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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
5
Community short items list illnesses visitors and trips among Wayne Cedar Rapids Battle Creek Dubuque and Anamosa. Names include Mrs Henry Schaffer Mrs A G Hanken Mrs Michael Hogan plus Misses Reed Lovell Stehle and Wildey with several travel mentions and a hospital call for Dr Redmond.
Monticello area social items list guests and visits including Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mitchell of Marion and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Huston of Keokuk. Mentions dances, travels to Missouri Arkansas Ames and Chicago, a wedding trip to York Nebraska, and local school and sports news with Monticello high basketball loss to Anamosa 35 32.
The parcels post service started at the local office on January 1 morning. The first stamps were sold to the Express publisher and the first parcel was mailed by Oscar Soetje to an out of town customer.
J S Houser is bedridden with grip. Nancy A Wills, mother of late Henry Clay Wills, suffers bronchial trouble. John McDonald attends Monticello State Bank directors meeting and visits with sister Mrs Peter C Smith. Mrs Lewis Tillotson and two children return from Cascade Springs ND after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs O P Hanssen. Bert Hanssen accompanies them to Omaha. Clara Noyes returns to Vinton to teach after brief Thanksgiving vacation amid diphtheria outbreaks. Fred Moore takes Hartley Wilkinson’s place in Steiner grocery. Wilkinson leaves for Quincy IL to attend business college. Lowell Hicks joins Forestry party in Arkansas for timber work. Subscriptions: The Express and Daily Chicago Record-Herald at $4.25 for local delivery.
Henry Montague of Lena Hlinda spent last Tuesday and Wednesday with his sister Mrs Basinger who recently broke her leg while visiting Misses Mary and Carrie Clark. He and his wife left today for Arkansas. The town observed New Year as post offices banks and most stores closed. Outdoor croquet and dancing were common as flowers bloomed.
Ray Lee departs with parents for Jacksonville to begin carnival season after summer in the Carolinas. Joseph Hennessey marries Katie Minnis near Prairieburg and will live in Castle Grove. Postal stamps colors may change for denomination distinction. Congregational and other churches held New Year watch services at the Methodist church. A through sleeping car to Chicago is proposed to ease rail traffic. Monticello Express and Chicago Inter Ocean combo offer remains popular for farmers. Burglars steal 60 pounds of butter from Klondike creamery. local suspects suspected. A C M St P wreck near Morley injures crew, kills cattle, halts main line briefly. Main line traffic rerouted via Monticello.
Miss Lillian Button of this city and Myron Richael of Maquoketa wed last Thursday after noon, celebrated by Justice Nugent. The bride, daughter of the late Edith Button, is well known in Monticello circles. The groom, once local manager for Jones County Telephone, now installs an electric lighting system in Mt Vernon Iowa.
E. Albright, longtime superintendent of the Hureka Stone Ore and Crusher company in Cedar Rapids, resigns to take a similar post with Hall Manufacturing in Monticello. His family will follow later to Monticello.
J. H. Seba a Monticello student at Iowa State College Ames earns a first prize and gold medal in the annual students better scoring contest. Professor Macklin says the score is the highest ever achieved in these contests. Seba the son of Mrs. J. H. Husmann lives south of Monticello and is completing his last dairy course year at Ames.
The Jones County Telephone plant was sold at foreclosure last Friday to The Cedar Rapids and Marion Telephone Co. for 20000 dollars, below the bondholders judgment. The buyers, friendly with Bell Telephone, may merge later though no admission is made. The purchasers plan to continue operations with improvements.
Work has begun on remodeling the post office building. A new doorway is being installed at the northwest corner and fixtures and boxes will be added as contracted. The lobby shifts to the west side and post office quarters extend to the north end to handle growing business.
Monticello merchants say holiday trade was the best in years with many noting strong sales despite earlier pessimism about saloon closures. The Lovell State Bank and Monticello State Bank held annual meetings reelecting directors and planning capital increases, dividends, and staff appointments as Iowa rail improvements near completion.
Month of January 1888 records include marriages Anna Reed and Stanley Corwin on the 1st Fannie Locher and Frank Kowalsky wed same day Miss Addis Livingstone wed Ives D Terwilliger at Monticello A nine and a half pound boy born to Mr and Mrs A Crim of Sand Spring on the 9th W D Parrott dies in West Union on the 10th Mrs Eliza Goodrich Dies in Princeton Missouri on the 16th Grant Bachalder dies at 18 of lung fever on the 27th The three new county supervisors take seats J A Bronson A L Bairbanks and Pat Washington Mail service from Cedar Rapids begins January 1st New officers to replace retiring clerks auditors etc take office today Civil War veteran Joseph Leggett visits Monticello Center Junction and recalls service including captures during Sheridan ride.
Mrs Myrtle Rader of White Sulphur Springs Montana starts home after visiting her mother Mrs J A Doutrick. She will pause with friends at Hettinger North Dakota en route.
A. B. Fucker, weather record keeper, states that from January 1 to January 17, 1912, the thermometer registered below zero every day, totaling sixteen days of freezing cold.
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