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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1907
Page
3
June notes from Wyoming Iowa recount visits by Clem Kimball of Council Bluffs and many others from Council Bluffs Davenport Cedar Rapids Monticello and Osceola. The piece covers church events weddings theater trips and community gatherings with numerous townsfolk visiting and hosting over the past week.
The Cascade column records the death of Margeret L Kopfter at seven, with burial last Thursday. J B Aitchison visited Dubuque, and local Baptist trustees buy P Kinney residence for a parsonage. Residents attend Chautauqua at Monticello and Sunday school programs. Rev W J Green of Atlantic Highlands receives Baptist church call. Teachers head to Dubuque for summer school, expenses cited. Local illness prompts visits. families travel to Dubuque for diplomas and a banquet at the Wales hotel.
June 25 Onslow Iowa items note Orr building a new house with Mrs Hutton and baby, Fr Paul acting as substitute, Overholt trip to Wallingford for a niece’s wedding, Hutton on rural route 2 vacation, Walters family visiting, Hansen securing material for a new farm house, Jessie Brown visiting Wyomng, Reid on business and relatives, eggs shipped locally with Mercantile Co shipping 42, Priscilla club meeting at Isabell Smith, Tasker's weekend visit to Idaho, reader interest in Onslow items, lumber story referenced from Mississippi lumberman.
Castle Grove reports include D J Hogan shipping stock to Chicago and residents Roy Cropp and Mrs D J Hogan visiting Prairieburg. Tuesday visitors P Leonard J O Rourke and Dan McDonnell W L Himes S M Hosford delivered porkers. John Mettler recovers from illness. The chapel will have no service next Sunday. Downerville Creamery update ends the fragment.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev G Weise at the Lutheran church last Thursday afternoon for Miss Kate Folkers, with a large crowd in attendance and many friends paying respects. Harold Howie celebrated a birthday last Saturday with a surprise gathering from his young friends, who enjoyed the evening.
In Clay on June 26 several residents were noted visiting and hosting. Mrs Hendricks is in poor health while Miss Grace Green returns home for vacation. Numerous guests including Mrs Overly Mrs John Dew Dr Aileen Corbit and others are mentioned with multiple late June gatherings and an upcoming Indies missionary society meeting hosted by Mrs Mead and planned with president Mrs McCelland on July 10 at Onglow.
Eight days of sessions led by County Superintendent Maurice featured instructors from Monticello Cedar Falla Cedar Rapids Des Moines and N.Y. and listed dozens of teachers enrolled last week across towns such as Stone City Cascade Monticello Wyoming Onslow Oxford Mechanicsville Center Junction Monmouth Scotch Grove Epworth Hopkinton Martelle Morley and more. The Jackman Johnson Nuptials: Agnes Johnson weds George Jackman in Boston First Unitarian church with family ties to Bristol R I and Lawrence.
A collage of humorous and reflective quotes from Watson's Magazine and Smart Set. Notes on manners, class, and parental responsibility appear as brief snippets highlighting social pretensions and everyday worries.
A Devonshire village tale describes a woman with epilepsy taken to church with twenty nine married men who left her in the porch as service began. Afterward the thirty copper pennies were melted into a silver half crown to craft a ring as an alleged in all likelihood charm against her disorder.
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