm after his coat was pulled into a grinder shaft on Friday afternoon. A neighbor responded to his cries and freed him.
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