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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1916
Page
9
The Monticello area page lists visits by Andrew Davidson Gus Rickless Rev George Hauck and many others to Cedar Rapids Davenport and surrounding towns. Residents including Mrs J M Bowie and Miss Hazel Hoag are noted visiting or traveling to Houston Des Moines Sterling and Omaha with Millington and Foster Clothing Co. promotions mentioned.
The column records numerous local events. Peter Smyth suffers days of illness with severe hiccups while residents meet births, marriages, and moves. Notable items include Miss Gertrude Casey’s return from Rapid, the Cross Hardware contract for Greely school plumbing, weddings of Nadine Kenyon and Marion Sturgis with Gladys Gordon, and Lula Rieken’s marriage to Herman Dirks. Public figures discuss equal suffrage as Ella S. Stewart addresses Monticello library audiences urging Iowa in future nationwide suffrage.
George Green's train struck a switch engine at Davenport causing a damaged mail car and two hour delay into Monticello. Mail clerk Harl Kelsey was bruised. substitute Orlando C Curtis handled duties. Confusion over vacancies and local events followed as town residents noted weddings and civic meetings.
R. J. Pearse of Iowa State College Extension will present an illustrated talk on Landscape Gardening at the Congregational church Friday at eight. The event, under the Women’s Club, invites farmers and town residents to learn proper wind breaks and garden and building arrangement. The lecture is free and aimed to attract a full house.
In Center Junction two women, Mrs M G Alsever and Mrs George McDonald, contest three year and two year school director seats against men of the progressive school system. The county watches as suffrage supporters monitor the race where voters choose between male and female officers.
The seventh and eighth graders plan an operetta in the Monticello opera house on March 17 in Dutch costumes. Proceeds fund a Victrola for lower grades. The plot centers on Bob Yankee and wind mills with romance. sixty to seventy children perform with Maude Goodher on violin and Pearl Heisey on piano. Tickets sold by students. support a good cause.
The body of Louise Grassmeyer wife of August Grassmeyer was brought to Monticello for burial after dying March 1 in Randolph Nebraska at age 85. Rev S Ide led services at Oakwood Cemetery. She lived in Monticello 1870 1901 and was recalled as a remarkable, well educated but frail woman with strong memory and reading habit. Her children are Mollie Rogers Randolph NE and John Grassmeyer Strawberry Point IA.
Services at the family home last Saturday honored Dr. W A Mirick with a large crowd from the medical community and families who relied on his care for thirty years. Rev Charles E Cushman led the Congregational rites with hymns by Mesors and Mrs F Stubler, while Masonic ritual was performed by Past Master Ervin E Reed and brethren. Interment followed at Oakwood cemetery with active pallbearers led by A J H McNeill and honored by R O Stirton and others. Also noted is the death of J H Hogg in Hays Kansas from heart trouble after influenza, with services held in Hays and burial there. Hogg leaves a widow, three sons, a daughter, and several siblings.
The fire whistle is now in working order at the Hoag Duster factory. All future calls made by the whistle should be heeded by the fire department members. H. B. Lee, Marshal.
The Monticello Improvement Club held its third annual banquet at the Lovell House with 117 members attending. Speakers BE S Shortens and H A Orchard spoke on cooperation, community unity, and business planning, followed by Orchard’s humorous tales and a booster-themed poem. J N Staff praised the Lovell House dining, and the evening featured music from the Ricklefs orchestra and a Monticello Improvement Club quartet.
Rev. A. P. Walton, recently elected pastor of the Presbyterian church, will be formally installed next Wednesday evening the 15th at 7 46. The public is invited to attend. The program includes prayers sermons anthems scripture and charges to the pastor and congregation. Millinery and spring suits advertised locally. Eyes tested and glasses fitted by Dr. Brubler.
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