Local Social Notes And Visits From Town And Nearby
A stream of visiting relatives and friends fills the week with trips to Cedar Rapids Monticello and Davenport. Notables include Dr Redmond Mrs Shafer Mr Matthiessen and Bert Hubbard along with Kate Duis Jayne Shover and Miss Jessie Abel. Public events include a Wabun Camp Fire bake sale March 7 and Lenten services at St Matthew's Lutheran beginning Friday February 27 in English after an initial German service.
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St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
Edward E. Templeton
Monticello
Catmar
C. M
Monticello Area News Summary
Monticello news brief includes multiple family visits across Illinois and Iowa. Various residents travel to Princeton, Platte, Iowa City, Lincoln, Des Moines, West Union, and Cedar Rapids for visits, work, or events. A local basketball win over Anamosa, and a seed corn show entry by George Osterkamp are noted alongside a car crash injury to Robert Guthrie. The post office observes Washington’s Birthday holiday on February 28.
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Washington
Pruning Demo at Wilcox Farm South of Nonticello
Arrangements set for a Thursday afternoon pruning demonstration at Wilcox & Sons farm just south of Nonticello under the local Farm Bureau. The Lovell township Farm Bureau meets March 31 with a noted speaker and invites farmers to bring questions.
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Wilcox & Sons
Nonticello
Wilcox’s
Farm Bureau
Monticello Boys Fall to Hopkinton in Close Game
Monticello High’s Monti High five dropped a tight 16 to 12 road game at Hopkinton last Friday. Hopkinton led early with long baskets, Monticello rallied to tie at 11 11 before Hopkinton finished strong. Tommy sustained an arm injury and may miss Anamosa, as Monticello heads to one last season tilt with Anamosa with the band performing before the game.
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Monti High
Hopkinton
Monticello
Billy Guthrie
Sutherland
Chambers
Tommy
Anamosa
Anamoga
Anamosat
Philomatheans
Lincoln
Winona Bishop
Ruth Cropp
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Unlucky Weekend for Ray Richeson Leads to Jail Time
Ray Richeson faced back to back arrests on February 21 for intoxication. He pleaded guilty initially and paid a $10 fine plus costs, then, after further liquor use, received thirty days in the county jail. A Sunday search found unlabeled liquor and led to a grand jury bound over ruling. James D. Shelley sues Monticello city leaders for $2,950 over an embankment that allegedly caused ice-house losses in August 1924. Rhinehart represents Shelley.
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Foxy) Fitsimmons
Ray Echternacht
Barney Fitsimmons
Ray Richeson
Marshall Ray Echternacht
Richeson
Fred Kellum
Richesonw
Grand
James D. Shelley
City of
Monticello
Thomas Shover
B. E. Rhinehart
Passing of Mrs. Moses A. Waddick
Catherine Annie McKenna Waddick dies at home in Castle Grove Township following a winter illness. Born September 28 1846 in Emyvate Ireland she emigrated to the United States in 1854 and settled near Monticello. Survived by husband Moses A. Waddick six children three siblings a church funeral held Casted Grove.
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John W. Byerly
Anamosa
Jonesena
Fairfield County
Ohio
Jones County
Jackson Township
Susan M. Johnson
Moses A. Waddick
Castle Grove Township
Catherine Annie McKenna
Emyvate
Monaghan
Ireland
John
Mary McKenna
United States
New Orleans
St. Louis
McKenna
Monticello
Cascade
Arnold
Nebraska
Margaret Clark
Brady
Church of the Immaculate Conception
J. J. Hennessey
Waddick
Jones County Sunday School Institute Convened in Monticello
The Jones County Sunday School Institute met Thursday at the Monticello Methodist Church with a full program. The day included devotional, general addresses by Rev Leonard Duckett and Mr Herbrecht, roll call, conferences, and a state program. City council of Maquoketa opened bids for seven inch concrete paving at $219 per square yard to Western States Paving Company Davenport with work to begin when weather allows.
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Samuel Clark
Leroy Clark
Gertrude Eilers
Alva Eilers
Leonard Duckett
Presbyterian Church
Monticello
Jones County Sunday School Institute
Selon Gees
Herbrecht
Hutton
T Herbrecht
Mr. Herbrecht
State Commedi Oe
Maquoketa
Western States Paving Company
Davenport
Sacred Heart Second Team Triumphs Over St Berchman 31 to 19
Sacred Heart Second team defeated St Berchman 31 to 19 in a fast pace game sparked by C Ferring and Dunn. Sacred Heart moved to Dubuque and beat Columbia Academy 17 to 15, with Hookstra scoring the opening basket for Monticello.
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Sacred Heart
St. Berchman
C. Ferring
Dunn
Sacred Heart St. Berchman
C. F
Perring
Barclay Dunn Fir
Ross Schlimmer
CIC Kehoe Dress
Maron McAleer
Ameche
Dubuque
Columbia Academy
Hookstra
Monticello
Columbia
Columbia College
St. Patrick’s
Cedar Rapids
Monticello Public Schools Host Gym Exhibit March 5
Monticello pupils from first through twelfth grade will perform a gymnasium exhibition at the new public school next Thursday evening March 5. A 35 cent adult admission applies. Performances include grand march segments, dances, games, and sports demonstrations with varied grade level pieces and concluding with a closing assembly.
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Madaline Mosher
Central City
Iowa
Ee Henel Stoner
Raymond Denkhoff
Aley
Margaret Maurice
Mildred Grapes
Department of Public Instruction
Rose Kelly
Monticello
Elmer Graft
Frances Laughlin
Hopkinton
Towa
Delhi
Ruth Talmadge Hopkinton
Camille Goings
Cupid’s Cadillac
Vera Milroy
Whitford
Des Moines
Monticello High School
Pers
Burdena Dirks
Dorothy Hance
Gertrude Schweitzer
Thelma Gregory
Mrs Clarence D Clark Dies Aboard Mediterranean Cruise
Mrs Clarence D Clark formerly of Manchester died aboard a ship during a Mediterranean cruise with her husband. He served as Manchester school superintendent in the early 1870s and later became a United States senator from Wyoming.
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Clarence D. Clark
Manchester
Mediterranean
Clark
United States
Wyoming
Jones County Creameries Meeting Set at Center Junction
A Jones County creameries meeting will be held at Center Junction on March 2, 1926. Directors, stockholders, and patrons are urged to attend for a lecture program to precede dinner. Peder Pederson of Waterloo will lecture in the afternoon. Hartman, president of the association, and A C Bielenberg, cashier of Toronto Savings Bank, are noted figures in the notice.
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Jones County Creameries
Center Junction
Peder Pederson
Waterloo
Jones County Creamery Association
Hartman
Monticello Independent School District Meeting Notice
Notice to qualified electors of Monticello Iowa that the annual meeting of the Independent school district will be held at the old city hall on the second Monday in March 1925 from 1 p m to 6 p m A director for a 3 year term will succeed Thomas Shover The meeting will handle business as legally required 362 A H Koop Secretary BYES accurately tested Dr Redmond
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Thomas Shover
L. W. Lovell
Monticello
J. J. Locher
F. B. Stimson
Rotary
Fort Dodge
Albert J. Stuhlier
Jones
Iowa
Old City Hall
A. H. Koop
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Chas
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Rgan
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Gulbransen Oliver Bands
Fred Shover
Edison
Locher
D. Pr. . Young
Dr. Redmond
McNeill's Hardware
H. I. McNeill
J. W. Hoult
R. R
John Langer
Winchester Paints
McNeill
Thomas J. Shafer
Peoria, Illinois
Keyes
Dr. J. Matthiessen
Winchester
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Bert‘Hubbard
Singer Sewing Machines
Lacherte
Kate Duis
Scotch Grove
Jayne Shover
Ray Adams
Striegle
Gail England of
Sam ‘Thompson
Mrs. W. Dobbs
Marion
Ed Witt
Edgewood
Langworthy Creamery
Just
Hue Gibson
Karl M. Keyes
Misa Jessie Abel
McNeill’s Hardware
Wabun
Rickless’ Grocery
Henry L. Downing
Kansas City
Paul Daake
McNeill's Hardware Co
George Cropp
Rock Island
B.S. Farley
Henry Rittmer
Amanda
Esther
John Thompson
Joseph Heffernan
Masonville
James Hogan, Jr
James McAleer
Paul Locher
Lisbon
Mrs. A. Locher
William Putnam
Ray Nandell
W. P. Kelly
Rose Kula
Chicago
Herman Schneider
Fred Schmidt
Chris Biden
Fred Stadtmueller
H. W. Bell
Princeton
Peter Dress
William Heeren
Platte, South Dakota
Richard Ricklefs
Oxford Junction
A.M. Rickless
Tate Altman
Frank Teckosh
Lieth Bancroft
Carmene Bancroft
Iowa City
Fred Vesey
West Union
Gladys Seger
Earlville
Mesdames W. Hamilton
P. C. Sanders
LaPorte
Indiana
C. B. Clark
Mesdames HH
F. Kettlitz
Catherine
Matilda Fischer
C. Ga. Thomas
Caroline Visiaya
Gladys Smits
Earl R. McLaughlin
Mrs. McLaughlin
Express
Monticello Independents
Anamosa Legion
Anamosa High School
Arthur M. Maurice
College of Dentistry
The
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Maurice
Charles A. Coxsee
Iowa State Press Association
Kensington Club
Maples Inn
Matt Mueller
Internal Revenue
Charles Frankniver
Charles Sampica
Sampica
F. J. Gestel
George Osterkamp
Amber
Seara-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Osterkamp
America
Robert Guthrie
Guthrie
Lovell Township Farm Bureau
Boye Township Farm Bureau
John Bodenhofer
Charles F. Crane
Allbrook
California
Crane
Rudolph Langer
Franklin Equipment Company
Langer
McDonald Hospital
Louise Henrietta Paulsen
Gustav’ F. Paulsen
Frederick Etten
Reformed Church
Roland P. Kuentzel
Viola Paulsen
Hans Etten
James Alloway
William Fuller
Charles Fuller
J. L. Fuller
Alloway
Fuller
Cowles
Hastings
James
Wilsonville
William
Guy
Beth
Fannie
Alice
Wabon Camp
Ruth Gundlach
Gracia Orcutt
Imogene Shelley
Kate Maurice
Podhaski
Ruth Barthe
Garcia
Matt Konzen
Farley
Sunday School Institute
Mrs
Wallace Reid
Sacred Heart Athletic Notes
Dolly
Farner
Pop Goes the Weasel
Newcomb
NUL Gymnasium
Percy Marmont
Princess Theatre
Soule
Finois
Veense
Star Meat Market
Marshall & Marshall
County Creamery Meeting
A.C. Bielenberg
Toronto Savings Bank
Mercy Hospital
Byes
Redmond
Lowell State Bank
Rickless Dry Goods Store
Monticello, Iowa
Wollenberger & CO
Ios
la Salle Street
John A. Liddy
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