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Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 02, 1922

Page

15

Local Cedar Rapids Notes Highlight Community Activities

Miss Ann Stirton spends last Saturday in Cedar Rapids while Dr W J Cochrane travels to Dubuque. Mrs Ida Kissling and Mr Bernard Fagan welcome a ten pound boy this week. Community ads showcase Locher's phonographs, Bader's Cafe, and Sam Reade’s shoe repair. Various visits to Anamosa Manchester Waterloo and Wyoming plus church events and insurance offers round out a busy local update.

Ann Stirton Cedar Rapids Bernard Fagan

Monticello Notes Include Church Lent Observance and Local Happenings

Mobile of events across Monticello include Lent observed by Catholic and Lutheran churches, a sub-district declamatory contest, new residents moving in, a birth at McDonald hospital, and local visits. Other items mention canned foods week promotions, millinery openings, lectures, club meetings, and a hog loss due to high water.

Monticello Opera House The Express

Monticello News Highlights Local Fire Accidents and Weddings

A fire accident injures Thomas Warner when crankcase oil ignites as he starts a furnace fire at his home. The Fannie McLees estate sells two Sycamore Street houses for 4600 to Leroy Clark Sr. Carlos Eiler fractures his leg and arm in a horse accident at Hol-Hiler farm. Monticello and Hollywood visits are noted among residents. The Monticello basketball season ends with a game at Manchester after a strong showing. The 1921 flood impacts the area with ice damage and a washed-out Maquoketa bridge. Congregational church hosts a world mission program with Dr. P Adelstein Johnson as speaker. Michael O’Brien hosts a surprise farewell gathering with neighbors. Martin W. Albertson dies in Elbridge New York at 58. The Monticello-Scotch Grove concert band opens its season at Center Junction with a benefit for Center Junction and upcoming shows at Hopkinton and Monticello. Robert Reed dies in Clarinda at 97, a Wayne Township founder. Miss Susanna Heisey and George Carleton Tyler wed in Ortonville Minnesota after a leg injury delays Monticello ceremony.

Olden wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Charles Beatty McKean

Mr and Mrs Charles Beatty McKean celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their Monticello home last Tuesday afternoon with fifty guests. Rev Leonard Duckett spoke, a purse of gold was given, and the couple shared thanks and memories.

Charles Beatty McKean Monticello Scotch Grove Two Charles Beatty McKean Leonard Duckett Presbyterian ‘Church McKean Mr. McKean Carroll County Ohio James A. McKean Nancy Smith McKean Scotch Grove Wayne Township

Mrs. Mary Scherrer dies of double pneumonia in Monticello

Mrs. Mary Katherine Stebels Scherrer, born December 22 1881 in Schorteng Qiden burg Germany, died February 23 at John McDonald hospital after a brief illness. Survived by husband Josaph Scherrer and four children Alfred Harold Edward and Josephine. mother Mrs Siebels. sisters Mrs Robert Phelps and Mrs Henry Moenk. Funeral held from Scherrer home conducted by Rev W P Ames. interment Oakwood cemetery.

Joseph Scherrer John McDonald Hospital Scherrer Schorteng Qidenburg Germany Mary Katherine Stebels Josaph Scherrer Alfred Harold Edward Josephine Monticello W. P. Ames First Congregational Church Oakwood Cemetery Mr. Scherrer

New Date Set for Special Bond Election in Monticello

A special school election to issue bonds for a site and new school building in Monticello was rescheduled from March 27 to April 3, 1922 to avoid conflicts with the municipal election. The board, after learning of the municipal date, annulled prior actions and reset the vote, uniting the directors in support of the necessary funding. The article also notes the Linn county primaries discussion by Olive Johnson of Cedar Rapids and reports a Monticello home fire destroying Frank Biler's goods.

Monticello the Express Board of Education League of Women Voters Olive Johnson Cedar Rapida Johnson Linn County Frank Biler Prairieburg Biler Carrie Page

Monticello Defeats Center Junction in Tournament Play

Monticello racked up a 27 10 win over Center Junction to reach the semifinals at Hopkinton. Anamosa then beat Monticello 24 9 in the semifinal, while Hopkinton edged Anamosa 28 19 in the final to claim the cup with Monticello taking third after a 16 12 win over Springville.

Raymond Jacobs Monticello Manchester Hopkinton Tata Lenox College Dundee Anamosa Monti van Dusen Skelley Springville Schneider Cedar Rapids Center Junction Wyoming Epworth Coggan Oneida Martello Shelley Martin Wilson McMurren Erhmal Farnham Kentucky

Metho dist church invites men to informal hymn sing along

Meth odist church calls all men to the March 5 platform sing along inviting strong singers and others with familiar hymns. Ladies welcome to attend and not critique. W H Mitchall notes and T J Levy reports a guard at Anamosa reformatory injured after a fall down a stone staircase with possible skull fracture.

W. H.mitchall

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