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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
4
The Wyoming column lists New Year visits by G W Evans Jr Alton Vaughn and many others to relatives in town. It covers livestock shipments, horse trade to Chicago, social visits deaths and obituaries, school events, and a Hawthorne club New Year calls social including Colonial Luncheon venues.
Cascade notes many residents returning from travels and others facing illnesses like tonsillitis. Outlooks include new trains, a hospitality visit from Lehigh editors, and community events such as a Masonic banquet for 130 guests and a Baptist Sunday School reelecting its superintendent Thos. Kingsley for a 21st year.
Scotchs Grove notes from January record several visits and gatherings. Sam Rager visits Edgewood relatives while Grace Moats stays with friends in Earlville. Victoria Fowler resumes duties at Cae College. New Year travels include Rolfe Legrant to Cedar Rapids and Mrs. Ira Foreman heading to Texas. Community members host guests from Cedar Rapids Hopkinton Monticello and Epworth. Church services shift to afternoon for six months. High water from last week disrupts local conditions.
The article notes that nearly all work on the new bridge has ceased and will resume in spring. Social items include visits: Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Applegate and Mrs. Adam Sutherland with Mrs. Gill Johnson at Hopkinton. Clarence Buckner and Florence Buckner visited Anamosa and Mr. Philip Hildenbrandt’s family. Mrs. Clarence Latta of Chicago visited her sister Mrs. B L Hoy t. Mr. and Mrs. Royden of Edgewood also visited the Hoyts.
Norman Davidson visits Castle Grove while John and Will Seibles buy a new wood sawing outfit. Loomis and Lahey sale draws crowd as Elmer Mayberry buys 80 acres for 76 per acre and takes possession March first. Multiple locals attend sales, auctions, and visits. Mrs. P. McAleer recovers, and a Cedar Rapids pastor and reverend conclude chapel meetings.
Rural Route 2 notes include D J Dirks shelling corn with a power sheller, Henry Poppe trading in Monti cello, George Tobiason visiting Monticello, J M Kearns traveling to Anamosa, James Kearns visiting Monticello, Eliza Black and son William visiting Cass, Nell Connery visiting sister Mrs George Dorsey, Wallace Grey returning from Fayette, Will Craig family visiting Mrs Ann Ross, and Carl Thuman with Geo Johnson hauling barley to Langworthy to sell to D J Dirks.
Jan J. Geo. Sokol spent part of the holiday season with his parents in Onslow. F. W. Donalson and his mother of Cedar county visited E. T. Bates. Smith Miller and family were guests of F. H. Tebo. Ed Franks and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wuyck visited Newhall. Bertha Saxton and children spent the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Alexander, who live in Muscatine.
Amber records a New Year dance at the hall. May Farragher returns from Des Moines. Will O Connell comes home from Clinton for Christmas. Mr and Mrs J P Schwartz return from Des Moines. Mr and Mrs Chas Davis visit Chicago. John and Elsie Kearns visit James Kearns in Clay County. Ezra Clark and family visit Cedar Rapids relatives of Mrs Clark.
Mary J Flanigan Fagan dies at 66 at home in Washington township Jones county after a weeks illness. A pioneer resident for 64 years she was born in Maryland about 1840 and came to Jones county as a child. Survived by husband John J Fagan and five children including Edward Benjamin and daughters T J McLean Epworth W J Kehoe and James Gavin Cascade. Funeral likely Friday at St Marys Cascade. Scotch Grove Presbyterian church to hold annual meeting Jan 8 at one oclock.
Dr. Coffman the Eye Sight Specialist will be at the Lovell House in Davenport on Wednesday January 30. Glasses will be scientifically fitted and examinations are free. Hours run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Andrew McDonald longtime Jones County supervisor died at his daughter Mrs Frank Serbousek near Amber after declining health following a long career as a public servant. Born January 81 1887 in Perthshire Scotland he came to Iowa in 1855 and served on the county board since 1904. He is survived by two children J A McDonald Center Junction and Eliza A Serbousek Amber. Funeral held January 2 at Serbousek home conducted by Rev Hilborn and Rev Brough with large attendance.
An inter denomi national Sunday School institute meets at Monticello Presbyterian Church on Wednesday January 9 to train teachers and workers. Prof W R Manning Des Moines area field secretary leads sessions with talks on Teachers Training Home Work and Pivotal periods of childhood and youth. Evening program features song service readings and closing address by A O Sones Anamosa.
Scotch Grove Presbyterian will begin Sabbath school at 1 30 pm and preaching at 2 30 pm starting January 6. Center Junction Presbyterian moves Sabbath school to 10 am and preaching to 11 am on the same date. Bijou vaudeville company earns third engagement. moving pictures and illustrated songs praised though no full program pleases all. Tribune offers Farmers' Tribune with Sioux City Farmers' paper at 1 75 in club with The Express. Tribune ends at year end.
A suburban resident cheerfully invites a visitor to enter with a dog on guard. The visitor fears a bite, but the host reveals the dog is intentional and a test. The gag plays on risk and hospitality in a Paris Rire style humorous exchange.
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