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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1915
Page
7
Numerous short notes report residents visiting nearby towns including Anamosa and Cedar Rapids. Mentions include W. A. Adama Fred Barton Mina Harriett Hall and others, with ads for Doutrick's millinery and Deatrick's fabrics plus eye testing and film developing services.
Orlando Rundle returns from Roundup Montana for a brief visit. Local society actions include a K P banquet for members, D A R meeting in Anamosa, and a Working Band food sale planned at Deutrick's store. Neighbors travel, marriages, licenses, and family visits fill the week with school and church events.
Robert Stirton and Harvey Richardson traveled to Cedar Rapids with plans to support Montisello basketball. Illnesses spread among several residents including Hd Porter, Mrs John Reichart, Louis Hoag, and a Wayne township child. Frank M Benedict broke several ribs last Monday while working on a farm. C M Brown offered nursing aid. A G Hanken advertises funeral furnishings and caskets with contact Black 136.
A basketball game is planned for next Friday at the gymnasium between Monticello high school girls and Anamosa high school girls' club. Doors open at 7 30 pm with the game set for 8 pm No reserved seats.
Readers are urged to join the Improvement Club at once and attend a complimentary banquet on the 19th. Dues scale: business and professionals six dollars with six dollars yearly, clerks two fifty with three dollars yearly, others one dollar with one dollar yearly. The grand jury reports fifteen indictments, ten against bootleggers, with arrests pending. A boy named George Rickels suffered a left arm fracture while operating a power saw. Dr. Mirick attended. Monticello women discuss forming a civic league to improve the city, with a committee chosen for officer candidates. The Oxford Company will perform at the opera house on March 18, last in the club’s entertainment series, presenting Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado in part, with four performers plus pianist and a varied program.
Report from Monticello describes a kitchen entry with a skeleton key and theft of ice cream intended for guests. The incident is labeled a burglary by authorities and locals note the prankish act may carry penitentiary punishment, urging youths to consider legal consequences.
The government has extended quarantine rules, adding parts of Washington, Clay, and Richland townships beyond five miles from Lehner farm to exposed territory. Livestock within the outer zone may be shipped for immediate slaughter on inspection and removed after a health certificate by the inspecting veterinarian.
A union effort by the Presbyterian Methodist Episcopal and Congregational churches aims to bring all resident members to their own churches each Sunday in March and on Easter Sunday April 4 The plan seeks to quicken spiritual life and extend the Kingdom of God with union devotional meetings during Lent at Methodist Episcopal church March 11 Presbyterian church March 18 and Congregational church March 25.
A public meeting in Monticello reviewed a proposal for a cooperative packing plant with an estimated $150000 investment including $75000 for buildings and equipment and $75000 working capital. George Boeck of Burlington spoke on profitability, direct farmer deliveries, and management from Cincinnati sources. Mrs. William Quirk of Oxford Junction died after a long illness, survived by husband and three children.
Heirs contest the March 6 1914 probate in Jones county district court arguing the April 18 1905 will and January 18 1914 codicil are invalid due to testator's alleged incompetence and undue influence. Contest focuses on a $150000 charitable trust portion and a bank trustee plan benefiting Jones county needy.
A county officer tests a naturalization candidate with a question on the vice presidency. Confusion and misremembered names surface as observers debate whether Hiram Johnson or Thomas Marshall held the role, prompting a newspaper man to settle the point.
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