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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
9
Dozens of short items list residents and visitors in Cedar Rapids Davenport Dubuque Des Moines and Monticello with names including Miss Olive Cartano Miss Ethel Parrot Miss Kate Maurice Dr Stabler and Mrs J T Lannigan among others. Several entries mention testing eye glasses White Lilly washers and Hall garden plow promotions. Many individuals are described as visiting relatives or staying with friends in nearby towns during the week.
Residents and visitors in Monticello share a busy week of calls and visits. Local families welcome guests from Cedar Rapids Oxford Junction and Davenport while others travel for work and leisure. Weather brings beneficial rain and several trips to nearby cities are noted.
Monticello column items report Adele Wilkens returning home from Cedar Falls for summer vacation, baptisms of Henry Marvin Dirks and Richard Harold Kromminga, and Rev Leonard Duckett set to lead Sunday services. The 94 Club closes its year with a Spain and Mexico study plan, and local society features include a season opener party, a 42 mile walk by Hiden Rohn, and notices on bids for guttering and curbing.
Oscar Newton funds ice cream for wreath-makers in Monticello then, though living in Los Angeles, sends a check. Monticello seniors visited Cedar Rapids and Anamosa for a day out, attending a track meet or the movies before returning. A Monticello Improvement Club meeting June 4 at Newman hall offers supper and talks on booster plans, while marriage news notes Harry Voorhees and Bertha Meyer wed in Sturgis, South Dakota. The township primary shows many blank offices with five percent rule for nominations.
The Monticello Express lists June events: August Rohn dies at 74 in Monticello leaving three children Libbie Gallagher Anna Thoeni and William Rohn. Leonard Hein 84 dies in Richland township. Charles Erwin killed in a runaway at Anamosa. Mrs Martha Van Meter dies in Andrew. and several marriages including Josie Kehoe to Dennis Ryan at Castle Grove and Meta Helgens to Henry Zimmerman in Wayne township. Also Rev Von Strode resigns. George Stuhler Sons sells shoes at 1.00. births of a daughter to D W Cunningham and to C W Balsiger. Dr Eugene L Gilmore graduates from Wisconsin and plans Chicago practice. county Institute held. police death of William J Finley on Monticello-Cedar Rapids line ruled accidental. Sadie French and Carl French wed at their parents’ home.
Burial services for Private George Frederick Freese son of Mr. and Mrs. Tobe Freese were held at Wayne Lutheran Church with Rev. John Willme officiating. He is buried at Wayne Center cemetery after returning from military service and dying of pneumonia in England in 1918.
Memorial Day observances in Monticello filled the opera house and Oakwood cemetery with ceremonies led by Rev. William Hayes Mitchell and Rev. H. C. Irvine. The day featured band performances, a scripture reading, a patriotic address, flower bearers, wreaths, and the World War veterans homage.
Mr and Mrs John F Moore celebrate forty years of marriage at their First street home with all nine children and families gathered for a family dinner. They wed June 3 1880 at Mrs Moores parents home Rev Beckett officiated. The couple now have deep roots in Richland township Monticello and Detroit with descendants across Michigan North Dakota Cedar Rapids and Montana.
Monticello prepares for a six day Chautauqua from June 18 to June 22 with season tickets priced at $2 for adults and $1 for children. Last year 195 season tickets were signed. this year 500 must be sold to cover $1,100 guarantors cost. Tickets available at Kay's Drug Store. solicitors will visit homes. Independence high school graduates 31 boys and 28 girls.
Kasper Kehrll 60, a Swiss-born widower living alone on Railroad Street, died last Thursday night by hanging. His body was found Friday at 10:30 by F J Pepin, who lived across the street after knocking at the door. The coroner in Jonas County ruled a cause of death as suicide, no inquest. Kehrll had run a grocery store years ago and lately did junk work. Oakwood Cemetery burial followed.
Last week ended with the Monticello high school graduation events. The class of 1920 processed at the opera house with music by Olfriado Gartano and remarks by Dr. A M Jayne. The girls glee club and Naomi Stevens led songs, followed by diplomas presented by Reed. The alumni banquet and dance closed the week at Kinsella hall with festive decorations and a post banquet play by the class of 1921.
The funeral of T. H. Schoon was held on the 22nd ult and burial occurred at Wayne Lutheran Cemetery. Born February 26 1888 in Ostfriesland Germany he immigrated to the United States in 1860 settling in Castle Grove township Jones county Iowa. He married Margaretha Badberg December 4 1870. Mrs Schoon died August 25 1913 leaving four children two surviving W. T. Schoon and Mrs Anna R Lund plus two grandchildren and one brother Jacob Schoon of Monticello. He lived in Scotch Grove and Wayne townships before moving to his daughter’s home where he died after a long rheumatic illness on the 20th ult. The obit notes two other items Books For Everybody a national library movement and Iowa’s use of four hundred former army trucks delivered to the state highway commission for summer road work with a central fleet at Ames for emergencies and distributed to counties.
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