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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1927
Page
7
Local ads note Farley cash for cream at McNeill's Hardware with 25c per can and a Garden Guard offer. Miss Carrie Page and Miss Peart McLees visited Cedar Rapids. several residents visit Davenport Anamosa Dubuque and Marion. July sale prices on watches and ranges at McNeill's Hardware. notes on glasses by Keyes and Winchester paints.
A collage of bargain counters at McNeills Hardware 10 cent sales hay rack building at Nellose Lumber Yard and School Implement Store promotions. Many readers visit relatives in Davenport Dubuque Arlington Madison and Chicago with updates on trains and local events. A new nine pound boy joins the Moore family and Clifford Niles resigns from the State Board of Conservation to join the state highway commission.
Miss Ruth Doxsee leaves for Ames to begin work at State College Library July 1. Local items note purchases, visits, and travel including cattle buying in Sioux City, university summer school in Iowa City, and relatives in Beaver Dam and Lost Nation. Firework sales and Fourth of July promotions appear with dental and medical tidbits and nearby shop hints.
Mrs. Fred Messerli and daughter Alice, Mrs. Klein, and Mrs. John Messerli with two sons John and Paul drove to Anamosa last Friday to see Josie Haigh of Hopkinton and Mrs. Harry Wenger of Masonville, who are patients at Mercy hospital.
Miss Gertrude Schweitzer completes courses at University hospital Iowa City then returns to John McDonald hospital to finish nurse training. She takes three weeks vacation before the final lap of work. Leonard Arduser of Minneapolis visits Cedar Rapids area after the death of Mrs. Stoddard, mother of Mrs. Arduser. Their daughters Lisle and Mary Frances stay home. Lisle attends University of Minnesota sessions this summer.
Joe O Rourke senior remains seriously ill at home on Fourth street with a grave condition requiring a nurse. Laura Koop and her daughter Laura Koops are in Iowa City six weeks with her son Ted who edits the Daily Iowan and studies journalism. Mr and Mrs John Finlay welcome a son born last evening at John McDonald Memorial hospital. Finlay is head athletic coach of the local high school. Mesdames Kate Duis and Lizzie Behrends spent Sunday with Rev S M Ide and Lydia Ide at Bellevue. Ide drove them to Monticello and remained to visit St Matthew's parishioners through Tuesday.
Rev H L Adix conducts a summer religious school at St Matthews church and children are quizzed about birds. Regional updates record visits of Mrs Frank Hicks and son to Rockford Illinois and Iowa City, with plans to spend July 4 at her parents’ home. Vernon Orcutt attends a Missouri Life Insurance convention in Des Moines with sister Kathryn Orcutt visiting Sparta Illinois. Al C Comstock, Tulsa contractor, wins a Sedalla Missouri sewer mains contract for 202000 dollars. A Wahlberg opens a tailor shop in Belle Plaine after moving from Monticello to Cambridge Minnesota. Stuhlers travel to Louisville Kentucky for Miss Carolyn Stuhler’s social service work and two months abroad, with plans to Italy.
A Cedar Rapids area child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Seehusen suffered a slight brain concussion after an accidental strike to the nose while neighborhood boys played ball last Sunday. The boy recovered quickly and was back to usual activities the next day.
Dr and Mrs Paul Hilers of Albuquerque visit Monticello relatives this week driving by automobile Mrs Hilers Mary Corbit sister of Mons Corbit Dr Hilers runs two government hospitals in Albuquerque Indian and Mexican eye hospitals Ten years since Mrs Hilers last visited Monticello Patrick Hogan of Rosemont Minnesota suffers stroke and speech loss aged 82 Miss Reed family to Chicago and Charlevoix Michigan for two months with news stand venture Rev Duckett and William Allen head to Montreal then England and London for visits Husman injured in farm accident fractures leg at John Bnabnit farm near Ryan Dodge sales contest won by O B Burrichter with 125 dollar silver set at Maples Inn with Cedar Rapids guests
Herbert Merrill of Council Bluffs, once a Robert Dairy company worker in Omaha, has stayed with relatives since his wife died in February 1921. Deaf mute since eight months old from scarlet fever, he now lives with his son, a fire truck driver, in Council Bluffs. It’s 30 years since he left Monticello.
Mr and Mrs Lowell Hicks of Detroit stay with his parents Mr and Mrs B G Hicks in their home. Mrs Hicks has been visiting her parents in Cedar Rapids for two months recovering from surgery. Lyle Hicks and daughter Margaret also plan visits, with Margaret summering at her grandparents and Lyle spending the Fourth in the old home before returning to his electrical business in Detroit.
Dr Louis Stuhler of the Mayo Clinic Rochester has been appointed a lecturer in urology at the University of Minnesota College of Medicine. He will maintain Mayo Clinic duties while teaching in Minnesota with periodic university lectures. His promotion last year to head of Mayo Clinic urology signals strong regard from University of Minnesota medical staff.
The legislature requires barber and cosmetician licensing with exemp tions for current practitioners if applications are filed by July 8 for cosmeticians and October 2 for barbers. After dates, exams and higher fees apply. The health board will set cleaning standards for shops. Local shops may attract patrons with extreme cleanliness and uniforms.
Gerke H. Bohlken, a longtime Scotch Grove township resident, died at home after years of ill health. Born September 25, 1848 in Repshalt Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1870 and settled in Jones County Iowa. He married Anna Margaret Tobiassen in 1875, had ten children, and was celebrated for a golden wedding in 1925. He survived by his widow, eight children, one brother, two brothers in Germany, one sister, and 29 grandchildren. Funeral services set for next Sunday at the family home and Wayne Center church.
A community schedule lists a morning parade featuring a street band Farm Bureau officers and 4 H leaders followed by a noon picnic at the fair grounds. An afternoon program includes music by Monti cello-Scotch Grove band an address by Dr H C Taylor and a 230 pm sports program. Weather notes and a resignation at the University of Dubuque conclude the page.
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