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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1925
Page
7
Local visitors to Cedar Rapids Hopkinton and Oxford Junction are listed including Mrs L Lang Mrs M H Teeter and Mr and Mrs J B Ommen. Devlin Millinery announces spring hats and Lanigan and McNeill Hardware preview open houses with new patterns and tools. A baby born to Mr and Mrs A G Bohlken and a baby boy reported for Mr and Mrs Dave Corbett.
Monticello community news highlights visits by teachers and relatives, births and illnesses, upcoming events at Cross Hardware and local churches, auctions and sales, and a variety of social happenings from March. Includes bake sales, dances, rummage sales, and a St Patrick dance with Clark's Orchestra.
G Russell Stuhler departs for South Bend Indiana to join the South Bend Lathe Company. He will secure lodging first, then his wife and daughter will join him. The family extends best wishes for his new position.
Edward Machartt joins Monticello Electric Co to assist in all lines. Monticello court sessions open for Jones county term. Sheriff, voters, and school election updates. Fire department cleans chimney blaze at Widmer home. auction planned for March 14. local club meetings and hospital staffing shifts noted. Debating contest semi finals set for Cascade with Polk, Dubuque, Boone teams. memorials for Albert Chapman and Lyceum season ends with profit of $195 and plans for next year successors.
A Monticello gym program displayed the district’s physical education work for 1924 25. Primary through senior grades performed in a full gymnasium with marching groups ball games folk dances and flag and loyalty drills under instructors Mr and Mrs Lawrence Whitford.
Four Cascade men Lippert Gearhart Leytem and McDermott found skeletons in Half Hill cave along the Maquoketa river ten miles south of Cascade. Bones include children remains and jaw bones, with cave openings small forcing crawls. Authors plan further exploration to solve the long dormant mystery. Carl Albertson of San Jose, California, dies of cancer aged, with ties to Jones county. Cascade wins Class B basket title at Dubuque defeating Sacred Heart 16 to 13, receives president's cap from Columbia College.
The late President Harding’s picture will appear again on postage stamps beginning April 15 with the new postal rates. The 1 4 cent stamp features the same portrait as the Harding memorial 2 cent issue and will be used for third class mail. A 1 4 cent stamped envelope with Washington’s profile is also prepared. New stamps include a 15 cent special delivery in light canary yellow and a 20 cent motor mail wagon stamp for larger parcels. A 26 cent Special Handling stamp in plain blue speeds parcel delivery.
About 100000 former Iowans gathered at Lincoln Park to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Town Association of Southern California. Polk Linn Marshall Black Hawk and Woodbury counties topped registrations with nearly 3000 and 2000 respectively. The event featured electric trains from Long Beach and 50000 attendees by noon with a plan to build a 250000 Iowa Memorial Hall at Whittier College.
Special dispatch praises James Laude of Town and Hector Janse as they close their college basketball careers. It recalls Laude's speed and key role in Iowa's success, including a 20 to 12 victory over Chicago in a notable 1960s conference game.
Sarah Waterman born April 3 1844 at St Croix Minnesota moved to Iowa at age three. She married Fred Lawrence on February 25 1886 and lived on a Monticello area farm for 56 years producing eight children. She died March 4 1926 after fifteen months with daughter Mrs Josephine Grant and will be buried beside her husband in Monticello cemetery with funeral services at the Grant home Friday at 9:00 conducted by Rev Frank C Worcester.
State University lab in Iowa City examined Monticello water last month reporting it satisfactory. Results show earthy odor, no color or sediment, ammonia nitrogen 0.064, nitrate 0.1, chlorine 16.0, alkalinity 296.0, bacteria counts minimal with no coli group present. Grand jury returned eight indictments. Ed Margay and Joe Day faced liquor related charges with guilty pleas and fines. Day’s wife case continued. Schoon pleaded guilty to liquor nuisance with $300 fine. Adams and Slater indicted for breaking and entering with pleas recorded.
Witnesses at the Monticello Dubuque game include Mr and Mrs Merle Cass Winfield Carl Hartman Walter Zubler Clarence Matthiessen Fred J Kay Lee Bartlett Arch Koop Harry Rodman James Rhatigan Ike Schneider Jr and John Boss.
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