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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1920
Page
11
A long list of social visits and events from Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns. Dr. Redmond and Dr. George Alberry appear among medical references. Devlin Millinery promotes new spring styles with a March 13 display. Various residents travel, host, or visit relatives in Monticello, Davenport, Dubuque, and Ames amid society notices and a navy veteran’s homecoming.
The Monticello area features a high school concert Friday March 6 at the opera house with glee clubs performing. Local residents travel to Mt Clemens for health treatments and family visits. a wireless project at the high school progresses.
Community notices cover a teacher's family bereavement in Central City, mortgage real estate trends, Langworthy Creamery shutdown with 1919 output and patron refunds, funerals for Barney Magee James Hogan and Menno Siebles, a milk business sale to Edwin Wilcox, and a high school basketball tournament plan involving 25 schools with travel and lodging details.
Dr J P Lane of Cascade died at Mercy hospital Dubuque on Sunday morning after a two month illness caused by an ulcerated tooth. He is survived by his wife Mary B Leyden and three children Coleman Lucile and Katherine and his mother Mrs Joseph O Rourke of Monticello. Interment followed at St Johns Catholic church Independence where requiem mass was held. He was born in Castle Grove township Jones county in June 1880 and graduated from Creighton medical college in 1906.
Mark Reade won first prize in the Monticello high school essay contest on The Benefits of an En listment in the United States Army. Ted Koop took second and Boihl Perrine third. Prizes were 10 36 and 2 60 dollars from Gildner Bros. Hughes. Thirty four students wrote within a 400 word limit. The top essay also earned a chance at a national prize and a Washington trip with a medal from Secretary Bakar.
Mark Reade extols enlistment in the U S Army as the best path for today’s young man. Health, education, and a clear life purpose are gained through service, with pay from at least $30 a month, schooling opportunities, and trade training across branches. Army life builds character, discipline, teamwork, and citizenship benefiting both individual and country.
America offers opportunity with a new university division for education and citizenship for foreigners. Enlistees gain health through daily gymnastics, potential postings abroad, travel education, and wages of 30 dollars monthly with government paid expenses. Insurance, pensions, and postwar educational benefits aid families, while moral growth, self reliance, and business readiness follow. Ex soldiers get college training and job preference with corporations, making service a source of pride.
Beihi Perrine extols enlistment in the U S Army under the Peace Time Army Plan. The article highlights educational and specialized training, offering soldiers the chance to learn a craft or trade while serving and to gain future opportunities.
The Monticello Express lists March events from marriages births and deaths to business changes and public works. Notable items include a newborn daughter to Ellis Diy and a son to Henry Harrs, property sales in Castle Grove and Wayne townships, a newly formed J B Zimmerman firm, and a water well breakthrough near Proctor store.
The speaker notes cars are hard to obtain with rising prices and little control. They urge placing orders early for Overland Oaklands Paige and Dodge models and remind Mr Farmar to order a tractor, highlighting Moline Universal and tuber tractors as options.
The Republicans of Monticello will hold a caucus at city hall next Monday evening March 8 at 9 30 for nominating candidates to be voted on at the city election set for March 29. The event is organized by the Committee.
Mrs Perry recounts opening a seaside home last May to find rats gnawing upholstery. She credits RAT-SNAP as a cake form bait that requires no mixing and reduces mess. The product is sold in three sizes 25 cents 60 cents and a dollar by A J H McNeill FP J Kay and Qo Stuhlers Sons Co.
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