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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1916
Page
10
Community names appear about guests from Cedar Rapids Des Moines and Auburn Iowa. Notable items include a baby boy born to Adolph Stouri in Hard Scrabble region and visits by Miss Lillian Bongers Miss Nellie Williamson and several couples from Cedar Rapids to Monticello.
Mrs O G Marsden hosts sister in South Dakota visit. Jones County Trust adds bronze signs to building. Priscilla club travels to Cedar Rapids for Cedar Rapids day events. Clergy attend Dubuque priests retreat. Fred Loso sustains toe fracture in stair fall. Local gatherings span Ottumwa Manchester and Denver visits. Fall clothes from Foster Clothing Co with suits at $20. Major Howard Smith funeral in Dubuque. Reverend J W Groschem speaks for invalid ministers relief. Rex Rickless mentions Miss Daisy Noyes. Bankers’ meeting in Waterloo with H M Carpenter. Estes Park trip without incident. Birth of a son to Dr and Mrs Tom King in West Union. Manchester visitors Cornelia Skellay Elmer Hicka and Mrs Fulton. Doxsee visit with Philadelphia guests. Robert Abel ill with pleurisy but improving. Martin Guyan visiting relatives in Iowa. J H Perrine upgrades restaurant. Mrs P O Keith and Marshalltown guest visit Hopkinton. Civil war veterans G A R encampment at Marshalltown. Frank Meets returns from Minehart SD. Charles A Coxsee attends National Editorial meeting in NYC. Jacob Schneider travels to Murdo SD for health reasons. Mackenbrook returns to Norfolk NE, Mrs Mackenbrook stays. Dr Louis G Stabler to Harvard six weeks post grad. John J Locher tours East Coast then returns. Mrs Crocker of Larchwood visits spry at 85. G W Eastwood sells residence to John F Moore for 6750. Rain dampens Scottish Grove Community Day. Ladies Guild sale at A W Stainer’s on June 24.
The article notes slow street paving progress due to labor shortages. The city council proposes curb and gutter work on several streets with no paving, to be listed in a preliminary notice in The Express.
Prof John E Cameron of Iowa City a former Scotch Grove resident taught agriculture at Missouri University and held a year in Iowa State University. James K McWilliams formerly Monticello now Liber Missouri visited Worthington and his daughter Mrs George Rettig after a trip to Independence. Stained church windows purchased in Germany before the war are due in New York and will be installed by summer. Mr and Mrs O B Goarcke of Unnon came after news of Mrs Suttons accident. his wife stays with relatives. George L Lovell travels east taking in Cornell commencement and plans other visits. Mia J Fenteina and daughter Mary of Coeur dAlene Idaho head to Chicago for music studies before returning to teach. Mary later to teach in public schools. Martha Balear visited Ana moan with brother Fred awaiting recovery from appendicitis. George E Wood of Columbia Ohio, Monticello native and former county superintendent, now with Ohio Paper Co. Dr Patrick elected vice president of Iowa State Optometrists. Recent marriage licenses issued in area. Eclipse Lumber Co leaders G W Dulaney Sr and Jr visited Monticello with wife and Mrs Alexander Hughes. City streets grades revised per ordinance. Mrs Mary Sutton fractured leg in barn incident. Dr C G Thomas treated.
Charles V Moore, a photographer, left Tuesday evening to join his National Guard company at Waterloo. He had previously enlisted five years ago in Waterloo, served one three year term, and re-enlisted for another three year term two years ago as the president called mobilization to guard the Mexican border.
Mr and Mrs G W Eastwood have left Monticello for Rockford Illinois and then on to Gresley Colorado their new home after twenty years in the city He was a progressive businessman and she contributed to the Presbyterian church friends regret their departure and they will live near their daughter Mrs Chass The community extends best wishes for their future.
The Lutheran church at Monticello will hold its annual mission festival this Sunday June 25. Morning services at 10 45 in German preached by Rev Prof George J Fritacher of Wartburg Seminary Dubuque Iowa. Afternoon services at 2 in English with Rev O Reinbold Arlington Iowa giving a mission talk. Offerings for missions will be taken both sessions. All friends of the church and missions are invited.
Thirty years ago in Monticello and vicinity June brought weddings births and travel notes. Key events include marriages of Charles J Rettig and Lily J Tucker and Edwin Price to Eppie Peak, a high school class of four graduates Kate Perley Gratia Hicks Lola Cutler Zelma Farwell, and Arthur Hayward's accidental shooting in Greeley. The era saw 100000 pounds of butter shipped by Diamond Creamery with 50000 to a single customer and a Cedar Rapids Commercial Club train visit featuring Monticello reception, band and tours. A fifteenth wedding anniversary for F B Stimson and Mrs Stimson was celebrated at Delhi, and Beulah Benedict and Forest Wells wed in Cedar Rapids with plans to reside there.
Fred Fabrai left his Castle Grove township farm and stock with debts mounting. The Monti cello State bank holds the deed and mortgage. A judgment against him and multiple creditors loom as the bank takes possession to harvest the crop, leaving little equity for unsecured lenders.
You are hereby notified that Ordinances No 385 and 387 requiring owners tenants and occupants to destroy all noxious weeds on abutting lots lands alleys and parking within the city will be strictly enforced. A Voorbees Mayor.
Members of the Monticello Improvement Club enjoyed a supper hosted by the Presbyterian church ladies at A M Fairbanks home in Castle Grove township. About 200 guests attended with 40 autos, including 29 new members, and the evening concluded with Monticello band music and thanks to the hosts. A farm tour with lectures by Iowa State College experts including a domestic science teacher was planned for next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Monticello Improvement Club hosts a repeat farm automobile tour with extension department lecturers from Iowa State College Ames. The route includes Monticello and nearby farms with talks on farm betterment and domestic science for ladies.
Miss MaQuskey’s piano pupils present a Twilight concert beginning at 7 30 PM Friday at the Presbyterian church. Miss Leota Hines of Anamosa will sing. Admission 16 cents. Program includes pieces by Spaulding, Gill, Mozart, Grieg, Haydn and others performed by pupils and two piano solos. Preparations for July Fourth strong in Monticello with free park attractions. Miss Bessie Peet of Viola wed O M Mayes of Tipton. Johnson County Independent ends publication.
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