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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1914
Page
9
Miss Rose Wenger visited Cedar Rapids yesterday while many locals traveled to Ames and Anamosa on errands. The town notes autos to Rock Island and visits to Hopkinton and Williamsburg with band concert crowds and several social calls. Local merchants promote Deutrick’s towels and Minneapolis Maid flour as affordable items.
Mrs. Hi Perrenoud of Sioux Falls visits her brother John W Honilt. Numerous relatives travel between Davenport Cedar Rapids Anamosa and Monticello for family events and illness. Community camps theater and church activities are noted along with weather, local travel, and ongoing weddings and illnesses.
Ed Rigby has gone to Mt Pleasant to help A S Loveland the superintendent of the canning factory at that place prepare for the corn pack. Ed is a valuable man in looking after the machinery and he is depended upon for watchful care until the seasons work is over.
Joe Henry writes from New York City to George Wilkens a week ago. He says he underwent a minor operation and will need a second one later, but not soon. He plans to return to Belle Plaine and await the date for the second operation as determined by surgeons.
Rev E J Brownson of Cedar Rapids representing the Anti Saloon League addressed a union meeting of churches on temperance. The league is credited with blocking fraud in petition circulation for saloon permits and challenging officials who feared the saloon’s power.
Community items cover corn bragging by local figures G P Rockstad and Rev W L Allen and new sale prices on Minneapolis Maid flour. Reports tell of rainfall near Cascade and Mount Vernon, a medicine show crowd, travels of Dr and Mrs Maurice, canvassers selling wares, and Mr Sleeper relocating to Alabama. Paving crew woes, electric pumping contract, a fatal drowning near Newport, and upcoming Jones County Fair plans with acts and attractions.
Detectives concluded the alleged holdup near Epworth Iowa was a myth sparked by dime novels and a desire for hero status. Parlor car porter A H Bruce, with eighteen years service, faces job loss and social distance from the so called hero class.
Eva Millis Allen, a week married 18 year old, was shot by George Celair at Hopkins Hill while riding with her husband in a buggy. Coroner’s inquest confirms Celair as murderer. Celair a wandering horse trader linked to the Mills family. a bloodhound chase failed to find him. Jack Allen, once a drinker, known locally in Monticello, widens the grim tale as a relative of gymnasium contractor John Burns.
A July 1884 recap notes births and deaths including George Hildenbrandt’s child injury and James Craig death from stomach cancer. It records W Velton’s bankruptcy assignment, travels of Anna McConnon and Marcus Farwell, Mrs Cassady’s birthday surprise, Johnnie Rice’s seventh birthday guests, Prof Beals’ resignation and later death, and local political actions like saloon prohibition and a Republican convention slate. Mentions wolf capture by Jerome and Noel Brazelton, a marriage at the German Reformed church, and licensing hiccup delays.
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