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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1922
Page
11
A round of social visits fills the Cedar Rapids area with shopping trips to Anamosa and Dubuque. Drs. Cochrane and Stuhler advertise eye care while local businesses like Locher's and Peacock Shop push pianos candy and chocolate treats. A birth and insurance ads accompany community notes and upcoming church supper details.
Local notices cover church Lenten observances and baptisms, a sub-district declamatory contest March 10, and social gatherings. Readers are invited to shop, sample Stablers canned goods, and attend millinery openings while noting church services and county announcements.
Sunday incident reports a resident throwing crankcase oil onto a furnace fire causing a flare up. He is now under medical care.
Mr and Mrs Charles Beatty McKean celebrated their fifty years of marriage with a Tuesday afternoon event at their Monticello home. About fifty guests attended from Scotch Grove and local friends, with Rev Leonard Duckett presenting a gold purse from well wishers.
Mary Katherine Siebels Scherrer, born in Germany in 1881, died of double pneumonia at John McDonald Hospital on February 23. She came to America at age three, married Joseph Scherrer in 1914, and left four children aged 12 to 4, plus her mother and two sisters. Funeral services were held at their home, led by Rev. W. P. Ames, with interment at Oakwood cemetery.
Notice in The Express calls for a special school election to issue bonds for a site and new building in Monticello. The date shifts from March 27 to April 3 1922 to avoid conflict with the municipal election. Board actions were unanimous. Also reports Olive Johnson Cedar Rapids speaking on primaries and a fire destroying Frank Hiler’s former Monticello home and contents.
Monticello tops Center Junction 27 10 advancing to semi finals at Hopkinton where Anamosa defeats Monticello 24 9. Hopkinton wins team cup with 28 19 over Anamosa while Monticello earns third place by beating Springville 16 12. All Tournament Team includes Shelley Van Dusen Martin and Wilson.
All men attending the Metho dist church on Sunday evening March 5th will be invited to the platform for an informal song service seeking a range of vocal talents. Familiar hymns will be used and ladies are asked to listen but not criticize. W H Mitchell a guard at the Anamosa reformatory sustained serious injuries after a fall in a stone stairway with feared skull fracture.
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