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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
6
Martin Kehoe spent Sunday in Davenport and many residents travel to nearby towns such as Manchester Dubuque Cedar Rapids Anamosa Monticello and Clarion. Store ads promote June dress goods and the June sale at Doutrick's Eclipse notices list car trips gate sales and screen doors with local visitors and attendees at schools and churches.
Mrs Loop and son Walter visit friends in Hopkinton. Miss Carrie Hoag heads to Kansas City for a month. Various locals travel to Cedar Rapids Lonaconing Seattle Racine and Chicago for visits and family reasons. Local notes, shop news, and upcoming church events also listed.
Marshall Hall Reiss Stabler Henry Wempleton Thomas Kingsley and William Kingsley came back from Chicago last Tuesday evening after a track meet. Fred Mastin returned from Fayette last Saturday where he studied at Upper Iowa University for a year. He will spend the summer with the Jones Chautauqua Co.
Mrs Juli Husman visited Ana Mosa last Friday and entered the sanitarium for a surgical operation. The procedure proved more severe than expected, but she is recovering well.
Tom Egan, flagman at the Milwaukee crossing, was severely injured last Monday when he fell between a freight platform and a car while unloading freight. The report notes several local marriages, visits, and civic notices across Monticello, Oxford Junction, Solon, and nearby areas, including travel plans, property sales, and a small-town improvement club slogan contest.
Miss Pearl Heisey returns from Grinnell College after two years pursuing music. She will give piano and organ lessons during the summer season to those who wish to avail themselves of her services.
Rev O E Cushman attended O E convention in Cedar Rapids and led morning children's day services at his Congregational church while Rev W H Gifford preached in the evening. Dr and Mrs W B Winnard and son of Warsaw Illinois visited Bateses. more alumni visits followed. Mystic Workers plan Friday meeting with state manager H W Washburn to initiate a candidate. Clergy from Dubuque attend archdiocese retreat. Greer family held its Monticello area reunion with most children present.
Friday June 19 features Into the Lions Pit a great spectacular production in two reels Sheridan's Pride a comedy masterpiece. Saturday June 20 offers The Vagabond Soldier three reels war love and wild animals Admission every night six and ten cents.
Gilbert Blayney hires Q O Mirick of Monticello as machinist in his garage. Mirick highly recommended by former employers and capable of repairing automobiles and motorcycles. He recently married Miss Sutherland of Scotch Grove.
The District Christian Endeavor convention met in Cedar Rapids with delegates from Monticello including Rev. O E Cushman Harry Doutrick and several Misses Ethel George Donia Northrop Frieda Hanken Ruth Wilson and Augusta Haeussler among attendees from both Presbyterian and Congregational churches.
A Monticello resident reports widespread oil tracking along main streets after 8000 gallons of road oil were spread to curb dust. The failure to sand afterward led to grease on sidewalks and into homes. Spencer A. Guiles, a 1893 Monticello High School graduate, earned an A B degree from Upper Iowa University after years of work and summer studies. He has been elected Nashua school superintendent at a record salary.
Iowa City readers learn of the Red X marker on poles for the 87 mile Iowa City to Dubuque route. The scenic advance notes good road conditions, four hour drive, and direct links to Milwaukee and southern routes via the Red Ball Route and River-to-River road. Rob ert N. Carson logged the trip to document the route.
News from Washington reports Senator Reed of Missouri will delay action on the Moore nomination as judiciary committee chairmen argue over time. Meanwhile Senator Cummins seeks an hour to oppose the appointment, Judge Wade urges quick action, and Iowa politics surface in the push to advance or stall Moore.
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