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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1927
Page
7
A sequence of short items lists residents visiting, staying with relatives, and shopping notices across Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Waterloo, Anamosa, Dubuque, Iowa City, Princeton, and other communities. People like Luke Coyle, Hazel Brazelton, J. B. Zimmerman, and William Altman are noted as visitors or travelers. various stores advertise fresh cheese and butter, while bake sales and local errands are mentioned.
Monticello area items note McNeill’s Hardware promotions selling plows and tile finishes, Frank Locher Music Store listings, and several visitors and residents returning home or traveling. Community notices include golf and bake sale mentions, student movements, and a forthcoming hatchery sale of white leghorn chicks.
A compilation of regional movements and events shows families traveling to Austin Minnesota for visits, attendance at Lenox college graduation, and trips to Cedar Rapids Grinnell and Mars. People relocate for work and education while others attend reunions at Ames and Drake University corely reflecting community life.
John Jullfs died at his Monticello home at 2 o'clock this morning after a months long illness from a partial stroke and heart trouble. Born August 9 1853 in Blerson Hanover Germany he emigrated to the United States in 1892 with his wife Htta Iben. They farmed near Sand Spring Castle Grove township and Onslow before retiring seven years ago to Monticello. He is survived by wife Htta and children Henry William Lizzie and Gerhard. Funeral services Sunday at 2 30 p m at St Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church with short services at home and Oakwood cemetery interment.
Frank Matthiessen died at 5:45 this morning at his sister Mrs. Will Adams home after months of ill health. He was born March 10, 1860 in Wayne township and lived in Monticello most of his life, where he ran a shop with Schoon Implement. He never married and is survived by five brothers and two sisters who were with him the day prior. Funeral next Saturday at 1:20 pm at the Adams residence, Rev. Leonard Duckett in charge, burial at Oakwood Cemetery.
Honor roll lists for Monticello high school by grade with many student names. The piece also notes a farewell picnic for former superintendent C. R. Scroggie and details an all mail postal greeting plan for Captain Charles A. Lindbergh upon his Washington arrival, urging preparation by June 18.
Sheriff John Bodenhofer and deputies raid the Monticello residence of H. C. Schnoebelen finding 15 gallons of grain alcohol, multiple barrels of wine, and extensive dispensing equipment. The cache is hidden in a kitchen dugout. Schnoebelen, previously convicted of bootlegging, was not at home.
The Jones County Girls Club rally at Antioch church drew good attendance amid a measles outbreak and morning showers. Jackson township Wise Owls won the attendance trophy with 22 of 25, Genevieve and Kathryn Brady tied 100 percent in memory, Bach won framed pictures, Gladys Benadom 100 percent in music, and Genevieve Streeter 99 percent. Local 4-H alums spoke on benefits, County Agent Wortman praised next year goals, and Mrs. Oldham shared encouraging stats. A county picnic and creamery donations closed the event led by Martha K. Hanken, County Club Chairman.
The public library announces redecorated basement and main floor areas with a new steel ceiling in the basement. Board directors fitted old council rooms as a club room with shelves in two west rooms for infrequently used bound magazines and books. Usage requires advance notice to the librarian and rooms may be used only during library hours.
Burglars hit the O. B. Burrichter garage and the North Side garage last Monday night stealing cash checks two motometers and a number of items. At Burrichter they pried windows forced a south entrance and released a bolt to gain access. Five Auburn tires 29x4.40 were stolen from the North Side garage along with a Ford battery and an electric drill. A $15 reward is offered and Sheriff Bodenhofer with deputy Purcell are investigating.
Monticello dentists sign an agreement to close offices by 6 PM starting June 13 1927 with emergency care as usual. Signatories include A M Maurice M F Hogan A P Lambert and W A Suthers. The piece ends with an unrelated hardware ad for McNeill's Hardware.
Former Monticello pupil Miss Helen Starry graduated May 21 as valedictorian of Rosebud Montana High School with a 93 percent average. She holds a Northwestern Art School scholarship in drawing and an Underwood typing certificate. Plans call for Bozeman college next fall. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Starry and stepson to the late Frank Eberhart.
Lorenzen Bros. of Jones county led the Chicago market for heavy hogs on two consecutive Fridays. They sold 287-pound Hampshire hogs at 9.25 per hundredweight and 380-pounders at 8.55, and a week earlier 160 hogs averaging 338 pounds at 8.80. Prices were tops for heavies on those days. They feed pigs tankage and a commercial hog feed in the sixty days before sale.
The Newman Mercantile of Joplin Missouri purchased the Den ecke Company Inc in Cedar Rapids last Tuesday afternoon. Stock fixtures and encumbrances were sold by the receiver to 150 creditors for 173000 dollars. The store will close ten days and reopen under the new purchaser. The buyer is a 53 year old corporation with general manager G F Newburger moving from Joplin to Cedar Rapids. The Cedar Rapids store will have new manager B J Newburger of Enid Oklahoma.
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