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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1919
Page
9
A Monticello compilation lists numerous visits and trips by residents to Cedar Rapids Anamosa Strawberry Point Olin Ames and other nearby towns. Notable movements include Mrs C B McKean Hopkinton visitor Miss Ione Britting Cedar Rapids trips and Rev A P Walton Cedar Rapids meeting. The 94 club pledges support for a French war orphan, bringing Monticello adoptions to twenty.
Residents report brief absences and returns from travels to Des Moines Cedar Rapids and Chicago. Businesses announce a filling station at First Street and a store sale to Davenport parties. Notables include veterans discharged from service and locals moving residences amid community notices.
Mr and Mrs Thomas J George welcomed a daughter born in Burlington last Saturday morning. Mr George traveled to Burlington the same day to meet his newborn. This is the couple’s second child, their first child being a boy.
Messrs. C. N. Patrick and C. R. Coon departed for Des Moines last Monday to attend a jewelers and optometrists convention. Patrick was slated to deliver an address before the gathering on an optometry related subject.
Helen Thompson was honored with a birthday party hosted by her grandparents Mr and Mrs Fred Matthies gen last evening. She turned eight that day and many of her young friends were invited to celebrate with games at the gathering.
The former pastor of Castle Grove Catholic Church now in Ryan is recovering from bronchial pneumonia and remains very weak. He plans rest and recuperation once adequate help is available.
Mr and Mrs J W Doxsee returned from Rochester Minnesota last Tuesday evening Mrs Doxsee had her tonsils removed to relieve rheumatism while Mr Doxsee was discharged from the hospital without surgical attention
Sgt Lowell Hicks returns home after discharge from the United States army. He served in France with an engineering regiment that did forestry work and, after arrival in the United States, was sent to Camp Dodge for discharge.
Mr and Mrs William Hubbard and daughter Grace of Anamosa plus son Ernest a US Navy sailor on furlough visited the Alva Hiler home last Tuesday evening. Mrs Hiler is the Hubbards daughter.
Claude Harrington recently released from the naval department of Harvard visited his sister Mrs. W. A. Storm last Saturday evening. He departed Tuesday morning for Chicago to take an examination to enter the merchant marine.
Otto Balcar arrived in Silvis Illinois last Monday to resume duties as chief clerk in a railroad office. He had been discharged from the U S Army a week earlier and is visiting the home of his parents Rev and Mrs B T Balcar of Richland township.
Rev. Wm. H. L. Schuetz of St. John's Lutheran church is ill with tonsillitis so Sunday services and Holy Communion are postponed. Rev. Cushman will preach at 11 oclock at the Congregational church with special music by a male chorus. Lieutenant Frank d Autremont, previously sergeant in France, sails for the United States with engineers.
Floyd Gillilan of Wausa Nebraska visited the Howard Deischer home last week. He aided in Monticello during the celebration marking the 98th birthday anniversary of his grandfather, Rev. Conrad Pfeil, who is hale and hearty for his years.
The remaining Sacred Heart church windows have arrived and will be installed soon after earlier windows proved unsatisfactory and were returned. Lieutenant Paul Balear, now on General Pershing's staff, is stationed in Germany after serving at Camp Dodge and in France.
A birthday party was held at Alice Reed's home last Saturday morning in her honor marking ten years. Guests included Camille Goings Elvin d Autremont Mary Rebi Mary Lovell Carl Hartman Frances Cushman Virginia Schneider Kenneth Harms Veda Podhaski Gertrude Cropp Hansetta McHugh Robert Ricklefs Gladys Stickford Eloise Podhaski Marian Hayes Catherine Redmond Helen Starry and Teddy Wernimont.
The Ex press notes taxes become delinquent March 1 but no penalty applies if paid by April 1. If the first installment is unpaid by April 1 the entire tax becomes due and bears 1 percent monthly interest from March 1.
Miss Minnie Sanford daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Sanford married Ben Otten son of Mr and Mrs F H Otten yesterday at high noon in the Sanford home. Rev Wilms of the Wayne township Lutheran church officiated with Miss Helen Keith playing the wedding march. They plan to reside on a farm near Scotch Grove after March 1st. Both are industrious young people.
John A. Ambuehl son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Ambuehl Lovell Township and Agnes Martinson daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Martinson Washington Township were married Tuesday noon February 18 at the bride’s parents home Rev Roland Kuentzel of the Reformed church Monticello officiated in a guests list largely consisting of relatives. The couple will reside in Cascade during the summer season.
Mr and Mrs John Behrends hear from Private William R Behrends who went overseas on September 15 1918 and writes January 24 via No 14 letter from Longuyon France. Knights of Pythias social in Monticello honors members of the army and navy with dancing cards and refreshments.
The piece highlights Moralist concerns after war moral issues voiced by Ambassador Morgenthau and church leaders. It lists upcoming discussions at a Methodist church, tax collection details with Murphy and officials visiting Anamosa Monticello Oxford Junction and warnings against cash payments. It also reports a Cedar Rapids suicide, a Wyoming guardian, a 1918 income tax recall, a 1919 marriage in Center Junction and Eclipse Lumber receiving hard coal.
Mrs Anna Schofield died last Tuesday from apoplexy caused by a blood clot after an operation two weeks prior. Born May 24 1888 at Jordan's Grove Linn County she married Rufus Schofield March 28 1906 at Anamosa and had two children Lester and Velma. Funeral Friday at 11 in Wayne Township with Rev A P Walton officiating. burial at Oakwood cemetery.
Vernon Brazelton chronicles a busy week at the high school with notes on a sore throat incident, exams, a Valentine party, debates in public speaking and psychology, a Monticello basketball win, a girls game, geography quip about ivory, a home economics luncheon, faculty visits, and a Liberty Jubilee program, all amid lively student life.
The Rural Life Society Upper Iowa Conference launches a Community Institute on February 28 1919 at the Methodist Episcopal church with a full day of devotions Sunday School clinics church programs and lectures. Also reported are social notices of a marriage in Eugene Oregon Miss Louise Clare Yoran to Clarence A E Wilton and residence changes. John Perrine buys the J L Darrow farm near Wayne township for 35000 about 190 per acre. A Berry Point boy tenyearold Francis Hines dies by accidental gunshot at home. Coal for magazine burners arrives at Eclipse coal yards.
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