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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1919
Page
2
Center Junction reports a lively period with a community sing at the schoolhouse including Mrs Harry Johnson and Selma Prahm with Mary Leech performing The Gipsy Rondo. Church events, home mission proceeds, soldier returns, local visits, and upcoming lectures fill the week.
Castle Grove reports relief as two overseas letters arrive from Forest D Deischer to his parents. Other locals Arthur Hubbard and Art O Rourke are in the occupation army. Ernest Carpenter returns from Camp Dodge after six months overseas service. EK F Hiben sells a carload of workers in Chicago for 17.70 per hundred. A child born to Mr. and Mrs. G Ehits amid flu illness. visits and travels of Gus and Raymond Swandt, Paul Maire, O R Howie, and Wm. McAleer with M J Cass after shipments in St Louis.
The report notes Mr. Cass received 17.60 dollars per hundredweight for his hog load with other loads selling at slightly lower prices.
Jacob Lang Jr and family moved from Laredo Missouri to the east Sand Spring farm of Jacob Lang Sr for the coming year. A gathering for Mr and Mrs Dick Bohlken preceded their Hastings Minnesota plans. Hopkinton visitors included Fred Egger and others. Monticello visits and travels occurred among numerous residents. Warry Chaplin spent Saturday in Anamosa.
Prairieburg notes record Dr and Mrs Wilkinson’s indefinite visit with Mrs Wilkinson visiting State Center and the doctor seeking rest in St Louis. Local families Peet and DeLancey attended Cedar Rapids with sons at school and X ray checks. Students raised 8.40 for wounded soldiers as popcorn sales. Arizona signals man Clifford Benson ships home. Floyd Truesdell recovers from pneumonia after Austin Minnesota visit. Mrs Julia Rundle and daughter visited O S Reed home. T Copeland visited Anamosa then Morning Sun. Mrs Lottie Fielding visited relatives Saturday night.
Yesterday at high noon at the Underwood home south of Anamosa Miss Lillian Underwood wed Dr. Albert Schneider of Chicago in a small military wedding. Ed Robbins of Wyoming, serving on the January petit jury, suffered minor facial burns when a stove door opened and gas ignition caused flames at the courthouse. The district court jury for the Waddick Kehoe case delivered a 1 hour verdict with no meal at county expense, a record time. Robert Beck, escaping from the state reformatory, received up to five years after a daylight ladder escape. Senator J K Hale returned from Des Moines, noting an active fast moving legislature with hopes for a short, efficient session.
A column discusses working hours and leisure, noting the morning rush in office districts and contrasting seven o clock starts with longer days. It cites Mark Twain on a sinecure and observes how workers adapt to early schedules, stressing personal attitude toward job and life.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil questions Senator Kenyon in opposing a congressional food relief appropriation for the Near East. It argues that buying food domestically could raise prices, yet asks if Americans can bear to see others starve to avoid slight domestic inconvenience.
January reads record hog and cattle prices in Chicago markets while Monticello residents mark births deaths and marriages. Notable items include Pedigreed life events: the Lovell trip after a Michigan wedding, Garlock’s passing at 47, diphtheria hitting Anamosa, and several marriages and a new copartnership formed in town trades.
Elizabeth Campbell Ames wife of Darlin L. Ames died at Robin wood hospital Toledo on Saturday January 4 at age 50 5 1 2 months after an operation for bowel obstruction She had been visiting in Toledo and died hours after surgery Her body returned to Clyde for funeral services conducted by Rev Earl A Miller Interment was in McPherson cemetery She was born August 3 1868 in Montello Wis and lived in Monticello IA before moving to Clyde in 1894 Surviving are her husband two children Floyd C and Nina Koleman her mother and two sisters Mrs Hugh Campbell Wyoming IA and Mrs Wm Webster Marion IA She was an active member of Clyde Relief Corps which attended the funeral in a body.
The Cedar Rapids Republican recalls Col. Roosevelt as a avid naturalist who exchanged bird names with John Burroughs and spotted a gnatcatcher while visiting a plum tree bank. The piece portrays him as a multifaceted leader, not limited to fighting or hunting.
Minneapolis Journal questions Burleson’s takeover of wire companies as a postwar war emergency measure. It argues state control of telephone business within borders is established and doubts the move can be superseded, noting no real war emergency remains.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader notes patience as an anticipated attack by the great American hen on high egg prices looms. good weather may hasten the moment.
Help wanted to sell Joselyn's hog powder directly to farmers in Rockwell City Iowa. Age 40 to 60 preferred, must have own car. No notes or signatures required. Write to or call Ed 8 Joselyn.
Patrons of the Farmer's Mutual Creamery in Monticello will hold their annual meeting at the creamery on February 3 at 1 30. Seven directors a secretary and a treasurer will be elected and other business transacted as needed. O W Brazelton secretary. 30-2
D N Pond announces sale of his Monticello insurance agency to C M Balsiger and announces gratitude to customers for three years of patronage. The agency marks its 50th year since 1869, a historic Monticello business established by D N Pond.
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