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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
11
Anamosa visitors Nic Maurice and Albert Stuhler are noted as Cedar Rapids and last Sunday respectively. Cedar Rapids visitors Mrs. T. M. Redmond and Mons Corbett visit, with other locals and guests listed from Cascade Marion Monticello and Des Moines areas. Fireworks and ice cream ads appear among several brief notices.
Local residents return from trips to Perry Des Moines Columbus Nebraska Waterloo and Flint Michigan. Monticello baseball loses 4 to 1 to Dyersville. Announcements include sales at Hicks Ricklefs Palmer Pharmacy and a Henry Bohlken barn dance with Hawkeye Orchestra. Local travel and social notes plus ads and upcoming services at Cornell College and Methodist church.
The Hila Morgan Stock Company set up its tent theatre in Monticello last Monday marking the fifth season the show has visited the town Miss Morgan presents a repertoire of first class popular plays meeting with favor from the Monticello theatre going public.
Monticello items report Hicks couple visiting Cedar Rapids then Detroit, Carl and Boggs marriage in Wray Colorado, ice house hours, a finger injury from iron play, store patronage praise, theater notes, church services, and upcoming insurance reinstatement for ex service members. Court case Ireland v Conley continues as Guardian suit proceeds. Mattess attacked and locked in a refrigerator car near Monticello.
The Express notes a tract on Seventh Street Monticello to be sold June 28 by Louisville Real Estate & Development Co of Louisville Kentucky. Taylor and Leon have visited to prepare the lot sale as the former Welch property is subdivided with new streets.
The Monti cello band led by Frank Royden of Scotch Grove performed to a large Monticello audience last evening. The 30-piece group includes 15 musicians from Monticello and 15 from Scotch Grove. Next week the band will play on First Street with a program featuring New Colonial Hall Selection Glow Worm Lincke Dardanella Characteristic Overture Mill and the Forest Hilenberg March Dandy Fifth Medley Memories of 61 Arr Laur endeau Flower song Lange March Selected.
Miss Winefred Blaine Reed and Rev. William Hayes Mitchell wed at 3 pm in the Reed residence with Rev. Edward Lang and Rev. Charles Luce officiating. The ceremony featured music by Harl Baker and violin solos by Harriet Thoeni. The couple plans a return trip to Charlevoi, Michigan after a few weeks.
June 1886 Monticello records list Wills & Deutrick selling lawn dress goods at six cents per yard and note church leaders for United Brethren Presbyterian Methodist Episcopal Congregational Catholic and Reformed parishes. Weddings include A C Comstock and Maggie Cox at Cascade and Miss Nellie J Rosa marrying Charles Loree in Chicago.
Mr and Mrs A L Ackerman of Grandfield Oklahoma celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their daughter Mrs Harry Sander s home near Viola Iowa on the tenth inst Attending were Mr and Mrs Hugh Ackerman of De Kalb Illinois and Mrs B H Brown of Illinois sister of Mrs Ackerman
The Monticello Chautauqua closed last Tuesday with strong attendance and an engaging lineup. Highlights included the Craven Family performances, Miss Sarah Mildred Willmer's moving lecture, a Marimba band from Central America, and the Kenilworth players abridging The Taming of the Shrew. Major R. S. Libby delivered the concluding address.
Paul C Shelley has been elected by the Monticello board of education as superintendent for 1920 21. He and his wife and seven year old son already reside in Monticello at the W A Storm home and are presently in Chicago for a six weeks summer course at the University. Shelley is a Plainview Minnesota High School graduate, studied at the South Dakota Normal School and at the University of Chicago where he earned honors and membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
Monticello prepares to welcome a new school superintendent and his family after the summer session in Chicago. The candidate has extensive experience across South Dakota Iowa and Chicago and has been an extension instructor at Cedar Falls since 1916.
Saturday bargains at Smith's Variety Store include bath towels valued at 50 cents now 39 cents. Ladies' coverall aprons priced at 1.39 and ladies' black silk hose at 1.60 value now 1.19.
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