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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1922
Page
15
A rugged husky shoe praised as the Dreadnaught of all shoes. It is highlighted for horse hide through and through with reinforced stitching and durable soles. The leather is named the toughest on earth by the Boston Vocational School and is even used to cover league baseballs.
Community residents will vote on the school bond issue on April 24. The item appears in today’s home news alongside notes of locals visiting Cedar Rapids and Davenport, and various ads for hats, phonographs, and millinery offerings.
Monticello area residents are noted visiting relatives in Des Moines Cedar Rapids and Davenport while local stores promote insurances watches bake sales and household goods. Confirmations gifts and school bond notices appear alongside social visits and family announcements in a bustling community page.
Hattendorf's Auto Top offers new tops Gypsie rear curtains and seat covers for all makes of cars. The ad also notes a visit by Mr and Mrs George Ambueh to Nebraska and a Rotary club convention in Sioux Falls. A kerosene stove fire at M J Hogan residence is reported as quickly extinguished.
A column recalls Monticello women pursuing private rhythmic exercise to music to slim down. It jokes about the tunes and notes the role of diet, urging lean foods and a sympathetic cook. The piece laments overextended waistlines and reflects on weight loss efforts with humor.
Lovell township farm bureau will meet in the public library on Tuesday March 28 at 1 30 p m. The program features community singing led by O Crane recitation by Esther Eden solo Sibyl Hutton house cleaning tips by Mrs Frank Hayden Better roads discussion by Herman Harms William Hanken Mike Breen Jr Ed Rice Reuben Dress William Hiller moving pictures Visit of the Victors The North Wind Masonry Niagara Falls in Winter comedy Sauce for the Goose and other items. notices diffused this year replace prior mailed cards and time is 1 30 not 2 o'clock.
A Sunday evening program at the Methodist church features the Ladies Chorus Trombone Solo and various choirs and soloists. Monticello public schools announce their second annual visitors day on March 30 with classroom displays and an operetta by the high school glee clubs in the evening. The report also covers settlements in three bank cases in Jones County, and a wedding in Manchester of James Milroy’s son to Sarah Nichols with detailed nuptial attendants.
Monticello voters will decide on a new school house bond issue April 24 after an error caused four weekly notices to be missed. A new petition gathered 176 signatures, meeting the required 25 percent threshold, prompting a special board meeting to set the date and arrange proper notices.
Mrs. John Wilken of Langworthy died after giving birth to a week old baby at John McDonald hospital. She had double pneumonia from a severe cold and leaves a husband John Wilken and five children. Survived by siblings Carl Prosper and two sisters, funeral held at home and Zion Lutheran church Wayne township with Rev. J Willms delivering a sermon from Isaiah 65.
John B. Moses died at his Center Junction home yesterday at 9 am from heart failure after years of ill health. Survived by wife and three children, funeral at family home Friday at 11 am. Moses born November 6 1854 in Scotch Grove township, son of Charles B Moses and Catherine Sutherland. He lived in Scotch Grove until 1907 before moving to Madison township. He was a Presbyterian, Odd Fellows member, and valued neighbor.
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