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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1912
Page
7
E. G. Burrichter announces a fresh stock of ladies and young men footwear in white gun metal tan and patent leathers. The line includes Colonial Pumps Strap Pumps and Oxfords plus gun metal tan and patent options ready for inspection.
Dubuque visitor Matthew Miller, Anamosa guest Marion Sleeper, Cedar Rapids and Hopkinton residents make short trips. Officials and shoppers headline county meetings and store ads. Decoration day address planned. May sales and new jeweler promotions noted.
Matthew Campbell of Marion visits Monticello on legal business while Ervin Reed travels to Clarion. Mrs. W H Lambertson of Maquoketa visits the Haengsslers. Reverends Innes of Ames and Ferguson of Cedar Rapids visit Monticello.
Pierre visitor Robert Delay returns home from Mrs. A. V. Scott's house. Anamosa sanitarium reports Herman Tiarks recovering after recent surgery. Minneapolis visitor Martha Moore arrives to see her Monticello parents. Local visits include Mrs. Meyers of La Porte City and Miss Daisy Noyes heading to Cedar Rapids. Several staff changes noted as teachers decline vacancies in Second and Sixth grades. Ladies hats advertised at Deatrick's. Various arrivals, sickness, and social calls follow in Monticello columns including photography ads, church notes, and upcoming events at Knox College and the Congregational meeting in Iowa.
Yousse Bros prepare to install new billiard tables in town. Monticello reports on visits, school projects, court docket, and weather shifts as residents travel, study, or plan for elections. Community events include Campfire Society aims, church activities, and local improvements.
Balster and Lang of Scotch Grove Iowa advertise planters plows Acme binders and mowers for sale with satisfaction guaranteed.
Residents pass resolutions opposing the Narrow Gauge line and urge conversion to standard gauge. A contract for steel and cement bridge structures over the Maquoketa is let to Clinton Bridge Co with foundation to Hanssen for 1850. City debt rises slightly to over 17000, mainly sewer and water works costs. original water plant is paid, and park debt is 800.
Mr and Mrs Edward Rice marked twenty years of marriage last Saturday with sixty five friends visiting in the evening. The couple have led useful and honorable lives and deserve friends’ acknowledgment of their journey, suggesting if all people were like them the country would prosper.
Miss Knowles of the State Extension department at Ames spoke on domestic science at the Presbyterian church. She argued the field blends mathematics and culture to uplift families, schools, and communities, stressing nutrition, character, and civic responsibility for boys and girls.
John L Davenport a pioneer Monticello resident died in Elmira New York on Thursday April 28 at age 95 He lived in Monticello from 1858 later moved to Missouri South Dakota and Pennsylvania before joining his daughter in Elmira His wife died three years ago He was born May 15 1817 in Hanover New Hampshire and was a Mason The obituary notes his long property dealings and travels with a final burial in Elkland Pennsylvania
Edward V. Monroe, a Monticello resident born February 1, 1859 in Painted Post, died yesterday afternoon from a stroke or possible morphine overdose. He left a wife Carrie Plunkett Monroe and two daughters, Blanche and Nicola, plus two brothers, with a quiet, kind nature and no coroner’s inquest.
The state officially designated Monticello High School as a normal school to train teachers for rural schools under chapter 131 of the Thirty fourth General Assembly. The program offers a two year normal course with state aid of $500 annually, exams in February and May, and a two year teaching license upon graduation. The initiative aims to improve rural education with pedagogy, elementary agriculture, and home economics training.
The high school seniors present Dickens Cricket on the Hearth at the opera house tomorrow night Miss Mabel Miller of Vinton trained the cast The listed performers include John Perryhingle Burgess Verwilliger Leah Hubbard Mr Packleton Vincent Bulear Caleb Plummer Frank Hicks Bertha Calebs blind daughter and others The weather bulletin says this past week was warmer by two to five degrees with fruit trees blooming Rugs carpets and linoleums advertised by Hicks Rickies Sehmidt's studio invites portraits.
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