Local social notes and tax notices in Monticello area
Howard Herrington visited Cedar Rapids last Monday while many residents traveled to nearby towns. Tax lists for Monticello and surrounding townships available at the Lowell State Bank and complete tax lists now at Monticello State Bank. Various residents visited relatives in Davenport Hopkinton Dubuque Anamosa and Center Junction with brief notes on illnesses travels and events.
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Monticello
Lowell State Bank
Monticello News Roundup of Local Echoes
Local items report Miss Laura Arthur visiting in L. H. Lang home then departing for Cedar Heights to teach. births, moves, and civic notes include Brainerd baby girl born January 6, Sutherlands moving to Monticello, Franklin joins The Franklin Barn Equipment Co., and a Jones County corn trophy pledge for Ames show. Obituaries note Ella Stoddard of Delaware and John Weir of Lamoni. Distinct visits and travels include Miricks in Monticello, Guetzlaffs visiting for mother’s 83rd birthday, and Weeley Smith’s drowning in Texas area.
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Monticello
New Half Dollars Circulate Freely Across Banks
Over the past ten days banks have secured a supply of the new half dollars and placed them into circulation. The obverse features Liberty with folded stars and stripes, holding laurel and oak branches symbolizing civil and military glory, while the reverse shows an eagle on a crag with a pine sapling signaling early American spirit.
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Liberty
Jones County Agent Reports Busy Start to Term
Fred F Clark the Jones county agent began November 1 and by January 1 had met over twelve hundred farmers and business men, made 110 farm visits, 154 office calls, attended 18 meetings with 530 total attendees, written seven agricultural articles, ten circular letters, and 337 personal letters. He tested eight soil samples, corrected the ration for eleven cattle feeders, logged 107 office telephone calls and 96 office calls, organized a Dairy Cow Test association nearly complete, and traveled 1141 miles by Ford and 154 miles by train.
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Fred F Clark
Jones County
Ford
Annual meeting and public exam announced for 1917
The Jones County Farm Improvement association schedules its annual meeting January 15 at Anamoga court house from 9 30 a m to 12 m with Prof J W Coverdale Ames county agent and other speakers. A short business meeting will follow for officer elections. Also U S Civil Service announces an open competitive exam for railway mail clerks on February 10 1917 at major post offices.
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Jones County Fair Association
Public Library
Jones County Farm Improvement Association
Anamoga
Ames
Farm Improvement Association
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Commission
Washington, D. C
J. M. French
Wyoming
District Court
Ellison
Bennett
Kohl
Port Huron Machine Co
Independent School District of Wyoming
R. M. Fisher
Southwick
Southwick Et al
Lawrence
McClaughry
High School Notes From The Winter Term
School notes report sick list entries for Samaria Perrine Myrtle Cowan and Dora Kettlitz and mention juniors stumbling down stairs. Students discuss illnesses during tests and Christmas vacation returns, a patent pencil sharpener in the assembly room, and a basketball game against Manchester.
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Samaria Perrine
Myrtle Cowan
Dora
Kettlitz
Tennyson
Manchester
Eiveryone
Ruth Arduser
Milroy
Napoleon
Tivan
Interesting Lecture Friday Night by Judge Kavanaugh
The Womans' Club lecture and music course closes with Judge Marcus A. Kavanaugh speaking at the opera house next Friday evening at 8 20. He will discuss Traitors to Justice and has recent Chicago Superior Court stature. The talk follows his Cascade appearance to a full house and reflects a push to simplify legal procedure and enforce current law with public and legal support. A basketball game at 7 40 shifts the lecture to avoid conflict.
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Womans’ Club
Opera House
Marcus A. Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh
Cascade
Superior Court of
Chicago
England
Industrial Club
January 1892 Monticello Obituaries and Local Notices
A recap of notable Monticello events from January 1892 includes deaths such as Mrs. Podhaski, William A. Allen, Mrs. Seeber, Mrs. Elizabeth Dolphin, Alfred Noble, Dr. Charles A. Henry, Mrs. J. H. Fuller, George R. Smith, William Poggenklagss, and Dr. Norman N. Smith. Also recorded are marriages, property sales by Fred Grassmeyer to F. J. Webber for 6500, travel returns, school staffing changes, a missionary bound street term, and the German Mutual Fire Insurance Company filing its annual report with 263 487 in risks and leadership by George Balster and Harm Harma. A suspect fraud case involving F. W. Clark alias F. J. Kealy was captured in New York and jailed after waiving examination.
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Monticello Express
Joseph Podhaski
Fred Poppe
William A. Allen
Monticello
G. L. Seeber
Nellie Carpenter
Rockford
Illinois
Elizabeth Dolphin
Ireland
Alfred Noble
Castle Grove Township
Fairbanks
Arthur
New England States
Charles A. Henry
J. H. Fuller
Earlville
Scotch Grove Township
George R. Smith
Mina Coller
LaCrosse
Wisconsin
Fred Grassmeyer
Reichardt
Main Street
F. J. Webber
Douglass H. Smith
Washington
Oregon
California
William Poggenklagss
Indepedence
Norman N. Smith
Minnie Ainsworth
Monticello High School
East Des Moines High School
Alfred Street
David Street
New York
Hainan
China
German Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Wayne Township
George Balster
Harm Harma
F. J. Kealy
F. W. Clark
William Hogan
Ricker
Good Words For Our Superintendent
Midland Schools praise Superintendent Kate Maur ice of Jones county for promoting progressive movements. The Oxford Junction consolidated school sparks county interest as Maur ice conferences with rural teachers boost methods and personal investment in classrooms. A farmer’s wife notes 43 cents per dozen eggs with Chicago sales. yearly egg income totals 700 dollars.
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Midland
Kate Maurice
Jones County
Oxford Junction
Miss Maurice
Chicago
Minkler Marries Capt Powell of Iowa Regiment
Gens Minkler of Lenox College and Edgewood resident recently went south and married Capt Clifford Powell of Co L 38th Iowa, stationed at Brownsville. Powell, a young attorney from Council Bluffs, Iowa, is the groom.
Demise of Rev C C Warner Shocks Mobridge in South Dakota
Dr C C Warner dies of heart failure after braving a severe storm to fetch mail on December 26. The Mobridge pastor, noted for church building and community service, leaves a widow and two children with interment in Freeport Illinois.
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Mobridge
Warner
Hiov
Thrall Academy
Perkins County
Charlies Campbell Warner
Leman Ackley
Sarah W. Warner
Freeport
Ilinois
Beloit College
Beloit
Wisconsin
Chicago Theological Seminary
LaSalle
Illinois
Alton
Morrin
Llinois
Presbyterian Church
Florence
Colorado
Monticello
Eldora
Crookston
Minnesota
Home Missionary Society
Grand Forka
Margaret L. McNair
Ottawa
Gladden
Chester M. Warner
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Margaret W. Warner
Grinnell
Iowa
A. OG. Warner
Qixon
Ulinois
G. W. Warner
Topeka
Kansas
The
United Church
W. H. Thrall
Rev. Reed
Insurance Meeting at Castle Grove School House No 2
The Farmers Mutual Insurance association of Castle Grove holds its annual meeting on Saturday January 18 1917 at 1 p.m. All members urged to attend. Secretary S M Hosaford. John E Cameron now leads Odebolt schools succeeding J H Voris. Cameron a Lenox college graduate with public school experience. Miss Myra Smith of Arlington wed Walter Alderson Strawbery Point last Tuesday in Iowa City. Rev and Mrs Robb Mt Vernon celebrate silver wedding January 2 parishioners give purse.
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Gladys Fairbanks
Arthur Fairbanks
Castle Grove
Red Oak High School
John Joseph Albinger
J.N. Kiburz
Scotch Grove Township
Anna Leesekamp
Benjamin Husmann
Lambertus Leesekamp
C. Mardorf
Mamie Harms
John Husmann
Husmann
Kinsella Hall
Deer Creek
Minnesota
Applegate Farm
Scotch Grove
Fred Husmann
Sand Spring
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association
Castle Grove Township
M. Hosaford
John E. Cameron
Jones County
Odebolt
Supt
J. H. Voris
Rockwell City
Mr. Cameron
Lenox College
State Teachers’ College
State University of Iowa
Myra Smith
Arlington
Walter Alderson
Strawberry Point
Iowa City
Robb
Mt. Vernon
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CIHE
J. W. Doxsee
Chas. A. Doxsee
E. G. Burrichter
Home News
Howard Herrington
Cedar Rapids
John Tschantz
W. Charles Moore
Mrs
Raymond Slauson
Rock Island, Illinois
Robert Williamson
Hopkinton
Charles A.coxsee
Joes Moines
E. Stevens
George
Davenport
Nell Hubbard
John Thompson
City
Center Junction
Marcella Britting
Frances Voyle
Cecil Curtis
A. G. Hanken
Charlotte
Frank Johnson
Central City
Mesdames
John Schweitzer
Johtn Marrugg
Dubuque
Mary “McMahon
Susan
Anamosa
Carrie Prease
Emil Warnicke
Louis Stabler
W. W. Hunter
Robert Hunter
H. F. Kettlitz
Frieda Hanken
Town City
University Hospital
E. E B. Hicks
Hicks & Ricklers Dry Goods
William Stabler
William
Clem Liddy
Isabel
Katherine Liddy
George Hansen
Mr. Hansen
McDonald Hospital
F. P. Stabler
Cincinnati
Ohio
Shoe Dealers
Jennie Bennett
Seymore Bennett
Bristol
Chauncey T. Bates
Stamford
South Dakota
M. W. Herrick
Louis Cameron
Barnum, Minnesota
Otto Burrichter
Fred Carstens
Foster Clothing Store
Ralph Halverson
John G. Schoon
George Igon
Kansas City
George Davis
Laura Arthur
L. H. Lang
Cedar Heights
Waterloo
O. E. Brainerd
W. A. Lambert
Alfred Lambert
Escanaba
Michigan
Alex Sutherland
Geyser
Montana
R. B. Franklin
Franklin Barn Equipment Co
R. W. Franklin
Irving Mirick
New Auburn
W. A. Mirick
Galen Mirick
Olin
Mies Ella Stoddard
Delaware
Louis Stoddard
Independence
Frank
Fred Koop
Bessie Duer King
King
Saskatchewan
Canada
Kate Stabler
Reiss
Lake Forest Academy
Stabler
Sonia Terwilliger
William Drinkwater
Iowa State Veterinary Association
John Weir
Lamoni
Geneva
Nebraska
James W. Sloan
Sloan
Albert Guetzlaff
Ceylon
Theodore Guetzlaff
Bassett
George Guetzlaff
New Hampton
Ide
Emma Guetzlaff
Amelia Guetzlaff
A. W. Cramer
Weeley Smith
Texas
74Th N. Y. National Guard
Buffalo
Newark
C. C. Warner
Congregational Church
Mmobridge
5. D
Lenox
PT D. Wilson
Bartlett
Winger
P. Wilson
Marloff
Cartano
Marugg
Lovell State Bank
Wm. A. Roger
Dyersville
EK. A. Hubbard
J. E. Bateman
Outkater Swift
Horse Hospital
George Albery
North Cedar Street
First Street
Chas. A. Doxsee Doxsee
Doxsee
Lovell Block
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