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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1919
Page
2
Center Junction notes voter results with Mrs. Alsever reelected director by 27 votes to Mrs. Dodge's 18. The column covers war stamp sales, school averages, church activities, fund drives, and local visits, including Rev. Young's arrival, choir cantata, plays at the opera house, and community events through March.
James M. Bacon of Union township had his home destroyed by fire last week. Adjusters Kehoe and Donovan set the loss at 1836.35, origin likely a defective flue. The Farmers Mutual Insurance association reports strong business with over a million in risks and 15 new applications this week.
Sand Spring reports visits by Henry and Fred Bohlken and Mrs J L Batchelder to Hastings Minnesota to see a seriously ill mother Mrs John Bohlken. Monticello residents Ann Guthrie Ollie Smith and R J Guthrie family guests. Caspar Arduser elected director in school election. Various Monticello Manchester Cedar Rapids visits noted.
Prairieburg March 10 report notes Parker DeLancey and Miles Peet at Cedar Rapids business college visiting homes. A daughter born to Mrs Glenn Gardner. Gardner still in France. Gertrude Dye visited near Marion. John Stimpson visiting ill father Thomas Stimpson. Seward L Smith shipped a car load of fat hogs last week. Mrs BE L Murray visiting Dysart. Ed Burlingham and Richard Sage in Anamosa. Julia Rundle visited Prairieburg Friday. Carol and Bernice Wolmutt have the flu.
Hopkinton leader Mrs. Jennie Hopkins visited her mother Mrs. James Gray for a 70th birthday celebration. Milwakee death shocks relatives of W C Kirkwood, eldest son of A F Kirkwood. he was 58. Monticello boys shine winning their second tournament cup after a perfect, rule abiding performance. Mitt Bacon loses his Buck Creek road home to fire, origin blamed on a defective chimney. Frank W Houston dies at home in Union Township after years of illness linked to an infected toe and failed surgery.
The marriage of Miss Louise Catherine Leonard and Vincent A. English took place Tuesday at seven in St Peter's Church Temple Hill. A. P. Hamil received a California letter from his sister Mrs Jennie Coxsee reporting that L. P. Freeman died about two weeks earlier and that Mr Freeman and his sister Miss Allie had been residents of San Fernando California before moving there.
A survey was ordered for a Dubuque to Cascade military road as county planners target twenty miles this summer. Supervisors Curve and Bartels State Engineer Mann and Eugene Adams led talks aiming Macadam brick or surface gravel surfacing. Total cost expected at $500,000 with $300,000 from local and state sources and $100,000 from business subscriptions.
The Northwestern railway shipped 16 cars of ice from Green Bay to stock the local ice house for railway use. Delbert C. Peet and Miss Jessie L. Parsons wed at Cedar Falls on March 1. The county board of supervisors meets monthly on Tuesdays to maximize taxpayers’ value. N Maurice returned from New Mexico amid an Iowa blizzard. Lieut Bernard Beaman, an aviator, returned home after training and earning his commission. Recorder’s office staff tackle a heavy March 1 workload. Mr and Mrs B E Rhinehart celebrated their 25th anniversary with a surprise gathering and a shared supper, as Judge F O Ellison offered congratulations and a silver tea set.
Oxford residents petitioned the postoffice department to restore the Oxford Mills office after its discontinuation. A fire wrecked J H Lathrop’s north Fourth Avenue home destroying much furniture. hose failure hindered saving the building. Frank Moravec, from this city, is set to become postmaster replacing Frank Kenney who resigned last July.
The Monticello public library adds new titles now on shelves for distribution. Authors include Isabel Carleton Ashmun Colins Robert, Tarkington Magnificient Ambersons, Webster A American Family, Perkins The French Twins, Shell Scouting With General Pershing, and more.
School notes report absences and class activity at Monticello plus social box social proceeds and program details. Local events include property purchases, business changes at Jennings grocery, marriages, births, deaths, and civic appointments in Castle Grove township and surrounding areas.
The Monticello Express records March 1899 events: Peter Egger moves from Monticello to Randolph Nebraska on the 1st, Obadiah Faragher injures his left hand cutting wood on the 1st, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Smith relocate to Monticello from Madison and occupy the John Clark house, John Haeussler marries Lena Ehlers at the Coggon Methodist parsonage on the 1st, and A W Steiner sells his livery business on North Cedar Street.
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