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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1924
Page
9
Local residents and visitors frequent Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Manchester, and Oxford Junction. Names include Andrew Ambuehl, Mrs Frank Byerly, Mrs William Dobbs, and J W Putnam. Events cover dances at Lubben's, bridge parties, dental convention, and bake sale plans for December 13.
Local residents, including Mrs. Thomas Shaffer and Mrs. J H Cline, travel for extended visits. births, hospital stays, and family visits populate the week. Events include a bazaar, dances with Wilson's Orchestra, and a poultry show cabbage remark, plus freight rate cuts and Ford price reductions affecting purchases.
Community items report hog marketing by Miles McDonald of Hazel Green township and a 183 head lot. Lovell Farm Bureau women plan a library meeting to discuss preschool child diet and roll call foods to avoid. KE G Brazelton to lead Lovell Castle Grove census starting December 15. Recent trips, church dedication, YWCA official in China, nutrition classes, and postal service advisories accompany kindness and local happenings. Severe winter storm damages across Iowa Nebraska, with thousands of poles down and substantial estimated costs.
Report by Besse Hughes covers upcoming junior class play The Intimate Stranger December 12 in the new auditorium with a listed cast and ticket sales. Also notes a Christmas party, Kipling reading by Rey Coe, glee club performances, Philomathean Society events the paper staff changes, illness absences, and basketball practice toward Monticello win potential in the new gymnasium with schedule hints.
Monticello hosts a townwide holiday event on Wednesday December 24 with Santa Claus arriving at 12 30 pm on First Street A bird tossing display will release geese ducks and chickens from rooftops with those catching a bird allowed to keep it Business people abstain from that segment A large Christmas tree at First and North Cedar will glow with 3800 colored lights Children are invited to attend and receive candy from Santa
James G. Bennett of Cass township seeks a court order to compel B. G. Rees, district court clerk, to issue a marriage license to marry Evah Alice Bennett, his adopted daughter aged a little over 18. The case hinges on whether a parent adopting a daughter may legally marry her and how incest statutes apply.
A Monticello resident Richard Hoag writes to Santa Claus requesting an electric train costing 12 dollars with four cars and a delight. The Express hopes Santa will ensure all requests are granted promptly this season.
Charles B. McKean of Monticello vanished north of Bayfield while visiting his son Frank L. McKean in Bayfield Wisconsin. He was tracked by searchers after a December 2 night loss and found near a ravine on December 3. He suffered a stroke after returning home and remains weak.
A district court jury ruled that the ring belonged to the plaintiff after a bitter dispute. The case traced the ring from Mrs. Keefe to her brother Manville Chaplin and later to George Keefe Blenkley, with executor Park Chamberlain in charge. The value was about 500 dollars and a verdict for possession was reached, while further litigation potential remains against the trustee J H Carey.
Miss Theodosia Doolittle presented a pupil recital at the Neillys home on the 18th alt featuring Ruth Matthiessen Little Fairy Waltz and other works by student performers. The Monti cello high basketball season opened last Wednesday with seventeen players reporting to Coach Whitford and a home game against Maquoketa set for January 9.
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