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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1914
Page
7
Cedar Rapids visitors and Monticello residents fill a holiday week with calls and visits. Town folks note Christmas gatherings, family trips to Anamosa and Dubuque, Chicago trips, and New Year shopping at Deitrick’s and Golden Rule Variety.
The page lists numerous visits and gatherings around Monticello including families from Kansas City Marion and Dubuque visiting relatives in town. It notes shopping and promotions at Deitrick's and a local meat market seeking customers, plus several travel and social updates from residents visiting Cedar Rapids Anamosa Dubuque Clinton and What Cheer with multiple households hosting guests and trips over New Year periods.
Mrs. Emory Leggett and William Leggett of Scotch Grove were married yesterday afternoon at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage by Rev. Roy V. Porter. The couple are well known to Monticello residents and receive best wishes for a happy prosperous life.
A roundup of visits, marriages, travel, and small incidents. Mr and Mrs Thomas King return from West Union after Christmas with Dr Tom King. Miss Laura C Rynerson guest at a Battle Creek banquet. J J Hayes family and others plan New Year visits. Jack Allen jailed fifteen days for intoxication. Several Cedar Rapids and Monticello residents celebrate Christmas with kin. Postal notices list uncalled for letters. A local contest winner from Estavan earns a piano prize. Golden Rule Variety patrons thanked for 1913. 1914 promises. The Eastern Stars host a 100-cover dinner dance. Carolyn and Porter Schneider visit home while nursing students tour Iowa City. Claude Fothergill to join Monticello State Bank as bookkeeper.
Marcus Farwell of Almeda visits his sisters in town while Peter Prahm and William Leech take over Preston hardware stock in Center Junction. Bridges planned on county highways this year. Anna Otten weds Fred Bartels at German Lutheran church. visitors O R Ricker of Seneca Nebraska guest Monticello friends. reception hosted by Van Meter couple. Anamosa guests Reta Metcalf Edith Jump visit Thais Van Meter and dance party hosts twenty.
Robert Topping, one of the few who helped build the Monitor during the Civil War, celebrated his 88th Christmas Day birthday. The horticulturist spent the previous week pruning fruit trees and demonstrated vigor by leaping into the air and striking his heels together twice.
The clerk of the district court reports several licenses issued in the past week. H J Smith of Center Junction weds Florence Maple of Onslow. Edward G Newton weds Etta Rozell of Le Claire. B L Graves weds Mina A McBride of Anamosa. Paul Guyan weds Anna Hein of Monticello. Leroy L Ireland weds Jennie M Thomson of Wyoming. Joe P Howe weds Florence Daly of Anamosa. Guy Byerly weds Blanche Rhodes of Olin.
A. L. Hager of Des Moines, president of Commercial Savings Bank, helped buy the Colfax bank and hails from Jones county. Ridgley Hoffman leaves George Stabler Sons to join a former employer in Waterloo. Iowa Telephone Co. reps urge Monticello patience during system transition and promise improved spring service for Monticello and Anamosa. Samuel Pfeil nearly lost his Castle Grove home to a fire, with a bucket brigade saving the house insured by German Mutual. Lowell State Bank stockholders reelect directors and officers, declaring the usual dividend after a prosperous year. Anna Hein wed Paul Guyan in Richland township. they plan to farm life and community service remains.
An obituary notes the death of former Monticello citizen Newel W. Austin at his Riverside California home. For 30 years he was a leading contractor, building many of the city’s early structures including the Lovell House. Known for firm convictions and great heart he supported community prosperity and humane ideals, and old friends mourn his passing.
A federal court ruling in a Keokuk versus Iowa Telephone Co. dispute holds that lines built and operating before the 1897 Code retain vested street rights protected from municipal change. Monticello learns the company may operate without a franchise, barring future state action or city council interference. The Des Moines case to the Iowa Supreme Court also touches this issue.
Alexander Lehman aged 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lehman, died last Friday at home after a battle with tuberculosis. Born January 2 1895 at Oakland Nebraska, he lived in Waterloo and Delaware before moving to Monticello in 1905. Funeral at German Lutheran church conducted by Rev S Ide followed his chosen text 2 Corinthians 6 2. Robert Overley sold his Anamosa drug store to Roy McMickle.
The Coe College Gospel Team conducted meetings at the Methodist Episcopal church starting last Sunday evening reaching full house. Members spoke with Leonard Duckett joining Monday, while others from Panora Cedar Rapids Elgin Nova Scotia Cherokes and Shropshire shared brief, pointed messages about the Christian life as preparation for the week’s work. After nightly talks the teams and churches staged stunts with Crake and frappe served. basketball games with the local high school followed, the high school winning a close contest.
Nicholas Miller died at his son Edward Miller's home in Castle Grove last Friday night around midnight from heart trouble at age 86. Born in 1827 in Lorraine when part of France, he served seven years in the French army before moving to the United States at 27, later settling in Galena Illinois in 1856 and marrying Katherine Ewen in 1857. He lived in Castle Grove with his son Howard after Mrs Miller's death, father to nine children, and was a devout Catholic. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Sacred Heart church in Monticello with the pastor officiating and a large gathering in attendance.
The year 95 Monticello saw rising wealth and prosperity with new homes and better living. Residents favor safe investments over mining ventures or promoter stocks, maintaining cash at home or in secure banks and valuing independence and steady growth.
The Express office prints a calendar supplement with a universal appeal to promptness good nature and cheer under the keynote do it now These calendars will be handed out to city subscribers at the post office Occasionally a subscriber is missed and may request a copy from the office.
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