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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1911
Page
3
June notes from Wyoming record visits by Dr. E N Stoffel Dr. Hamilton Rev Scott W Smith and others. barn fires, runaway horse incident, and upcoming Independence Day celebration with parades and games. Baseball games Wyoming vs Lost Nation drew large crowds. community gatherings, picnics, and new local businesses noted.
Center Junction diary items detail visits from Monticello and Maquoketa residents, travel to Fayette and Davenport, social events at churches, a Presbyterian lawn social, Children’s Day observances, and local shifts including auto purchases and an aviation meet attendance. Notable names include Miss Mildred Sutherland, Miss Mabelle McNeilly, and Rev Boddy.
Castle Grove residents share news of visits by Peter Caspers in Chicago and Hiller in Hopkinton. A new house foundation for J A Hubbard is completed. Misa Alice Deischer returns from Coe College. Grace Noble attends Coe College commencement. Small grain growth sparks lodging concerns amid favorable weather.
A ball struck a windmill tower at J A Howie's farm, knocking off the ladder bottom and leaving the tower near the ground. Harm Rickels family members fell ill from cheese poisoning but recovered, though some children stayed sick days. Mrs Elizabeth Harken's funeral was held at the Monticello Congregational chapel, with many floral tributes, and she was laid to rest in Prairie Hill cemetery.
Miss Lottie Rickels visited home. Alex Sutherland shipped hogs. Mr O B McKean visiting. Ed Oehler attended sister’s Delhi wedding. J L Himebaugh moved machinery. Families, crops and local events, with teacher changes and school picnics. Grand-daughter from Kansas City visiting. Spokane and Center Junction trips noted. Gladys Himebaugh’s 13th birthday celebrated. Epworth commencement honored Ella Loomis.
Prairieburg notes on June 13 record Aubrey Floyd visiting Cedar Rapids friends, Tillie Petrzelka at Nullys crossing, Gertrude Richards in Cedar Rapids, Louis Gehringer and Louis Smith trips to Monticello, A Dallas Benson with Cedar Rapids friends, F P Doran visiting O Caldwell, and a Ladies Aid picnic on Charles Beadle lawn. J Newman returns from Richland Center. Reverend Kanuth, Mrs Walker visit Castle Grove and Prairieburg with his sister. Mansilo Rowley honeymoon trip to Denver after visiting H G Rowley. Cedar Rapids grand lodge attendees include Joslin Buckley Rowley and Fisher. Seward Smith injured in a horse accident near town with two broken ribs.
A corpse was brought home and buried at Temple Hill yesterday. The A F F Kearney family of Culpepper Virginia visits the Kearney family here. Miss Fannie Pederson is ill at Tinley Hospital Dubuque. Mrs T J Devlin and the Robert Kean family attend Emmett Kean's graduation in Dubuque. Gearhart spent Sunday in Maquoketa with Chester Beeks. Earl Aitchison, operated on for appendicitis in Anamosa, is improving slowly.
Onslow reports include Mrs. Paul leaving for Waterloo, Miss Florence Hasler visiting Miss Lou Noyes, and Miss Bernice Hollemaan visiting Mrs. B Johnston. Alumni picnic at May's Mills, Oxford Junction beat Onslow in a ball game. Dr Knittle and family plan to locate in Waterloo. Teachers take vacations. Sadie Tow at Norway and B S Moyle at Lenox. Children’s day program at Presbyterian Church well attended. Louise Sears returns from Arcadia to teach at Silver City next year.
June 14 notes from Cascade report residents in Bellevue Mys low Thomas Dolan of West Cascade is very ill. A B Sayles guests of RH Moore family. Lettie Fagan returned from county capital. Ethel Smith of Chicago visits A P Hamil family. J B Dominy and Mabel Lindeman were Dubuque visitors Isabel Icomis en route to Los Angeles. W S Kearney family at Grinnell for college commencement. Frank Ingamells of Stanley visits Gosden Higgs Bevans families. W C T U plans a 4th of July celebration inviting friends from all points. Patrick Devney, treated in Anamosa last week.
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