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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1927
Page
7
A collection of short notices lists Co. L. Van Meter and others visiting in Chicago Cedar Rapids Madrid Austin Minnesota Mount Vernon and Oelwe supporting a busy social week. Hardware store ads promote hedge shears while local sales feature strawberries and new gifts in metal and glass.
Many local residents and visitors are listed with brief mentions of travel to Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Muscatine, and surrounding towns. Names include Nella Davis, Bessie Hughes, Elmer and Mary Starks, and others visiting relatives and attending events. Also noted are sales items at McNeill's Hardware and Frank Locher Music Store promotions.
Monticello and area residents visit relatives across Cedar Rapids Zwingle and Monmouth. Listings include university and college events, state college exercises, teachers and students travel, and upcoming Legion auxiliary fundraiser. Local businesses promote insecticides, popcorn machine, and farm goods while public notices and meetings are announced.
Mrs. S H Dreibelbis of Milwaukee visits relatives in this area before traveling to Ons low and Center Junction. Jones county voters go to the polls on highway paving propositions with 1 2 million bond issue. neighboring counties Lees and Harrison approve while Webster rejects. Chickasaw sets a June 30 ballot date.
A June 22 doughnut sale by Maquo keta Camp Fire girls offers 25 cents per dozen with phone orders to Mrs. Finlay Mrs. Stimson or Mrs. Coe. Also advertised is Vampire insecticide to kill mosquitos and flies, sold at Rickless Grocery Store. Mrs. J F Meyer visited Cedar Rapids and Beecher Ills with relatives and new grandson news. Miss Martha Buol returns from nurses training Iowa City.
Mrs O B Brainerd of Northampton prepares to receive a Smith College master's degree in psychology. She is an Iowa Iowa City alumna and daughter of Mr and Mrs John Bateman of Monticello. Miss Clara Boss completes three years at Iowa State College Ames and will teach English and home economics in Clay Center next year. Mrs Bradley Davis of Iowa City visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Fairbanks with her eleven month old son plans a summer east trip to visit her husband’s family. Palmer's Popular Pharmacy invites pennies in the store window drawing with $5 gold prize for the closest guess per 25 cent purchase. Mr and Mrs C Schoenhut attended their grandson Raymond L Mills's marriage to Dorothy Wessel in Rock Island Illinois. Mr and Mrs L W Lovell and daughter Mary left for Gomnel Bluffs for Grand Lodge A F and A M Iowa meeting. Mrs Lovell visited Lincoln Nebraska and Omaha with friends.
Mr and Mrs Porter Longstreet and relatives visit in New Sharon Iowa while Mrs Longstreet and children stay longer. John E Foster directs Iowa State summer school amid 1500 students, 250 teachers, and 450 courses. Speed limit rises to 40 mph July 4. Jolts of local life include Doxsee family visitors, Ruth Doxsee joining Ames library, and Harry McKeever's jail vacation after bootleg fine.
John H. Mead of Cedar Rapids died last week. Born Oct 1, 1859 near Monti, he lived in Monticello as a youth and moved with parents to a Manchester area farm in 1878. He married Alice Wilson in 1885 who died in 1918. Survived by a daughter and two sons.
The Midgets of Monti cello suffered a 15 to 7 defeat to the Y P C of St. Wenceslaus church in Cedar Rapids last Sunday. Cedar Rapids hit 27 times led by Baresh the pitcher who struck out ten and hit two triples and a double in five at bats.
John Pulley of Maquoketa celebrates his 92nd birthday last week, father of Wess Pulley of Oxford Junction. T Lloyd Lux resigns as stenographer in Doxsee and Doxsee and moves to Cedar Rapids for additional studies. sister Ruth Ann Lux will fill her position. Frankin Equipment’s R J Langer returns from visits to Hastings Michigan Tiffin and Cleveland while inspecting machinery for new hardware items. Frances Coyle of Monticello graduates from Lenox College class of 1927. she taught in Hopkinton and earned further education. Editorial notes consider another twilight baseball league in Monticello this year.
Beahl Perrine son of John Perrine of Monticello will complete the University of Michigan law program at Ann Arbor next Monday June 20. He passed Iowa bar exams at Iowa City this week and has also taken the Michigan bar. He and his father plan a tomorrow automobile trip to Ann Arbor for graduation events and he will join the Cedar Rapids law firm Grimm Wheeler Elliot Shuttleworth as an assistant.
Last Monday Rotary club debated retail merchandising profitability in Monticello with speakers G P Rockstad L A Iverson and C A Palmer. Knights of Columbus held a Cascade trip with 15 Monticello candidates, three degrees conferred at St Marys church then banquet. Wartburg Normal College orchestra in Waverly led by Ernest G Heist performs June 22 at St Matthews Church with no admission.
John Lewis Barnts of Monticello died last Monday at 8 am at his home after nine years of poor health and two years of constant suffering. Born May 6 1865 in Monticello, he married Mary Beggs Sept 18 1883 in Anamosa Iowa. Survived by five children Iva Norton Des Moines Minnie White Beaver Dam WI Pearl Schneider Monticello L G Hawthorne Lincoln NE Florence Bright Cascade, twenty two grandchildren four brothers Levi Missouri Benjamin Adel NE Charles Manchester Herbert Monticello and one sister Mrs Charles Goarcke Monticello. Funeral held at Barnts home conducted by Rev Albert E Coe of the Methodist Episcopal church with burial at Oakwood cemetery.
The board of education of the Independent School District of Center Junction will receive bids at the secretary's office until July 1, 1927, for janitor service for the next school year. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. 2 3 Secretary of Board of Education H. O. Stingley.
Two Monticello women Blanche K. McLaughlin and Geraldine Mae Brainard graduated from Iowa State College Ames last Monday in the home economics department. McLaughlin will head a summer business women camp in New Buffalo Michigan and Brainard will supervise a large dining room at a Colorado Springs camp and later teach home economics in Spirit Lake public schools. The spring class included 459 graduates, bringing the year total to 710 with 164 in agriculture, 146 in engineering, 143 in home economics, 72 in industrial science, and 24 in veterinary medicine.
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