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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1914
Page
7
Local notes report Harry Locher visiting Greeley last Tuesday plus a long list of arrivals, trips, and events. Names include Doutricks sale items, Dr Stabler services, Miss Kellum in Chicago, Verna Baum visit, and many others across Cedar Rapids Anamosa Marion Farley and surrounding towns.
Monticello residents host visitors from Hopkinton Canton Wyomin g and Council Bluffs attendances. Local trips include teachers exams in Anamosa and Os g ar Falls summer session endings. The Jones County Fair prepares stables and staff, while two new Reo autos arrive through Lansing factory purchases.
Mrs. Howard Howard spent last Thursday and Friday visiting relatives in Hopkinton. Her nephew James Morgan, recently injured in an automobile accident, showed some improvement. Miss Margaret Fawcett Miss Phyllis Byrnes Miss Janet Byrnes and Masten Bobbin Byrnes, who had been with Mrs. Coxsee for five weeks, returned to their home in Cleveland Ohio yesterday. Misa Carolyn Schneider returned to Iowa City where she is a senior nurse in the University training school after spending the past month with her parents Mr and Mrs Isaac Schneider.
Yankton South Dakota couple Mr and Mrs McGlough welcome a baby boy. Several marriage licenses issued including Harl V Davis and Florence Errickson. Heat wave peaked at 1024 degrees on a summer day with a light shower providing relief. Community notes include visitors, repairs, accidents, paving assessments, chautauqua events in Monticello, homecoming in Cascade August 3 4 and 5, and a missing car later wrecked by joy riders near Hopkinton.
Disquieting dispatches report Russia and Austria driving toward wider conflict as England and Germany mobilize near the China Sea. Wheat futures rise nine cents. Local accidents include John Stahlberg auto crash injuring Mrs. Stahlberg and Joe Starke eye injury. City assessors report few complaints. Rev. E. E. Gruenstein gravely ill in Wimbledon North Dakota with his daughter awaiting further news.
Last Saturday a blockade runner hit a keg of beer on the highway between here and Car cade after it fell from a bug wagon. He reported the transporter to an officer the next morning claiming the keg was planted for mischief and requesting arrest.
The Anamosans describe the planned trade excursion as a poor use of farmers time during harvest. They note farmers must work extra hours to protect crops and cannot spare time for such gatherings now, saving recreation for a later season.
Charles Foster, formerly superintendent of the Monticello canning factory and later tied to a Minneapolis lumber firm, was admitted to practice law in Minnesota last month. He attended night school in Minneapolis and passed the bar examinations. Monticello friends wish him success.
Miss Florence Errickson daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles A Errickson married Earl V Davis of Manchester last Saturday at seven in the morning. Rev W F Allen performed the Presbyterian ceremony and the couple left for a brief wedding trip then will set up housekeeping on a farm north of Manchester. Mrs Davis has long resided in Monticello and taught in Oxford Junction. The Express extends best wishes to the couple.
A seven day bulletin reports generally dry weather with high temperatures averaging five degrees above normal. Daily maxima above 100 degrees occurred in southern districts on two or three days, light showers statewide, pasture and crop damage noted though not irreparable. Overall the crop remains in good condition but needs rain soon for timely harvest.
The Redpath-Vanter chautauqua opened a five day session with strong attendance. The American Girls presented musical numbers and the ensemble performed well with violin solos by Miss Lynch. Joe R. Hanley delivered the keynote on The Modern Crusader, with his second year with Redpath-Vawter.
The speaker, Mr. Hanley, praised sane, witty discourse and urged suppression of racial and national prejudice. He argued for equal opportunity, women's franchise rights, and a return to less selfish civic ideals, warning against mob mentality and endorsing thoughtful self reliance and communal kindness.
Cascade invites residents and visitors for a three day chautauqua with the Redpath Vawter troupe August 3 to 5. A new public park at the falls hosts daily 11 am and 6 pm air flight demonstrations by aviator Ralph H. McMillen at the fair grounds. An aviation exhibit and family activities accompany the 80th anniversary celebrations of the town’s first settlement.
Paul Petersen leaves last Saturday for Norway sailing today from New York on the King Oscar bound for Flekkefjord. He will attend the fifty year celebration in Christiania marking relief from foreign domination and will stay three months with his father and siblings.
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