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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 20, 1923

Page

9

Denkhoff’s Leading Diamond Store Active in Jones County

Denkhof’s jewelry store remains a local hub with mentions of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Stambaugh visiting Cedar Rapids and Mrs. M H Teeter hosting at events. Regular shoppers and relatives frequent Denkhoff’s with notes of Christmas gifts, watches, clocks, and white Rock pullets in area chatter.

Jones County Denkhof's Grant Stambaugh Cedar Rapids Harold Adamant Anna Gadmer D. W. Cunningham

Local Christmas notices and shopping ads in Monticello

A jumble of social updates and holiday promotions from Monticello area merchants and residents. Includes visits, Christmas plans, gifts and packages, toy and radio ads, car parts, batteries, candy, craft classes, and upcoming events at churches and schools.

Local notices mixed with family news and ads

Monticello area items report Christmas plans for Leyland Skelley at the University of Wisconsin Madison and homecoming. Cedar Rapids Transfer & Storage offers moving rates. births, marriages, illness, and community events are noted including a high school paper debut, a birthday, and a funeral.

California Cedar Rapids Transfer & Storage Co Cedar Rapids

Monticello Court Terms Close After Busy Session

Judge El Ss presided as judges, juries basked in lengthy trials, and a six day verdict favored the defendant in a vehicle collision case near Cascade. Bootlegging pleas and probate rulings accompanied reports of local deaths and a school play success.

el- Ss Ain Ustin Hayes Cascade Arnon Slauson Monticello Ae ‘Andithat X2rays GW. Johnson Lela “Underwood Jennie Belknap Helen Suchman Fannie Garret .Weers Louis McBride John Michels Lacy Coker Olin Tobin Meeks

Monticello High Opens Season with 27 7 Win Over Epworth

Monticello High School opened its basketball season Friday night by defeating Epworth Academy 27 to 7. A Christmas party was held by the Philomathean Literary Society, the junior class staged The Elopement of Ellen to a large audience, and The Philomonte published its first issue after school Monday. Grant Peet of Sand Point visited, candy making continued, and twenty contestants entered the declamatory preliminaries set for January 12 with finals to follow. Charles Hand, 14, of Center Point, was killed when a team of horses he was driving ran away. his skull was fractured by the wagon wheels. The body was found on farmer Jerry Gaul’s property, where Hand worked as a farm hand.

Ellen Opera House Monticello High School Esther Jamison Lee Alcorn Bessie Hughes Loyal Podhaki Raymond Denkhoff Thelma Gregory Gracia Orcutt Monticello High Epworth Academy Philomathean Literary Society Home Economica Charles Hand Center Point Jerry Caul Gaul Caul

Oldest resident Mrs Drusilla Barnhill dies at 97 near Troy Mills

Mrs Drusilla Barnhill died at her son L N Barnhill’s home near Troy Mills. She was nearly 98, born October 8 1825 in Maryland and moved to Indianapolis at age 10. Funeral services were held at the Christian church in Troy Mills with burial in the local cemetery.

Albert H. Coe Methodist’ Episcopal Church Arthur P. O'Rourke American Legion Sutton Drusilla Barnhill L. N. Barnhill Troy Mills Maryland Jess Hannah Tomlinson Barnhill Indianapolis Indiana

Barnhill Family Across Iowa Frontier Years

In 1846 Joseph Barnhill and his wife moved to Iowa by wagon with oxen as it was then a frontier region. They settled near Johnsontown, later near Scotch Grove on the Milan farm, moved about Iowa and Missouri, Barnhill dying June 6, 1918 in Elmo Missouri. Mrs Barnhill raised nine children and lived with them thereafter.

Mary A. Sutton Mary A. Sutton North Cedar Street New Jersey John R. Sutton Iowa Langworthy Oxford Junction Vinton Mon Joseph Barnhill Barnhill Johnsontown Monticello Dubuque Millan Scotch Grove Missouri Elmo A. G. Rodman This Cay Alexander Sutherland L. M. Barnhill Sac City M. B. Stevens Oregon City Oregon L. N. Barnhill Coggan Frank Berry Charles Long L.J. Barnhill Bradyville W. A. Thompson Ketchum Idaho

Christmas Program at Teinity Lutheran in Johnsontown

Teinity Lutheran Church led by Pastor Paul T. Gutknecht hosts a Christmas program in Johnsontown on December 26 at 7 p.m. with hymns readings and songs by Elsa Ruth Gutknecht Louis Thuman Wilma Hanken and others, concluding with the closing hymn Let Us All With Glad Some Voices and a benediction. The Manchester Press note comments on local dandelion sightings and readers' climate views.

Johnsontown Jesus and the Angels Elsa Ruth Gutknecht Louis Thuman Wilma Hanken Louis Hanken George Dirks Jesus Gerhard Gutknecht Frieda Martin Edna Thuman cChildren Rufus Hanken Angel the Shepherds Sa Vewaepa Louis Behrends Leroy Dirks Shepherds’ King Walter Norris

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