District Court to Open Monday at Anamosa
The January term of the district court begins Monday January 26 at Anamosa with Judge F O Ellison presiding. New cases listed include promissory notes foreclosures attachments and garnishments among many civil matters and equity filings with twenty four jury trial notices and eleven equity trial notices.
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District Court
Anamosa
F. O. Ellison
Latlie Anderson
George "W. Anderson
Alvina Blythe
Floyd Blythe
State of Iowa
William Weseman
Reitz Miller
Ida McDonald
Guy McDonald
F. B. Sigworth
Eva A. Bennett
Olive Cozart
Albert Cozart
J. J. Nagle
Leo Skahill
James Straka
Elizabeth Straka
Monticello to Conduct Citywide Business Survey
A community survey will begin within days in Monticello to uncover defects in local businesses and city services. Women solicitors will visit households with a confidential questionnaire directed by D. Graham Palmer of Cedar Rapids to gather frank opinions for improving the town and attracting wider buying interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
D. Graham Palmer
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Telegraph- Herald
Davenport
Maquoketa
Florence Lorrane Mullen Birthday Party Observed
A fifth birthday party for Florence Lorrane Mullen was held at her home last Saturday afternoon. Guests included Hetty Otten Doria Sally Otten Estelig Smith Mary Jean Herren Ad Schoon and Louise Mettler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Lorrane Mullen
Florence Lorrane
Hetty
Doria
Sally Otten
Estelig, Smith
Mary Jean Herren
Ad Schoon
Louise Mettler
Monticello Red Cross chapter donates full quota
Monticello Red Cross directors voted to send $200 to the St. Louis headquarters for drought relief in the south. The Monticello chapter, serving the north half of Jones county, met its quota without a drive and urges individuals or groups to contribute to aid drought stricken residents. The drought devastated cotton reliant southern states due to lack of rainfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Neighborhoods Intrigue Over Bank Dividend and Local News
The Monmouth Savings Bank closed last March and paid a 25 percent dividend to stockholders. Reports cover injuries from a furniture store fall, a baby’s death from a swallowed screw, a Waterloo student’s suicide, a truck theft and shooting in Linn County, a Manchester fire narrowly saving a family, a Dubuque man’s ten year prison term for a stick up, a forged note case in Prairie Creek, and other Delaware County items including a $633 note related to Martin Schuster.
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Monmouth Savings Bank
Paul Sorensen
Waterloo
William Donahue
Dubuque
Charles Lent
East Junior High
Delaware County
Ryan
Emerson
Linn
Sabin
Manchester
Earnest Heyer
Heyer
Donald Kelleher
George Klein
Klein
Kelleher
Daniel Callahan
Praire Creek Township
Martin Schuster
Fillmore
Schuster
Des Moines
Callahan
Miniature Golf Course Opens in Monticello
Messrs Edwin Lightfoot and Lynn Howie open a new miniature golf course in the former Goldenrod building in Monticello after moving it from the Allison hotel in Cedar Rapids. They will also operate the adjacent Standard Oil filling station, with a display ad in this week’s Express.
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Messrs
Edwin Lightfoot
Lynn Howie
Goldenrod
Allison Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
Standard Oil
the Express
House Of David Beats Legion In Fast Showdown
The Legion lost to House of David Benton Harbor Mich by 46 to 27 as the visitors controlled the pace. Monticello defeated the Trousch Bakers of Dubuque 27 to 18 a week earlier and Gilkerson's Union Giants of Chicago are set to play next on Saturday night January 2¢.
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Legion
House of David
Benton Harbor
Mich
Monticello
Items Of Occurrences Forty Years Ago In Elgin and Monticello
A column recalls events from forty years past including births in the Dunshee and Buxton families, marriages such as Curtin to Halligan and Duer to Sawyer, a student Siegfried Gruenstein at Lake Forest, a church organist in Chicago, infant deaths, a tuberculosis death, and a weather note of temperatures reaching eight degrees below zero. Also mentioned are a dress shop opening, a liquor of church weddings, property moves, a supreme court affirmation in an age case, and local economic notes like butter price and turkeys sold at two dollars each.
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Elgin
Will Dunshee
Frank Chandler Dunshee
Walter Buxton
Thomas Curtin
Daniel Halligan
Wayne Township
Lou Duer
R. L. Duer
J. L. Sawyer
Monticello
Minnie Fisher
Condon
Cedar Street
Ernest Hickok
Volney Hickok
W. F. Bingham
Theodore Lesinger
J. D. Graves
Thomas Guyan
Jacob Carmichael
Supreme Court of Iowa
Gearhardt Behrends
Scotch Grove
Commercial Club Holds Its Monthly Dinner in Monticello
The January Monticello Commercial Club meeting gathered sixty merchants and professionals at the Soldiers' Memorial gym. Reiss Stuhler led songs before a Legion auxiliary catered dinner. Louis Hoag chaired the business meeting with Carl Hodson presenting finances and budgeting. F. G. Matthiessen was named president for the year and urged cooperation. Directors may buy two large signs at primary 161 entrances. A February dinner is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Hoag
F. G. Matthiessen
Charles E Erickson Dies in St Louis Missouri
Word reached this week of the death of Charles E. Erickson formerly of Monticello at his home in St Louis Missouri Burial was held in a St Louis cemetery Mrs Erickson died November 12 He is survived by three daughters Margaret and Bessie at home and Mrs Earl Davis of Benton Arkansas During his Monticello years he ran a grocery store in the building now occupied by the Snow White bakery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Erickson
Monticello
St. Louis
First Good Snowfall Covers Town with Eight Inch Layer
Last Sunday brought an eight inch snow with light initial fall and heavy final four inches. The landscape appeared a bower of beauty as trees and shrubs wore sparkling snow. The snow will benefit farm lands as the frost is negligible and melt will soak into the ground.
Iowa General Assembly Opens Amid Major Week In Capital
The Iowa General Assembly and related gatherings dominated the week in Des Moines with the opening session, election of leadership, and first tax bills. Governor Turner was inaugurated, while Farm Bureau events and the Master Farmers banquet highlighted state agriculture and civic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
General Assembly
Iowa Farm Bureau
Savery Hotel
Henry Wallace
Iowa Veterinary Medicine Association
Iowa Fox and Mink Breeders Association
Iowa Moving Picture Operators Association
Frank Hollingsworth
Boone
Francis Johnson
Dickinson County
P. H. Donlan
Palo Alto County
Carolyn Pendray
House
Rutledge
Webster
Moore
Dan Turner
Senate
Hammill
Gov. Turner
One Act Plays Set For Next Monday In Monticello
Monticello residents will attend a public school auditorium program next Monday January 26 at 8 pm featuring three one act plays directed by Miss Georgia Miller. The program includes Let There Be Light a character study, Flittermouse a comedy and Country a gripping tragedy with casts led by Onariah Reverend Ambrose and Geoffrey Trent. The high school orchestra will perform before the show and a vocal solo by William Kettlitz plus a girls sextet will accompany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Georgia Miller
William Kettlitz
Lucia Schoon
Eugene Rodman
Frieda Balster
Ryan Boy Struck by Car Suffers Fractured Jaw
Lawrence McElligott an eight year old boy and son of James McElligott of Ryan sustained a broken jaw and bruises on his head and leg when an automobile driven by Merle Voergler a local barber struck him on Ryan main street last Sunday as he started to cross the street and failed to see the approaching car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence McElligott
James McElligott
Ryan
Merle Voergler
William A Darling Buried In Monticello Today
Funeral for William A Darling longtime Lovell township resident held at Monticello Methodist church at 2 pm with Rev Roy Porter leading. Burial in Oakwood cemetery. Survived by wife Alice and four sons Wallace Ernest William Howard, plus cousins Ernest Skelley Elmer Hicks Frank Meade and John Skelley. Born February 2 1860 north of Monticello.
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William A. Darling
Monticello
Methodist Episcopal Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Roy V. Porter
Methodist Church
Mr. Darling
William Darling
Alice Darling
Lovell Township
Amy Darling
Alice Livingstone
California
Oakland
Darling
Wallace
Ernest
William
Howard
Ernest E. Skelley
Elmer E. Hicks
Frank Meade
Manchester
John Skelley
Long Beach
Cal
Jones County Members Have Good Places
Senator C. L. Rigby of Jones and Cedar counties chairs banks and banking and serves on agriculture board of control cities and towns highways judiciary No 1 political and judicial districts railroads tax revision ways and means and committees. Representative George J. Van Buren of Jones county chairs appropriations and retrenchment and reform and also serves on agriculture banks and banking conservation of resources insurance telephone and express.
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C. L. Rigby
Jones and
Cedar Counties
Agriculture
Board of Control
George J. van Buren
Jones County
Banks
Conservation
Insurance
Telephone
Telegraph
Express
Parent Teachers Will Meet Monday Afternoon
The Parent-Teachers association will meet Tuesday afternoon January 27 at 2 30. Nell Morey will lead the round table discussion and Mrs Tom George will read Teachers Are People. Skating at the pond will be available but unguarded. skaters do so at their own risk.
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Parent-Teachers Association
Nell Morey
Tom George
Alonzo Hosford Dies at 85 in Platte South Dakota
Alonzo Hosford 85 died January 15 at his daughter’s home in Platte South Dakota after a severe cold. He was born November 11 1845 in Johnstown Ohio and lived long in Monticello before moving to Platte in 1906. He is survived by wife Cecil, five children, nineteen grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Funeral services were held in Platte with burial there.
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Alonzo Hosford
N1qzel
Ansel Bailey
Platte
South Dakota
Steven Hosford
Mr. Hosford
Johnsontown
Trumbull
Connecticut
Solomon Hosford
Trumbull County
Ohio
Paulina Palmer
Jones County
Castle Grove Township
Bowen's Prairie
Monticello
Orlando
Alonzo
Cecil
Curtis D
Florence
Hosford
S. D
John Deere Implement Days Proves Highly Successful
The first annual John Deere Implement Days by Matthies Auto & Supply drew about 1,500 visitors over Thursday Friday and Saturday. Will Jarrett and Paul Hearn ran a free lunch counter serving over 600 sandwiches and coffee. The event featured John Deere tractors farm machinery and the latest Chevrolet Six models with several cars sold Saturday.
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Matthiessen Auto & Supply Company
Will Jarrett
Paul Hearn
Matthiessen Brothers
John Deere
Jones County
Automobile Department
Adv
Iowa Electric Traces Radio Interference in Monticello
L. F. Mulford of the Iowa Electric company Cedar Rapids spent part of the week in Monticello checking radio interference. He found most interference came from inadequately trimmed trees brushing electric light lines and noted voltage variations. He recommends heavier wire in certain areas to improve service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. F. Mulford
Iowa Electric Company of
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
Monticello tops Anamosa in junior and senior games
Monticello defeated Anamosa 12 8 in junior high and 16 12 in senior high, extending Monticello’s season to five wins in six games. The report notes future Monticello games with Manchester and West Branch, plus box scores and standout players Matthiesen and Phelps.
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Monticello
Anamosa
Monticcello
Manchester
West Branch
the Express
Monti
Death of Mrs W A Walz After Caesarean Died In Oelwein
Mrs Mary Demmer and family mourn the death of her daughter Mrs W A Walz who died after a Caesarean section in Oelwein following the birth of a daughter. Survived by husband two sons mother and siblings. born Worthington March 2 1898. married June 27 1927 Worthington. Funeral at St Pauls Worthington with burial in Worthington cemetery. A Farm Bureau meeting follows.
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Mary Demmer
W. A. Walz
Oelwein
Veronica
Justina
Lidwina
Monticello
Anna
George Rebheen
Ciascade
Theodore
Parley
Emma
Paul Whiter
Worthington
August
Clara
Fred Kerkert
Dubuque
Amelia
Mike Krause
Sand Spring
Wala
Caroline Jemmer
Worth
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L. F. Hamilton
J. A. Lawrence
Champion Machinery Co
G. R. Watters
L. F. Eggers
Bernard Oeschger
Frances Frasher
Edward Lee Frasher
Joseph Benhart, Sr
Melvin Andre
First Trust & Savings Bank
Fred J. Buresh
Edward Buresh
Ed Yarolem
Lloyd Hammond
Wm. Yarolem
Roy O. Bullock
Commission of Insanity of
Harry Pegorek
Shoemaker Shop
C. J. Cash
A. E. Hall
Roy Bullock
Butler Bros
E. F. Kleineck
LaVerle Popenhagen
Steve Rachek
J. L. Kaufman
Michael Gorman
Snr
R. H. Balster
Oscar Ambuehl
John Seehusen
Lew H. Ahraken
H. W. Shipley
Otting Bros
W. B. Crawford
Frank Wolfe
Buela Wolfe
John Brady
Jake Spettel
W. P. Morrissey
Floyd Switzer
New
Florence L. Mullen
RED Cross
South
Commercial Club
St. Louis, Mo
Iowa General Assembly
E. R. Moore
Federal Reserve Board
E. H. Cunningham
Arch McFarlane
Moon
Lyon County
Patterson
Kossuth
Rigby
Jones
Dora
B. M. Stoddard
Woodbury County
Iowa County
J. P. Gallagher
L. W. Hatter
Gallagher
Mayne
Pottawattamie
Tamisiea Drake
Keokuk
Simmer of
Harrison
Pendray
Jackson
Wapello
G. E. Miller
Shelby
O. J. Ditto
H. C. Hattendorf
J. P. Bair
Buena Vio
W. M. Short
Woodbury
H. N. Hanson
Winnebago
O. J. Reim
John Hammill
Special Legislative Taxation Committee
Board of Assessment
State Capitol
State House
Turner
State Highway Commission
Clifford Niles
C. A. Darting
Glenwood
C. C. Riepe
Burlington
Board of Education
Ray Venter
Adjutant General
State Board of Control
State Board of Parole
Board of Assessment and Review
Boone and
Fort Dodge
Onariah
Fred Hanken
Ambrose
George Harms
Lorene Zimmerman
Ernest Schmidt
Elmer Folkerts
Mabel Harper
Maud Ellis
Viola Hutton “Prissy” Ellis
Virginia Hearn
Evs
Mabel McVay
Gerald
Richard Calkins
Evelyn Fairbanks
Lursila Trent
Helen Crane
Geoffrey Trent
Howard McLaughlin
Haldane
Milton Langer
Vivian Bancroft
Ryan Boy
W. A. Darling
Sol Butler
Gilkerson
Union Giants
Corporation Limits
Monticello Municipal Band
Lazio
Phelps
Matthiessen
Gtfji
GTP Smith
Kehoe
Seedorf
Weiderman
Starks
EeTeree
Jom Appleby
Remley
Harry Matthiessen
Null
Reichart
Eby
Rhody
GTF
Byers
Ely
Stott
Farm Bureau
Lovell
Richland
W. Laude
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