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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1916
Page
7
Numerous Cedar Rapids and Monticello residents are listed as visitors or guests in nearby towns including Omaha Chicago Muscatine Anamosa Sheboygan Wiscon sin and Blue Springs Nebraska. The notes mention travels for business visits schooling and family illness with several last week entries and uncalled for mail in Monticello post office.
Local items recount visits and returns among Monticello residents and nearby towns. People named include Mrs Heliberg Anamona Miss Rettig Gerd Graaf Rev Father Kuntzel Jerome Brazelton Miss Wismeier and families like the Harmses and Calkins. Additional notes cover sales moves and upcoming visits across Iowa communities.
Misses Fern Hubbard and Laura Smith in the nurse training program at University hospital Iowa City arrived last Saturday evening for visits at the homes of Kilmer Hubbard and Miss Mae Villan respectively.
The gasoline bumblebee service between here and Calmar resumes tonight for the north bound journey. Frank Pike, longtime conductor formerly of Monticello, will oversee the trip.
Mrs J F McConnell of Greeley Colorado visits her mother Mrs M A Page. She is known as Addie Page before marriage and old friends here will be glad to see her. Miss Minnie Matthiessen left for Cedar Rapids to enter Cedar Rapids Business College after resigning as bookkeeper for Cross Hardware Co. replacement is Miss Alma Bell.
While hunting last Sunday afternoon Alva Zimmerman was shot in the leg by a companion. The two boys were seeking cotton tails when the companion discharged his gun and a portion of the shot struck Alva’s leg.
Congregation al church members held their annual dinner last Thursday evening. Pastor Rev. O. Qushman reported the church begins the new year with all debts paid and a tidy treasury.
Friends report Matt Noyes very ill at his home with no improvement today. He remains confined to bed for several days and relatives are alarmed by the seriousness of his condition. Visits from callers are being denied.
A roundup of community happenings includes T. E. Booth passing through on trains, Emma Belling wedding to William Helgens in Wayne township, and Alderman promoting Senator Allen’s candidacy. Marriage licenses issued to list includes Wolf Westphal and others. A runaway accident injures Garriet Harms but hogs unharmed, Kellogg settles Harms car damage, Geraldine Farrar concert attendees listed, saloons closed three years ago with no local impact, Ford with sewing machine mishap at Suter’s corner.
Miss Lizzie Barrack daughter of Mrs Theodore Rieniers wed Wesley Eden son of Mr and Mrs John Eden at the German Lutheran church Monticello in a ceremony conducted by Rev Sigmund Ide at eleven. The couple plans a home on a Monticello area farm and well wishes flowed from friends at a Kinsella hall reception. A separate note reports Lovell State Bank annual meeting electing George L Lovell K C Stirton J S Hall O S Bidwell J W Coxsee Dr W A Mirick L W Lovell as directors with continued profits and a regular annual dividend. Executive officers re elected include President George L Lovell Vice President J S Hall Cashier R C Stirton Assistant Cashier L W Lovell.
The Woman's Missionary Society issues a general leaflet featuring a likeness and life sketch of Rev E B Gruenstein D D longtime pastor of the Monticello German Reformed Church. Born Odessa Russia he was the youngest of sixteen. His conversion and devotion guided a life spent in faith and service culminating in a Lancaster General Synod address urging Jewish evangelization.
Eye care brief notes that tests were performed and glasses fitted by Dr. L Q Stubler. No further details on location or date are provided.
High School notes report exams in two weeks and show a busy schedule with basketball games against Manchester and Edgewood, class plays in preparation, and visits from teachers. Obituaries note the deaths of Mrs. Marcus McDermott and Hiram P. Farnham, with brief biographical details and survivors. Monticello State Bank holds annual meeting naming directors and officers.
A Cedar Rapids based corporation, Iowa Mercantile Co, may not establish a promised Monticello store. Local stockholders fear unauthorized directors and treasury stock issues, suggesting remedies beyond branch expansion and questioning escrow protections against broken promises.
The list of dates for basketball games at the Monticello gym includes Marion girls on Saturday afternoon January 8, Manchester on Friday January 23, Anamona on Friday February 4, Marion on Friday February 18, and Maquoketa on Friday March 3. Organizers seek town cooperation to avoid conflicting entertainments.
Ira S Forman died at his sister Mrs Newton Parrott home after years of illness likely tuberculosis. Born November 21 1872 he was 43 and a carpenter by trade who lived in Davenport and later San Antonio Texas before returning to Center Junction Iowa. He married Minnis Clark in 1908 and leaves a daughter, two sisters Mrs Parrott and Mrs Bricker, and parents Mr and Mrs Simeon Forman. Funeral held at Parrott home conducted by Rev Charles J Chairman with Knights of Pythias present and burial in Oakwood cemetery.
Happened twenty years ago in Monticello and nearby recounts a January diary of 1896. Banquets dances marriages and deaths appear alongside business moves fires bank figures and a farmers institute gathering. Notable names include Mamie McDonough Simels Battements and Herrick.
W. W. Wallbridge of Viola collapsed in R. P. Lacy store last Tuesday afternoon and died. He suffered a paralytic stroke in July and never fully recovered. He was 80 and formerly lived near Anamose.
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