Social notes and visits in Monticello area week's gatherings
Local residents and visitors share social calls across Monticello and surrounding towns. Mrs Mauder and Miss Bort host and visit relatives in Hopkinton Marion and Delhi while teachers, merchants, and families recount trips to Marion Minneapolis Chicago Mason City and Gulph Ontario. Valentine candy promotions at the Monticello Sweet Shop and Peacock Shop feature credits and deliveries.
Monticello News Highlights Local Happenings
Monticello sees a busy week with visits by Miss Margaret Reardan in town and Miss Emma Laude starting a hospital position in Harvey Illinois. Lincoln hospital plans and two moving picture installations at the opera house are noted along with dog tags enforcement and town council actions. The town also reports a real estate sale, a court setting, and a Mayo Clinic appointment for Dr. Louis G. Stuhler.
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Opera House
A. O. Lambert
Louis G. Stuhler
Monticello
Mayo Bros. Clinic
Rochester
Minnesota
Stuhler
Louis Schmidt
Chicago
Local notes mix basketball and civic events in Monticello
Iowa lost a close 30 to 28 game to Indiana witnessed by the Lude family and James Laude scored 15 of Iowa's 28. Monticello Rotary Club welcomed Lawrence W. Whitford while outlining spring youth activities. A lyceum program features De Jen and Company on February 16. John J. Locher was appointed mayor, and the town gears up for foreclosures, boxing, weddings, banking notices, and a new Red Cross nurse Katrine Justesen.
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William Lude
George Schweitzer
Iowa City
Iowa
James Laude
William Laude
Lawrence W. Whitford
Monticello
Monticello Rotary Club
Rotary
C. G. Thomas
Paul Daake
Rotary Club
de Jen and Company
Hmil
Legion Memorial Hall
Cub” Bartlett
H. Arthur
Anamosa
Red Cross
Jones County
Katrine Justesen
Ida Grove
Miss Justesen
Denmark
Nurses’ Training School
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Cleveland
Ohio
Omaha
Nebraska
Mary B. DeLaskey
Monticello High School Declamatory Contest Results
The Monticello high school declamatory contest was held in the school auditorium last Friday. In oratorical, Raymond Denkhoff won first with Lafayette We Have Come, and Bessie Hughes was second. In dramatic, Margaret Maurice topped with The Promise and Thelma Gregory was second. In humorous, Camille Goings placed first with At the Matinee and Alice Petersen second with A Modern Becky Sharp. Vocal solos complemented the program, with a good audience in attendance.
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Monticello High School
Donald Bell
Garcia
Raymond Denkhoff
Lafayette
Bessie Hughes
Becky Sharp
Alice Petersen
Irma Rohr
Camille Goings
Miss Wilcox
Miss Perry
Girls' Glee Club
Gertrude Muren
Margaret Gracey
Anamosa
Atnna Laughlin
Hopkinton
Sweetheart Town Musical Set for February Show
The Eastern Star presents Sweetheart Town a musical comedy in the new school building auditorium Friday and Saturday February 13 and 14 with G J Van Buren and Mrs A P Lambert in leading roles. The plot centers on a mortgage love triangle with Mary and Joe and features Howard Deischer as Squire Biglow various varmints and a mistaken identity as Professor Lighthead with Arch Koop. Tri City Producing Co provides costumes and scenery and a chorus of local girls. Admission 35 and 50 cents.
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G. J. van Buren
A. P. Lambert
L. B. Hong
Mary
Joe
Cliff Main
Squire Biglow
Howard Deischer
Squire
Helena Wilcox
Peggy Biglow
Riess Stuhler
Prof. Lighthead
Arch Koop
Peggy
George Barnts
Charles Luett
P. E. Gibson
John Staff
Miss Kaba
Camile Goings
Jayne Shover
Esther Zimmerman
Alice Petersen
Thelma Gregory
Bessie Hughes
Lucile Johns
Gertrude Schweitzer
Imogene Skelley
Gladys Streckford
Margaret Henniger
Fifteenth anniversary of Scouting observed in Monticello
Troop J marks Scouting’s 15th birthday with a Camp-Fire supper and a historic hike planned for Friday evening and next Saturday. Scouts and former officials urged to attend, bring gear, and report by Friday noon. If weather holds, skating and a bike hike are on the agenda.
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United States
Monticello
America
Meyer
Coe
Pictured Rocks
Iowa
Third Time Report Cards Shown With Semester Averages
Gaylen Milley reports on the school all grades for the semester and six weeks. Friday morning entertainment featured J W Coxsee tracing money history with coins and valent German bill souvenirs. Declamatory contest winners listed with judges from Anamosa and Hopkinton. Monticello cagers travel to Manchester Friday. Eighth grade class party and Raynor Christensen moving to the eleventh grade from Waterloo. Mr Whitford asks what is the difference between world and earth, senior replies world is round earth is dirt.
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Gaylen Milley
J. W. Coxsee
Dicken
Raymond Denkhoff
Bessie Hughes
Margaret Maurice
Thelma Gregory
Camille Goings
Alice Petersen
Gertrude Muren
Margaret Gracey
Anamosa
Anna Laughtin
Hopkinton
Monticello
Manchester
Raynor Christensen
Waterloo
Mr. Whitford
Bright
Castle Grove Township to Hold Annual Road Meeting
The trustees of Castle Grove Township will hold their annual road meeting on Saturday February 14 at 1 o'clock at the usual meeting place. A grader man, tractor man, and road superintendent or superintendents will be chosen, with other business to be transacted. George F. Specht Township Clerk.
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Castle Grove Township
George F. Specht
Anna Sophia Friedrichsen
Peter Friedrichsen
Center Junction
Carl Seehusen
Henry Seechusen
J. Willms
Zion's Lutheran Church
Wayne Township
Frieda Friedrichsen
Rudolph Seehusen
Miss Friedrichsen
Scotch Grove Township to hold meeting for road work bids
Trustees of Scotch Grove Township will meet February 16 at 1 p.m. at the clerk's home to receive bids for road work with right to reject any or all bids. W. B. Clark clerk. Sealed proposals also invited by the city manager of Maduckets for about 22 790 square yards of paving to be opened February 17.
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Thelma Welch
City Township
Gastow
Frank Kibur
Scotch Grove
Monticello
Leonard Duckett
Bertha Schwartz
Galen Hein
Scotch Grove Township
W. B. Clark
Maduckets
Legion Gave Party at Monticello In Memorial Building
A Monticello American Legion post hosted a party in the Soldiers Memorial Building gymnasium. The event featured music, speeches, Boy Scout activities, a chicken fight, boxing bouts and a meal with meat sandwiches and cake as members paid 1925 dues.
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Arthur P. O'Rourke
American Legion
Monticello
Soldiers’ Memorial Building
Asa P. Lambert
West
J. W. Beauhoin
Albert Mc. Coe
Methodist Episcopal Church
Legion
Boy Scouts
Coe A
Davenport
Legion MeNider
Frank Miles
Iowa Legionaire
Ben Kellum
George Rickels
Lyle Robinson
William Jarrett
Hartley Wilkinson
City to destroy unlicensed dogs under license ordinance
The City Council orders destruction of all dogs lacking proper city and county licenses. Licenses must be paid by February 12, 1925 or enforcement begins. After July 12, 1926, untagged dogs in Monticello will be killed. Duplicate tags cost 26 cents at the City Clerk’s office. Ray Echternacht, City Clerk.
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Monticello
Towa
Ray Echternacht
Monticello ISD Sealed Coal Bids Due February 13
The Independent School District of Monticello invites sealed bids for coal from Franklin or Saline counties. Bids must be received by the secretary by 7 30 p.m. on February 13, with A H Koop as secretary.
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Independent
Monticello
Franklin County
Saline County
A. H. Koop
Fire destroys Webber Candy Kitchen and nearby shops
A Friday blaze in Manchester leveled the Webber Candy Kitchen along with the Armistead Dry Goods store and the oMees of Drs Willard and Willard. Local firefighters battled the flames as residents assessed the damage and insurance details.
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Manchester
Webber Candy Kitchen
Armistead Dry Goods
Drs
Willard and
Willard
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