Fire Destroys Amphitheater At City Park
Monticello's Jones County Fair Association amphitheater at City Park was destroyed by a fire last Saturday at 3 pm. Fire originated near the central entrance, sparking extensive damage including nearby trees and the vaudeville platform. The building, erected in 1902 for 4 000 dollars, was insured for 2 000 with rebuilding costs estimated above 7 000. temporary hillside seating will be used for the fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Fair Association
Monticello City Park
Fair Association
William Lambert
Lambert
William Matthiessen
Kenneth Ferring
Monticello
Robert C. Stirton
Will Eilers W Retary
Inzite
Post Office Introduces Demurrage on Undelivered C O D Mail
The Post Office Department approves a change effective October 1 1930 charging five cents per day demurrage on undelivered C O D mail. Addressees have 15 days after notice to claim parcels with 30 days total to deliver, after which demurrage applies daily until claimed or returned to sender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Regional Livestock Marketing Association Formed in Cedar Rapids
Roy Joslin of Anamosa was elected director of the new Eastern Town Livestock Marketing Association formed in Cedar Rapids last Thursday. The cooperative, first under the Farm Board Plan, includes 22 Iowa counties and 27 cooperatives with about 3750 decks of livestock to be sold next year, potentially rising to 6000 cars. Earl Elijah of Clarence is president and R C McElahinney of Dysart is secretary treasurer. An office will handle market information and direct sales at Cedar Rapids. Louis E B Hoag and family depart for a lakes vacation in northern Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Joslin
Anamosa
Eastern Town Livestock Marketing Association
Cedar Rapids
United States
Farm Board
Iowa
Irving Hintz
Monticello Association
Cooperative Marketing Association
Earl Elijah
Clarence
R. C. McElahinney
Dysart
Complaints Over Train Mail Schedule In City
Local business leaders protest the time change in the mail train service between here and Cedar Rapids. Letters must reach the post office by 4 30 p m, affecting office hours and prompting a petition to allow a pouch mail trip on the evening bus for extra delivery time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Here
Cedar Rapids
Franklin Equipment Co
Post Office Department
Monticello to Vote on Skelly Gas Franchise
Monticello residents will vote next Wednesday July 30 on granting Skelly Oil Company Eldorado Kansas a franchise to lay gas pipes and install a butane gas plant at no tax cost to citizens. The company would fund construction and operation with private capital, bringing modern gas service and local jobs without raising taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monicello
Skelly Oil Company
Eldorado
Kan
Monticello
Skelly Company
Express
Manchester
Skelly Gas
Monticello Routs Oxford Junction In Fast Baseball Game
Monticello defeated Oxford Junction 24 to 8 in a high scoring Sunday baseball clash. Monticello hitters belted seven home runs while Meredith and DeLaney teamed on the mound. Next Sunday Baldwin visits Monticello for another anticipated fast game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford Junction
Monticello
Battery
Meredith and
DeLaney
Christensen
Hanwardsen
Pegorik
Fifield
Baldwin
Miss Rose Pope Heads to South America for Year of Teaching
Miss Rose Pope of Manchester sails to Barron Quilla Colombia to teach for a year in a girls missionary school. A graduate of Manchester High School and Iowa State Teachers College she taught English and Physical Training at Jefferson last year. August start with December and January vacation in Colombia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Pope
Manchester
Barron Quilla
Colombia
South America
Miss Pope
Manchester High School
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Jefferson
Fire at Diamond Creamery devastates Langworthy property
Forty years ago fire destroyed Diamond Creamery property at Langworthy with Fred Kuhl family losing nearly all household goods. Other items include sun struck laborer John Repstein, Nellie Dunham returning from Michigan University, insanity hearing for John Schontal, and a 90 year old Joseph King visiting Omaha. Notes recount raspberries prices, original package houses, a Rosa Walter death, Monticello flotilla on Maquoketa river, Zelma Farwell’s school post, and Bradstreet family move to Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diamond Creamery Company
Langworthy
Fred Kuhl
John Repstein
J. O. Lawrence
Nellie Dunham
Michigan University
Ann Arbor
John Schontal
Richland Township
Independence
Joseph King
T. A. King
Omaha
Joseph King, Jr
Anamosa
M. L. Carpenter
Hattie
Connecticut
the Express
Rosa Walter
Ernest Walter
Switzerland
Monticello
Maquoketa River
George Stuhler
C. M. Prader
Chef
Casine
Elmer Hicks
John Melhop
Dubuque
Dicker” Soetje
Henry Shipman
Ernest Bayer
Zelma Farwell
Edith Sherman
Mary P. Bradstreet
S. Y. Bradstreet
Dora Leichhardt
Bessie Kaylor
Edna Thompson
Edith Thompson
Dora Allen
Flora Allen
Maggie Lane
Stella Cooper
May Springer
Belle McBride
Emma Wenger
Essie Hoag
Hettie Whiting
Minnie Cassidy
Arthur Maurice
Frank Hoag
Guy Cartano
Ernest Allen
Charley Hughes
Fred Hughes
Irving Slauson
Manchester Clings to Chau Tauqua Idea Despite Deficit
The Chau Tauqua venture faces a $1,000 shortfall after 1930 efforts. Fifty guarantors signed on, each contributing twenty dollars to cover what the Chau Tauqua associations deem a sure thing, having long relied on local men to guarantee the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Bible Quiz Questions Challenge Readers For Answers
A newspaper feature invites families to solve Bible questions listed as 26 through 30 and directs readers to page 8 for the answers and references. It urges readers to dust off their Bible and study the connections noted in the solutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob
Boas
Ruth
Sea Route Through Great Lakes on Mackinac Island Trip
The junior editor describes a Pleasure trip on the U S Carolina from Sturgeon Bay to Mackinac Island and Sault Ste. Marie with a stop at Two Rivers and Milwaukee. The voyage crossed Lake Michigan with calm waters except for one storm, toured Mackinac Island Fort and arches, and included a Hamilton Manufacturing Company visit with factory tours and a pine grove banquet. The journey ended with a Milwaukee wake up and a 250 mile return drive via Rockford and Dubuque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Editorial Association
Wisconsin
U. S. Carolina
Goodrich Line
Sturgeon Bay
Mackinac Island
Straits
Mud Lake
Sault Ste. Marie
Lake Michigan
United States
The
Redmen
Nicolet
Joliet
Piere Marquette
Fort Mackinac
Porter
Michigan
Aesort
Vilage
Holmes
Arch Rock
Sugar Loaf
Weebish Island
Narrows
St. Mary’s River
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
Two Rivers
Hamilton
Milwaukee
New Pfister
Rockford
Illinois
Dubuque
Short Items of News About Our Neighbors
A Cedar Rapids Cedar county and nearby area notes multiple incidents and arrivals. Charles Allen, a farmer from Earlville, was thrown from a hay wagon suffering broken ribs. Three teams of horses perished in a barn fire on Dr A A Pace's farm. Early oats yield up to fifty bushels per acre in Cedar county. Several judicial candidates renominated for the Tenth district judgeship. E C Vaughn farm sold east of Wyoming for thirty thousand dollars to Fred Petersen. An Illinois man proposes a sweater factory. John Brown Jr 15 drowns while learning to swim. John Hermanek Jr 43 dies in a Lincoln Highway crash near Cedar Rapids. Mrs E E Gilford dies from Maquoketa crash injuries along with Emmet Judge and Miss Mabel Faust. Eastern Iowa Livestock Marketing association elects directors with R M Joslin of Anamosa as director for Jones and Jackson counties. Waterloo lawyer Charles E Pickett dies after two day illness. former congressman and K P of Iowa figure. James Cubbage a private detective is arrested on extortion charges after a scheme involving a marked money exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Allen
Earlville
Henry Hunt
A. A. Pace
Toledo
Cedar County
E. E. Gilford
Dubuque
Maquoketa
Emmet Judge
Iowa State College
Gilford
Mabel Faust
Eastern Iowa Livestock Marketing Association
National Order Buying Company
Federal Farm Board
Cedar Rapids
Jones and Jackson
R. M. Joslin
Anamosa
Charles E. Pickett
Waterloo
Pickett
Pickett, Swisher & Farwell
Knights of Pythias of
Iowa
Pioneer National Bank of Waterloo
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
van Buren County
James Cubbage
Norman Baker
Baker Institute
Elsie Bernacks
Cabbage
Cubbage
Miss Bernacks
Piney Woods Quartet Delights Congregational Church Audience
Representatives of Piney Woods School in Piney Woods Mississippi performed a memorable concert at the Congregational church last Friday. Laurence C Jones and the quartet shared sketches on school work and sang southern songs including Negro spirituals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Piney Woods
Mississippi
Laurence C. Jones
South
Mr. Jones
Marshalltown
Iowa
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Piney Woods School
Barn Burns on Joe Mysak Farm Near Prairieburg
A large frame barn on Joe Mysak’s farm two and a half miles east of Prairieburg in Jones county burned last Tuesday afternoon. The family worked in a field and did not notice the fire until it was too late. Fire is believed caused by spontaneous combustion. The blaze destroyed 35 loads of timothy hay, harness, grain, corn, and oats in the bin. The hay was insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Mysak
Prairieburg
Jones County
Rum Haul And Arrests At Oxford Junction
Police raided a suspected bootleg operation in Oxford Junction. Five gallons of liquor were seized and three men Pat Cohee Joe Powushta and Ed Vozilek were arrested and jailed in Anamosa on charges of violating the prohibitory law. Sheriff Manchester and deputies led the raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford Junction
Pat Cohee
Joe Powushta
Ed. Vozilek
Anamosa
Harry Manchester
Cedar Rapids
John Bodenhofer
Stadtmueller Sisters Plan Western Vacation Tour
Miss Emma Stadtmueller and her sister Miss Mary Stadtmueller left last Friday for a two weeks trip through the western states. They will visit Denver Estes Park Salt Lake City and spend five days in Yellowstone Park before returning to Monticello on August 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Stadtmueller
Mary Stadtmueller
Denver
Estes Park
Salt Lake City
Yellowstone Park
Monticello
Monticello Band Plays Tonight At City Park
Monticello municipal band performs tonight at City Park in its usual spot despite a burned bandstand and lost drum and chimes from last Saturday’s amp theatre fire. Program includes Overture Orpheus La Paloma Turkish Patrol Waltz Nights of Gladness and a wartime medley sung by Alma Buol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Royden
Monticello
Death of S K Fitzsimmons Stirs Local Community
Stephen K Fitzsimmons a lifelong area resident died at John McDonald Hospital after a two week illness of heart trouble He was born in Monticello May 12 1875 married Louisa Allen Feb 13 1901 and lived in several local towns before settling six miles west of Ryan He leaves a wife two sons Edwin and John three brothers and two sisters Funeral Mass was held at 9 o clock Monday with burial in Oakwood cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen K. Fitzsimmons
John McDonald Hospital
Finlay Hospital
Dubuque
University Hospital
Iowa City
McDonald
Jones County
Monticello
John and
Anns Fitzsimmons
Louisa Allen
Sacred Heart Church
Jon McCormick
Fitzsimmons
Platte
South Dakota
Delhi
Ryan
Ryan. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons
Edwin A
John M
Mr. Fitzsimmons
John
Waterloo
Barney
Edward
Reuben Dress
Lovell Township
George E. Whalen
Waukon
George A. Hauck
Oakwood Cemetery
Guyan Selected for Iowa State University Dramatic Course
George Richard Guyan, son of Mr and Mrs George Guyan, was chosen from Iowa high schools to join thirty two peers in a five week program at the State University Iowa City. Sponsored by the University of Iowa department of speech and dramatic art under Eugene C Davis, the course covers theatre production and performance. Guyan will earn credit in declamatory art and he starred in Junior and Senior class plays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Richard Guyan
George Guyan
Iowa City
Iowa
The
State University
Department of Speech and Dramatic Art
University of Iowa
Eugene C. Davis
East Technical High School
Cleveland
George
Monticello Awarded 17-Block Paving Contract
Korneman Brothers of Muscatine win the 17 block paving job in Monticello at 1.78% per sq yd bid. The project costs about 40 425.50 with work to start within a week and includes extensive street paving on Second First Maple and Grand streets plus a potential extension to the McDonald Hospital. Howard R. Green Company of Cedar Rapids did the engineering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korneman Brothers of
Muscatine
Monticello
Olin
Korneman Brothers
Howard R. Green Company
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Booth & Olson
Sioux City
F. F. Weir Construction Company
Moline
Haegg Construction Company
Fred Carleson Paving Company
Decorah
Second Street
Walnut Street
Asa P. Lambert
Maple Street
Chicago
Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific
First Street
Gill Street
Corporation Line
Lucien Rice
McDonald Hospital
Board of Supervisors
Jones County
Sycamore Street
Opera House
Grand Street
Washington Street
Sycamore
Soldiers’ Memorial
Masonic Temple
South Chestnut Street
Grand, Washington
Warvel Streets
Buckeye Street
Rotary Club Hears Talks On Education And Mayo Clinic
Monticello Rotary Club heard A B Grimes discuss modern education and forecast curriculum changes in five years. Dr Louis G Stuhler described Mayo Clinic origins and a new twenty four story building costing three and a half million dollars with nineteen usable stories, two underground and seven teen above, plus a five story tower. The clinic examines between seventy and eighty thousand people annually, making it the largest clinic in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Rotary Club
A. B. Grimes
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Louis G. Stuhler
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Louis BE. Hoag
Minnesota
Wallops
Chautauqua Guarantors
New Bible Questions
Mackinac
Weitzel
Canadian
Poe
Davis
Sabin
Panama
Lake Washington
St. Mary's
Suez
Kiel
Sault
St. Mary's Falls Canal
Panama Canal
Lemoyne
Great Lakes
Carolina
Wis
Hamilton Manufacturing Company
Nereverhouts
Hamilton Plant
Hamilton Company
Edward Hamilton
Fred 8 S. Stuhler
Elgin
George W. Wood
A. B. Lovejoy
Ralph Hasner
Buchanan
Black Hawk
Delaware
Wyoming Journal
E. C. Vaughn
Wyoming
Fred Petersen
Old Sol
John Brown, Jr
Mississippi River
John Jd. Brown
John Hermanek Jr
Hermanek
W. C. Bernstoff
Keystone
Laurence Jones
Miss
Braxton
Oxford
Overture
Orpheus— Offenbach
Alma Buol
S.K. Fitsimmons
Lucile Lane
Mary Leyden Lane
R. H. Deitz & Co
South Water St
Miss Lane
Mary Leyden
J. W. Coxsee
Dr. Lane
Cascade
Lucile
George R. Guyan
Dramatic
Korneman Bros
Rotary Club
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