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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
7
A compilation of short notices shows Frank Liddy visiting Omaha for pleasure, several people traveling to Chicago, Dubuque, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas on business or visits, plus numerous local social calls and shop promotions. The items list weddings, sales, and sales events at Deitrick’s and Widmer & Hallauer with occasional references to a chautauqua and a Cedar Rapids visit.
Mrs and Mrs Gerhard Gerdes of Castle Grove welcome a daughter. Hazel Lloyd returns to Elgin after three weeks with Frank Podalski. Miss Anna Bush visits Parkersburg kin. Mr and Mrs J J Hayes welcome a daughter. Laces sale at Deutrick's. Numerous visits and travels among Cedar Rapids Anamosa Hopkinton Monticello and other locales with a mix of social updates and ads.
J. W. Wilson, an agent for the Michigan Land Co. of Hillsdale, is in town trying to interest Monticello residents in Michigan land. Bert Hubbard acts as the local representative.
Pierre J Monnier visits, greeted by friends, and a wrestling match set for August 9 between F H Eggers and Nelson Glass with local preliminaries. Miss Martha Vernmont returns home from Coun cy Bluffs with sister Anna Vernimont to visit Monticello. Jay H Dreibelbis of Milwaukee plans re enlistment and a lieutenantship. Several marriage licenses issued in the past week. Threshing under way with oats light in weight, best in clay soils. German Lutheran church cancels Sunday morning services. evening service at 7 30 with English preaching. Church services listed for Wayne and Bowen's Prairie. Andrew Kersper leases Lovell estate farm to Hilt Oaken. Carl Tjaden to move to Teenies Bay with $8 per acre rent. Anamosa jail empty, sheriff notes long vacancy and cleaning. Chautauqua plan adopted for another year. August Toenjes leased farm at 88 per acre. higher offers noted. Hot weather with 104 yesterday, July like heat. August ahead with mean cooler than July.
A tile silo near the canning plant will use husks and coba that were wasted to produce canned goods. The factory will can under half of last year’s pack and the industry overall is expected to operate at about sixty percent. Earlier season overproduction depressed corn prices. Miss Ella Watt married Torbert McCulloch in Kirksville, with Rev. Horn officiating. McCulloch, an electrical engineer from Yankton, will start a new life there.
Monticello hosts the Vanter Chautauqua with Mr Vawter and a staff of college-trained workers presenting lectures music and magic acts. Highlights include Floyds mind reading Dunbar Singing Orchestra Kipling reading Mendelssohn Quartet and Governor Vessey speech. Notable performers Ruthven McDonald and W A Hallman receive strong audience response. Local items recount July 1878 events and a dog tax petition plus a mining of circus day notes.
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