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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1925
Page
7
Local items list upcoming services at Wayne Zion Lutheran Castle Grove church events Pavlova duets at Cedar Rapids and Lenox college student visits Monticello social notes include dance music at Harry Soule and M T Bryan, plus sales of Liddy bonds and harness services. Also births and new hires, census work, and St Matthew Luther League meeting notes.
Miss Helen Hicken spent last Tuesday in Monticello for a shower honoring Miss Selma Stadtmueller. Mr. and Mrs. John Behnke of Burns Montana returned from an extended visit. Two federal investigators checked liquor stocks. A fire alarm occurred at Mrs Henry Null’s home during a basketball game.
About thirty Monticello residents attended the Pavlova entertainment in Cedar Rapids last evening. The report lists attendees including Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Stuhler and others, plus local prize winners at Hankinson poultry show and a marriage.
The January term begins with three cases from Jones county including Henry W. Mowry vs Charles Reinking et al. and the Law den damage suit for 40000 dollars. The article also notes recent bank and church meetings, Shriners, and a Jones county eclipse remembrance.
Sheriff Bodenhofer and Deputy Purcell raided the Yarrington home in Clay township finding a working still, mash, and several gallons of hootch. Jim Streets and Frank Yarrington were jailed to await grand jury action after the seizure. The raid occurred as the sheriff served an attachment and entered the locked residence. An 1804 silver dollar sold for $3,000.
Henry M. Carpenter Sr. marked fifty years with Monticello State Bank with a six oclock dinner at Kin sella hall attended by officers, stockholders, and spouses. Guests included directorates and Elmer Hicks who lauded Carpenter for service and community impact, including bringing John McDonald hospital to Monticello.
Monticello beat Maquoketa 34 to 12 in the gymnasium debut with packed bleachers and a complimentary Monticello concert band. Zubler led scorers with fourteen points as coach Lawrence Whitford’s team dominated from the start, with penalties shaping the fourth quarter.
Mrs. Ed Knepp sustained a fractured skull and broken collar bone and Miss Anna Rhodes fractured her collar bone when their car collided with a vehicle driven by CG W Lownsberry a local high school instructor. Neither woman is reported in serious condition.
About fifty Monticello residents and visitors gathered January 2 1926 at Mr and Mrs T B Wilson home in Pasadena for an all day pienie. The Wilsons own the Sierra Madre Villa estate once famed as a hostelry where writers and artists gathered.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway outlines a weekly through tourist sleeping car from Calmar Fayette Strawberry Point Hopkinton Monticello Anamosa Cedar Rapids and intermediate points to Los Angeles via Kansas City and Southern routes leaving January 20 with full information and reservations through local agents. A fire scare in Dyersville's business district ended safely when A E Schuster, priming a gasoline blow torch, sprayed burning gas on the shop floor, burned his hands, but tossed the torch into the alley and quashed the blaze as help arrived.
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