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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
4
A list of local Christmas visits is reported with residents from Cedar Rapids Anamosa Rock Island and Dubuque among those mentioned. Notable items include Lyman and Sarah Bennett remarrying in Marion and the Monticello post office handling uncalled for letters. The public school resumes after flu disruptions and the shortest day of the year is noted.
Monticello residents welcomed relatives and students on Christmas holidays with travels from Keowanee Eldora Chicago Cedar Rapids Grinnell Clinton Strawberry Point and Fairfield. Several in town assisted relatives and attended seasonal gatherings while many troops and students returned home from service and school duties.
Miss Tolatto Johnson visits her parents in Iowa. The Wartburg seminary student notes travel by road and rail was difficult. Despite this, several dealers report higher sales than last year, signaling stronger holiday trade in the area.
The Congregational church gathered 60 dollars on Christmas Eve. Thirty dollars were given for Armenian relief, and the remaining funds were assigned to the Sunday school to aid a French war orphan program.
Miss Harriet Lubben a nurse at the Ft Sill base hospital Oklahoma spends Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs John Lubben. Lieut Solomon Marugg returned to Monticello last Saturday after duty at Camp Hancock Georgia and release from army service.
Reuben Hubbard visits his parents Mr. and Mrs Bert Hubbard while serving as a teacher in Brewster public schools Minnesota. Paul Maire telegraphed from New York that he landed from overseas and hopes to be mustered out in two or three weeks. Miss Susanna Heisey spends Christmas with her parents Mr. and Mrs Henry Heisey while teaching in Austin public schools Minnesota.
Messrs. Wilbur Adamson and Roy Jacque returned home last Saturday morning after being mustered out of the army. Adamson served overseas and was stationed in England for a period. Mr. and Mrs. John Perrine and family, recently living on a Cass township farm, returned to Monticello last Monday evening and will reside in the Schoonover house.
The Monticello Buol family is told their son, a Nebraska-based physician, was killed in a recent automobile accident. He was reared on Bowen's Prairie and his death occurred a few days ago.
Miss Fredda Moore returns from Cedar Rapids to spend Christmas with her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Moore. She studies at Cedar Rapids business college. Elmer Lee and Paul Matthiessen come home after military leave. Dave Lynch and John Ross are mustered out, with Lynch in Texas and Ross in the balloon service at San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cross and daughter Barbara of Montevideo Minnesota are spending the Christmas holidays in the John Heisey home. Mr. Cross is a public school instructor in Montevideo.
Albert Schneider and John Rickels returned from Iowa City last Friday evening where they had been in the S A T C. Both boys are on the reserve list and may be called when the government requires them.
News arrives of the death of Mr. Callison husband of former Monticello resident Jennie Alloway in Montana. The couple lived in Montana.
Cecil Williamson son of Mr and Mrs Bert Williamson of Appleton Minnesota and former Center Junction resident died at his home after a severe influenza followed by pneumonia He was 20 and a grandson of Mrs Martha Williamson of the city
Jerry Roubinek of Oxford Junction, a Jones County veteran who saw heavy fighting in France, lost a thumb and finger, was mustered out in the United States, and spent time at Camp Dodge before a Christmas furlough. Local Order of the Eastern Star chapters elect officers for the year including Worthy Matron Mrs A M Maurice and Treasurer George L Lovell.
Alice Schneider, two and a half, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ben Schneider, died after influenza and pneumonia. Funeral held at the family home last Saturday by Rev A P Walton. Survived by parents two sisters and a brother. The Schneider family receives many expressions of sympathy in their bereavement.
Funeral attendance for Mrs. Melissa Weir included Davenport visitors Isaac Sears and family plus Weir relatives and Katherine Sears among others. Cascade attendees included Thomas Kingsley family Philip Melissa Elizabeth Archie Macomber and William Fairburn with their households.
December snow began the night of the 28th and continued into the next day. A white Christmas left six inches on the ground with much drifting due to wind, causing train delays Wednesday.
John Boedeker aged 93 died at his daughter Mrs Herman Dannaman’s home in Wayne township from old age and Bright's disease. Born August 17 1825 in Hanover Germany he immigrated to the United States in 1854 lived in Alton Illinois four years returned to Germany 1858 married Anna Tobiason 1859 and moved to the United States 1865. The family settled in Wayne township farmed until 1915 then moved to Amber where his wife died a year before. He is survived by one child Mrs Dannaman of Amber. Funeral services were held at Wayne Lutheran church last Tuesday conducted by Rev J B Willis with burial in Wayne cemetery.
Mrs Melissa A Weir died Wednesday evening at her daughter’s home in Davenport after a prolonged illness She was born in Ontario March 15 1836 and lived in Monticello nearly 40 years The funeral was held at 2 pm from the late home with Very Rev Marmaduke Hare conducting and interment in Oakwood cemetery in Monticello The family lists six children fourteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Former Monticello pastor Rev M A Breed accepts a call from Bellevue Ohio Congregational church. He served Stuart Iowa church after leaving Monticello. Bellevue has 484 members and 350 Sunday school scholars in a 6000 population town near Oberlin. The Breed family continues to mourn their only son’s loss.
The article recalls H. H. Ricklefs of Jones County who drew number 258 in last July's draft lottery. He was among the first to depart for Camp Dodge. Ricklefs was wounded by shrapnel in August and remains hospitalized with a leg injury. His friends fear the wound may be serious. He worked for his uncle John H. Ricklefs of Bowens Prairie at selection.
James Hosford five died last Thursday after whooping cough followed by influenza. Burial was Saturday as his parents and two brothers battle influenza. A barn fire on the Hosford farm burned the barn and hogs. Monticello friends mourn the family misfortune.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Starks died at her daughter Mrs. Fred Darrow’s home after an toe infection led to blood poisoning. Born August 13, 1856 in Ohio, she married J. L. Starks in 1870 and left twelve children, ten surviving. Funeral at the Darrow home Christmas afternoon, Rev. J. H. Barr officiating, East Monticello cemetery.
Emma Georgienoe Frederika Burrack died of pneumonia after a severe influenza attack last Saturday. She aided her ill sisters during their illness before contracting the disease herself, and received the sacrament in faith. Born June 23, 1892 in Lovell township, she leaves her mother, four sisters, and two brothers. Funeral at the family home with burial in Bowen's Prairie cemetery.
A wedding held at 6 p m on December 19 1918 united Misa Fannie M Blackwood and Cameron K Greer at the First Reformed Presbyterian church in Denver Colorado Rev J Greer officiated. The reception featured red and green Christmas decor and a three course dinner. The bride wore gray silk with robin egg blue and carried Killaray roses. Mrs Greer formerly taught in Kansas and worked as a stenographer in Los Angeles. The groom farms and grows seeds with the Town State college Extension Department. They will live on the Sand Spring farm after January 1.
Monticello records reflect births deaths marriages and business moves in December 1883. Notable entries include birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. M G Harken, marriage of Miss Mary Moore to James George, relocation of Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Bates to Missoula, Montana, and Alfred Noble shipping two carloads of cattle to Chicago. City council planned a dozen street lamps, and births, deaths, divorces, and school enrollments outline local life.
Ten carloads of hogs and calves were shipped out of Ryan last week. C. N. Patrick had his glasses fitted.
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