Social notes from Iowa towns feature visits and travel
A chain of social notices lists Miss Nell Hubbard visiting Waterloo last Friday, Mrs. Louis Lang with Epkinton relatives, Oscar Newton on a Cedar Rapids business trip, and many others. Mrs. Harry Rodmann and son spent time in Center Junction, while Mrs. C. W. Rollins visited Marion. Several attendees traveled to Cedar Rapids, Strawberry Point, Iowa City, and Anamosa for funerals, visits, or legal matters. Households record gatherings with relatives, friends, and professionals, including attorneys Reed and Ich in Anamosa, and musical entertainments by Rickless' orchestra in Center Junction.
Monticello Local Notes Include Visits and Sales
Monticello chatter covers travels to Cedar Rapids Dubuque and Fort Atkinson. Residents buy Quaker flour Big D and Stuhler products, shop sales at Peterson's Clothes Shop with specials, and local events like O E S meetings and a rummage sale.
Lovell Farmer Shifts Fat Steers to Chicago Market
F W Hintz of Lovell township shipped two car loads of his own fattening steers to Chicago last Monday. He secured a strong market and earned upwards of 18 cents per pound on most of the cattle. Miss Minne McLaughlin hosted an afternoon party that Monday for her mother Mrs John McLaughlin as a surprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. .Hintz
Lovell Township
Chicago
Minne. McLaughlin
John McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Matt Faber Returns Home After Winter Illness
Matt Faber, who visited Canada with his sons, was kept there during winter with inflammatory rheumatism. He has recovered enough to return to his home at the northern limits of Bowen's Prairie. Cedar Rapids Oil Co plans a filling station at First and Main streets early spring, requiring removal of the former residence on the lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matt Faber
Canada
Bowen's Prairie
Cedar Rapids Oil Company
First
Main Streets
Navy Recruit Ray Slick Returns to Norfolk
Ray Slick comes back to Norfolk Virginia last Saturday after visiting his mother Mrs Emmaline Gillispie. He remains aboard a receiving hospital ship in Norfolk with a year of service left before his current enlistment ends. Mrs Robert Limerly of Drummond Idaho visits her parents Mr and Mrs D B Hanawalt. Mrs Ernest Speedy and her baby of Allison also return home after a visit to the Hanawalt home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Adams
Baby
Solon
J. G. Suter
Ray Slick
Norfolk
Virginia
Emmaline Gillispie
Navy
Robert Limerly
Drummond
Idaho
Alice Hanawalt
D. B. Hanawalt
Ernest Speedy
Allison
John H. Fraser
G. H. George
College of Medicine
Illinois State University
Champaign
Illinois
University Hospital
Monticello
Iowa
Monticello Sale Brings Unmatched Prices on Boyswear
Peterson Clothes Shop announces a one day event on Saturday March 22 featuring steep discounts on boys waists odd pants and shoes. Dr. and Mrs. L G Stuhler return from Chicago after three weeks with Dr Stuhler taking an X ray course and planning to install a new X ray machine in his office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterson Clothes Shop
Monticello
Peterson
Peterson’s
L. G. Stuhler
Chicago
Stuhler
Death of Miner daughter in Anamosa after Glenwood school
The eldest daughter of William Miner died in Anamosa last week after living there since the family moved from Monticello in the past year. She had spent a year at the Glenwood Institute for Feeble-minded Children. The funeral was held last Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Miner
Anamosa
Monticello
Institute
Glenwood
Demobilization orders reach Mitch ell Northrop in Germany
Mitchell Northrop, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Northrop, has been ordered to return to France for demobilization after serving with a contingent in Germany. He did not indicate when he would be able to return to the United States. Local news notes a series of items including heavy rainstorms, school parents days planned for late March and early April, and updates on displacement and discharge prospects for veterans. The piece also mentions community events and a sermon schedule at the Methodist church and a meeting of Ivy Lodge Knights of Pythias with a talk on good roads to follow a supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivy Lodge No. 87
Knights of Pythias
Ward Wergeson
Iowa
Ferguson
Lodge
City street committee to replace tar walks with cement
The street committee of the city council met last Monday to identify old tar walks aged about twenty years for replacement with cement. They located walks to be condemned and will issue notices to adjacent property owners to carry out the changes.
Monticello Soldier Weds Cedar Rapids Bride
Arthur Winans, a Monticello native and Army veteran, married Grace Buttles of Cedar Rapids in Monticello on the lth inst. They will live in Cedar Rapids where Winans works. The Princess Theater held a patriotic program for returning servicemen with BE. B. Reed’s welcome address and a Jazz band providing music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Winans
Monticello
Grace Buttles
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Winans
Princess Theater
BE. B. Reed
America
St John’s Lutheran Sets Meeting For Endowment Drive
St John’s Lutheran church will hold a special meeting next Sunday after morning service to perfect plans for participation in the Lutheran Laymen’s drive for a three million dollar endowment. The fund supports superannuated or incapacitated ministers professors teachers or dependents of the Missouri Ohio Synod and others. All communicants are urged to attend. if weather or road conditions worsen the meeting is postponed one week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Synod of Missouri
Ohio
Train wreck near Panama Town injures and kills
Mrs. William Altman rode the C M and St Paul train when it struck a horse, pushing engine tender and mail car into a ditch. The fireman, an extra man, was killed in the turn over. Engineer T L Johnson of Perry, Ida Ryan’s husband, was burned slightly escaping steam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Altman
C. M
T. L. Johnson
Perry
Monticello
Ida Ryan
Geese mix up leads to tame loss and neighborly peace
Herman Hanken mistook tame geese for wild fowl and shot four, later discovering the birds belonged to neighbor T. J. George. He reconciled with George and admitted poor eyesight. The item also notes a comical war souvenir, a cootie embalmed in parasine with service stripes, captured February 23, now drawing local curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Hanken
T. J. George
Herman
Tom
Milton Stott
France
George Barntg
Milton
George
Rhodes
Accidental Shooting Fatal to Jesse Gray in Hopkinton
A coroner's inquest in Hopkinton found Jesse Gray died from an accidental gunshot after Mrs. George Huggins discharged a 38 caliber revolver while they and Gray sat on a bed in the Huggins home. Gray had come from Oelwein to visit. no quarrel was found. The Hugginses, married last November, are about 18, as is Gray. Gray's relatives were not located.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinton
Jesse Gray
George Huggins
Gray
Oelwein
Huggins
High School Notes Broadcast by Mary Heyen
Mrs Adams a former mathematics teacher visited the school and led opening exercises on Thursday morning. The seniors take an extra National Service course. The high school celebrated St Patrick day and a civics class joke and a question about senate officers. Electric bells are now in daily use. There will be two community sings in the opera house tomorrow evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Patrick
Senate
Twenty Fifth Anniversary of March 1894 Monticello Notices
A reel of Monticello marriage births deaths and moves from March 1894. Butter prices 22 cents. Miss Mary McConnon, Roxanna Sleeper, J. W. Merrill moves and sales totaling $2000. Several marriages include Kate Burkhart Chris Hartman Anna Hanken Henry Tudkin Louise Schneider John Hallauer. Local officials elected at Center Junction. Gard Hicks graduates dentistry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Express
Michael Turnis
Bowen's Prairie
Kate Burkhart
Chris Hartman
Frank Lubben
Baldwin
H. Oltmannig
Scotch Grove
Susan Flint
Willis, Raffety
Cascade
Mary McConnon
J. W. Merrill
Grand and
Cedar Streets
D. W. Sumter
Henry Freese
Bowen’s Prairie
Catherine Halsey
Wyoming
Thomas G. Richardson
Wayne Township
Gard F W. Hicks
College of Dentistry
State University of Iown
Iowa City
Messrs
Frank McConnon
WW. Reed
Edward Lang
Bth
Ames
Agricultural College
Edward Denny
Castle Grove Township
Roxanna Sleeper
J. T. Sleeper
Monticello
John Heisey
Anna Hanken
Henry Tudkin
Lutheran Church
C. Mardort
J. W. Bissell
D. D
Upper Iowa University
Mayotte
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. Collman
Tripp
South Dakota
Mary Meyer
John Meyer
Fred Messers
Nancy J. Lockwood
Sloan
Iowa
Wooamall
Jank Thompson
Frances Thompson
Charles A. King
S. Farwell
Jarman
Mary Jarman
Monticello High School
Babetta Youst
John Deitiker
Lovell Farm
I. J. Gruenstein
D. G. Hazard
Edgar Hubbard
Hazard & Hubbard
D. D. Rorick
Miller
Oxford Junction
Knoxville
Hth
Louise Schneider
Jacob Schneider
John Hallauer
Id. Gruenstein
The
Reformed Church
Community Sing at Opera House Planned Friday Night
A community sing is set for Friday at the opera house starting 7 30 p m The hour will feature a varied program with songs such as America Onward Christian Soldiers Battle Hymn of The Republic Keep the Home Fires Burning Love's Old Sweet Song When the Boys Come Home and The Star Spangled Banner performed by mixed voices and the boys and girls glee clubs
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
America
C. G. Thomas
Christian Endeavor party at Presbyterian basement
A March 28 Christian Endeavor event at the basement of the Presbyterian church invites all to attend for a night of fun and food. Admission is 20 cents. postponed once for a community sing. Mrs. Mary Lacy marked her 83rd birthday on the 17th with daughters Kinzer of Seattle and Littlefield of Chicago helping. She has lived in Iowa for 75 years, mostly in Dubuque, now in Monticello with Nellie. Also advertised are menswear sales at Peterson's Clothes Shop and Devlin Millinery's hat display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
Mary Lacy
Kinzer
Seattle
Washington
Littlefield
Chicago
Lacy
Iowa
Dubuaque
Monticello
Nellie
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. Doxsee
Chas. A. Doxsee
G. Burrichter
Home News
A. P. Walton
Cedar Rap
Oscar Newton
Lena Zimmerman
Devlin Millinery
Michael Huebsch
Cedarpids
Louis “Waddick
Harry McGarvey
Henry Carpenter
Henry Carlson
Nell Hubbard
Waterloo
Louis Lang
Epkinton
Jack Rosenstein
Marion
John Lambert
Mrs
Peter Smith
Center Junction
Harry Rodmann
Stors
C. W. Rollins
John Wenger
Bliss Martha Balcar
Sony
Smith’s
Harold Deischer
M. M. Huebsch
Strawberry Point
Irs
John Fluckiger
Viola
Elative
Vari
EH. E. Reed
V. Oqich
Legal Basiis
Largesse Terwilliger
Cedar Ids
A. Palmer
Flaquoketa
Ils
Joe Egan
Cedar Sids
Egan and
Anta
Steach Mary Coxsee
Janet Mc
Rank Meade
Manchester
E. E. Ks
Esdames
Andrew Kasper
Hen Carlson
H. D. Freeman
Fel
Maquoketa
Fd McLaughlin
de Rickless
Cen- Junction
Bic
Fred Dahling
Glen Tutt
Margaret Quirk
Dubuque
Baker
A. W. Steiner
Liss Lulu Hoskins
Fredda Moore
Fred Kellum
Nell Shankland
Fred Darrow
J. Stanford
Mona
Fred ‘Slauson
Mabel
Katherine Young
Bertha Locher
Thomas _ Porter
Cliff Main
Claire Loubek
Fort Atkinson
Ruth Whitsell
Epworth
Aebi
Stahler’s
John Schweitzer, Jr
Harry Rodman
Clinton
Nicholas Kehoe
Jack Pelly
Second Street
A. W. Steiner Grocery Store
William Netcott
Texas
Gladys Smits
Kate Stuhler
Milo Adams
Olive Adams
George Lovell
J. H. Huyck
New York State
Charles Gardner
United States
H. D. Stripe
Jewel Tea Company
Mazie Meyer
Cedar Rapids Business College
Geo. Stuhler’s Sons Co
Carl Rabenau
West
Mr. Rabenau
A. W. Steiner Grocery
David Corbitt
Rock River
Fern Hubbard
Elmer Hubbard
B. Baxter
A. Chrisman
George Stott
Charles Stott
Big D
George Stuhler
W. W. Hogan
Brownsdale
Minnesota
George Hubbard
Chris Bohiken
Nee Otten
Saskatchewan
George W. Craft
Farmers and Merchants State Bank
C. H. Huntington
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Odd Fellow’s Hall
W. H. Huntington
Ada Hassenpfing
Ordway
A. V. Scott
Dr. Redmond
Express
C. Kettleson
Inlaw
Floyd Shew
Des Moines
Camp Dodge
Shew
Mexico
China
Russia
Methodist Church
Monticello Improvement Club
Lovell House
Joe L. Long
Greater Iowa Association
Long
Improvement Club
Mary Heyen
Dixie
Star Spangled Banner Boys’ Glee Club
Christian Endeavor Party
Peterson's Clothes Shop
Fiduciary, Insurance, Safety Deposit and Savings Departments
Lowell State Bank
Monticello Roller Mills
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