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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
9
Various residents and visitors travel between Cedar Rapids Hopkinton Anamosa Monticello and Dubuque with captions noting calls on relatives and misses. The Dairy Depot opens March 29 at 9 am and spring millinery ads appear from Deatrick's. Hogs top year prices around $9.30 on light receipts.
Harry Rodman of H Eclipse Lumber Co. fills in at Plainfield for a sick manager. Taxes unpaid this month incur a one percent monthly penalty. William Porter of Edgewood, age 82, visited last weekend with Ed’s family and looks well. German Reformed church preaches at eleven next Sunday with no Sunday school. Patrick, registered optometrist, Mounier building, offers glasses with guaranteed satisfaction.
Miss Anna Humble visits Monticello friends and attends Anamosa institute as Judge Ellison adjourns the March term sine die with no trials of note. Local items: births, visits by Cedar Rapids and Worthington families, a new jeweler ad, and a Livingston centenary sermon.
The Davault Company, slated for Monticello in the regular entertainment course, will appear later. Schools and churches closing during the week forced the cancellation for the present.
Nemo Dorsets and Deitrick's Ervin 5 Reed, who went to Pennsylvania to close a suit over misappropriated ward funds, returned Monday night with $6,000 after a long fight through lower courts to the supreme court. A blizzard and heavy snow last Thursday night drifted walks and hindered travel, but rain melted the snow by Sunday night.
Pastors of the Congregational Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal churches announce services in their churches next Sunday both morning and evening. Christian Endeavor and Epworth League meetings will be held at the usual hours, with no Sunday schools at either church.
Word arrives of Theodore Corbett death in California after a long sojourn there. Mentions Corbett’s former mill property, banking work at Strawberry Point, and family ties to O. B. McKean. Also notes Mme. A. E. Braumann’s Cedar Rapids visit, artesian well at Edgemont area, and upcoming moves of Verner Stockwell to Manchester.
Rosena Hudson daughter of Mr and Mrs Gus Hudson died last Monday after a severe scarlet fever illness. The three and a half year old was described as bright and lovable. Funeral services were held the same day with burial at Darkwood Cemetery after a two week illness near to death most of the time.
Mrs. Charles Rice reports the death of her stepfather F. B. Webber a Lowell South Dakota resident who died in Hot Springs Arkansas last Friday from complications of diseases. The funeral occurred yesterday in Woonsocket South Dakota where Webber once served as sheriff. He is survived by a widow formerly Henrietta Brown and by a son and daughter from a former marriage.
New shipment of cut glass and Hawthorne pattern silverware arrives at Patrick jewelers in the Monnier building. Come in and view the collection, featuring quality pieces and market standout craftsmanship.
Measrs Dallas Oliver and John Kib urz Jr were arrested and brought before Squire Locher on an assault with intent to cause great bodily injury charge filed by Leesekamp. They waived examination. grand jury will review. River flooding caused dam damage at electric light station and delayed trains from Davenport by a day.
Andrew Kasper buys the Lawrence Jacobs farm near town taking over a contract from James Gardiner Co of Waterloo at 175 dollars per acre. The issue also notes the Meyers sale results and describes two weddings Blanche Clark and Frank Sutherland and Sadie Mardorf and Herman Rickels with plans to relocate to Saskatoon and Wayne township respectively.
A Sunday night wind split barns and windmills across farms around Monticello. Henry Hriese lost a barn cupola, Abe Allamand’s chicken house was partly destroyed, and John Lubben’s barn moved from its foundation causing $200 damage. Windmills fell, notably on the EB Reed farm in Richland township. Residents watched the storm from beds and sought cellar safety as the event unfolded. A telegram from Margaret Pond and a letter to T A King later eased fears about relatives in Omaha. Locher Bros offer Edison and Victor machines from $10 to $200.
The Teachers Institute meets in Anamosa this week under county superintendent Kate Maurice with a full corps of instructors. Registered teachers include Norman Brockle Hazel Windsor Esther Biles Lula Porter and many others across Anamosa Monticello Wyoming Oxford Junction Mechanicsville Morley Scotch Grove Martelle Amber Hopkinton Cascade Center Junction Stone City Onslow Springville and more.
The Monticello Opera House hosted the opera Joseph on March 24 and 28 with a large local cast led by Prof. Frank Hayden and J. N. Austin and many others. The town opened its opera house March 12 with Led Twistray. A municipal election on March 4 elected G. W. Garlock mayor and a light vote overall. March meteorology noted 71 high, 27 low, 2.94 inches rain and seven rainy days. Additional items include two marriages, a lecture on phrenology, a death, and various social events and notices.
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