Local News Highlights From Monticello and Nearby Areas
Local notices show frequent visits by residents to relatives and friends across Jesup Dubuque Anamosa Hopkinton Cascade Cascade Monticello and Oelwein. Advertisements promote McNeill's Hardware items lightning rod repairs flies spray eggs poultry baying tools and a stove polish.
Social Roundup Brims with July Visits and Local Gatherings
Monticello residents host relatives from Oelwein Davenport and Cedar Rapids. Weeklong visits include James Mann Clarksville with grandmother Margaret Stadtmueller and George Hines in Marton. August Bliss guests from Cedar Rapids. travel includes Toledo Ohio and Marion. Hot July weather noted. several trips to Black Hills and Savanna Illinois. Local births announced. Hicks family hospital visit. O’Connor family from Manchester visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Mann
Clarksville
Margaret Stadtmueller
Community Notes Bring Visitors And Family News
Monticello residents share summer visits and family milestones. Ed Podhaski and family visited Will Hunter in Morley. Ray McDonald welcomed a son born July 8 in Town City. Mrs. McDonald was formerly Freda Behrends. Other locals traveled to Chicago Heights and Cedar Rapids for visits. Ann Marie Orcutt returned from Davenport. Various relatives from Manchester Iowa City Los Angeles and Nebraska visited Monticello homes for the holiday weekend. Wayne Dinsmore, speaker at Holbert picnic, wed Mary Gray of Monticello. Mrs Perrine and LaVetta roamed Wyoming visiting kin and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray McDonald
Town City
Gene DeWitt
Iowa City
Monticello
Mr. DeWitt
Mrs. DeWitt
Lved
Wayne Dinsmore
Holbert
Mary Gray
Robert Gray
Henry George
Portrait Corner features Ray Carsen after Bell Telephone service
The Portrait Corner profiles Ray Carsen of Bell Telephone, a Monticello native and eight year married father of a school aged son. Born in Monticello and a Monticello High School alumnus, his early work included bakery duties and banking as a Cedar Rapids bookkeeper before enlisting in 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Oafe
Cedar Rapids
France
Ray Carlsen
Bell Telephone Company
Woe unto you when all men speak well of you
The line reflects a biblical warning about popularity and moral stance, contrasting worldly approval with righteous living. It emphasizes humility and integrity over universal acclaim.
Summer visitors toast Fourth of July at Wilkens home
Mr and Mrs George Wilkens hosted guests for the Fourth of July including Mr and Mrs William Tighe and their Cedar Rapids family. A F Walker, summer student at Iowa State College Ames, returned home briefly to visit his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. Holst
Helen
Center Junction
Ralph Bone
F. W. Buxton
T. T. Buxton
Cora Blackman
Wheatland
W. P. Robn
Mrs
Chris Elben
Charles Cards
Elkader
Kenneth Ferring
Des Moines
Mr. Ferring
Frank Ferring
Walter Hubbard
Hefner
Cedar Rapids
Bert Hubbard
Celin Rollins
Marion
Charles Butler
Mitchell Northrop
Mr. Northrop
Charles Northrop
William Roben
Kenneth
Iowa City
Roben
Ernest Skelley
George Wilkens
William Tighe
A. F. Walker
Iowa State College
Ames
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Florence Clark
Helen Heiken
Dubuque
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Mary
Bertha Locher
Mary Esther McLaughlin
Camp Huaga
E. J. Farley
Katherine Rose McCrea
Jaxine Nordman
John Breen
Frances Fagan
Cascade
F.C. Reeve
L. H. Lang
McNeill’s
Joe Barron
Aurora
Iowa
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New York City
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Florence Herker
Mary Demmer
Ray Adams
Henry Adams
Oelwein
A. Perrin
Oneida
Maude
T. M. Smith
Sigourney
Tom Smith
Clara Houston
Fred Shover
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Mount Vernon
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Chicago
J. L. Arduser
Lester Schofield
Lucile
Viola
Abe Allam
Gustav A. Jedlicka
Mrs. H. P. Bancroft
Joe Locher
Matt Mulier
J. L. Bader
Michigan
Marion Mann
James Adams
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Maurice Montgomery
Schoenhut Bakery
Davenport
Henrietta Bohlken
Esther Dierks
John Eden
Leo Bohlken
Lakehurst
Mu Neil's
Peter Altman
Kate and
Anna Altman
Minard Stout
Fort Dodge
Stout
Mrs. L. J. Swift
Warren, Illinois
Mrs. Swift
Hanna Groom
Harry Maire
Aon Marvin
Marion McVay
Hans Hallauer
Herman Wriedt
Glenn Orcutt
W. W. Stickford
Jean Nagle
George Hines
Mary Hines
Marton
Lissa Herrmann
Toledo
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J.W. Hoult
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Lucile Melchert
Peter Melchert
Augusta Bliss
Arthur Clark
Will Schodde
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Adolph Dierks
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Clinton
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Hanna Britt
J. W. Schweitzer
George
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Los Angeles
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Sand Spring
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Kenneth Benesh
Rex Campbell
Raymond Jacobsen
Black Hills
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Thomas George
Althea Bancroft
Maywood
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Frank Peckosh
Rita
Robert
Oxford Junction
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Henry Schuetz
Alfred and
Wilbur
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P. D. Bell
Patty
Delia Neilly
Richard Lee
Bob
Bill
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Virginia Hearn
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J. J. van Beckern
Lowell Hicks
Boone
Lowel
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Raymond Moore
Moore
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Frank Podhaski
Hazel O'Connor
Marvin
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Ed Podhaski
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Will Hunter
Morley
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Frank Turner
Francis
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Karl Renk
Ann Marie Orcutt
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Harold Mead
B. E. Hicks
J. W. Albee
Frank
Carrie Page
Massachusetts
Albee
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Jayne Shover
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Edith Schemmel
University of Iowa, Sh
John J. Locher
Katherine Speice
Omaha
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Columbus
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LaVetta
Mrs. Perrine
S. G. Franks
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Washington, D. C
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Marian Marsh
John Wayne
Sean Arthur
Victor Jory
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Erle Peary
Aline MacMahon
Guy Kibbee
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Men Without Names
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Madge Evans
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