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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1918
Page
5
New millinery modes featured by Devlin Millinery with invites to inspect the latest 1918 spring styles. Local shoppers learn of opening days March 11 and 12 at Lanigan’s store and a rummage sale by Presbyterian ladies March 14 15 and 16 in town.
Monticello and nearby towns report residents visiting relatives in Cedar Rapids Center Junction and Iowa City. Local movers include wartime enlistment and thrift stamp updates while garden seed sizes and millinery events stir community activity.
Harry Meade of Manchester visits his grandmother Mrs. Cornelia Skelley. His sister Ruth and brother Harald joined as Sunday guests during the stay with relatives and family members mentioned in the piece.
Mrs. Lewis and her daughter from Hopkinton spent last Saturday visiting Martha and Ruth, the former’s daughters, who work as operators at the Bell Telephone Co. office. Mrs. Lewis plans to move to Monticello after seeking a house.
Mrs. D D Rorick left Oxford Junction for St Paul to visit her daughter. Monticello high schools girls basketball team and coach Ruth McClintock traveled to Earlville to play the Earlville team. The Crane theatre plans nightly programs next week. Farm tractor use rises due to labor scarcity with four Moline Universal tractors sold by Arend Balster of Scotch Grove. Food administration suspends porkless Saturday. meatless day not required except avoid pork and beets on Tuesdays. Q B Luethy moves to Monticello to work at Farmers' Mutual Creamery. An independent oil firm seeks a Monticello site to compete with Standard. Mr and Mrs Fred Smith return to Allen Saskatchewan after winter in Monticello. Mr Smith plans to sow a thousand acres of wheat there.
Howard Putnam says city moneys and credits stay at the old standard and liberty bond subscriptions this year have not reduced them. The Laude & Puleston company treated its employer to a theater party at Crane theater last Thursday. A song by Laude, with music and words by her mother Mrs W H Laude, was featured. Rufus Reeks, a U S Army soldier at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, enjoys a fifteen day through and visits his mother Mrs Alice Beeks. Jack Beeks has enlisted and will leave Monday for Jefferson Barracks.
A correction states the film shown at Princess theatre last Friday March 1 was a William Fox production not a Paramount picture. Fox pictures will thereafter be shown exclusively at the Crane theatre.
Mrs Patrick Hogan and her daughter Miss Jetta visited Cedar Rapids on Monday due to Mrs Mark Hogan illness. Jetta returned home Tuesday while Mrs Hogan planned a longer stay. Mrs Hogan’s condition showed some improvement.
Mrs Mary L Holub and daughter Mary along with Mr and Mrs Louis L Holub of Cedar Rapids and Mr and Mrs Wess Kohl of Iowa City visited Monticello on business last Tuesday They completed the transfer of their farm near the Linn county line to Tom Marek at 173 dollars per acre for the property
Mr and Mrs William Walker and daughter Alta, from Hartline Minnesota, finish a month with Rev and Mrs Walton and depart for Seymour Iowa and other Missouri and Kansas stops to visit. George Cowan, who rented his Prairieburg farm, will run it himself next year with Bert Shover as lead worker. Cowan splits time on the Monticello home farm. Real estate transfers on March 1 are down, banks report fewer transfers, deed values run high and some sellers must stamp deeds valued over 30 dollars.
Government entomologist E V Walter will visit Monticello on Wednesday afternoon March 12 to address Jones county farmers at the public library on the white grub problem. He will explain combat methods and crops to sow on land likely affected. Those who suffered crop losses from grubs in 1912 and 1915 are urged to attend.
John Dieteker and Miss Mary Guyan were married last Thursday at the parsonage of the German Reformed church by Rev. Roland Kuentzel. The groom, son of John Dieteker Sr. of Lovell township, is industrious and has good habits. The bride, daughter of Martin Guyan of Monticello, comes from a good family and is a fine young woman. They will reside in Castle Grove township.
District No. 4 in West Richland held a basket sociable last Saturday. Twenty five baskets sold for 56 dollars, children plates added three dollars, many baskets sold above two dollars. Husbands paid two fifty to two eighty for home cooking with wives. Net proceeds support school ranch work and mainly the Red Cross.
Richard J Redmond died last Tuesday the 5th of heart disease after a brief illness. The funeral was held at Sacred Heart church this morning. He was a widower and a wagon maker by trade in Downertown. He had lived in Monticello for twenty years and was born in Iowa on April 28 1858 to Irish parents. He leaves a family of grown children.
W. H. Sandhouse and Son of Madrid present in the U B neighborhood southeast of Des Moines marketed three unusually heavy hogs. The Poland China boar weighed 830 pounds and brought 180.72 dollars while two smaller pigs weighed a total of 790 pounds. All hogs sold to Chas Helms with the largest animal described as the heaviest he has ever purchased.
Mrs. Fred Burrichter marked her eighty eighth birthday on Tuesday March 5 with her Monticello family and visitors from Lost Nation. Born March 6, 1846 in Munging Germany she lived in Cincinnati before settling in Clinton County. She and husband Bowen’s Prairie resident for 22 years raised 13 children 10 living seven sons and three daughters. Thrift stamps sales rise in Monticello as government bond drives resume in April demanding duty from property owners and wage earners alike.
Richard Nabb aged about 70 died Monday morning March 4 at the Monticello home of his daughter Mrs. James Van Voltenburg after a brief illness. He had been in poor health through winter and had visited his daughter from Maquoketa the week prior. The body was taken to Maquoketa for funeral. Native of New York, he moved to Iowa as a child and lived near Maquoketa most of his life. He married Emaline Stevenson, who died two years ago, leaving three children Mrs. Herman Wellendorf Fulton Iowa Mrs. Harry Barrows Maquoketa and Mrs. James Van Voltenburg Monticello as well as two stepchildren James Stevenson Osage and Mrs. Cora Day Nebraska.
Chris Tschantz a noted farmer near Monticello died yesterday morning of quinsy at his home. Funeral at 11 tomorrow then 1 o'clock service at German Reformed church in Monticello led by Rev. Roland Kuentzel with Rev. A P Walton. He was born in Berne Switzerland March 17 1864 and married Sept 20 1887 to Jimma Thomas. six children, five surviving. Also details Rose Spiegel death and burial in Monticello with full survivor list and service info.
Walker Berlin visited town today for the first time since breaking his collar bone in a fall on the ice ten days earlier.
Dr. L. G. Stubler conducts eye examinations and fittings, offering prescription eyeglasses.
Spelling exams Friday. agriculture class tests seed corn. Girls basketball at Earlville. Monticello defeated 34 to 5. John Balear spoke in Latin class on good Latin results. District boys basketball tourney at Mt Varon this week. War savings stamps drive totals grow. Montreso schools raise $728.75 across four grades, $444 per pupil. New flag stars listed. Harriet Lubben and Lena Haeussler noted as Red Cross nurses. Schools contributed $268 to Y M C A fund and related gifts to Y W C A and soldiers athletic fund.
Mary Glennon Murray born 1821 in Ireland died at her Delaware County home aged 96 after a long illness. A former Monticello resident from 1863 to 1893 she was active in church and charity and is survived by a son, three daughters, and a granddaughter. Funeral services were held at St Patrick’s church with a large attendance and a high mass.
Farmers report scarcity of help and rising wages as itinerant workers travel from Illinois and other remote areas. Two men came Sunday seeking fifty dollars per month plus food, but were turned away. Some employers insist on reasonable contracts, while unreliable hands fear overwork and push excessive wages.
Miss Frieda Bohren daughter of County Supervisor Bohren and wife married John Yossi a Lovell township farmer at her parents home in Lovell township. The ceremony occurred at eleven with relatives present followed by a dance for many young people. The bride is amiable and attractive and will bring practical gifts to the new home. The couple’s energy and ambition promise success.
A. J. Carlson visited Davenport Tuesday and Wednesday for a grocers convention. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Palmer spent the day in Dubuque. Gates the insurance man C. N. Patrick fitted glasses.
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