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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1919
Page
7
A flurry of visits across Cedar Rapids Anamosa Anamosa and Marshalltown highlights a week of social calls. Miss Ann Guthrie Mrs John Otten Mrs Andrew Carmichael and others travel to Cedar Rapids Anamosa and Worthington. Alsever's closing out sale promises bargains with Liberty flour 24 1b sacks at 1 Stuhlers and related store events.
Local notices list family visitors, hometown trips, and social events across Monticello. Guests from Anamosa Onslow Cedar Rapids attend church programs and college events while soldiers return home or move to new posts. A fire alarm at a residence and military discharge updates round out the day’s community snapshot.
Marshal Hiram Lee and Frank Starry led cleanup on First Street last Tuesday afternoon washing mud from end to end with a fire hose. Also, BE Hoag W L Hanssen C Bort and Richard Cartano traveled to Wyoming Tuesday morning to attend C E H Larkey horse sale where many horses were auctioned.
Charles Schweitzer visits his sister Mrs. Claude Fothergill after discharge from Camp Custer. Rev. A P Walton attends Des Moines synodical conference. Monticello church synod president. Alicia Balster and Alice Reed claim robin sighting on February 8. Scotch Grove Trustees set February 15 to award road work contracts. Tom Shover offers and then pays 25 reward for returning a white collie found near Monticello.
Winnie Boots, a Monticello boy who served in France, is recovering at Camp Dodge and may be discharged soon with crutches. Major Halstead Carpenter returns to Monticello as assistant cashier of the Monticello State Bank after service at Camp Devens. Beulah Wells obtains a divorce from Forrest Wells in Chicago and resumes her maiden name Benedict. A daughter, Margaret Lillian, is born to Dr. and Mrs. Dwight Smith at John McDonald hospital weighing eleven pounds. Rev. M. S. Murphy ill with bronchitis. Rev. Father Stewart covers church duties. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Doutrick visit Monticello after Fort Omaha discharge. Jerry Roubinek returns to work for C. M. & St. P. Railway Co. Taxes delinquent March 1. Jones county urged to pay by February end. Earl McLaughlin, discharged from Camp Funston, visits home. Soldiers discharged in 1918 not eligible for 1919 tax exemption. Virginia Cafe to celebrate its second anniversary February 16 with 65 cent dinner. Joseph Locher discharged after Florida camp. previously fell from an airplane. Jones county board allocates 2590 for agricultural work, led by Fred B. Clark with federal support. Harry Fuller discharged after serving in infantry. narrowly missed action before armistice. Miss Hazel Brazelton of Monticello joins Coe College freshman circles. Sinclair society invites her to join.
Miss Lottie Gleason of Strawberry Point and Michael M Huebsch formerly of Strawberry Point were married Thursday at 10 30 a m in St Matthew Lutheran parsonage Monticello. Rev S Ide officiated in a private ceremony attended only by the bride’s two aunts and an uncle. Huebsch, a clerk on the U S mail car attached to the Monticello Davenport train, plans to live at the John T Lanigan residence. A proposed Monticello tire factory project by promoter Gruber collapsed after local subscriptions and disputes over profits. Gruber left for California to seek new sites.
Samaria Perrine visited several classes Friday and Miss Moses sister, a Coe College student, also visited. Visitors from Wyoming teachers Misses Russell and Hernon explored the high school. The nurse gave bandaging talks to physiology classes. A senior volunteers to entertain younger students at noon. The advanced Home Economics class hosted a luncheon for two weeks. A freshmen versus eighth grade girls basketball game ended 12 to 5 for the freshmen. The school plans a Valentine party in the gym Saturday night. The Friday night game with Coe College second team was canceled. Cedar Rapids Independents will play instead. Lincoln's birthday brought a brief American History class program with Cushman reciting Gettysburg Address and Storm reading The Perfect Tribute. National week of song planned with a Victory Jubilee on Feb 19 at the opera house. Monticello and Edgewood basketball games featured dramatic comebacks with Monticello edging Hopkinton 25-21 and Edgewood losing 60-17. The Monticello lineup included Cushman, Hauss, Storm, and Cashen among others. The Farmers Cooperative Creamery Association of Sand Spring reported $67,210.70 in business, shipping 19 cars valued at $52,670. J L Batchelder as secretary and E L Gifford as treasurer. Fred Egger served as manager.
Miss Clara Hicks daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Hicks of Alamosa Colorado buried at Oakwood cemetery after a Tuesday service led by Rev C E Cushman at Hubbard Ivers on parlor. She born April 17 1887 on Bowens Prairie and moved with family to Hazel Green then Alamosa. Survived by four brothers and a sister Howard Hicks Jones county Mrs Thomas Mullings Harry Jr Horton and Harold. Her brother in Bordeaux France serves in US Army. She helped Red Cross and joined Congregational church in Hazel Green.
Mrs. Grace L Hayes Carl died at John McDonald hospital after three months of severe illness. She was born July 8 1880 near Langworthy and educated in Jones County and Monticello. She married Joseph H Carl March 27 1907 and lived in Ray Colorado before returning to Monticello. Survived by husband mother a sister and two brothers. Funeral at home conducted by Rev J H Barr with burial at Oakwood cemetery.
Frances G C Taylor son of Mrs Clara Taylor died at John McDonald hospital last Saturday from septicaemia. Born March 13 1900 in Clay township Iowa he moved to Ryan then Monticello before working at George Stuhler Sons shoe store. Survived by mother and brothers and sisters Roy Pearl Alva Edna Marjorie Merle and Laura Taylor. Funeral at family home with Rev Barr and Rev Cushman, burial Oakwood cemetery.
In Terra Bella California relatives report the ruby wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Gerdes of Monticello Iowa. Thirteen children, seven living nearby, attended the 40th anniversary at their Terra Bella home after moving from Iowa in 1915. More well wishers from Monticello and surrounding areas joined locally in congratulating the couple.
Miss Irene B Wheeler Jones county Home Demonstration Agent and Miss Catlon from Iowa State College Ames gave a sewing demonstration and lecture for Monticello women in the public library auditorium on the 5th inst. Miss Catlon showed sewing shortcuts and machine attachment techniques with clothing thrift tips, which impressed the audience and were well received.
The Annesley Guild of the Methodist church will hold a private sale of household goods at Joseph Carl’s residence on Monday February 1st. Everything will be sold. A good place for a girl to work and attend school is wanted. call Mrs. Alice Beeks. Mrs. C. N. Hull died at her Hopkinton home on the first after illness. Liberty flour in 24 1b sacks offered at $1 at Stuh.
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