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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1920
Page
2
The Monticello Express editors J. W. Doxsee and Chas. A. Doxsee lead the paper as partners and proprietors guiding local coverage and editorial stance.
Center Junction reports new home purchases and relocations as Will Leech and neighbors move into recently bought houses. Community members celebrate a fifteenth wedding anniversary with a surprise party and a water set gift. The Armenian relief offering totals 175 dollars from all age groups. An American Legion Post is planned with a Saturday hall meeting. The Otterbein quartet links to a February 16 lecture at the opera house.
Mrs. Earl Carson dies at home near Manchester after pneumonia following flu. Young wife and mother, daughter of Arthur and Mrs. Fairbanks, survived by parents, husband, infant child, two brothers Allan T. and A. Ray, and sister Gladys. School district No. 8 closed due to teacher Miss Teressa Supple illness and surgery in Monticello.
Monticello residents report illness with Mildred Deischer Florence Noble James McLaughlin and Kenneth Hosford among the sick. Mrs Poppe from near Anamosa visits Mrs Caspers home as they welcome their firstborn daughter. Local sales at Fogarty farm and farm moves include Harry Fairbanks. Luth eran church ladies meet Mrs Seehusen. Blanche Deischer aids Carson home near Manchester. Martin Trimble relocates to Ton ticello to retire from farming.
Prairieburg observes three local deaths in two days as Victor Lawrence and son from Central City, Margaret Crosby, and Mrs. John J. Kula pass away. The Seward L. Smith family plans to move to Blairsburg on the 16th while Oscar Johnson from Cedar Rapids assumes school supervision.
February 9 report from Sand Spring notes the school reopening after a sickness break with Miss Florence Sampson directing the vA room and Miss Esther McAfee from Monticello in charge of B room. Local family moves and visits are recorded, with several residents listed as sick.
Frank Wright family to move into D K Brady home while ill in law W rights place. Sig Webster remains ill. Robert Clark sells 1000 acres of timber land across the river to Manchester buyer at 70 per acre. John Prouty moves to Monticello. Gladys and Katherine Himebaugh visit from Center Junction for a coasting party. Robert Clark recovered from illness. A P Moats travels to Council Bluffs due to brother Stewart Moats death. Mrs Lewis Hutton suffers lumbago. Carl Rieckels moves into Prouty’s vacated house.
February 11 report from Langworthy notes Miss Bernice Roff visiting at the George Ireland home and Miss Bernice Lake visiting relatives in Marion. Henry Schuette left for Nebraska after visiting here. Harm Dirks, Henry Sheer, and several families including John Heyen and Monch are ill. Judge John Williams of Waterloo suffered paralysis but rests with possible recovery. he is 54 and recently elevated to the bench.
The school board furnished two chairs for the assembly room and filled vacancies left by Dr. Rawson George French and Frank Starry with Bone Tom McMaster and Bert Wherry. Roh't Scroggie and James Kennedy remain. The lyceum closes February 24 with Miss M Beryl Buckley reading The Shepherd of the Hill. influenza has cut attendance with nearly two thirds of students absent as John Clark substituted during Miss Corbitt's absence.
Advertisers are quoted a rate of 12 dollars per line or 168 dollars per inch in Ladies' Home Journal. A full page in color costs 11 thousand dollars and up to 15 thousand dollars for the back cover. The Saturday Evening Post charges 10 dollars per line and 10 thousand dollars for the last cover page. How many pages would you like at these rates.
John Cole born January 28 1845 in Lerryn England died at his Onslow Iowa home on the anniversary of his birth aged 75. He came to America in 1871 landing at Dubuque then moved to Onslow where he built the town’s first blacksmith shop and worked 49 years. He married Caroline Conley March 22 1877. she died 1891 leaving six children and nine grandchildren. Funeral held January 30 at Onslow Methodist church with interment at South Mineral cemetery.
Boston Herald admonishes that criticism should not interrupt Kaiser writing memoirs for students. Chicago Daily News notes that only very young bachelors are surprised when girls do not claim leap year privilege.
The Lincoln Journal notes Gompers praising laborers for wartime loyalty, while labeling him a bad actor when danger passes. It contrasts slackers with men who would die for their country in war. The Minneapolis Journal mocks a whisky cure for influenza.
Mrs Mary Graves describes purchasing an incubator three years ago and making money this year. She recounts rats stealing baby chicks until RAT-SNAP was used, with two dead rats found next morning and later disappearance of pests. The ad promotes RAT-SNAP in three sizes 25c 50c and 1.00 sold by A J H McNeill F J Kay and Geo Stuhler's Sons Co.
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