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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
9
The piece advertises women's house and boudoir slippers in many designs. It highlights felt, leather, and wool options with trimmed and brocaded patterns for comfort, from cool evenings to mornings, by E.G. Burrichter.
Readable items include visitors in Cedar Rapids and Dubuque, gifts from Denkhoff and Smith stores, phonograph giveaways, Red Cross seals, stock show attendance, births, and shipping notes. Local events mention a funeral in Monticello, organ sales, and December vehicle registrations amid light snow and train drift issues.
Local notice highlights Arend Balster offering Christmas goods to save villagers trips to distant markets. Mentions coal shortages at schools and factories, wage offers at Hoag Duster Co, and community events including church services and local rail delays.
Miss Margaret Aebi passes federal civil service exams at Fort Wayne and may enter as stenographer and bookkeeper. Local meetings include Monticello Post 209 of the American Legion and the Eastern Star electing 1920 officers. Jury trials continue. Luke Coyle and Hilla Lacy wed. Irene B Wheeler lectures on served lunches. Victory bond coupons due December 15.
Monticello prepares to host Hopkinton in a varsity basketball game at the local high school gym tomorrow evening. Fans are urged to bring warm clothing as the gym will have no heat to conserve coal and fuel, yet support from locals is expected strong. R M Corbit of Oxford Michigan notes the paper’s delay due to visiting friends and praises Michigan bank statements as evidence of prosperity amid coal restrictions affecting Detroit and Pontiac.
The Cascade Pioneer notes John D Sullivan as the town's oldest native born in Jones county while Mrs. T A King and George Green may be older. It records their births in 1840 and a Barrett Whitlemere reference to John O Sullivan’s first dwelling in 1841, all in Richland township. It also covers the wedding of Clara Betten to Henry J L Paulsen at the Reformed church with a reception at the Etten home and a later dance. The groom served ten months in France with the US Army near St Amand. The couple will live on the Shover farm east of Monticello.
Miss Margaret Otto daughter of Mr and Mrs Adolph Otto of Moline Illinois married Willis Price of Moline now employed at Monticello The wedding was conducted by Rev William Mitchell at the J T Lanigan home on North Cedar Street Price rents the Lanigan residence and works as a tire builder at Gruber Armored Tire Company
Last Sunday night a man and a woman or two couples broke the lock of the east town school house. They burned kindling wood and damaged shelves. A sleigh hidden behind the building carried the visitors, with tracks showing both sexes. The act risked penitentiary penalties.
The public is urged to cooperate with postal authorities for holiday mail handling. Rules include prepaid postage, full plain addressing, sender’s name and address on upper left, careful wrapping, and not sealing parcels. Do not open until Christmas markings allowed. books may have nonpersonal dedications.
The article notes an ice famine last summer and urges preparedness with refrigerators. It also covers Miss Lena Brokens and John Fechtman’s wedding, a Langworthy dance in their honor, and Fechtman’s military service. It mentions the death of Dick Lynn in Dubuque and provides reminiscences of his Monticello years. It ends with a legal dispute over flash boards affecting water power near Anamosa.
Master Leonard Wismier is very ill with pneumonia at the hospital. Martin McDonald from Prairieburo is a pneumonia case. Mrs G Siebels underwent a serious operation last Saturday. William Putman was a surgical case last Monday. Anna McCauly had her tonsils removed last Monday. Mrs Wessley Starks is a medical case. Henry Peters had his tonsils removed last Saturday.
Frank Joseph Altman died at the New Sanitarium in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin last Friday evening at eleven o clock After illness from rheumatism then typhoid fever He was born December 10 1881 in Monticello and married Agnes Nose Deveney on March 1 1916 He lived in Savanna and Monticello and was a conductor in railroad service Funeral held at Sacred Heart Church Monticello burial in Catholic cemetery Knights of Columbus conducted the rites He is survived by his widow sisters Katherine Mary Annie Altman and brothers William Theodore Altman Peter Altman and Frank Peekosh
Clara Boss reports a quiet assembly room as students study before nine. Visitors Helen Hoag and Linfred Huuss stop by. Framma Laude visits. Absences rise due to late trains. Christmas cantata prepared for Presbyterian church. Reds beat Blues 9 to 0 in girls basketball. gym heating is unavailable due to fuel shortage. Monticello defeats Anamosa 34 to 16 after a close first half 14 to 10.
Monticello high school beat Anamosa 34 to 16 in the boys game after a fast first half that ended 14 to 10. The Monticello squad tallied in the second half to pull away, while a preliminary girls game saw the first team lose 6 to 0 to the second.
Dissolution sale by B F Lubben and August M Peterson at Sandhouse farm four miles north of Monticello. Auction starts at ten o clock on Thursday December 18. Livestock include 178 cattle 60 Hereford steers 1100 pounds 18 Aberdeen Angus 74 Shorthorns 1200 pounds 1 pedigree Angus bull and more. Also 31 hogs 5000 bushels grain hay chickens geese and farm machinery with new items. Free lunch at noon. Buyers from a distance will be met at the train. Auctioneers L P Waddick John A Costello. clerk L W Lovell.
A list of individuals to serve on the grand jury for 1920 is provided. Names include residents from multiple townships such as Rome Ananona Oxford Monticello Wayne Castle Grove and Madison. Also noted is an advertisement for used organs at bargain prices from Prank Lochor Muste store.
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