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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1921
Page
2
The Monticello Express editors and proprietors set the subscription price at sixty two dollars per year. The notice lists J. W. Doxsee and Chas. A. Doxsee as editors and proprietors.
Center Junction March 1 report notes Madison township farm bureau meeting at Madison Center schoolhouse on March 9 with musical acts and talks, plus a Dutch treat coffee plan. Boys basketball team, led by W A Shupp and others, returned from Hopkinton and lost 23 to 26 to Central City.
In the Roy Kleineck home at Oxford, today Dale Dodge began his duties at the creamery. Mrs. Thomas Dawson has a kitchen cabinet for sale today.
Cascade columns report Mrs. Bridget O Connor died at Mercy Dubuque after illness. The Obituary follows her Cascade residence with relatives including McGovern sisters and Dubuque kin. Local births, marriages, moves, church appointments, and social events fill the week’s community notes. The community sees transfers to Monticello and Dubuque, school exam results, hospital updates, and a church funeral at Wyoming.
Wyoming news reports the death of Thomas and Harry Hansen at a Milwaukee railroad crossing near the new bridge south of town. The 16 and 18 year olds, sons of Mr and Mrs John Hansen, were killed when they failed to notice an east bound passenger train due at Oxford Junction. The train stopped and their bodies were taken to Oxford Junction. The community extends sympathy to the grieving family.
Castle Grove held a well attended farm bureau meeting with readings and talks at the Lutheran church. Mrs McLaughlin spoke on household life under the president and day to day luxuries, while 20 ladies hosted a postevent luncheon for Mrs Will Hiller preparing for a trip to Oregon.
Residents move in and out around Onslow and nearby towns with families shifting homes including Fred Larby, Mrs. Janie Bullock, Roy Bullock, and M. B. Walters. Officials note society meetings, travel plans to California, and multiple farm rental changes amid a week of local activity.
The Scotch Grove farm bureau lists a March 8 meeting with invocations, talks on California and poultry, seed plans, music by Miss Martha Hanken, and exhibit discussions. Local society items note the Blue Bird Class organized by Mrs. Clark’s Sunday school group, the Kiburz thirtieth wedding anniversary celebration, and several visits, births, and moves among residents. The next bureau meeting is set for March 8.
Community notes record residents moving near work, visits among families from Gestel Huggins Lang Mayer and Stevenson, plus Hopkinton Monticello Ryan and Lamont trips. Rooters attend Hopkinton gym basketball tournament. several couples and individuals are noted with short calls and visits.
Jos J. Holub relocated to the F. A. Kula farm on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Kula plan moving to Cedar Rapids, while Mrs Kula hosted a small gathering for friends before leaving.
Town ladies held a Tuesday dinner at a farewell party. Prairieburg residents express thanks to Coggan Christians who conducted Sunday morning services at the MBE church. Mrs F McLaughlin and Mr Henry Henderson were shopping in Cedar Rapids Tuesday. Teachers attended a Marton convention. Mrs Glen Gardner of Springville visited parents here. Margery Came has been ill for several days. Mr and Mrs J B Flaherty of Anamosa visited Sunday.
A Boston Transcript note observes jail counts as comparatively low, stating the facilities are notably underfilled and inviting questions about policy or crime trends. The remark highlights a striking contrast with expected occupancy levels.
A Sioux City Journal item notes a Northwestern coed walked the cold windy beach from 10 p m to 6 a m with a biblical student awaiting a marriage proposal. It praises her endurance and links dawn proposal to reviving the saying about extracting love from an iceberg by patient waiting.
The National Republican cites a socialist Paris organ predicting Japan will war with the United States and accuses President Harding of precipitating it soon. The piece treats the socialist forecast as a nightmare for critics rather than a firm claim.
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