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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1919
Page
9
Local residents and visitors are listed with trips to Cedar Rapids Rock Island Seymour Waterloo and Monticello along with promotions at Kay's and Devlin Millinery. Free Germicidal soap promotions and new jewelry offers from C R Coon appear alongside several social visits and a Princess Theatre showing.
Letters addressed to Miss Margery Pusey remain uncalled for at the post office. Local fare includes a May 10 Bake Sale, Mother's Day address, and showings at the Princess theater. Numerous visitors arrive from Des Moines, Anamosa, Chicago, and St. Paul. veterans return from overseas. and the Jones County Times expands to eight pages.
Mrs. David Corbett travels to Rock River Wyoming to join her husband who departed weeks earlier. He has bought a farm near the town, confirming new agricultural prospects for the couple.
Rev S M Ide Rev J P Willms and Rev H Streeb traveled to Dubuque last Monday evening for a Lutheran church conference held on Tuesday and again yesterday.
Miss Ann Guthrie resigns her stenographic post at Hoag Dus ter company and returns home near Sand Spring for an extended visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Guthrie.
The Golden Rule Variety store has closed after a Davenport man bought it. The stock was shipped to Davenport after being sold at marked down prices leaving little inventory to ship.
Sam Driebelbis visits Scotch Grove with his brother Gus while Arthur H. Hanson sells a 75 acre farm south of the Farmers Mutual Creamery to Harry Barlow of Yale South Dakota. Rev. Fritz Ide resigns from a South Dakota Lutheran church and returns to Monticello after illness. Mrs. James Abel attends Capt. James G. Crozer’s funeral in Cedar Rapids.
F D Slauson sold his dray line and equipment to Frank Jacque early this week. Jacque will assume charge, handle freight and express delivery, and run a general drayage business. Slauson, longtime in the business, is moving west in a month to operate a ranch begun with his sons Raymond and Winfred.
Miss Neale S Knowles of the State College at Ames will address Monticello women Monday afternoon May 12 at 3700 o clock. She will discuss The National Organization of Home Makers. All women invited and urged to attend. Irene B Wheeler County Home Demonstrator.
A Knob Hill resident discarded a generation old pincushion before burning it. Curious, she opened the cushion and spread the bran filling, uncovering and saving seventeen dozen needles. Neighbors viewed the 204 needles arranged on red flannel, noting the rising price of needles adds value to the find.
Miss Nelle Hubbard daughter of George Hubbard of Brownsdale Minnesota married F W Eklund of Waterloo last Thursday afternoon. The ceremony occurred at five o'clock at the bride's grandparents home Mr and Mrs A Hubbard. Bridesmaid was Miss Katherine Stuhler and best man Percy Guilford. Mrs Eklund is a Monticello High School graduate class of 1917 and studied at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls. The groom, a stock and bond broker, is a stranger to Monticello and is currently located here.
The Voorhees celebrate their golden wedding at their farm home northwest of Monticello. Mayor James A. Voorhees and Mrs. Voorhees hosted family and friends who presented a gift, marking fifty years since their May 6 1869 marriage.
The union occurred at the bride’s parents home on April 30 in Hazel Green Delaware county. Rev. W A Odell of Buck Creek church united the couple in marriage.
David Farrell died at his home on Angle street last Tuesday evening at age 82. Born in Limerick Ireland January 1 1887 he came to the United States at age 12 settling in Philadelphia then Dubuque before retiring to Monticello. He married Johanna O Rourke in 1863 and leaves ten children with a funeral at Sacred Heart church Friday at ten followed by burial in Monticello Catholic cemetery. He was a Democrat and devout churchman with strong convictions.
Health notice warns of a mild smallpox outbreak though Monticello is not yet affected. Of 534 public school pupils 127 are vaccinated, urging unvaccinated parents to vaccinate, with help from the mayor or overseer of the poor if cost is an issue.
A strong storm hit Jones county last Tuesday night with wind heavy rain and hail. In Anamosa the storm caused a small tornado like damage including destruction of a slate roof at the north cell house of the State Reformatory and many chimneys blown down. A chimney fell at S O Weavers residence breaking through the roof and filling a bed with brick. Lightning struck the Catholic church destroying a chimney and damaging the building. The tornado affected only the north part of Anamosa with the south part unharmed. Community Sing scheduled May 16.
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