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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 03, 1924

Page

7

Parlor City Visit Notes and Local Commerce Ads

Local notes record Miss Olive Smithson and Mrs H A Pelton visiting Parlor City during the week. Des Moines and Cedar Rapids business visits noted along with promotions from Lanigan Millinery and McNeill Hardware offering art goods and Westinghouse fans. A birth, several visits to Monticello, and a Cherry festival cue suggest a bustling week with ads for hammocks and reductions on art goods.

Tena Reuter Des Moines Mrs Fred Reuter

Community Notes Show Busy Social Week Across Monticello

Beloit and Iowa City visitors over the weekend join locals at church socials and family visits. Ongoing notices highlight canning with Perfection stoves and chautauqua season tickets while a correction credits Wilcox & Sons in the Monticello dairy testing report.

Monticello News Highlights Local Events

Roy Farmer returns from a two week fishing trip near Webster Wisconsin sharing catch with Monticello friends. Keffer Jones review Monticello school building prior to board acceptance. Helen Reichart marks fifth birthday with out of town guests and cake roses. Mrs. Lovell visits Cedar Rapids. Adams family hosts. Langworthy dealer promotes monthly cream separator plan through cream checks. Dr A M Maurice to judge horse races at Marion July 4. noted as experienced. Local official R A Cartano named deputy tax appraiser after H Richardson death. Mary Lovell off to Lake Okoboji for July August camp. Chautauqua closes with Hanna Players production To the Ladies. season tickets available. special farmer ten admission ticket offered. Misner's Merry Minstrels listed for July 8. John H Heisey leaves for Minneapolis then west trip including Yellowstone, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Denver. Monticello diamond artists shut out 2-0 at Farley. Nurse Mabel Lien takes two week vacation to Litchfield Minnesota. Esther Olson accompanying home for state exams.

Monticello Chautauqua Opens With Comedy Mystery

Henry Wally visits Monticello after 28 years while his brother Joe notes summer events. The Empire Stock Company stages Three Wise Fools as Monticello chautauqua opens July 6, with season tickets available. Also details on church services, school session, farm herd awards, and long distance tax changes.

Henry Wally National Park California Joe Wally Henry Monticello Oregon United States Monticello Chautauqua Empire Stock Company John Golden

Army worm menace and proposed control methods in Jones county

Entomology department chief says army worm damage is temporary as worms soon become butterflies and lay eggs. Affects central Jones county with advised formula detailed elsewhere in paper. County Agent Smith reports Herman Hanken farm success using the poison in a meadow, applied at dusk to halt feeding worms. farmers urged to contact the county agent for details.

Jones County Ames Herman Hanken Monticello Smith

Local births and marriages in Monticello and Pittsburgh

A son was born to Mr and Mrs G H Bedell of Pittsburgh with Mrs Bedell formerly Miss Elsie Noble of Monticello.婚 Miss Melissa Weir Kingsley wed to Royal Bertram Hubbard and will reside in Cedar Rapids. The Cascade notes also cover resignations, a marriage, and a school board condemnation for playground grounds as Monticello expands facilities.

Forest Delacher Mrs. Deischer Miss Hazel Hoag Lois Cowan Drummond Idaho Robert Simerly Simerly Alice Hanawalt M. F. Emerson Pauline Darrell Martelle Mary Stadtmueller Cedar Rapids Margaret Stadtmueller G. H. Bedell Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Cascade Melissa Weir Kingsley Thomas Kingsley Royal Bertram Hubbard Bert Hubbard Monticello O. A. Hall and Wife Bertha Schatz Wyrick Hall

Five Day Chautauqua Opens in Monticello Next Week

A five day Travers Chautauqua opens July 6 in Monticello on school grounds featuring plays such as The Three Wise Fools and To the Ladies, concerts by Conservatory Girls and Misner Merry Minstrels, lectures by Dr. L M Dorreen and Milton W Shreve, and performances by Robert L Kemple and Hanna Players among others.

Travers Chautauqua Co Monticello The Empire Stock Co Conservatory Girls Agnes McDonough Robert QO. Bowman Chautauqua Robert L. Kemple New York Hanna Players Congressman Shreve Erie Pennsylvania L. M. Dorreen Kansas City South Dakota Des Moines Empire Stock Company Robert O. Bowman Misner Merry Minstrels Faubels Co

Injunction Case In Alamosa Involving Dearborn Ford Co

Judge Moffitt opened court in Alamosa for a hearing on an injunction filed by W N Dearborn of Stone City against the Ford Company and the State of Iowa. Dearborn alleged the state and Ford conspired to undercut his offer to sell crushed stone and sought to stop the state from disposing or the Ford Co from purchasing it. The court denied the injunction, ruling the statute did not support the relief sought.

Moffitt Alamosa W. N. Dearborn Stone City Ford Co

Monticello Country Club Hosts Tipton Guests In Golf Meet

Monticello Country Club welcomed 23 Tipton players last Sunday with two rounds of golf. Bill Laude led with 85 for 18 holes, while Leyland Shelley and Bill Laude tied second at 87 and Casteldine of Tipton finished third at 88. Monticello edged Tipton by two strokes in a 22 man team match, and a six man team from each club also played with Monticello winning. Tipton visitors faced slow grass greens after accustomed sand greens and extended an invitation to visit again.

Monticello Country Club Tipton Country Club Bill Laude James Laude Monticello Leyland Shelley Casteldine Tipton Messrs Basley Sproot Ketelsaon Yates T. Hole Jenks Paterson Banks H. Hole Leabhart Miller Cook Walters Furnish Zimmerling Baker Swartzlender Shaffer Hoepner Blazer Fra

Monticello Delphian Chapter Formed At Public Library

A Monticello group of women launched the second Delphian chapter in Jones county at the public library on Friday afternoon June 27. The national Delphian Society promotes higher education for women with a six year course across history art drama music poetry literature and social science. Officers elected for the year include President Miss Kate Maurice Vice President Mrs Ann Echternacht Secretary Treasurer Mrs Thomas Redmond and advisory board Mrs Ervin Reed and Mary H Teeter. The chapter is named The Monticello Delphian Chapter.

Delphian Jones County Public Library Monticello Delphian Society Kate Maurice Ann Echternacht Thomas Redmond Ervin Reed Mary H. Teeter Monticello Delphian Chapter

Death notices and a Linn county political contest headlining in Iowa paper

Mrs. Rufus Schofield dies after surgery at McDonald hospital on June 26. She was born Maria Amelia Husmann July 24 1892 in Wayne township and survived by husband Charles R Schofield four children and many relatives. Henry Dirks dies at 20 from heart failure while plowing near Monticello. In Linn county Republican convention Hammill Hayes fight ends with Haynes delegation. Mary Polen dies at 95, a lifelong Iowa resident since 1866.

Rufus Schofield McDonald Hospital the Express Schofield Maria Amelia Husmann Willie Husmann Wayne Township Mardorf Wayne Lutheran Church Charles R. Schofield Willms Henry Dirks Deidrick Dirks Monticello Anamosa Road Anamosa Dirks Henry Weers Emma Dirks Ernest Dirks Linn County Hammill Hayes Haynes Mary Polen Quaiqqueton Iowa Buchanan County

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