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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
4
In Scotch Grove this week the Red Cross Chapter led by Mrs. F W Royden seeks new members for sewing and knitting work as the community is urged to join. Members are asked to leave names and one dollar with Mrs Royden or secretary Mary Balster or attend meetings.
Sand Spring notes report Mr and Mrs A Blair and daughter Mildred attended the funeral of Mrs Blair's brother E J Mullen in Hopkinton last Saturday. Several local residents are listed visiting relatives and traveling to nearby towns for work and errands.
Castle Grove reports Cedar Rapids visitors S. M. Hosford and family and Claude Mason. John Hasler shipped a car load of porkers to Chicago for 17.75 per cwt. Mason leaves for Bedford Indiana after two seasons here. G Grover to auction personal property Friday and Mrs Cunningham to hold sale next Wednesday. Marion Reed of Stone City teaches district No. 6 this winter. Winter has returned and W D McLaughlin has been ill. Charles Murphy shipped hogs last week. Still some corn to be harvested locally.
Prairieburg reports improvement for Joseph G. Kula after an Anamosa operation with hopeful recovery. Mrs. H. T. Crawford stayed home ill and required a substitute teacher. Union Sunday school girls plan an oyster supper at Kula hall Friday. Effie Wyjack shopped in Cedar Rapids Monday. Flavel DeLancey was quite sick Saturday evening.
Anandsa Edreka items report Geo. L. Schoonever leaving Saturday for Waco Texas to present the cause of the Masonic Research Society to the grand lodge of Texas. Walter Mills of Chicago son of Sheriff Mills sees salary rise from 3600 to 4500 for 1918 with Roach Live Stock Company. Miss Rena Hubbell and Mrs. Chamberlain depart for Los Angeles for the winter with the Blakesiees.
Fr P McNamara and M Gorman sold and delivered hogs to Tyler and Downing valued at 4700 dollars last week. Ernest V Hubbard, youngest son of Mr and Mrs W A Hubbard, passed exams at Cedar Rapids and will report to Des Moines then Great Lakes to serve in the Navy. Mr and Mrs C P Atwood celebrated their golden wedding on December 1 1917 with four children seventeen grandchildren and three great grandchildren present. Langworthy post office to close and service move to Monticello and Anamosa rural routes. postmaster John Heyen refuses civil service exam and to hold office any longer.
Frank Seery passed the aviation department examination at Water oo and has a week to decide on enlistment. Wm. Kingsley spent Thanksgiving with parents. William enlisted as a chemist in the army and is stationed at Rock Island. Monticello serenaders performed on Thanksgiving day. A wedding on Wednesday morning November 28 at St Peter’s Church Temple Hill united Miss Olivia Klinkner and Mr Andrew A Hosech. John Rehing of Worthington suffered a severe accident while operating a corn shredder when his left arm was mangled. his hand escaped the teeth but the arm below the elbow had to be removed.
Melvin Ramsey joins aviation corps and goes to St. Louis, raising the count of Olin boys in the services to fifty one. Merchants cut hours after Christmas to 1 pm except Wednesdays and Saturdays. YWCA drive aims to raise 25 for a camp picket to watch over girls drawn by brass buttons. Camp Cody drill shows 50,000 men parading. Noble Mershon wins in his company. Twentieth Century club met with Mrs Daisy Truax. gifts redirected to Belgian babies.
Dr R H Spence of Wyoming sells his medical practice to Dr Newton M Smith and will relocate to Cedar Rapids to practice in a larger field. The remains of Mrs Hans Ahrendsen arrive in the city from Danbury Iowa where she died Friday while visiting daughter Mrs John Christopherson. Frank E Millard and Ernest Voland, previously with local railway work and Iowa Creamery Co, have enlisted in the navy.
Mrs Rorick, recently feeble, was moved to the John McDonald hospital at Monticello Tuesday morning seeking improved care. Her condition remains serious though the transfer offers hope for better treatment and recovery.
Center Junction prepares a five part comedy drama The Country Minister to be staged soon by the Ladies Working Band of the Presbyterian church. A sacred concert is set for December 19 with director Mrs I L Bergeson and accompanists Marguerite McNeilly featuring solos duets and choirs. The Presbyterian ladies also reported a bazaar and supper last Saturday netting about $138.
Report by Adele Wilkens describes a senior class party in the Monticello gym after a game on Friday with light refreshments. The item notes a freshman’s cold-weather surprise, a dairy contest from the State Dairy association, and various school activities including Aletheorian society events and a notable basketball victory over Hopkinton.
Poem notes how Alice from a prior life is now in the war zone Over There with a changed heart after a life of dancing motoring golfing and new gowns. It contrasts a butterfly life with wartime duty in a town wrecked by battle as the speaker recalls memories of Alice and the impact of war.
Mayor J A Voorhees urges citizens including restaurant and hotel keepers to observe government food and fuel saving directives. He emphasizes cash purchases, downgrading nonessential goods, carrying own goods to save delivery costs, and notes labor shortages expected by spring as war demands rise.
A Dallas county farmer received a payment of 3410.09 dollars for a carload of hogs. The note suggests he can manage until his corn dries enough to be marketed.
The Emporia Gazette notes apparent German derision toward the United States Army, describing the mockery as ongoing and timely in the wartime context. The piece emphasizes public sentiment and international reactions rather than specific actions.
On Wednesday December 19 the reel shows The Fighting Trail Vitagraph and Teddy at the Throttle a 2 part Keystone comedy. Saturday December 22 Louise Glaum stars in Sweetheart of the Doomed a 5 part Triangle with The Bookworm Turns a Triangle comedy. Matinee at 3 00.
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