Farley's and McNeill's ads mingle town news and sales
Local ads note cash sales at Farley’s creamery and clothing items. Listings include Voss electric washers at 69, Denkhoff eyeglasses and Kryptok lenses, and Gulbransen pianos. Monticello residents Helena Wilcox and Christina Muaragg visit relatives. several families and stores noted for promotions and hearings.
Monticello Happenings From Week's Busy Social Scene
Reports detail visits by Hugo Sitzler and many locally known residents to relatives and friends. Upcoming events include a bake sale, a Legion auxiliary supper and dance, and school class demonstrations alongside changes in schedules and hardware store promotions.
Mrs Perrine heads to Ann Arbor for prom chaperon duties
Mrs John Perrine traveled to Ann Arbor for a visit with son Beahl and will serve as a chaperon at a fraternity house party and hostesses at the Junior Prom. She plans a Washington trip before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Perrine
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Beahl
Alpha Kappa Lambda Fraternity
Washington, D. C
Sacred Heart School notes report strong attendance and new pupils
Sacred Heart notes show earnest work and regular attendance in monthly and semestral reports. The grippe wave reduced attendance on the honor roll, while over 90 percent averages include Kathryn Flanagan Catherine McAleer Constance Meyer and many others. Six new pupils have been registered for the opening term, boosting current enrollment beyond last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn Flanagan
Catherine McAleer
Constance Meyer
Kathryn Mueller
Elvin Dautremont
Josephine Mueller
Virginia Schneider
Catherine Redmond
Winifred Neilly
Donald Burrichter
Isabel Liddy
Helen Altman
Helen Hayes
John Locher
Robert Locher
Mary&. Fothergill
Richard Calkins
Donald Kurt
Betty Denkhoff
Maxine Redmond
Helen Stahler
Leona Fothergill
Naomi Maloney
Kathleen Hogan
Marcella O'Rourke
Jean Ann Liddy
Helen Reichart
Robert Mclaughlin
Lillian M. Locher
Helen Wrob
Margaret Hayes
Catherine Fothergill
Richard Renk
Death of Thomas Egan in Monticello listed long service and family ties
Thomas Fegan a Monticello resident for 68 years died at his home after a year of ill health from heart disease. Born in New Orleans in 1856 he moved to Monticello at age 12 and worked 50 years for the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. Survived by wife Mary and children Joseph Egan Roy Slauson and adopted daughter Mary Sowers. Funeral at Sacred Heart Church with burial in Catholic Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Fegan
Monticello
Mr. Egan
New Orleans
Louisiana
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
First Street
Mary McCullough
Egan
Harry
Joseph Egan
Cedar Rapids
Roy Slauson
Hopkinton
Mary Sowers
Sacred Heart Church
George A. Hauck
Tommy
P Stoffel Dies Noted Mechanicsville Pioneer
Henry P. Stoffel an early Mechanicsville resident died at his home Monday after months of declining health. Born in Coblenz Germany on June 30 1846 he immigrated to the U S at age ten and lived in Racine Monticello before settling in Mechanicsville where he and his wife Louisa Elizabeth Jennings raised a family of three sons C H R D and Dr Karl and a daughter Mrs Gladys Buell. A longtime shoe merchant and bank organizer he was active in local Masonic and Lutheran congregations and the funeral was held today at the Presbyterian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerd Rickels
Wayne Township
Mr. Rickels
Willis
Zion's Lutheran Church
Hinrich and
Gesche Marie Rickels
Rickels
Fraalke Margareta Tobiason
Tobias
Sophie Wenmmen Tobiason
Marx
Ostfriesland
Germany
P. Stoffel
Mechanicsville Pioneer Press
Henry P. Stoffel
Mr. Stoffel
Coblenz
United States
Racine
Wisconsin
Monticello
Iowa
Mechanicsville
Louisa Elizabeth Jennings
Stoffel
C. H
R. D
Karl Stoffel
Wyoming
Gladys Buell
Jacob
Patmos Lodge
Mount Olivet Commandery
Anamosa
el Kahir Shrine
Cedar Rapids
R. D. Stoffel
Mechanicsville Trust & Savings Bank
C. H. Stoffel
Presbyterian Church
Rev. Nagler
Stanwood German Lutheran Church
Horace R. Chapman Dies. Iowa Doctor and Leader
Horace R. Chapman of Bennett died last Monday at home. A Monticello native born January 30 1873 he studied at Monticello High Cornell Mount Vernon and Town State and practiced medicine in Bennett later serving as mayor of Bennett and Durant and as Iowa state senator for the 24th district in the 33rd and 34th General Assemblies. He announced a bid for lieutenant governor last summer as a Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace R. Chapman
Bennett
Monticello
Chapman
Horace Chapman
United States
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Town State University
Cedar County
Durant
Boy Scout Rally Looks For April Archery Event
The article notes a spring archery tournament likely after mid April seeking good weather and full turnout. Hickory supplies are sold out and more arrows and points will be ordered. A scout radio program is planned on WEAF and 11 stations from 8 to 8 30 p m Eastern time. Mechanical consolidated schools hold a February 18 special election on a $70000 bond for a new schoolhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
WEAF
Boy Scout
Dan Beard
Wee Willie
Robyn
Board of Education
Mechanicsville Consolidated Schools
Twenty Years Ago in February 1906 Monticello Notes
Monticello records for February 1906 list notable moves and events. Dora Young begins work in Dubuque's telephone office after leaving Jones County Telephone. L W Lovell attends Town City State University. Ray Hoag returns to work with Hoag Duster in Monticello. Several deaths, marriages, business changes and farm plans are noted, including the Dawson place sale, fair association dividend, and two local births.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Hixpress
Dora Young
Dubuque
Jones County Telephone Company
L. W. Lovell
State University
Town City
Ray Hoag
Lelong
Kansas
Hoag Duster Company
Frank Gates
Nellie Waite
BE. G. Waite
Chicago
Mike Brown
Dawson Place
Walker Bertin
Helen Helken
Car Rapids
Iva Grover
Emma Albertson
Coleridise
Nebraska
Tangworthy
Albertson
Miles Colton
Jones County Fair Association
Charles W. Brown
Frank FE. Vickery
Prairie City
Iowa
Brown
Monticello
George W. Darrow
Laneworthy
Jones County
Laura DB. Landmann
Lemuel Aldrich
Jessie &. Scroggie
Richard T. Willamson
Center Junction
Willamson
Conrad Mardortti
Margaret Pond
The
Joseph Meyers
Fred H. Smith
Blairstown
B. G. Eastwood
A. E.wimebaugh
Anton Matthiessen
Anne Zimmerman
Willie Zimmerman
William Siebels
Gerritt Siebels
Ftta Broerkens
Ludwig Stadtmueller
Naomi Horacre
City of
Messrs
Godfrey Fahrni
John Sage
Seneca
South Dakota
Jennie Sandhouse
Cass Township
Joseph Clark
Nic Maurice
Boston
Arnold Egger, Jr
A. W. McDonald
Lowell State Bank
Hopkinton
W. H. Burke
Prairieburg
Charles 8. Cummings
A. S. Cummings
Omaha
Near East Relief work promoted in Monticello circuit
Rev B S Varjabedian and Miss Katharine McCormick spoke in Monticello Anamosa and Springville on Near East Relief charity. The article cites dire needs with 35 000 children still dependent. Monticello's last year giving about 60 dollars toward a child for a year. goal this year is 300 dollars under state committee chair Ex Governor Kendall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Near East Relieff
Congress
Monticello
Anamosa
Springville
B. S. Varjabedian
Katherine McCormick
Charles McNiter
Mason City
America
United States
Near East
Wsther Jaminson
George White, Jr
Elsie Hoseley
Animosa
Towa
George McNary
F. E. Stimson
Monticello State Bank
John Fraser
Kate Maurice
M. H. Teeter
August Rickless
Kendall
Monticello High Notes Highlight Contest and Sports
The January 28 high school notes cover the declamatory contest results with winners Alice Reed Edwin Lightfoot Lucila Schoon Irma Rohr Ellaabeth Cooper and Grayce Schneider. A basketball loss to Anamosa 21 to 11 follows, plus previews of theatre readings and upcoming program travels and performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Meyer
Alice Reed
Edwin Lightfoot
Lucila Schoon
Irma Rohr
Ellaabeth Cooper
Grayce Schneider
Monticello
Anamosa
Anamosa Warriors
Soo
Monti
Anampasia
Philomathean [Herary Society
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Miss Hoy
Lenox College
Philomatheans
Coe
Adneas
Creusa
Troy
Hneas
Old Fashioned Dances Promoted for Healthful Fellowship
Miss Jessie Shannon of Town State College advocates old fashioned country dances as a healthful social activity for diverse groups. She notes a new book American Country Dances Vol 1 by Elizabeth Burchenal in New York to aid organizers of community gatherings. In Cedar Rapids C H Caldwell of Iowa Railway and Light was killed testing a meter on a switchboard. he died after touching a grounded wire while on a stool and was buried in Bloomfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Shannon
Town State College
C. H. Caldwell
Iowa Railway and Light Corporation
Cedar Rapids
Caldwell
Bloomfield
Also Mentioned on This Page
Monticello Express
3. W. Doxsee
CHAS
A. Doxsee
E. G. Burrichter
Denkhoff’s
Newton Parrott
Davenport
B.be. Orcutt
Frank Locher
Frank Stimson
Delhi
Winchester
MacNeiil
Frances Coyle
Farley's
Denkhoff
Ted Denkhoff
Ricison
Lochel'a
Pauline Hartman
John McKeever
Helena Wilcox
Helen Hoy
Belle Devlin
Gulbransen
Oliver Pianos
P. D. Bell
Christina Muaragg
R. N
Steiner Grocery Store
A. W. Steiner
J. W. Hoult
R. R
Mabel Nimtz
Grand
Shane McNeill
Edwin Wilcox
Frank Walker
Voss Line
McNeill
H. W. Jacobs
Independence
Charles Aitchison
Voss
McNeill's Hardware
George Keith
McNeilly Hardware
R. J. Donovan
Los Angeles
California
Mesdames
Mary Hudson
Cora Sexton
Joe Egan
Joe
Thomas Egan
Voss Electric
Harry Helsey
Iowa State University
Mabel Helsey
Washington High School
Cedar Rapida
Henry Helsey
Hugo Sitzler
Council Bluffs
Mrs. Q. Sitzler
Castle Grove Township
Sherman Olsen
Strawberry Point
Rudolph Aebi
Mac
Dorothy Smalling
Janesville
Althea Bancroft
H. P. Bancroft
C. A. McLaughlin
Helen Louise
Ottumwa
A. H. Johnson
Anna
Edward Knake
John Knake
S. M. Ide
St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church
George Behrends
Bernard Cass
Ames
Otto Burrichter
South Bend
Indiana
Jack Beeks
Olin
Mr. Beeks
Ted Koop
School of Journalism
State University of Town
Laura Koop
Mabel Brazelton
Lincoln
St. Elizabeth Society of the Sacred Heart Church
J. J. Hayes Furniture
Imogene Shelley
Des Moines
Gracia Orcutt
Drake University
Lena Bohren
Rudolih Bohren
Siebel Alferts
George Stuhler’s Sons
Ernest Anderson
Franklin Equipment Company
J. Willms
Edna Biler
Freda Zimmerman
Bessie Hughes
Cedar Rapids Business College
Scotch Grove
Maquoketa
Paul Hintz
Decorah
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
J. A. Ward
Margaret and
Marie Riordan
St. Joseph’s Academy
Ward
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the American Legion
Paul Jacobs
Alma Behrends
Iowa City
Nurses’ Training School
Pauline Jacobs
McNeill Hardware Store
Voss Washing Machines
Michael Ferring
Masonic Order
Henderson
Burns Lodge
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic and Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Magonic Lodge
William Matthiessen
Star Meat Market
McDonald Hospital
Ben C. Roberts
International Radio Week Committee
Chicago Tribune
Buenos Aires
Mr. Roberts
Atwater Kent Radio
Wilcox
Express
Monticello Cardinals
Independents of
Cascade
Sacred Heart
St. Mary's
St. Mary's High School
Albert McNeill
West First Street
Ford
Herman Rickels
Augusta Hay
Albert
American Legion of
Frederick B. Ingram
Legion Boys
Legion
Sacred Heart School Notes
Near East Relief Appeal
WIGH
K. M. Keyes
Marshall & Matthiessen
Bank of Service
White Lily
Fairday
Arend Balster Stores
Parcel Post
Wm. Podhaski
Monticello, Iowa
Rickless’ Dry Goods Store
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