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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
2
Center Junction December notes cover, electing year's officers for The Loyals Sunday school class and upcoming Christmas program at the Methodist Episcopal church. Local activities include Red Cross seals sale, obituaries, visits, and a spate of social events with many residents traveling to Monticello, Wyoming, and Anamosa.
The Castle Grove trustees plan their annual December meeting for December 27 at 1 p.m. and request claims be presented there. Mrs. J A Howie travels to Greenfield for her母s illness, joined by her brother W H Laude. Various residents visit, church Christmas exercises scheduled, and local schooling updates noted.
Will Rieken and family moved to Arizona last Friday. Frank Pelkey resigns as agent. replacement is Mr Brown from Manilla Iowa. Mabel Hinrichs teaching Rocky Ridge school and visiting Cedar Rapids. Christmas Eve program and tree planned at the church. Concert in Monticello enjoyed by many. Mr and Mrs Andrew Davidson of Monticello visiting Scotch Grove. Anna and Grace Stahlberg returned from Nebraska visit. Mrs W B Warner spent weekend in Monticello. Rural schools close for holiday vacation this week.
More than a hundred young people attended the wedding dance in Langworthy last Wednesday night. Attendees came from Monticello Scotch Grove and Amber. Chas Lazio and several boys from Anamosa rode the train Friday morning and walked back for a hunting trip. School closes Friday for a two weeks vacation and will resume afterward.
A Friday evening program and box social at the Sand Spring school house featured a play titled Christmas at Finnegan's Flats. About 47 dollars was raised from box sales to fund a Victrola for the teachers Miss Florence Sampson and Miss Edith Gestel. Other items note visits by Russell Chaplin of Onslow, Hopkinton visitors the Gree ns, and Marion guest W J Greer, with J W Murray visiting Manchester on business.
Prairieburg December 14 residents host visitors from Oxford Junction Monticello and Central City. Dr Redmond and Dr Adams attended, a young people gathering at FT Richards home. Louis Drexler Cedar Rapids guests, Mrs John Jr Kula ill with parasitic stroke. Henry Henderson hired as clerk at Lauser Grocery Market. Wong Wula child ill last week.
Annie Schmitlfeldt and Miss Marie Behrends visited Onslow School last week. New students Zelma Reid in ninth grade and Harvey in fifth grade joined, with several seats swapped in the assembly amid rising wireless traffic. The sixth grade joke with Supt Bailey and several staff absences noted. tardies include Ida Tracy and Naomi Alen. Mina Hanna and Mildred Hamilton visited. Report by Thelma Johnson.
Obituary notices report the death of Mrs Charles McCarthy at St Josephs sanitarium Asbury after years of illness age 60, funeral at St Martins Cascade. Miss Agnes Agnew dies at Mercy hospital Dubuque born 1862. Judge D I Maguire improving in Milwaukee. fire destroys Charles City Catholic church. other notes on residents visiting relatives and local moves.
Houston Post questions the wisdom of adding even half of one percent alcohol to products and invites readers to consider why anyone with any sense would do so.
Edith Deischer reports on high school visitors and departures as students move to Cedar Rapids and California. The term ends with two popular seniors leaving, a shortened second semester, and a four week Christmas break. The week features a Bethlehem pageant at the Presbyterian church with Harriet Rohn and William Rickles in lead roles and multiple student performances.
Lou Beauchamp known as the thinker who makes you laugh and the Humorist who makes you think will headline the Monticello Entertainment Course at the Presbyterian church next Friday December 19. The renowned performer has appeared up to fifty six times in major cities and has lived an eventful life among Creek Choctaw and Cherokee Indians. He rose to newspaper editing by age twenty and now tours worldwide blending humor with uplifting messages as a gospel of sunshine referenced by Sam Jones.
An advertising claim features Luke Rielly saying a rat died before reaching the river after using RAT SNAP. The note includes pricing 25 cents 50 cents and 1.00, sold and guaranteed by W. W. Stickford and druggists everywhere.
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