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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
7
Home News item notes numerous appearances and visits by residents and visitors including Josh Billings Anamosa E E Reed Manchester Elmer Hubbard Waucoma Miss Hazel Martin Hopkinton Bert Hubbard and others. Theatre plans Mary Pickford April 1 at Crane Theatre. Eyes tested at Doutrick's.
Mary Pickford appears in Tess of the Storm Country at Crane Theater next Thursday April 1 with afternoon and evening showings. Also notes Miss Ollie Smithson’s Cedar Rapids visit and local social updates from Monticello and surrounding towns.
The picture drama She Was His Mother will be shown with The Master Key at Crane Theater Friday. This Herbert Brennan production follows The Tenth Commandment and is praised by audiences who saw his prior work.
A guessing contest was held Monday evening in the opera house to value the number of beans in a jar. The winning guess was 3150 by Freddie Holmes earning two dollars. A tie for second occurred between Louis Stambaugh and Mrs J H Gordon. Ernest Stambaugh took third place.
The three churches plan a joint observance starting next Sunday at 7 30 PM at the Methodist church with lay pastors guiding daily meditations. The schedule lists Monday at Presbyterian church Tuesday at Congregational church Wednesday at Methodist Episcopal church Thursday at Presbyterian church Friday at Congregational church. Each service begins at 7 30 PM.
Will LeClerc suffered injuries after a fall onto a non-operating circular saw that was only partly guarded. He was thrown toward the tool when the team pulling the vehicle suddenly started. Dr. Colin Thomas treated his wounds.
A Monticello item set recounts misprinted banners from a street sign and a library meeting ad. It notes the canning company hiring for corn, a Minnesota immigration exhibit via Frank M. Eddy, the Arduser baby, and a lullaby anecdote about Leonard. Other pieces cover school, cemetery, and a farm trade plus a Oxford Quartette show.
Miss Pearl Heisey of Monticello heads Grinnell College Girls Glee Club on a spring tour starting next Saturday. The group travels eighteen days in a private car visiting Colorado Springs and cities including Ottumwa Council Bluffs Lincoln Denver and more before returning by a new route. This longest trip follows a prior California tour three years ago by Santa Fe Railroad management. The club won the Historfod Contest in Des Moines last year and tied for first this year as part of the chorus that took the grand $400 prize in both years.
Siegfried Gruenstein longtime editor of the Chicago News and former Monticello boy led a recital to celebrate the rebuilt First Presbyterian church organ in Lake Forest. The instrument cost 10000 dollars features 1451 pipes and 71 stops and accessories. He received a silk robe from the A G O and the Lake Forest College awarded him a Master of Music degree. The event drew about 800 attendees and a local Music News review praised it.
John Crapser, aged 77, died of bronchial pneumonia last Tuesday at the home of his daughter Mrs. Fred E. Smith in Lovell township near Monticello after a three day illness. He was born December 6, 1837 in New York and had lived in Lyons and DeWitt before eight years with his son-in-law Fred E. Smith. Funeral will be held in Elvira, Clinton County, with Rev. Leamer likely to officiate. Surviving children include Edward Crapser of Elvira Iowa Cora Smith of Monticello Henry Greve of Omaha Samuel Crapser of Burlington H O Crapser of Sterling and Charles Crapser of Mason City.
Mrs Carrie Reichart died at her Monticello home last Friday morning of tuberculosis after a long illness. Born November 4 1875 she married John Reichart eighteen years ago and leaves four children Ralph John Catherine and Leonard. Funeral held at Sacred Heart church Monday at ten with Rev Father Hauck.
Ninety Minnesota municipalities balloted on the wet and dry proposition with a slight general lean toward dry. Four towns returned to wet forces while twenty three favored closing saloons.
J F Brown of Anamosa suffers a mild stroke after returning from Hopkinton and recovers at home. Mrs W A Doron of California, formerly Monticello superintendent era, dies after long illness. interment in Redlands. Mrs Talitha Lewis dies in Mapleton after hip fracture and dropsy. Monticello high girls fall to Marion 16 6 in season finale. Local items note Eastern Star initiatory work and a humorous line from the Atchison Globe.
The Monticello Improvement Club celebrated its second annual banquet at the Lovell House with 120 guests. T. B. Lazell presided as president and welcomed the spirit of good will, while Minneapolis entertainer Mr. Nolan entertained with humor and anecdotes. The event featured an elaborate menu, fine music by the Monticello orchestra, and a town song led by Carl Dutton.
The Cornell College Conservatory orchestra played before 400 at the Methodist church in Monticello for the third time, with solos by Julia Seiler Shaw Lucile Randall Roe Howard and Harry Platner and a reading by Elsa Strawman. The program featured Schubert Moment Musical and Nicolai overture among others.
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