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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
2
Local notes from Center Junction dated June 29 detail visits and social events. Mentions Merle Stingley hosting the Christian Mindeaver Society, travels of families including the Schapers and Manuels, and numerous weekend visits to Cedar Rapids Anamosa and Monticello.
Scotch Grove notes report Nelson Kiburz hospitalized for major operation at McDonald hospital with family at his side. Local band concert and church activities draw crowds. raspberries forthcoming after strawberry harvest ends. Visitors include Al M Sinclair and Rev Hugh Robinson, plus a string of neighbors from Cascade Anamosa Monticello and Cedar Rapids.
The seven weeks old infant of Mr and Mrs Mugene Keane died at the baby hospital in Omaha Sunday at 4 a m after weeks of illness. Burial occurred Monday at St Martins church Cascade with Rev L Roche officiating. Sympathy pours out to the bereaved family while others welcome new baby Thomas Patrick Clarke Jr born June 24 at Mr and Mrs T P Clarke home.
Wim Dennison and wife visit Onslow and pack to move to Ocheyden Iowa where Will has bank charge. Mrs Lucy McMaster and daughter Lizzie travel to Minnesota to visit Mia McMaster Isentrigger. Various residents visit relatives, report health, or travel to Colorado Illinois Minnesota and Iowa.
The June farm bureau session featured Recitation and Debate on railroad control with a two to one negative victory. Electric lights installed in schoolhouse No. 8, improving evening meetings. Local residents visited or traveled, including W. W. Bray and the Harken family, with remarks on haying, road supervision, and a parsonage remodel underway.
The item lists numerous visits and social activity across Monticello, Hopkinton, Dyersville, Cascade, and Cedar Rapids. Names include Ann Guthrie, Florence Trallock, Lewis Kurth, Ernest Kurth, Henry JChius, Ruth Guthrie, Ava Guthrie, Florence Dole Jock, John Glant, Wayne Glant, Carrie Lio, Dorothy and Lois Pierce, H S Pierce, F M Wheeless, Dale Wheeless, Lila Morgan Stock Company, Alphonse Schmidt, Edith Cistel, Rob Martin, F J Gestel, Roy Slauson, Alex Blair, G H Guetzke. Events feature visits, theatre attendance, and local social hosting.
In Prairieburg June 28 Miss Eva DeLancey Miss Edith DeLancey and Bernice Walmutt passed teachers tests in Cedar Rapids. Madge DeLancey joined a shopping trip. Local residents Mr and Mrs C H Hanold and children and Mrs Roy Truesdell from Wyoming visited friends. Father Vojacek enjoyed a vacation tour. Mrs H S Corn and daughter Cinda stayed with her sister near Center Point. Mr and Mrs James Wolimut of Waubeek visited Selas Benson in Anamosa. Dr and Mrs Taylor traveled to Chicago for a week with relatives. Ida M Wagner guest at Cave Church home in Coggon. Ad Caldwell of Coggon staying at O Caldwell home. Manson Journal notes political moves from Chicago to San Francisco ahead of the Democratic convention.
D H Co Johnson delivered a car of twine to local farmers under a cooperative plan saving about three cents per pound, totaling about $500. Miss Mildred Garvin wed Earl Griffith in West Branch Iowa with a double ring ceremony officiated by Rev. W Glenn Rowley. Raymond Supple turned 21 with gifts of a gold safety razor and a gold watch from parents. Johnnie Shover suffered a severe accident when a horse kicked during a Buck Creek Church trip, leaving a gash, broken teeth, and jawbone damage. he received medical care in Monticello hospitals.
Steve City names Olson as the new station agent while Kell is reassigned to DeWitt. Miss June Soper travels to Los Angeles via Cheyenne to visit her sister Florence Russell. Jas C McIlhinney and Florence Russell wed at Dr L W Russell’s home with a 10 am wedding breakfast and noon ceremony by Judge I O Illigan. Geo L Schoonover and family plan a summer cottage stay at Spirit Lake then a western Pacific coast trip returning by the northern route. Dr Clifford Ellison of New York City is elected instructor.
In the year ending June Ast 1921 at the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital a surgeon has advanced to a visiting position by faculty recommendation and board endorsement. Also noted, two Monticello youths, Geo Adams and Oliver Sampson, were in juvenile court for theft and were assigned weekly reporting to probation officer J J Locher with Judge Moffit ordering Sunday school and school attendance as the remedy.
A rural ethic essay by Edwin Osgood Grover extols country life over city life and praises labor, character, and pluck. The piece, associated with Mitchell Republican lines, ends with a question about whether the Democratic party wishes to be led by an idealist.
The Castle Grove township in Jones County Iowa invites bids by July 31 1920 for a school house in District No 8. Plans and specs available at Lowell State Bank Monticello. Bid deposit 10 percent with certified check. bonds required equal to twice the bid. completion by November 1 1920. The right to reject bids is reserved. F Cramer secretary.
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