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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1920
Page
9
Monticello merchants promote Devlin Millinery and Smith’s Variety Store with summer hats, Tricolette blouses, and new dinner ware patterns. Local visitors from Cedar Rapids, Anamosa, Hopkinton, Waterloo, and Des Moines frequent town, with many enjoying summer fashions and engraved calling cards from Denkhoff the Jeweler.
Local residents visit, travel and work notices fill Monticello pages. Linfred Hausa at Coe College in Cedar Rapids and Dr L Locher from Farley visit families. multiple confirmations, school events, and social gatherings noted. A May rummage sale at Hayes furniture and a band concert plan anchor upcoming community activities.
One hundred fifty members from Olin and Anamosa lodges attended a social in Anamosa last Friday. The Olin group got stuck in Morley and did not arrive, but the dance and banquet proceeded. Local page mentions deaths and variousMonticello area events and notices through the page.
Twenty years ago in May the Monticello Express noted Dr Marugg arriving from Delaware, Rev Bateman resigning and moving to Wapell, and multiple marriages including Henry Rickels and Maggie Hoyen. Land sales reached 70 per acre and a fatal sand pit accident killed worker Diluco. Postmaster salary rose to 1600 a year, local deaths, births, and crimes round out a busy month.
The baccalaureate sermon is set for Sunday May 23 at 7 30 p m at the Methodist Episcopal church delivered by Rev William Hayes Mitchell. Class day is Thursday May 27 at 9 a m in the high school assembly room followed by the annual class play on Wednesday evening May 26 at 8 p m in the opera house. Commencement exercises occur Thursday evening May 27 at 8 p m with the speaker to be determined. Alumni banquet is Friday evening May 28 with location not yet announced. The class totals twenty three students with strong scholarship across four years.
Town State College experts advise handling roots carefully when transplanting cabbage and tomatoes. Keep soil compact around roots, bury slightly deeper, then water lightly. Use tin strips against cut worms, shade seedlings, prune one third of foliage, and delay frost‑risk crops until danger passes.
The Masons announce B. A. degree work to be held tomorrow evening starting at 7 30 p m with all members invited. D P Young serves as secretary. Cedar Rapids high school placed fourth in the University of Pennsylvania athletics carnival.
Gerd J. Bohlken of Sand Spring died last Monday morning by hanging in his barn after breakfast. He had health issues from a prior Davenport streetcar accident. He left with the team planning to plant potatoes and hanged himself from a beam in the barn. He was born in Repsalt Germany on March 6, 1860 and immigrated to the United States in 1888, living in Scotch Grove, Davenport, and Sand Spring. He is survived by his widow and four stepchildren, plus two brothers and a sister. Funeral conducted at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church with Rev. W. H. L. Schueig.
Duncan Dreibelbis born in Scotch Grove Jones county Iowa celebrated his seventy fifth birthday last Saturday at his Angle street home. He is the oldest King descendant and son of Lewis and Mary Dreibelbis. His father a Pennsylvania native miner moved to Galena Illinois. mother a Canadian born settler came to Scotch Grove in 1837 by ox cart. Duncan traveled to California at nineteen, then Missouri before returning to Scotch Grove. He married Josephine Clark in 1879 and later lived in Center Junction and Cobsel Wisconsin before moving to Monticello. He and Josephine had six children five living Myrtle Louis Samuel Alex Gray Ryland W. Dreibelbis among others. He remains active with many Jones county friends sending good wishes for continued health.
The Methodist church holds a Mother's Day observance Sunday morning May 9 with a discussion and a flower worn in honor of mothers. An evening discussion centers on 1st Kings 19 16. Sunday school and prayer meeting proceed at usual hours.
The town council of Olin adopted a resolution last week requesting seal bids for furnishing materials and constructing sewers for the town.
Reports from Helen Moyer detail Cascade baseball games with Linfred Tallas and James Lazell visiting. High school visitors, May rate notices, a seniors banquet, and a church plan to raise forty thousand dollars for church property expansion are noted along with student writings and miscellaneous classroom activities.
Dintriol Court in Jones County issues notices for probate of the last will and testament of Thomas Dawson deceased. A hearing is scheduled at the March term to consider admission of the will to probate and to determine why it should not be admitted. Clarke, judge, presides in Jones County district court.
The district court of Jones county Iowa appoints Mary A Hogan executrix of the James Hoganda estate. Creditors must file claims with the clerk sworn and within legal time. debtors should pay immediately to avoid costs. Dated April 6 at Asti Town. Hogan Attorney for the state.
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