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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1924
Page
7
Cedar Rapids visitors J B Oswald and John Breen stopped in while McNeill Hardware touts Westinghouse electric fans. Local sightings include Miss Grace Riley from Chicago, Miss Bernice Podhaski, Mr and Mrs Lewis Pazaur, and Paul Maruge from Dubuque. Hardware promos push hammocks and Perfexion stoves as summer sales continue.
Readable scraps detail visits from Davenport Iowa City Dubuque and Cambridge Massachusetts. Highlights include a mah jong party hosted by Carolyn Stabler, many family visits to Monticello and Center Junction, a birth at McDonald hospital, farm bureau meetings, and a note on Perfection stoves for canning.
Walter McAleer of Monticello announces agency for Fuller brushes in the area. Prospects can call 88 F 22 or write for a showing. Local news notes travel by air mail and recent visits by Henry Anderson and John Belknap, road and highway updates, and upcoming community events.
Mrs Jane McAreavy died at her farm home near the Jones county line after two weeks of bed rest due to age related infirmities. Born January 9 1842 in County Down Ireland she was 82. Survived by nine sons and two daughters the family had emigrated to Canada then the United States. Funeral held at Catholic church in Coggon with High Mass and bur ial in Coggon cemetery.
The regular band concert will be held Sunday at three o clock in the city park. A high quality program of band music is promised by a capable and well directed ensemble. Plenty of seating on the grassy hillside and the bandstand sits at the center of the amphitheater near the west entrance.
Twenty years ago July records show Marcus Matthiessen back from Harvard, Bias Ely’s engagement to Eva Adams, Rev. Murphy at the Democratic convention in St Louis, and deaths of Henry Kammerman and William Stauring. Drownings, weddings, a new depot, a brutal train accident at Port Byron, a bridge collision, and local officials’ appointments frame a month of community shifts.
Mr Ray D Sanford of Scotch Grove Iowa and Miss Eunice Biggs of this city united in marriage at the bride’s mother home with Rev Elmore officiating. The ceremony was followed by a three course lunch and they left for their Iowa home. Out of town guests included Mack Biggs New London Joe Biggs Missouri University Reading Curryville and the Porter May family Curryville.
The Studebaker Theatre on Michigan Avenue in Chicago hosts Abie's Irish Rose with special low ticket prices to draw visitors. The comedy, in its 29th week, follows the marriage between a Jewish man and Irish woman amid family objections and romantic subplots.
Hinrich Wilhelm Dirks born March 15 1904 in Wayne Township dies suddenly July 3 while plowing corn on the home farm. He is survived by parents Ernest Dirk s and two sisters Emma Dirks and Mrs Henry Weers. Funeral services held at Zion Lutheran Church with burial at the family cemetery.
The badly decomposed body of Albert Siemers was found in the Maquoketa River near the W. H. Hanken farm by Rudolph Hanken. An inquest ruled drowning as the cause of death. Siemers, 54, had vanished after February 27 1924 and was identified by a watch and bunion. Burial followed at Wayne Center cemetery with survivor Grace Stemers.
The Jones County Farm Bureau outlines emergency crops for poor corn germination and insect kill including Sudan grass millet and buckwheat with sowing dates and yields. Army worms damage rye and wheat fields near Gouben Olin Morley Langworthy prompting use of poison bran baits and local eradication talks after the county fair season.
George W. McNary pastor leads Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. Union evening service at 8:00 p.m. Rev. Leonard Duckett to preach. Missionary Society annual picnic to be held Friday at Henry George home.
Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. Union evening service at 8:00 p.m. at the Methodist church. Listed pastors include Albert Be, Coe, Paul T. Gutknecht, and R. P. Kuentzel. St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church offers Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and English Service at 11:00 a.m. Junior Choir 8:00 p.m. Senior choir practice Friday at 7:30 p.m. St. Matthew's Ev. Lutheran Church features 10:30 a.m. services led by M. Ide with July 18 date. Ladies' Aid to meet Sunday School next week with German services. Community notes include Morley visitor and Moravec appointment at Oxford Junction.
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