Miscellaneous Cedar Rapids Visitors And Local Events
Cedar Rapids visitors include Mr. and Mrs. John Graves and Miss Florence Graves. Monticello pairs Miss Bertha Rattke and Carl Opfer wed in Anamosa. Anamosa and Ames visits noted, with several locals visiting relatives, schools, and doctors. A birth announced at Mercy Hospital and a watch repair promotion by Denkhofft are listed among community notes. White waists and middies offered at 98 cents in Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Graves
Florence Graves
Cedar Rapids
Local Social Notes From Monticello And Surrounding Areas
A parade of visits and greetings unfolds across Monticello Castle Grove and Anamosa with guests from Edgar Anamosa Manchester and Cedar Rapids. Notable events include births and weddings mentioned in passing, a Northwest University student returning for vacation and local church activities including an ice cream and cake fundraiser.
Balcar Siblings Visit Fred Balcar in Anamosa Sanitarium
Miss Martha Balcar and her brother John visited Fred Balcar at the Anamosa sanitarium last Monday. Fred recently underwent an appendicitis operation and is rapidly improving his health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Balcar
John
Fred Balcar
Sanitarium
Anamosa
Fred
Local Visitor to Teach German in Mason City
Misa Edith Rettig visiting her mother Mrs. George Rettig left for Mason City last Friday morning. She will teach German in a Mason City school during the summer months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Edith Rettig
George Rettig
Mason City
Ladisa Missionary Society Picnic At Hoult Home
The Ladisa Missionary Society of the Congregation church held a picnic meeting yesterday afternoon at Mrs. J. W. Hoult's home with 40 to 45 ladies present. Mrs. Charles Gould of Anamosa spoke last Sunday at the Methodist Episcopal church on Home Missions guiding a well filled audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladisa’ Missionary Society of the Congregation Church
J. W. Hoult
Charles Gould
Anamosa
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mra. Gould
Watermelon Heist Payment Sparks Old Time Restitution Talk
A West Virginia man sent $3 to an unnamed recipient as payment for a watermelon stolen from his patch long ago. The remark suggests such restitution could spread if old-time farmers in Bow en's Prairie start similar exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Miss Helen Smith Visits Lorain Then Heads to California
Miss Helen Smith, a Lorain Ohio teacher for the past year, arrived last Monday to visit her mother Mrs Douglass Smith. They left a day or two later for California where they will spend the summer. Miss Smith will study at the California University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Smith
Lorain
Ohio
Douglass Smith
California
Miss Smith
California University
Uncalled Letters in Monticello Post Office
Letters addressed to multiple residents including Mr H Weene kamp Mrs Ida Hare Warfield and others remain uncalled for at the Monticello post office. Nearby residents Mrs Fred Dahling Master Gerald McCleary and Mrs Carrie Knapp traveled to Freeport Illinois yesterday. Knapp is Dahling’s sister and had been visiting Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Weenekamp
Ida Hare ‘Warfield
D. Volkerts
Inez Rhodes
Jacob Paulsen
J.G. Nichols
Herman Koffer
A. R Dickinson
Ralph Giddings
Monticello
Fred Dahling
Gerald McCleary
Carrie Knapp
Waterloo
Freeport
Illinois
Knapp
Dahling
New Baby and Community Notes From Monticello
A ten pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Deischer yesterday evening. Grandparents cheer. Ruth Young returns after teaching at State Teachers College Cedar Falls. Miss Young to join Monticello public schools as assistant primary teacher. N G W Winner attends niece Minnie M Winner wedding to Frederick Buttikofer in Dubuque. Etta and Helen Delay visiting Mrs. J W Nelson from Sioux Falls. Helen Delay recently graduated from St Josephs Female College Dubuque. Mrs. Charles Parker of Raton NM and Mr. and Mrs Nic Nelson of Billings MT visited Mrs. J W Nelson. they travel from Detroit to Montana by auto. Grace Fox of Britt visits Monticello en route home from Mount Vernon. named music and drawing teacher for coming school year. Cedar Rapids Trade Extension trip arrives in Monticello with wholesalers given time to visit. Rev J H Barr and Mrs Barr to return home from Monticello Indiana. services resume Sunday. Mrs Anna Zimmerman daughter of Hiert Prull wed Adolph Dirks at Wayne Lutheran Church. wedding dance at Langworthy hall. Dirks a carpenter, they will live in Langworthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Young
Cedar Falls
State Teachers’ College
Young
Monticello
Charles Parker
Raton
New Mexico
Nic Nelson
Billings
Montana
J. W. Nelson
Nelson
Detroit
Michigan
Grace Fox
Britt
Mount Vernon
Cornell College Conservatory
Anna Zimmerman
Hiert Prull
Adolph Dirks
Wayne Lutheran Church
C. Mardorf
Ricklets
Mosars
Crane
Kohn
Lazell
Stabler
Aladius
Marie Bell
Isabell Meyer
Marcella Britting
Catherine Liddy
M. &.Murphy
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Ounstle Grove Township
Qgvorke A. Hauck
Sacred Heart Church
J.J. Locher
R. O’brien
Oslwein
Our Order
Knighte of Columbus
J.J. Meyers
State Council of
Iowa
Carroll
Order
George C. Gorman
Anamosa
I. G. Dunn
Mason City
United States
America
Safe moved from Eastwood to Jones County Trust building
A six ton safe owned by J. J. Locher was moved last week from his former Eastwood office to his current space in the Jones County Trust and Savings Bank building. GC. N. Patrick will operate the optometry business in Locher’s vacated rooms after repainting and redecorating the spaces. Miss Bertha Rettke, formerly of Kansas City and resident of Monticello, married Carl Opfer near Amber. The couple left for Ottumwa the same evening to start their new life there. Opfer is a skilled carpenter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Locher
Eastwood
Jones County Trust & Savings Bank
GC. N. Patrick
Locher
Bertha Rettke
Kansas City
Monticello
Carl Opfer
Herman Opfer
Henry Che
Amber
Opfer
Ottumwa
Pearl Adams Wed to Herman Ehrisman at Parents’ Home
Miss Pearl Adams daughter of Mr and Mrs David Adams married Herman Ehrisman last Saturday at the bride’s parents home. Rev Charles Cashman of the Congregational church performed the ceremony. Mrs Ehrisman is described as a pleasing young woman with qualities suited to housekeeping. Mr Ehrisman works as a painter and paper hanger in Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Adams
David Adams
Herman Ehrisman
Charles &. Cashman
Congregational Church
Ehrisman
Bhrisman
Monticello
Vandermark Taken to Asylum by Sheriff After Mental Decline
Luke Vandermark was escorted to Independence asylum by Sheriff Mills last Monday due to prolonged mental weakness and poor health. Commissioners of insanity approved a course of treatment, noting potential benefits. Vandermark formerly bartended at a Cascade saloon before prohibition. His mania is mild and he cooperated with the sheriff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luke Vandermark
Independence
Sheriff Mills
Vandermark
Monticello Improvement Club Runs Two Day Farm Tour
The Monticello Improvement club plans a two day farm tour in Jones county on June 27 and 28. Speakers from the Iowa State College extension department will lecture as last year and a domestic science lecturer from the State College will address women on the trip. Further details will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Clarence Botton Killed Trimming 23000 Volt Line North of Rolfe
Clarence Botton, former resident of Pomeroy, died while trimming a 23 000 volt transmission line four miles north of Rolfe. His brother in law M BE Richeal of Pomeroy and BE P Howard of Logan were with him. Botton slipped and touched the line, current entering the body through the left arm and exiting at the right foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Clarence Botton
Rolfe
Northern Iowa Gas and Power Co
Humboldt
M. Be, Richeal
BE. P. Howard
Logan
Chautauqua Programs Set for Monticello Run
The five day Monticello chautauqua runs July 18 to 17 inclusive with G W Brown as superintendent and Miss Vera Stocks as play specialist. Highlights include the St Clair Quartet, Judge Schoonover on Unseen Forces, and varied lectures and entertainments each afternoon and evening with modest admission fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
G. W. Brown
Missa Vera Stocks
St. Clair
Moenford Schoonover
Tella
Hound Chage
Anna Theresa Devault
Valley Ball
Orphean Musical Club
Charles H. Plattenburg
Reno
Shoemuaker
Ren
Parnells
W.L
Davia
Parnella
W. L. Y. Davis
Singera
George Fred Williams
Greece
Quintana
D. M. Kelley
Chautauqua
Deaths of Harry Wernli and A P Jennings Mark Local Losses
Harry A Wernli son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Wernli died at Colton South Dakota on the 9th from blood poisoning following a bruised knee after riding horse back He was fourteen born near Coggan July 21 1902 Funeral services were held at Monticello with interment at Orkwood cemetery A P Jennings known as Lon Jennings died in Chicago of nephritis and complications He was born May 14 1869 in Clay township and lived in Monticello until 1899 He had run a Monticello grocery and was active in fraternal orders He is survived by wife Anna Fryberger and four children and by siblings and relatives in several towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry A. Wernli
Jacob Wernli
Colton
South
Dakota
Lovell
Monticello
Coggon
Harry
Coggan
Peter Egger
Roland P. Kuentzel
Orkwood Cemetery
Jacob Wernii
Lena Wernii
George Wernii
Garneill
Montana
A. P. Jennings
Lon’ Jennings
Chicago
Alonzo Prouty Jennings
Clay Township
Jennings
Anna, —&. Fryberger
Lloyd E. Jennings
Lillian J. Hartwell
Clarence A. Jennings
Harry L. Jennings
Anna Price
Henry Stoffel
Mechanicaville
Clarence Jennings
Norway
Janning
Local salesman found guilty of false pretenses
P. Sutton a Cedar Rapids packing house salesman was found guilty in Dubuque of obtaining money under false pretenses and given an indeterminate seven year sentence at Fort Madison penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Sutton
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Fort Madison
Saturday specials at Smith's Variety Store
Monticello shoppers find ladies white waists and middies priced at 98e each. A brief store sale highlights simple summer apparel for women with limited quantities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Monticello
Atore
Specis
Smith’s
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Oxfords
Palm Beach
E.G. Burrichter
Home News
Oscar Newton
Dénkhoff
Frances Koop
Wyoming
E. E.hicke
JM. H. Teeter
Minneapolis
Doris Kettlitz
Imogene Kilers
Mra
Des Moines
F. J. J. Crosa
J. 8. Hall
W. A. Mirick
Olin
Galen Mirick
Patrick Hogan
Michael Hogan
Sue McMahon
Mamie McMahon
Dr. L.Q. Stabler
A. M. Maurice
Margaret
Bertha Rattke
Harriet McCuskey
W.W. Hunter
Maude Waite
Anna Guthrie
Alice Fulton
Denver
Colorado
B. . Hicks
Lea. Stabler
Jerome Brazelton
Ruth Wilson
Ames
Iowa State College
George 8. Fawcett
Philadelphia
J. W. Coxsee
Misa Pearl Kline
Tom Shafers
Harry Kahne
Margarite Perrenaud
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Ulysses Maire
Denkhofft
Postolice
Agnes Fay
Mary McMahon
Sue
Pearl Hessey
Grinnell
Grinnell College
Louis Gardner
Mercy Hospital
Mrs
F. K.hahn
Mattie Miller
Spokane
Washington
Mrs. Hickok
Elmer Hoag
J. B. Pond
D. BE. Pond
Frank King
Grace
Edgar, Nebraska
Mre
Joseph King
C. E. Brainerd
Mary Hanawalt
Mary Cox
Blanche Hunter
John Welch
Gladys Welch
Isaac Bacon
Hopkinton
Fred Cramer
Elmer Read
Manchester
A. W. Cramer
Marshall Hall
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Qrinnell
Alva Zimmerman
Fred Lehman
Waverly
Wartburg Seminary
Dwight Smith
Edward LeClair
Mae Richards
Peter Kurt
Henry Templeton
Mitchell Northrop
Royal Hubbard
Hastwood & Chase
Opera
Fred Becker
Peterson
Maquoketa
Harry Bricker
Kate Perley
Memphis
Tennessee
Miss Perley
Anamosa Eureka
M. &. Parsonage
Royal Snyder
Emma Kalouse
Alice Hanawalt
Olive Cartano
Helen Hefner
Margaret Maire
J. H. Fraser
The
Palisades
Mt. Vernon
Rohn
Harriet
Eldon
Burlington
Harness Makers
Sutton and
Hornick
Harriet Lubben
Castle Grove Township
J. A. Voorhees
Arpan
South Dakota
8. B. Mayberry
Reameville
Kansas
A. M
Paul Black
Suzia B. Thomas
Frank Hickzs
Iowa State University
Iowa City
Elsie Barnts
John Barnts
Thorpe
Mincie White
Elsie Noble
Marshalltown
A. J. H., McNeill
W. Lovell
Emil Ricklefs
Hartley Wilkinson
Grand Lodge
A. F
Davenport
Presbyterian Christian Iindeavor
Fred Koop
Ben Greene
Florence Livingstone
Harold Deischer
Harold
Grandpa Deischer
Grandpa Cramer
N. G. W. Winner
Minnie M. Winner
Charles EK
Frederick Buttikofer
Eitta
Helen Deling
Robert Delay
Sioux Falls
A. V. Scott
Helen Delay
St. Joseph’s Female College
J. H. Barr
Board of Supervisors
Hixpresa
Clerk Fisher
Herman H. Ehriamann
Pearl M. Adams
Adolf Herman Dierks
Agna Elizabeth Zimmerman
Otto L. Shedeck
Frances Benhart
Oxford Junction
U. W. Grim
Marjorie McConaghy
Moses Starks
Sadie Synyder
A. W. Curtis Booke
Adelia HK
Knights of Columbus
Monticello Council
Father Nugent
Knights of Pythias
J. J. Meyers
Caserde
Aitchison
Wiliam
Appleby
Joseph
Altman
Theodore
Brady
Leo
Connolly
James
Vincent
Crowley
Michael
Chaloupka
Henry
Vers
Patrick
Bean
Ferring
Gavin
Haley
Holub
Charles
Hubbard
Otto
Hennessey
Hogan
Thomas
Kehoe
William
Koster
Peter
Liddy
Clament
Mary
London
Leonard
Lewis
Lawrence
Myers
Minnia
Morse
Miller
McCrea
Jones County
Lowell State Bank
Owell Statebank
Twilight
Harriet L. McCuskey
Presbyterian Church
C. A. Errickson & Co
C. H. Schipman
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E. A. Hubbard
L. H. Lang
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