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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1919
Page
9
A long list of visitors and travels across Iowa includes G R Stuhler vacationing in Minneapolis and Rudolph Rickless in Anamosa, with Ced ar Rapids and DeWitt, Chicago and Webster City hosts mentioned. A church event The Passing of the War God occurred at the Congregational church, and farm bureau activity noted in Anamosa.
News from Monticello Iowa includes sports chatter about Monticello versus Mari on at the gym Friday, and multiple social notes listing residents visiting relatives in Cedar Rapids Oelwein Cedar Falls and Holstein. Navy discharge Burgess Terwilliger returns from New York City and 18 year Monticello native Frank Fitzsimons visits. A bank agent appointment and a Mother Goose Tableaux event at the Congregational church are also noted.
Letters addressed to Grover Wilder Trettie Kern Albert F Jarosh Mrs Bush Huston Sra C Hurlburt Mrs Minnie Harms C D DeLay and Albert Brassie stay in the Monticello post office unclaimed awaiting pickup.
Roy d Autremont returned home last Monday from Camp Dodge after discharge. He had been in an engineering camp at Camp Humphreys Virginia. Frank Byrne was discharged from the United States army and reached home last Tuesday after leaving Camp Funston Kansas and had been stationed at the Rock Island arsenal.
Rev. A. P. Walton announces regular church services at the Presbyterian church. Morning and evening services are planned next Sunday with midweek services this evening at the church.
Leroy Lang of St. Petersburg visited his parents Mr and Mrs H J Lang last Friday and Saturday. Cliff Main foreman of The Express remains home ill with bronchial pneumonia. His wife recovers from influenza. Ernest Landis foreman of The Times office and his young son have pneumonia. Henry Louis Monk of Langworthy mustered out of the US Army at Camp Dodge last Thursday and returned home Friday morning after a period of duty near Fort Barrancas Pensacola Florida.
Dr. Alexander McKean of Saskatchewan Canada visits with his parents Mr and Mrs C B McKean and his sister Mrs Nell Davis in Iowa where his wife plans to join him soon. He reports influenza has overworked physicians in his province.
Mr and Mrs Robert Guthrie of Sand Spring visited Des Moines last Tuesday as guests of Representative Clause of Delaware County. They listened to Governor Harding's message to the legislature and Mr Guthrie found the address contained many sound republican doctrines.
Tax lists for Monticello city and adjoining townships in Delaware and Linn counties are available at Monticello State Bank. Taxes are due January 1 with first half by April 1 to avoid interest. if paid early, the second half runs to October 1 without interest. 293 Lieut Stuart Stuhler visited his parents last week and was recently commissioned in the Ordnance corps of the U S Army Reserve as a second lieutenant with a five year term.
The Lovell State Bank held its annual stockholders meeting last Tuesday and elected Geo L Lovell R C Stirton T M Redmond F A Hanken L W Lovell and J W Coxsee as directors for the upcoming year. Executive officer elections were postponed to a later date. The cashier reported 1918 as a prosperous year and praised conservative management reflected in the bank’s reports.
Doctors warn that influenza cases are rising as people ignore precautions and gather in crowds. They cite the crowded opera house last Monday and say public dances risk spreading germs when a single infected dancer can affect many attendees.
George Claussen former Monticello resident and municipal court judge in Clinton resigns to join the law firm Wolf and Wolf as a partner.
A winter notice warns readers to regulate fires in heating stoves and furnaces. It urges checking chimney flues, not overcrowding stoves, and never leaving a fire unattended. The message emphasizes careful feeding and a level head to prevent blazes during cold days.
The Jones County Fair association elected G. P. Rockstad as president A M Maurice as vice president and O Brainerd as treasurer with J G Hicks to act as secretary until a new one is chosen The fair dates were set for August 26 to 29 1919 and the plan to emphasize agriculture includes added hog pens and invitations to eastern Iowa breeders to exhibit their full blooded hogs.
Samuel B. Beatty longtime Cascade resident died at Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids last Thursday morning after two months illness. Born April 13 1854 in Cascade he lived there until 1898 moving to Cedar Rapids to establish Beatty Undertaking. Survived by two sons Robert J in England and Clarence in Cedar Rapids and a daughter Mrs H J Manilaw. Funeral held last Saturday with interment in Cedar Rapids. He belonged to Lodge No 643 I C O F Cedar Rapids Lodge No 25 BPOE Loyal Americans of America and the Fraternal Aid.
Monticello hosted a Vimy Ridge Concert company with a dwindling wounded orchestra of five performers after three hospital stays and one death. The event featured a Danish veteran recounting action in France and the Boer War, while a local wedding announcement followed. In district court, several trials were postponed or dismissed, with verdicts and continuances noted for upcoming sessions.
George Harrington recently discharged from the S A T C in Ames is staying with his sister Mrs. W A Storm for an extended visit.
Mrs Verdon Welch of Monticello died after childbirth complications in Waterloo on January 11. Her infant son, born January 4, died during the funeral, and both are buried together. She leaves a two year old daughter, widowed husband Verdon Welch, and her Maynard parents with several siblings.
Mrs. L. W. Lovell and her daughter Ruth are medical patients at the hospital. L. H. Evans and Alfred Ross returned home after light influenza attacks. Mrs. Leo Floyd is ill with pneumonia. Christine Geiken Hazel Eby Mrs. John Rourke and Leo Rourke are under influenza care at the hospital. Mrs. Margaret Repstein arrived with pneumonia. Thomas J. George is a medical patient. Marcus Rourke has recovered enough to return home.
Mr and Mrs W T Rieken thank friends neighbors and relatives for kindness during the illness in their family and on the death of Mary Antons She died January 2 at age 24 after influenza and pneumonia She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Antons of Manchester and burial occurred there.
Edgewood hosts Monticello in a decisive basketball win last Friday with Cushman and Cushman leading scoring. The upcoming return game in Monticello features Marion high school traveling to face Edgewood and promises a strong crowd.
Freshman class met at Martha Rice's home Saturday for a good time. Normal Training exams are this week under County Superintendent Miss Maurice. Miss Fox is ill but not with the flu. A senior article recalls Galileo's birth and death, and claims he invented air. A Marion versus Monticello game is set for Friday night. Manual Training has finished ten Junior Red Cross tables. Mr. Dunlap leads opening exercises in Miss Fox's absence.
Five members of the Frank Blizek family perished in a farmhouse fire near Oxford Junction. The coroner found no crime, though initial murder theories arose from headless bodies. The father and mother died with their children Mary Martin and Anna, amid influenza, in a blaze investigators could not attribute to a cause.
J B Hutton born November 28 1846 died January 5 1919 after a life as a pioneer in Jones County Iowa. He married Hattie Bokler October 15 1873 and lived on the family homestead six miles north of Wyoming. Funeral services were held at the M E Church with burial at South Mineral cemetery beside his wife.
Miss Campbell of the Iowa State College extension lectured on home conservation at the public library auditorium last Tuesday evening. She offered practical tips on saving in food and clothing and noted that Miss Neal Knowles could not attend and sent her first assistant in her place.
Coe college student Miss Carrie Hoag attended as bridesmaid for her friend Miss Lillian Maire. The wedding took place midweek with Hoag traveling home for the ceremony.
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