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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1921
Page
7
A string of social sightings fills the page with names like Mrs. John McLaughlin, Mrs. Alice Pyle, Dr. Geo Meyer, and Miss Ruth Hansen visiting Cedar Rapids Anamosa Dubuque and Marion. Osteopathy ads urge see the Osteopath and nature cures. Mayor Voorhees returns from South Dakota among other regional travels and shoppers visit Cedar Rapids on Tuesday.
A long list of visitors, travels, and social events around Monticello Iowa includes Mira Kerkow from Wilmer Minnesota visiting her parents Mr and Mrs W H Skelley, Miss Bernice Rodman and Miss Margaret Thompson at Iowa City, and Lisle Arduser returning from Minneapolis. Many residents attend dances, see a film at the Princess The River's End, and share vacations with families in Cedar Rapids, Rock Island, Moling, and Fairmount Minnesota.
Misa Katherine Locher celebrates fourth birthday with 18 guests at grandmother Mrs Anton Locher home. Wayne township hen hatches 13 chicks. heat ends hatching after three more. Albertsons visit Delphos Kansas. Monticello to Kansas trip via Elgin Illinois to Niagara Falls. Bart Bartlett joins Indianapolis team heading to Kansas City to pitch against the Kaws. Cattle and swine fair-entry rules require tuberculin testing and cholera immunity certificates. Weather and travel notes amid warm spell. Community events include farm bureau meeting July 26 and Monticello Country Club women hosting bridge readings and music. Flags protocol urged for parade observers.
Miss Frances Koop received two kitchen showers last week. Miss Koop was honored by Miss Mary Doxsee and Mrs. BH Rickless in a pink and green themed event using a packing box gift. A second shower at Mrs. C A Mc Laughlin’s home featured embroidered towels and a watering pot gift drop with ribbons.
Miss Alta Clark leaves Monticello for Los Angeles after a Oklahoma millinery career. A regular weekly band concert at the city park drew many, with the Young Ladies Sodality serving ice cream and cake to boost their treasury. Miss Mariam Jacobs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jacobs formerly of Monticello, married Roy W. Castle of Marshall Minnesota on July 6 at Ada Minnesota with Rev. F W Jauzow officiating. The couple will reside in Marshall Minnesota.
The Cedar Rapids Republican reports Misa Marguerite Glauser, sixteen, was arrested and bound over to the grand jury on $500 bonds for shoplifting from Denecke Company and Woolworth's. She returned all goods and claimed part were purchased, but the Denecke Store pressed charges.
L. C. Lawrence died at his Lovell township home after a weeks long illness. Funeral services were held at the family residence conducted by Rev. William Hayes Mitchell. Burial followed at Hopkinton cemetery. He was born October 24, 1867, in Lovell township and leaves a widow Emma Matilda Smyth, his parents, four brothers and two sisters. He had farmed in the area, owned 100 acres at death, and was a Republican and Methodist-Episcopal.
Maud Wheelock born in Brunswick Ohio February 12 1882 moved with family to Hopkinton and Monticello for schooling. She earned a BBD from Chicago University and taught in Chicago and before that in Alabama Oregon Washington and banks in Yankton Harsham and Hopkinton. She died July 6 after surgery at Wesley Memorial Hospital with mother Mrs W J Darby and sister Mrs H C Ewart by her side.
The Scotch Grove Monticello band performs at the city park on Wednesday evening July 27 with a ten minute intermission mid program. Selections include marches waltzes and fox trots with pieces like Vera Sunny South Whispering Mill in the Forest Wyoming Lullaby and Love Bird among others.
Hutchinsons Purity Ice Cream quart purchases on Saturday July 28 and Sunday July 24 come with a free big ice cream cone in chocolate strawberry or vanilla. Reduced prices list chocolate and strawberry 60c per quart, vanilla 50c per quart. Visit The Peacock Shop, touted as the coolest place in town.
Regular examinations for Normal Training and County teachers certificates will be held in Anamosa on July 27 28 and 29. Nellie V Morey County Superintendent reports the sessions and dates. Dr L G Stuhler and Dr Wm J Cochrane announce Cochrane’s medical practice location in Monticello and their joint medical association. Martin Cleveland of Eagle Grove was thrown from his binder Friday when his team ran away and his foot was amputated at the ankle with a sickle injury while his other leg was badly lacerated. Rose Kula stenographer in Coxsee Coxsee’s office left Saturday for a two week vacation visiting home in Oxford Junction and cousins in Minnesota.
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