Monticello area social notes and local visits
Mrs. M F Hogan visited Anamosa last Friday. Mrs. Frank Jacque and Mrs. D P Young visited Cedar Rapids. Dr Redmond and Mr Mrs M H Teeter spent Sunday in Anamosa. George Barnts and Miss Ida Ferguson visited Cedar Rapids and Anamosa. Denkhoff’s Jewelers runs a big reduction sale. Numerous locals make visits to Cedar Rapids Monticello Anamosa and Chicago. A birth announced for Mr and Mrs Hussman. Critics note many merchants offer sales and gifts with special reduces at Denkhoff’s and Peacock Shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Jacque
Cedar Rapids
M. H. Teeter
Anamosa
Ida Ferguson
Jacob Jacobson
Local notices lift and keep Monticello busy this week
A flood of town news covers visitors, travel, and illness with Monticello events. Frank Autremont attends Iowa state convention while Mrs. Minnie Warner arrives from Cedar Rapids. Stanley Hopkins files for bankruptcy with Hilda Hopkins. Many residents travel, recover, or celebrate on farm, business, and church agendas.
Monticello notes and events from late February
Monticello briefs detail a boy’s skull fracture and improving condition after a horse fall, a surprise leaving party for the Haeusslers, basketball games and schedule notes, a knee cap fracture case, a Delhi error in date, a Polish family’s reunion, ex service member meeting plans, a new medical partnership, farm bureau actions, and community programs at the Lovell township library.
Oldest Monticello House Damaged by Fire at 8:15 AM
The Monticello House at First and Main, the town’s oldest structure, burned this morning. Fire started in the garret at 8:15, damaging the interior especially the second floor. Owner Mrs. Isaac Schneider Sr insured the building for 1,500 and occupant James Van Voltenburg the contents for 400. Estimated damage 800 to the house and 300 to contents. Firemen saved outer walls. much of the interior burned. The house, built in 1863 by Wagner, later owned by the Tolstons, and long a village landmark, had housed dances in its ballroom when self-styled as a hotel and road house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Isaac Schneider Sr
James van Voltenburg
Wagner
Abraham
Walter Tolston
Galagher
the Express
Monticallo
Tolstons
Louis Haenasler
Death of Frank F. Becker Monticello Bank Assistant Cashier
Frank F. Becker assistant cashier of the Monticello State Bank died Monday February 21 after an operation for a head sinus issue. He was 38, born February 21 1883 in Fayette county and died on his birthday. Survived by wife Laura Jacobs four children two brothers and a sister. Funeral Friday at 2 30 pm at the family home conducted by Rev Schuetz. Becker served nineteen years at the bank and was noted for honesty courtesy and solid character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank F. Becker
Monticello
William H. L. Schuetz
St. John’s
Laura Jacobs
Eloise
Joseph
Eleanor
Frances
Mr. Becker
February 1891 marriages and deaths from Monticello Express
A review of February 1891 entries lists marriages of Lena Sherrer and Rudolph Sehhusen, Henry Shipman and Viola Allen, Hattie Lyon and John Lamey, Mary Tobiason and Fritz Zimmerman, William Oltmanns and Meta Oltmanns, Ora Hogg and Frank Howie, and Liszie Yousse and Elias Ely. Notable deaths include Mrs. Gerhard Behrends, James Sherman, Mrs. Catherine McCartney, Mary Rieger, and Miles Camp. Local births and economic notes mention a baby born to Dennis Delay, a 90 cent per cwt milk price at Castle Grove creamery, and butter at 29 cents a pound on the Elgin market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena Sherrer
Rudolph Seehusen
Gerhard Behrends
Scotch Grove Township
Henry Shhipman
Viola Allen
Monticello
Dennis Delay
Castle Grove Township
Hattie Lyon
John Lamey
Onslow
A. Scott
Mary Tobiason
Fritz Zimmerman
Henry Tobiason
Wayne Township
William Oltmanns
Meta Oltmanns
John Oltmanns
Langworthy
Ben Jarrett
James Sherman
Catherine McCartney
Sand Spring
Ora Hogg
Frank Howie
Mary Rieger
Louis
Miles Camp
Giana
H. M. Carpenter
Elgin
Liszie- Yousse
Elias Ely
Senior Class Activities Highlight School Week
Senior and training classes engaged in practice teaching public speaking and essay work on Immigration and Child Labor. Speakers Mable Kehoe Elnora Smith Dora Arduser and Cornell College rep Mr Lawrence attended. Students won basketball over Cascade 40 to 13 and Lyceum drew a strong crowd. Annual tickets on sale at 2 or 3 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mable Kehoe
Elnora Smith
Dora
Frances Hoult
Laor
Lawrence
Cornell College
Cascade
Lyceum
Laney
Haines
Orcutt
Miss Haines
Dr. Orcutt
New Hardcover Titles At Monticello Public Library
A list of newly available books for circulation includes Our National Ballads by Browne, Hispanic Anthology by Walsh, Barbed Wire and Other Poems by Piper, Happy House by Abbott, The Glories of Ireland by Dunn & Lennox, America’s Attitude Toward the War by Hawkers Trust Co, That Affair at St Peter’s by Brown, Blacksheep by Nichol son, The Brown Mouse by Quiel, Bob Thorpe Sky Fighter by Bishop, The White Indian Boy by Driggs, The Pool of Stars by Meigs, Poems by a Little Girl by Conkling, The Singing Heart by Ward, Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Sanchez, Best Ghost Stories by Reeve, and Studies in Spanish American Literature by Goldberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Public Library
Browne
Walsh
Piper
Abbott
Ireland
Dunn & Lennox
America
Driggs
Meigs
Conkling
Ward
Robert Louis Stevenson -Sanchez
Reeve
Goldberg
Two Young Men Killed Near Oxford
John Hansen aged 18 and Henry Carson aged 16 were killed yesterday forenoon on the main line of the C M and St P railroad two miles west of Oxford Junction. They rode in a wagon and attempted to cross the track ahead of passenger train No 24. The bodies were taken to Oxford Junction for burial. The youths lived on nearby farms and were en route to a neighbor’s. The report says the wagon was struck squarely and the horses were not hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
John Hansen
Henry Carson
Oxford Junction
Campaign to Evangelize City Churches Led by Orcutt
Des Moines pastor Mr O G Orcutt directs a city wide evangelism campaign assisted by Miss Haines of Marshalltown and Miss Laney of Des Moines. Events run daily with special nights through Sunday February 27 highlighting home life missions high school and fraternal outreach. The district court reports a civil case against John Quog and a quiet title action involving Mabel Bader Frances Apel and William Lambert. Mrs A H Blake of Manchester dies at 78.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. G. Orcutt
Des Moines
Orcutt
Waek
Methodist
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Lve
Craig Vu
Ireland
Phe Express
Woola Wo
Mabel Bader
Frances Apel
John Quog
William Lambert
Lambert
John Goos
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marea
J. W. Doxsee
Chas A. Doxsee
Selby Shoes
Selby
E. G. Burrichter
the Home of Shoes of Quality
Home News
M. F. Hogan
Redmond
D. P.“Young
Gladys Smits
Dr. Redmond
George Barnts
John Carmichael
Denkhoff
George K. Meyer
Stubjer
O. B. Crane
Thomas Shover
Waterloo
Cornell
Cresco
Denkhoff the Jeweler
C. H. Shipman
Fred Huyck
Eugene Zacher
Iowa City
William Laude
William Redmond
S. F. Hosford
Platte
South Dakota
Ike Schneider Jr
Margery Campbell
Mt. Vernon
Homer Hill
Center Junction
Minnie Lewis
Charles Coxsee
Chicago
John Hussman
Frank Kehoe
Dubuque
Sue Kitchen
Samuel Adamson
E. E. Gardner
Willis Mastin
Cecil Curtis
Monticello Bottling Works
E. J. Farley
Washington, D. C
Harry Stuhler
Helen Louise
Hame
Martha Washington
Peacock Shop
Tobe Caspers
Katie Caspers
Miss May Barrack
Denver
Colorado
Albert Fulton
Harry Meade
E. B. Hicks
Marcella Britting
Whitehall
Iowa
Mrs
Henry Britting
George A. Hauck
Mercy Hospital
Paul Pitzenberger
Arcadia
Wisconsin
Sacred “Heart Church
Frank
Lester’ Gearhart
Hopkinton
Ietter
R. C. Stirton
Minnie, Warner
Kittie Sutherland
Irving Hintz
Hintz
Mary Roux
Frank Locher
Katherine Maurice
James Bowie
Peteriurke
Chapman
Like
Stanley O. Hopkins
Hilda M. Hopkins
Wyoming Township
Ford M. Clark
Kansas City
Missouri
John & McLees
George V. McLees
Tim Connelly
New Lisbon
W. H. L. Schuetz
Church
Peter Schwarz
Amber Region
Spirit Lake
P. L. Temple
Hans Kettlitz
Jeanette Callison
Laurel
Montana
C. W. Breidenthal
Kansas
Andrew Ambuehl Sr
North Platte
Nebraska
John Barney
Barney
Charles Cramery
Clara Property
Jack Hogan
Lakeville
Minnesota
August Rickless
Minnie Butler
Davenport
Charles Butler
Jacob Schoon
Amber
Austin Biglow Wilcox Jr
Charleston
South Carolina
Naval Service
Lewis Ireland
George Ireland
John McDonald Hospital
Cliff Main
Emory Main
Austin
Stadtsmueller
Hannah Wilms
John Burrack
Fred Burrack
Arlington
James Pekosh
Joe Loetscher
Holden
Home Department of
Ames
Farm Bureau
Lovell
Scotch Grove
Castle Grove
Miss Holden
Bon Bilers
Express
B. D. Haeussler
Monticéllo
Marion
Catherine Miller
George Miller
Delhi
Laude
Skelley
Capt
McLaughlin
Rockstad
Schneider
Sam Marmis
Poland
United States
Marmis
Kinsella Hall
American Legion
McGarvey
Ifi
Paul Gibson
Des Moines Hospital
Gibson
Medical ‘College
Iowa ‘State University
Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Lovell Township
Wm. Hintz
Ray Adams Reuben Dress
C.A. Hutton
Wm. Hanken
Edith Winkler
Shover
Geo. Meade
Norman Clarke Jr
Rudy Winkler
Ray Adams
John Smith
Henry George
Mr. Brazelton
New “Farm Bureau
The
Monticello Express
Anna Helen
New Library Books
New York Lyric Troupe
A. H.blake
Manchester
Putnam and Fagan
North Cedar Street
Puble
Committee of St. Matthew’s Luth
Lenox College
Hopkinton, Iowa
Tion
Lowell State Bank
Monticello, Iowa
J. W. Rimmer
Princess 'Pheatre Bldg
Central Lumber & Coal Co
G. BP. Rockstad
B. K
Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Company
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