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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
7
Miss Carrie Page visited Cedar Rapids last Friday while Clark Hubbard spent an evening there. Several residents moved between towns and visited relatives in Hopkinton Manchester Dubuque and Monmouth. Trips to Ohio Excellor Springs Waterloo and Jefferson are noted along with dental glasses tests and a film development service tagline.
Monticello details include residents visiting and returning from trips across Iowa and beyond. Notes cover W W Holiingsworth’s return from St Paul baseball, Baade visiting mother in Quincy, Hopkinton and Decorah visitors, and multiple relatives visiting in Monticello homes. Also mentions travelers to Kansas City, Saskatoon, Dubuque, Glasgow, and London with several weddings and family gatherings, plus local business ad for Deatrick's and a jeweler.
Bert Bentley received a fifteen day county jail sentence from a local justice of the peace after overindulging in coffin varnish. He began serving his term last Thursday evening. County Clerk Fisher reports for the year ending June 30 that 159 marriage licenses were issued 23 divorces granted and 279 births recorded in the county. Mr and Mrs Howard Hicks visited with Mr and Mrs George Hein. Hicks traveled to Dubuque this morning while Mrs Hicks remains for a longer visit.
Misses Ethel Mahi and Sarah Goldstein resign as stenographers from Hall Manufacturing Co. Ethel Mahi will move to Belle Plaine and Sarah Goldstein to Cedar Rapids. Despite wet weather and late corn planting, the crop is ready to lay by. Hazel and Maurine Allard of Quincy Illinois joined Miss Gladys and Blanche Fairbanks of Castle Grove last week.
The Cress Hardware Co. reports strong sales in the last week with Michigan cars sold to John Deischer and Paul Paulsen and an Overland sold to an additional buyer.
Dave Franklin carries a revolver wound and will get accident insurance compensation for lost time. Bidwell recovers from ivy poisoning. Bertha Wolf leaves for Cedar Rapids Bank after stenography work in a law office. Mr and Mrs J B Lee of Vergennes visit Edith Benedict in town. John Hein’s auto on a graded road avoids a rollover with no injuries. Kodaks and photo services advertised. Patrick the optometrist and jeweler offers services. A road dispute near Cascade leads to a justice court airing after a saloon visit.
Robert Henderson marked his eighty first birth anniversary with a dinner party last Monday praising his good health and zest for life. Jacob Landis of Colesburg Iowa visits his daughter Mrs Hearn and grandson Dan Hearn while Uncle Jake remains hale at over eighty six. Rev Sigfried Ide is to conduct his first Monticello German Lutheran services in German at 10:45 and English at 7:30 next Sunday. Emma von Strohe of Colineville Illinois visits Mr and Mrs George Fr Tobiason and friends after a Newhall trip. Amanda Hosford buys Dr Isaac Russell brick residence for 38300 plus her own home as boot. Dick Cartano sells farm west of town to John A Daischer for 160 per acre with possession end of year. Hubbard and Hayes purchase F G Matthiessen furniture stock. forthcoming sale planned.
Advance subscribers will pay 1.50 per season ticket for the chautauqua. After opening, tickets will be 82 per season. Those who missed advance subscriptions should secure season tickets before the higher rate takes effect at a designated town location.
Herman Monroe, formerly of Riverside, California, enters newspaper ownership as a Hemet News co proprietor. The item notes his prior Riverside daily sale for profit and praises the Hemet edition for typography and editorial vigor.
Advance man H L Alexander visited town to select chautauqua grounds with two sites under consideration. Richard McLaughlin, ill with tuberculosis, returned home from Chicago to Castle Grove as doctors offered limited hope. Viva Moore and Carl Stubler wed in Waterloo with Stubler joining Washington postal work. Judge Treichler adjourned the May term after ruling the Anamosa school board may proceed tearing down old buildings for the new school without a public vote, with a possible appeal for a permanent injunction planned in September.
Mrs. W. J. Juleson a former Monticello resident died at Frances Willard Hospital in Chicago last Saturday. She was a state instructor for Illinois for the Rebecca Lodge and had attended a lodge convention shortly before falling ill. Survived by son Donald Thompson and daughter Mrs. OC. J. Newlin, she had lived in Chicago since leaving Monticello seven years ago. Funeral services were conducted at Hubbard parlors with interment at Oakwood cemetery.
The Supreme Court affirmed two Jones county appeals. In the first, I M Carpenter, as insignee for heirs of William G Wales, won $3,000 against Modern Woodmen over an assumed death and insurance certificate. The second involves Sewell N Farwell and H M Carpenter over a trust and succession dispute, with the court upholding irrevocable trusteeship and required investment and income payments.
A newly married couple aboard a northbound train to Cedar Rapids drew smiles from fellow passengers as a white bearded elder, over four score years old, coaxed a final kiss from the bride before disembarking at Monticello. The scene drew hearty laughter and a playful chautauqua salute from the car.
Washington correspondent reports Iowa patronage rows involving Warl Bronson Wilson leader seeking northern marshalship and Sheriff Hogan of Anamosa favored by Iowa Democrats. Administration may appease Bronson with another appointment while Hogan gets marshalship. Southern attorney and marshal roles await decision as Town Democrats in Congress claim no knowledge.
Urban Haeuskler was operated on at Anamosa sanitarium by Dr Hejinian last Monday. The tumor had grown since a prior Boston exploration and offered little hope. He remains blind, paralysed, and speechless with only a short time believed remaining.
The Monticello band presented its first concert of the year last evening in front of George Stahler Sons stores. A large crowd attended and business leaders arranged for the band to perform regularly each Wednesday at 7 30 p m inviting nearby farmers to Monticello to hear the music.
Maquoketa postmaster A M Phillips is asked to resign to clear the way for a Democrat. An inspector found him lacking in several particulars, suggesting a broader purge of Republican postmasters by sympathetic inspectors before terms end.
Keep cool and view the new advertisement for particulars from The Deatrick D. G. Co. The notice invites readers to consult the latest ad for specifics.
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