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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1914
Page
7
A Cedar Rapids business visitor list includes Ralph Baker and Lena Haensgler among others. Christmas visits span Dubuque Anamosa and Monticello with Dr. Stabler and Miss Flora Stoddard noted. Foster Clothing Co displays Lion shirts, Deatrick's remnant offers draw for dry goods, and bequest pricing on beef quarters featured. Community events and visitors fill the week.
Cascade resident Mrs. John M. McLees and her daughter Mary visit Monticello last Tuesday. Foster Clothing Co. sells goods though shop window appears damaged. Various locals and visitors are listed, including Mrs. Walter Hubbard in Cedar Rapids and Detroit visitors at the Steiner home. Overstocks include 17 cent ribbed garments. Funeral and travel notes, church events, and upcoming high school basketball game are noted along with short personal updates and business plans.
In district court Judge Ellison chairs a trial of Levi L Wells administrator against Park Chamberlain receiver of Anamosa Electric over 15000 dollars in damages for the death of Jesse B Wells caused by a Hive wire on the public highway near Anamosa. The case, arguing negligence by the company and possible decedent contributory negligence, likely will not finish today as the last jury case of the term.
The internal revenue office states that checks drawn on a bank creating an overdraft must bear revenue stamps. It is advised to avoid drawing beyond the account to sidestep stamp requirements.
Messry Frank Porter of Clarion and William Porter of Vincent visited their brother Hd Porter last Monday. They planned to visit their father William Porter Sr, aged 86, who is reasonably hearty. An engagement from January 4 for eight days features Madame Gertrude, direct from Majestic Theatre Cedar Rapids, plus three reels of pictures at Princess Theatre with 10 and 15 cent admission.
With the new work on the rebuilt telephone lines, free service between Anamosa and Monticello ends. Callers to county offices must pay ten cents and more for overruns. A stopwatch will time visits to the county hub and suburbs.
Clerk Fisher issued seven marriage licenses this past week including Freese Folkers, Ana moga Wilds, Lux Gadiant, Gerdes Weers, Worden Raymond, Surgensen Simmons. Florence Livingstone Greene visits from Boone then plans hops to Hopkinton and Center Junction. An electrical engineer husband left Schnectady to join a Boone headquarters firm. The Express printed a new Bell Telephone Company local directory last Tuesday with all call numbers changed due to system rebuilding.
Mary Lovell, three years old, fractured her collar bone after a fall while playing with her sister last Thursday evening. She was stunned into unconsciousness and treated under anesthesia during fracture reduction. The accident spoiled her planned Christmas visit to grandparents.
This year a sentiment calendar will be sent to each subscriber along with The Express supplement. Town subscribers will receive it separately at the post office if needed. Last year complaints about missing calendars at the post office will be corrected once noticed.
John Gess drives a cutter on First Street near the railroad when his horse Bucephalus spooks at a snow covered engine. The vehicle lurches, Gess and a bystander end in a snow bank as the horse flees down North Cedar Street colliding with Tom Rhatigan and a loaded dray wagon before the animal regains control near George Greene and his engine.
The Iowa Telephone Co finished installation of its Monticello plant last evening. At nine o’clock the cutover onto the new line was announced by Mayor L. Van Meter who called many business men to wish them a happy new year. Manager Smith received patrons’ congratulations as the company previews a complete up to date system with all fixtures wires and phones discarded and lines rebuilt along First street. The public had been patient through the work and is promised prompt efficient service.
Lloyd Bevington 24, reared in Monticello, died on a freight train in Oregon or Idaho last June. His sister Edna Maurer of Seattle confirmed the death this month after chasing rumors since Thanksgiving. His body was found cut in two near Pendleton. an express receipt and kept money linked him to the accident. The remains will be brought to Seattle for interment.
The Express records a December 1879 timeline from Monticello and surroundings. Notable items include births of a Towne son and a Leichhardt daughter, marriages of Miss Bobletter to R B Tuel, Dora Whiting to Frank Anthony, Miss Louisa Haeussler to Isaac Schneider, and Hattie Fawcett to Joseph Nye, plus a 50th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. N M Hanken. Also listed are a death of Sinclair Springer in California, a move of Effie Whittemore to Nebraska for a reporters clerk post, community notes on teachers’ salaries, and New Year open-house customs and extensive Sunday school observances.
Two enthusiastic couples wed yesterday in Des Moines at the state house dome. The fat preacher faced a climb up the winding stair to officiate the solemn services in a humorous scene.
George Sutherland aged ninety two died at the home of Della Sutherland in Monticello after a brief illness. He was a Red River settler who came from Manitoba with his family as a youth and lived in Jones county for generations. He left no immediate family. Short funeral services were held at his home and he was later interred at Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church. He belonged to the Free Masons and was remembered as a sturdy, well traveled man with wide knowledge. His widowed wife died in 1863 and his son Charles, a Lenox College student, had died earlier. The obituary notes his longevity and the kinship ties that sustained him.
Mrs George Tousley died in Manchester on Christmas Day after spending most of her life in Monticello. Born May 24, 1863 near here, she married George Tousley in May 1889 and lived locally until moving to Manchester a decade ago. She was mother to four children and a longtime church and lodge member. Funeral services were held in Manchester last Sunday.
A recent snowstorm wrapped trees in white and created a tranquil scene. Over the next day winds rose, drifted snow, and roads broke into sleighing. Thermometers showed 14 degrees below zero yesterday, colder than today’s reading of zero.
The Jacobs auction of timber land was postponed due to yesterday's heavy snowstorm. A notice elsewhere states the sale is moved to January 7. Jacobs will offer the land in 10 acre tracts.
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