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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1911
Page
7
Mrs Hans Ruof visiting Wyoming and Miss Elizabeth Corbitt in Cedar Rapids are among a string of city visitors. Local bargains entice on the remnant counter at Deitrick D. Co with rugs and lace curtains new in stock. A steady flow of residents and travelers including Rex Rickless Cecil Cross J S Hall and others appear in town on various affairs and visits.
Miss Florence Barnts visits Thorpe with her nephew. Mrs. Minnie White hosts her sister. Anamosa teachers find trains convenient for return. Hugh Campbell returns from western South Dakota and plans homesteading. Major local moves include Mr and Mrs Good planning to Sioux Falls and Mrs Sherwood visiting.
Several Germans weigh a June trip with G H Bohlken of Scotch Grove among the likely passengers. D Palmer & Son sell half their Anamosa creamery to F W Mack of Waterloo who will move to Anamosa and begin wholesale ice cream manufacture.
A canvassing effort led to 200 blacksmithing outfits including anvils vises hammers and other tools delivered to farmers last Tuesday. A few forges were also sold as part of the package.
Superintendent K D Miller has been engaged as an instructor in Cornell College's summer school. He and Mrs Miller traveled to Mt Vernon last Tuesday to arrange summer work details. In his first Monticello year he earned high regard from pupils and teachers alike.
A Saturday afternoon rally for youth and children is planned at the Tabernacle at 2 30. Rev George Stephens will speak and Mr Storrs will lead the music. All young people and children are urged to attend and bring parents. Meanwhile the body of late Capt F S S Dunham will be transported to Monticello by Mrs Dunham and Mrs Nellie Fletcher arriving Thursday April 6.
Rudolph Bohren enters a Holstein cow in the Iowa state dairy contest promoted by W. W. Marsh of Waterloo. Last year 157 entries ran with Jones county unrepresented. Bohren plans to enter more cows later and aims for a creditable showing, with the current cow yielding 1,800 pounds of milk in the month.
The Monticello high school baseball team, coached by Professor Miller, begins the season next Wednesday at the fair grounds against the business men in festive costumes. Tickets cost 10 or 15 cents and the schedule may include Marion, Hopkinton, Springville, Olin, Cedar Rapids. Team lineup and staff listed with captains Locher and Haeussler and manager OU Haeussler.
Mrs. August E. Schatz died suddenly at her South Main home from likely heart disease. Survived by husband, daughter Bertha, and Mrs. R A Rickless, her funeral at the Methodist Episcopal church featured a biblical sketch of her life. Born Mary Wilhelmina Hirza Oltman in Oldenburg Germany, she lived in Cascade and Anamosa before Monticello, married November 9 1855, and bore five children. She leaves ten grandchildren and six great grandchildren, and her life was described as faithful and devoted to family and faith.
Final notice urging payment of the first half tax bill before April 1 to avoid accruing interest. Taxes may be paid at Monticello State Bank.
The Evangelistic Meetings led by Reverends H S Stephens George Stephens and assistants Mrs H L Stephens Miss Jean B Lamont and H E Storrs continue at the tabernacle. From Independence a previous campaign saw over 400 conversions. The Stephenas are joined by a strong chorus as cottage prayer meetings run daily in seven districts with scheduled services nightly and Sunday programs set.
William Cline a former Lovell township resident died at his Eagle Grove home last Monday at age 82. The body was taken to Monticello for interment at Bowen's Prairie cemetery. Born December 22 1828 in Muskingum County Ohio he moved to McLean County Illinois as a child and settled in Bowen's Prairie Jones County in 1848. He later mined in California before returning to Iowa and leaves surviving wife second wife and several children including Andrew Philip Charles William Lafayette. He was active in Masonic and Knights of Pythias orders.
Hoag Duster Co. announces Crescent Dust Chaser Sweeping Compound in all grades at two cents per pound delivered. Cross Hardware Co. showcases a coast er brake bicycle in the window priced at 30 dollars. Noyes in Onslow sells early seed potatoes and garden seeds in bulk or package. H F Burrichter offers ginghams silkelines and dress goods.
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