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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
6
Local residents and visitors from Austin Beloit Cedar Rapids Dubuque Madison and Des Moines are mentioned in a roundup of calls travel school enrollments church events and a ball game. Notable items include Miss Cerena Edwards summer school Cornell College and Miss Edith Rettig re elected teacher Beaver Dam Wisconsin, birth of a second Thompson child, and a slated Monticello Wyoming ball game.
Miss Blanche Hunter returned from Mt. Vernon last Saturday evening. She graduated from the liberal arts college last Thursday and will teach in the Laurens high school during the coming school year.
Miss Clara Noyes, longtime Cedar Rapids public school teacher, returned to Monticello last Tuesday evening to spend the summer at her father Matthew Noyes's home. Undertaker A. G. Hanken is noted for prompt call responses.
Miss Nellie Matthiessen came back from Chicago via Dubuque last Monday evening after nursing at Children’s Memorial Hospital. She was accompanied home by sister Minnie. Millington Carpenter returned from Ft. Worth Texas where he taught in a private academy. He will teach English in the Fort Worth high school next year. Miss Iola George, student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, returned last Saturday to spend summer with her parents Mr and Mrs Henry George.
Last Friday evening heavy rain washed out a railroad line south of town delaying Higgin’s 7:30 departure. The train reached Davenport around 1:00 a.m. Miss Anna Scheer of Langworthy underwent major surgery at Anamosa Sanitarium last Tuesday and is recovering well with surgeons Redmond and Hejmnian. Funeral services for Miss Abbie Ferguson were held Friday at her home led by Rev. Roy V Porter with Amelia Calkins and Edgar Ferguson present. Patrick’s advertises widest stock and best prices for wedding gifts.
W H Corbin returns for a visit after spending most of last summer with nephew Will Corbin and traveling through the South. He saw the Panama Canal under construction during his journey. The Iowa Telephone Co posted Republican National Convention bulletins for public scanning during the temporary chairman vote. Reverend Roland Kuntsel, newly elected pastor of the German Reformed church, will lead services next Sunday morning.
Miss Therese Nelson of Moline Illinois visits with college friend Blanche Hunter in Mt Vernon Iowa during a weekend house party at Canter Junction. Mrs George Rettig Minnie return from a year in Utah and Colorado and plan to reoccupy their hillside home. A Mary Doxssé cable announces arrival at Queenstown Ireland en route to Scotland. Patrick’s store advertises kodaks and supplies and Lovell House owner R J Woollett promotes Sunday dinners. Rev Schuetz family travels Wisconsin. services canceled at Sandhill with Rev G Rieckels to preach next week. Dr Dwight Smith, Hahnemann graduate, takes Iowa medical exams. over one hundred applicants are taking the test.
Onslow schedules a patriotic Fourth of July with Rev. S Turner as speaker, Gladys Jeffries reading the declaration, a Oxford Junction versus Onslow ball game, and Center Junction band music. Also notes Elmer Webster burial, Margaret Krey and John Brockens marriage, and local eyewear ad.
Verner Stockwell and Miss Cora Wagner were married at Cedar Rapids last Tuesday afternoon. Miss Florence Barnts served as bridesmaid, and the bride’s brother was best man. The couple left that evening for a relatives’ visit. Both families are well known in Monticello. Stockwell works for Cross Hardware. A list of Monticello attendees includes Frank Stockwell Charles Stockwell and Miss Florence Barata.
Emma Gisi sued Joe Repatein for 100 dollars claiming assault and battery during work hours. The jury of six failed to reach a verdict after a long deliberation and were discharged. The suit was dismissed locally and a new action for 1000 dollars was later filed in district court.
B W Streeper and his family of Clay were Monticello visitors last Monday, stopping by the town and likely touring local sights.
Monticello and Cedaver Rapids telephone line opened with an 86 mile test on June 6. A large 74 by 100 foot barn rising on the Gerhard Eilers farm near Monticello is reported. Typhoid claimed Frank Crane at Bowdon Prairie. other local events include marriages, deaths, a press upgrade, and a liquor amendment vote. A cyclone damaged Grinnell and affected two Monticello girls at Iowa College. fundraising meeting held June 22.
Whomaa Kostecka a Hale township farmer testified in Anamosa court that his mail-order wife Philippina Kostecica mistreated him by adding sand and hair to his meals. The judge ruled he is free of the marriage but chastised him for folly, noting he learned a hard lesson about mail-order matches.
F. J. Pepin, longtime local resident, traveled to Iowa City last Monday for eye surgery at the state medical hospital. Cataracts have clouded his vision for years, hindering his mobility. He was accompanied by Corum C. Cullup.
At Fargo College North Dakota commencement on June 12 Rev C Q Warner pastor of Plymouth Congregational Grand Forks was conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He is remembered as a former pastor of Monticello and his friends there note his growth in mental equipment and theological scholarship. L G Stuhler.
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