Benedict of Castle Grove Dies After Illness
Francis M. Benedict a longtime Jones county resident died Saturday December 27 at John McDonald hospital after a serious illness. Born September 25 1847 in Malone New York he later settled in Cass township Iowa and lived on his farm until death. He is survived by two daughters Mrs C B Darrow and Mrs George Colton and a son Royal Benedict who predeceased him. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Monticello Presbyterian church with burial at Oakwood cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis M. Benedict
Jones County
John McDonald Hospital
Mr. Benedict
Malone
Franklin County
New York
Michael M
Alathea (Coleman) Benedict
Williamstown
Vermont
Monticello
Iown
Bicknerville
St. Lawrence County
Cass Township
Luanna Secrest
Anamosa
Lexington
Royal Benedict
C. B. Darrow
George Colton
Kansas
Benedict
Presbyterian Church of
Castle Grove
Presbyterian Church
Charles Kremers
Peniel Presbyterian Church
Castle Grove Township
Ae Duckett
Oakwood Cemetery
Joe Hayden Narrowly Avoids Hitting Boy
Joe Hayden of Robertson Brothers grocery Monticello narrowly avoided striking a boy on a sled in Anamosa while driving home. He swerved to miss the child at the 161 south end of Anamosa and damaged the car, urging safer sledding practices on streets used by automobiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Hayden
Robertson Brothers
Monticello
Anamosa
Joe
Stone City
Olin School Patrons Praised For Community Effort
State Superintendent Agnes Samuelson lauds Olin consolidated school patrons for outstanding community cooperation in grading and improving the school site. One hundred ten farm teams and volunteer labor from men and women produced a fine graded area, boosting school spirit and attitude. The new Olin building is highlighted as among Iowa’s outstanding school houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Samuelson
Olin Consolidated School
Olin
Iowa
Linn County Bank Closes at Center Point During Probe
A dispatch reports the Linn County Savings Bank in Center Point closed temporarily while investigators probe its affairs. Cashier John H. Stauffer disappeared yesterday and a state bank examiner was summoned. Bank capital is 630000 with deposits around 375000. no irregularities found yet and no search for Stauffer unless a shortage appears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Savings Bank
Center Point
John H. Stauffer
Stauffer
Mrs William Fuller to Celebrate 84th Birthday
Mrs William Fuller of Sycamore Street will observe her eighty fourth birth anniversary on January 1. A postal card shower is planned and her daughters will visit Thursday for a family reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Fuller
Sycamore Street
Balster Wins First in J H C Dealers Sales
Robert H Balster of Monticello tops the J H C Dubuque territory in farm machinery sales for 1930, beating Maquoketa rival I H C. Balster, in business five years, credits constant Express advertising for his success during the cropping season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Robert H. Balster
Monticello
Maquoketa
Balster
The
Express
Neighborhoods That Interest Neighborhoods That Interest
Manchester banks cut time and savings rates to 3 1 4 per cent. A hold up at Careyville filling station netted $20. James H. Douglas 72 Cedar Rapids pioneer and Quaker Oats vice president died in Lake Forest Illinois. Mrs John Stivers 73 Cedar Rapids died Christmas night funeral in Anamosa. Ruth Rubins 24 civil service worker died from auto crash injuries in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Careyville
James H. Douglas
Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Lake Forest
John Stivers
Joe Fagan
Anamosa
Michael Foust Former Jones County Citizen Dies
Michael Foust a former Scotch Grove township resident died in Springville on December 23 He was born in 1842 in Pennsylvania and was 88 He moved to Jones County with his parents in 1854 married Mary Bailey in 1872 and lived on the same Scotch Grove farm for 65 years before moving to Springville Funeral services by Rev David de Best were held at the Springville Presbyterian Church He is survived by two children Ella and Mrs Harry Witham of Anamosa two children preceded him in death The body was brought to Monticello and burial was at Oakwood cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Foust
Scotch Grove Township
Springville
Mr. Foust
Pennsylvania
Jones County
Mary Bailey
David de Best
Presbyterian Church
Ella
Harry Witham
Anamosa
Spencer Guiles
Monticello
Oakwood Cemetery
Sacred Heart to Meet Center Junction Here
Sacred Heart's blue and white quintet hosts Center Junction in the first 1931 basketball game. The clash, set for January 2 at 8 PM in the Sacred Heart gym, should thrill fans during the vacation period and draw a strong crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart
Center Junction
Twenty Years Ago In Monticello And Nearby Tales
Items from The Anamosa Eureka recount personnel changes and notable events in Monticello and surrounding towns. Retirement of editor Thomas E. Booth. farm sale of 355 acres for $50,000. marriages, births, and deaths. legal case over a bridge accident resulting in $1,500 verdict. new business moves and local relocations. public library issued 13,857 books.
Judge Ellison Weds Dorinda Abbott at Minden Nebraska
Dispatch from Minden Nebraska reports the quiet December 27 wedding of District Judge Frederick O. Ellison of Anamosa Iowa to Dorinda V. E. Abbott of London Ontario. The ceremony at 6 30 pm was held at the home of Dr and Mrs Charles B E Abbott with Rev Arthur Soundy officiating. The bride left for an eastward trip and plans to be at home in Anamosa after February 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minden
Nebraska
F. O. Ellison
Dorinda V. E. Abbott
Charles BE. Abbott
London
Ont
Frederick O. Ellison
Anamosa
Iowa
Arthur Soundy
First Presbyterian Church
London Conservatory and
Musical Art Institute
Bethany College
Topeka
Kaw
William Shakespeare
England
Ellison
General Assembly of
Atate
Knights Templar of
Grim Reaper Claims Many Families In One Week
A week of sudden deaths touches Wayne township and surrounding areas. Mrs. Gerd Harms dies at 11:15 AM Tuesday at home from pneumonia after asthma. survived by husband, son George Heinrich, step-daughter Mrs. Harry Kuhns, and several siblings. Funeral set for Saturday at their home and Zion's Lutheran Church.
Mayberrys Celebrate Golden 50th Anniversary in Jackson County
Mr and Mrs W W Mayberry marked their fifty years of marriage on December 23 1880 at the Andrew M E parsonage in Jackson County Iowa. The couple hosted a noon dinner for sixty relatives and an afternoon gathering for 105 callers at their Fulton Iowa home with yellow chrysanthemums and roses. They have six children eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Mayberry
Fulton
Town
Henry Uhr
H. J. Mayberry
Ruth
Ed J. Head
Anamosa
John Daily
Stone City
John Mayberry
Onslow
Iowa
Mayberry
Mrs. Mayberry
Jackson County
L. L. Lockhard
Ada Garretson
Esgate
Clarence Mayberry
Hattie Sutton
Q. J. March
Andrew
Eva
Howard
Aid for Kernen Family Who Lost All in Fire
Citizens wishing to help the Adolph Kernen family, who lost everything in a recent fire, are asked to contact McNeil's hardware about furnishing furniture dishes bedding clothing canned fruit or other eatables. volunteers will be called for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Kernen
McNeil’s Hardware
Dance and Social at Legion Meeting Tuesday
There will be a joint meeting of the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary next Tuesday evening January 6. Lunch will be served, and a dance will be enjoyed after the business meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion Meeting
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Church Services in town for New Year observances
The notice lists multiple churches St. John's Ev Lutheran Paul Gutknecht and Sacred Heart Catholic Church details Mass times confession and devotions. It covers St Matthew's Ev Lutheran with a New Year playlet and social hour, Methodist Episcopal service times, Presbyterian and Reformed schedules, and notes on church meetings and annual congregational events for early January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John's Ev
Paul T. Gutknecht
Sylvester
St. Matthew’s Ev
H. L. Adix
Luther Hall
Luther League
Cedar Rapids Fire Destroys Monticello Can Factory
Fire destroyed the interior of the Cedar Rapids plant owned by Cedar Rapids Food Products Company, damaging 50,000 cans and equipment valued around 15,000 dollars. Lessee J LeRoy Farmer operated factories in Monticello and Cedar Rapids. building repairs estimated at 10,000 dollars. Fire, started in a rear lean-to, occurred last Saturday evening with no heat or active electrical causes found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. LeRoy Farmer
Monticello
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Products Company
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Rock ” Land
Cedar Rapids Food Products Company
D. BE. Greb
S. W. Wilder
Greb
Dolan
New Year Library Resolve Highlights Fresh Reads
A January library note urges readers to renew use of the public library and read more in 1930. It lists notable nonfiction and fiction works added last year and promotes checking current affairs in newspapers like the Chicago Tribune Des Moines Register and the New York Times. It encourages using the dictionary and seeking information on any subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anthony
Beard
Byrd
Looker
White House
Lamb
Jones
Norwood
Man
God
Willoughby
Sitka
Fishbein
Eddy
James
Garland
Lovelace
Wilson
Brush
Manhattan
Rolvaag
Deeping
Suckow
Ferber
Walpole
Bridge Club
Johnny
Chicago Tribune
Des Moines Register
New York Times
Adolph Kernen Home Destroyed in Monticello Fire
The Adolph Kernen residence east of Monticello burned down last Monday morning. The blaze started on the second floor and the family escaped as the floor collapsed. Only a mattress was saved. losses are about $1,000 with $600 of insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Kernen
Monticello
Kernen
City Council Calls for Bids on Twenty Blocks of Paving
Monticello officials voted to pave twenty blocks in the coming season. A detailed street list appears elsewhere in The Express. Most work connects existing paving with a new 18 foot wide concrete strip on North Cedar Street funded by the highway commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Council of
Monticello
Memorial Building
the Express
Cedar Street
Second Street
Highway Commission
Steel merger case decided in Youngstown
Park Chamberlain, Anamosa attorney linked to the defendants, played a key role in a ruling denying the legality of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Bethlehem Steel merger. Cyrus S. Eaton challenged the merger as invalid, claiming over 100000 votes were illegal. The case, tried from summer to September, may be appealed to the Ohio court of appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eaton
Chamberlain
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Ohio Court of Appeals
United Light & Power Company
William
Cleveland
High School Faces Alumni in New Year Basketball Test
The local high school sharp shooters meet a strong Montiet alumni lineup led by Appleby Shover and Rhatigan in a New Year charity style game. Coach Smith’s squad and captains Eby Reichart Null Matthiessen Stott anchor the attack while alumni stars aim to showcase past form. Curtain raiser precedes the main event at 8 00 with general admission set at 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montiet
Smith
Eby
Reichart
Null
Matthiessen
Stott
Appleby
Shover
Marage
Maurice
Sam
Irvine Rhatigan
Jim Bender
Morey
E S Chapter 226 Honors Past Matrons and Patrons
Schreiner chapter No. 226 O E S entertained at Maples Inn then Masonic temple in honor of past worthy matrons and worthy patrons. Worthy Matron Caroline Schoenhut led the event with Cornelius Steck assisting. gifts were given to L A Iverson J E Bateman Louis Hoag Asa P Lambert A M Maurice F J Kay George Van Buren W W Stickford E E Reed C A Coxsee and Mt Moriah’s Ruth Young. Miss Mabel Flockhart also received a gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asa P. Lambert
A. M. Maurice
F. J. Kay
George van Buren
W. W. Stickford
Messrs
E. E. Reed
C. A. Coxsee
Schreiner
Mabel Flockhart
Death Calls A Scotch Grove Pioneer
Mrs. Anna T. Bohlken widow of Gerke Bohlken died at the home of her youngest daughter in Wayne township last Saturday morning. She had lived in the township 59 years since emigrating from Germany in 1871 at age 18. Married May 13 1875 at St John s Evangelical Lutheran Church by Rev Odjin, she and her husband raised ten children. Surviving children include Mrs Peter Paulsen Onslow Mrs Fred Hanken Langworthy Mrs George F Tobiason Monticello Mrs Howard Soper Anamosa Mrs Henry Harms Jr Scotch Grove William Bohlken Scotch Grove Ben Hohlken Wayne Tobias Bohlken Scotch Grove and nearly thirty grandchildren. The couple celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in May 1925 with 300 relatives present. Mr Bohlken died in 1927. Mrs Bohlken had lived with her daughter Minnie Mrs Henry Harris since a serious operation two years earlier. Funeral services were held at Minnie s home then at Zion s Lutheran Church Wayne Township with Rev J Willms officiating. Burial followed at the church cemetery. Out of town attendees included Mr and Mrs Dick Bohlken Akron and Mr and Mrs R H Eilts Tretois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas E. Booth
The
Eureka
Messrs
Louis Gardner
George F. Bye
Will Heeren
John Carmichael
H. 8. Richardson
G. H. George
Jacob Miller
Mechanicsville
F. J. Cross
Monticello Electric Light, Heat and Power Company
Monticello Electric Company
Edna Drury
Besrond P. Rhode
Tabor
Albert Stuhler
Denver
Hattie Lubben
John Lubben
Nurses’ Training School of Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Edward Hogan
Castle Grove Township
Cascade
Henry
Magee
Supreme Court
Paul Schneider
Isaac Schneider
Peter A. Kurt
Moran
Kan
Kansas
Sand Spring
Mabel Sayles
Monticello
Fort Dodge
E. Moore
Marie Clark
John Clark
Henry Tuetken
Florence Thoeni
Minneapolis
Charles Brucks
Dora. Brucks
Addie Murphy
Waterloo
Ernest Landis
John H. Perrine
Freda Balsiger
Samuel Semmert
Dubuque
Henry Chaloupka
Mary Valanta
Sacred Heart Church
John McCormick
Nettie Hazard
Gerd Harms
Wayne Township
Harms
Louise Katherine Harms
Herman F
Maria (Collmann) Wilken
St. John's Lutheran Church
Langworthy
Zion’s Lutheran Church
Roy, C. Mardorf
Lorenz
George Heinrich
Monticello High School
Harry Kuhns
John B. Wilken
John Dirks
Ben Wolken
Fred Folkers
Amber
Zion's Lutheran Church
Wayne Vu
J. Willms
Arheélger
Wyoming
Willms
Anna T. Bohlken
Gerke Bohlken
Henry Harms
Bohlken
Scotch Grove Township
Germany
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Johann J. Odjin
Tobiason
Peter Paulsen
Onslow
Fred Hanken
George F. Tobiason
Howard Soper
Anamosa
Henry Harms, Jr
William Bohlken
Ben H. Bohlken
Tobias Bohlken
G. H. Bohlken
Dick Bohlken
Akron
R. H. Eilts
Tretois
Jimmie Howie Struck By Auto Last Sunday
Jimmie Howie six year old son of Mr and Mrs Olin Howie of Castle Grove was struck by a car driven by Mary Coxsee on First Street near the Presbyterian church at the end of Sunday school. He suffered a scalp wound above the eye requiring stitches. He was taken to John McDonald hospital for examination and X rays showed no broken bones. He stayed home two days recovering and is now well enough to return home. The driver expressed distress over the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie Howie
Olin Howie
Castle Grove
Mary Coxsee
First Street
Presbyterian Church
Jimmie
John McDonald Hospital
Center Junction High Wins Basketball Game
Center Junction High School defeated an alumni team 24 to 18 in Carson's Hall on a Monday evening. Alumni players included Catherine Hime baugh Paulsen and Daisy Kirk wood Moats among others. the Dubuque Trausch Baking company five and Independents won the second game 29 to 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Junction High School
Carson's Hall
Catherine Himebaugh-Paulsen
Daisy Kirkwood-Moats
Leola Watson-Heeren
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F. M. Benedict
Linn County Bank
R. H. Balster
Mera Barney
W. H. Utt
Platteville
Wisconsin
Chicago
Atlanta
Georgia
Clarence Bies
State Reformatory
C. L. Ely
Reformatory
Biles
Ruth Rubins
Civil Service
Washington, D. C
R. W. Morrison
Miss Rubias
Charles Rubias
Pie
Jones Co. Citizen
Minden, Neb
Grim Reaper
Agnes Allison
Samuel Sulzener
Mary E. Crilley
Reformed Church
Sulzener
Canton Bern
Switzerland
Magdalena Gehret
United States
Lovell Township
Bernard Sulzener
Alfred Meier
Jacob Meyer
Hopkinton
Samuel Broeneman
Ralph Crim
Clarence Orcutt
Lester Appleby
William Ammeter
Ryan
Mary Ellen Crilley
Boulder Township
Linn County
Crilley
James Fleming
James Morrisey
Will Crowley
Henry McCusker
Mayme Crilley
Emmet Crilley
Clare Conklin
Davenport
W. M. Corbett
Miss Allison
Plumville
Indiana County
Montticello
Main Street
Corbett
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
N. Sycamore Street
A. L. Lorenz
Samuel G. Gutensohn
Young People's Society
Methodist Episcopal
Roy V. Porter
Presbyterian
Leonard Duckett
Christian Endeavor
Reformed
Armin H. Tendick
Ladies’ Aid
Andrew Ambuehl
Library Notes
Ohio
QO. E. S
Scotch Grove
Sat
Center Junction High
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