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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
7
Community notices include visits between residents in Anamosa Cedar Rapids and Madison Wis Consin, shopping deals at Smiths Variety Peters on Clothes Shop and C R Coons Jeweler, plus a church service and local travel. Names include Dr Bosley Miss Emma Abrakin Mrs Arvilla Hayes and many others with brief trips and sales.
Miss Enimia Riatizan of Cedar Rapids visits family in Monticello while Mray J Innes of Ames returns home with children after a Monday arrival. A new baby born to Howard and Mrs Hicks at John McDonald hospital. Bond purchases urged with Liberty Bonds pricing via New York market. Local sagas of visits connect Cedar Rapids towns, Oak Grove to Hazelton and Brownsdale with various relatives.
Local items report two farm auctions near Jones County. bids rejected as unsatisfactory. Blanche Hunter visits Anamosa schools and plans a higher salary return. Monticello hosts W F Rohn and family. parklike improvements underway ahead of August fair. Community birthdays, military moves, and roadbed updates accompany social news.
Mrs Olive Wighott, after two years at McDonald hospital, heads to Minneapolis on August first to finish training at a hospital affiliated with the local one. Jones county roads total 1143 miles with primary and county systems. A. Evans injured in a wreck near Glass creamery with ribs broken and head and hand cut. car damaged. Monticello baseball over Marion 21 to 12. next game against Manchester. Rev E P Kimball, age 100, reflected on life and faith. The Kilties Band to perform at the Great Jones County Fair August 26–29. Ice shortage warned. Monticello Electric plans $20,000 upgrades with new generators and turbine wheels. Prof L H Pammel tours parks sites and praises pictured rocks. Iowa seeks to develop state parks along Maquoketa River.
The William Galloway company and the Iowa Dairy Separator Co. at Waterloo are on strike for higher wages. Manufacturers claim stock will last a year and will shut down production. A hospital advertises nursing training with a new class soon to start.
Month of July 1884 records include birth of a son to Mr and Mrs W A Mirick on the 2nd, a marriage of Miss Kitty Wright to John Smith at Anamosa on the 8th, attendance at Ames Agricultural College by Marcus Warwell and James Perley, and the 54 hogs killed by wolves in the first week. James Craig dies at 63 from stomach cancer on the 8th. Aldrich killed by a horse in Wyoming on the 10th. Jack Lamimon falls 26 feet through a trap door on Bowens Prairie on the 20th. Wedding of Jacob Suter and Miss Susette Schneider on the 2nd at the Reformed church. Pastors listed for Monticello churches. John N. Rice’s seventh birthday is celebrated on the 28th with a party. Glennie Hickok’s seventh birthday on the 10th with a party.
Jones county faces seven rural school closures as fall term approaches under a new law banning contracts with teachers where prior term average attendance was under five. The districts Cass No 1 Hale No 1 Richland No 1 Sutton White Oak Pleasant Hill may lose operation unless ten bona fide pupils enroll.
The annual Jones County Fair at Monticello runs August 20 to 29 with the original Kiltie band and other vaudeville acts. Premiums have been sharply increased, drawing more pantry and culinary exhibits, plus an acrobatic airplane show by Lieut. Obonauer in a Curtiss plane.
Farmers in Anamosa area complete several land deals. Fred Pankow sells Hale township farm to Hoseu Ballou for 170 dollars per acre. John Hl. Hanken buys Bohnken farm, 120 acres near Johnsontown, at 235 dollars an acre. Ike Suter sells Brady farm in Castle Grove to Frank Johnson of Delaware county. property back on market. Duane Rigby place near Mechantsville, 160 acres, sold to Clark of Maxwell for 400 dollars per acre for Maxwell’s own occupancy. Victory Button plan for discharged soldiers ready for distribution with silver buttons for wounded vets and bronze for others.
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