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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1922
Page
7
A long list of visitors and guests circulates among Cedar Rapids Anamosa Monticello and surrounding towns. Mrs C G Thomas and Miss Mae Podhaski are seen with friends, Dr Redmond and Dr Cochrane host acquaintances, Miss Cleo Hutton and Miss Samaria Perrine visit, and families like the Barkers McAleers and Haneawalts entertain. Local shops advertise services and products while residents move between Monticello and nearby cities.
A long list of hometown transfers visits and greetings includes Cedar Rapids mayor Paul Maire spending time with his parents, Mrs. D P Young and Inez, Miss Kate Otting, Miss Laura May at Cascade and Oxford Junction, and many relatives in nearby towns. Cars and shops advertise ice cream and auto tops as summer heat continues.
Local notices report Myron Hubbard visiting parents in Castle Grove after Ames State College work. Counts include farm picnic at Marion fairgrounds, Linn county schools graduation, bake sales, church events, and multiple family visits across Monticello, Stamford and surrounding towns. Gildner Bros expands to 17 stores.
Local notes document summer baseball schedule with Oxford Junction games and social events. Mrs. Cochrane returns to Wisconsin, visitors travel to Waterloo and Chicago. community happenings include Minstrels at the opera house and an ondy-do party for merchants, plus Legion meetings and funeral services.
The Lovell township contest at the public library last Saturday named Edmund Dress of No. 3 as first and Adele Mayers of No. 9 as second. The winner will represent Lovell township at the county contest in Anamosa fair. Evelynd Jenney, son of Mr and Mrs Robert T Jenney formerly of Monticello, has completed his freshman year at the University of British Columbia with honors and the Jenny family now reside in Victoria, BC. Messrs R C and Louis E Hoag left for Chicago on business with Hoag Duster Co with Louis returning to Monticello this week. A brief thunder shower with high winds last Monday caused trees to fall and a propped tent. lights went out briefly in town but were repaired. The Poultry tonic Chick-Luck is advertised by Farmers Mutual Creamery Co and others. The infant son of Mr and Mrs Gordon Smith, previously noted, died last week after fragile health since birth, and Monticello friends extend sympathy.
Dr F X Miller a Cedar Falls pastor donated 160 acre farm near Pipestone Minnesota valued at 175 an acre to Upper Iowa University Fayette to fund a chair of religious education or aid sons of poor ministers. Wartburg college orchestra and glee club from Clinton gave a concert at the opera house last Saturday and again supplied music for Wayne Lutheran church fifty jubilee.
Dodge Brothers offer the first marketable all steel body coupe sold by local dealer O B Burrichter. The car features baked enamel finish leather upholstery wide seat cord tires heater dome light windshield cleaner Yale locks wide doors more leg room and ample luggage space. Remodeling at the Methodist Episcopal church nears completion with a 600 watt indirect lighting fixture and a social room kitchen and serving area added for increased capacity and new pastor Rev W H Mitchell presides over a building with enhanced facilities.
Mrs. Allen Fairbanks hosted a gathering at the Arthur Fairbanks home in Cai tle Grove to honor Miss Gladys Fairbanks whose engagement to Bradley Davis of Vermont was announced. Also noted, Louis G. Karas of Cedar Rapids bought the Standard Shoe Repairing Shop and plans move to California after July 26. The report covers local weddings, including Miss Minnie Rickels to George Poppe at St Matthew’s Lutheran, with maid of honor Martha Rickels and best man George Plueger. The battery station run by L R Wickham closed after more than $1,000 in debts surfaced and shop stock valued at $200 is tied to a bill of sale to Oxide Battery Co. Wickham’s whereabouts are now unknown.
Basil Lee Contats of Confare Olson bakery in Monticello married Lydia Marie Hass Lusk daughter of Mr and Mrs A M Lusk of Manchester. Ceremony by Rev O Graff at Manchester Lutheran Church. Bride and groom plan to reside in Monticello after a short wedding trip.
A music recital by Mrs. George Guyan’s pupils will be hosted at Dr and Mrs A M Maurice’s home this afternoon. Mrs C G Thomas will sing after the program. Participants include Janet Young Blanche McLaughlin Gertrude Schweitzer Constance Meyer Margaret Maurice Ruth Cropp Althea Bancroft Hthelwyn Wilcox Jane Shover Gladys Shelley Cathryn Redmond Helen Pulvar Eloise Becker Simon Locher George Richard Guyan Helen Hayes Isabel Liddy Winifred Neilly Mildred Wilcox Bertha Mae Goldin Margaret Bucker Janet McNeill Donna Lewis Beth Lightfoot Mona Lightfoot Ruth Malinda Byers Sybil Hutton Mildred Pulver Mary Lovell Vivian Bancroft George Mayer.
General Willing, indicted for forgery by the Jones county district court, is brought back from Marion jail to Anamosa. His wife, charged with aiding his escape, is held after a Cedar Rapids arrest. Bootleggers remain free on bonds. St Matthew's Lutheran church corner stone laying set for next Sunday with services in German and English and fundraising for the church building fund.
A serious fire at Cross Hardware Company in Monticello started when a boy's bonfire near a adjacent shed with a 500 gallon kerosene tank spread into the warehouse loft. The Mon ticello Fire Department extinguished the flames with a Pyrene extinguisher borrowed from Stickford Drug Store. Damages are estimated at 600 dollars to the building and 500 dollars to stock. The damaged area must be rebuilt.
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