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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
3
Local notices from Center Junction include visits from Cedar Rapids resident D J Felton and Monticello guest F M Magee. Schools, alumni planning, theater reception, and a house fire on the Felton place are reported along with family travels and social events.
Residents report Sunday visits and social calls across Monticello Center Junction and Maquoketa. Illnesses include a second mumps attack on Miss Anna Leesacamp. funeral arrangements are planned for Mrs. Sarah Butler in Hopkinton with burial in Scotch Grove.
W G Krouse and family visited Cedar Rapids today. John Mader went to Sioux City on business over Sunday. M G Alsever Charles Preston and Will Stingley from Center Junction noted in report.
Wyoming hosts visitors from Anamosa and Olin attends M E church dedication with Rev Parkhill Lenox College readings by Miss Parkhill and Miss Trevor plus choir and male quartet performances local livery firm dissolves and Larkey to buy horses Orr to run livery WW Hopkins owns a new Ford and local residents attend church events with multiple family mentions Mrs Rosa Kosticheck dies at seventy seven near Hale funeral in Wyoming cemetery and Monticello residents visit Amber church and work on county house crew boarding house at Peter Scwartz home
Cascade brief items report travel and visits from D A Beatty J H Devaney and Rev D S deBest. Ruth Macomber extending West Union visit. Monticello guest Fred Arduser with I Vogel family. Garryowen leader Patrick Burke in town Friday. Kays of Farley visiting here. Frost mild on fruit. Bertha Faber joins Pella Glee Club on Southern Iowa tour. Revival meetings led by P C Nelson and Mr Woods. Baptist delegates to Lamont meeting. Mary J Taylor wife of John Taylor dies at 66 after ten weeks of illness. She was born in Vicksburg Mississippi and moved to Cascade at age ten.
Onslow May 9 reports Grace Carroll visiting aunt Mrs. T H Lightfoot and Jeanette Simms busy at Anamosa. Mary Carter visiting county seat, McAlister family weekend guests, and stock shipments to Chicago by John Von Sprecken and Geo Holub. Cedar Rapids man H D Hall scouting local building sites last week. Laura Smith home from Louisiana clerking. Felton’s old farmhouse burned Saturday night. Funeral in Wyoming attended by H F Paul J A Hanna and N B Noyes. Pinard new in Dr Keller’s store from Milwaukee. Tracy from Los Angeles visiting Streets family. Moyle to Anamosa as next year’s principal. ball team fundraiser planned with ice cream social. boys to repeat strong season play.
May 9 report from Wayne notes numerous residents beginning corn planting. Willie Zimmerman traveled south Sunday. Lizzie Rickless works for John Bennen. Hf Poppe family with son John visited Monticello. Haye Hagen and Herman Folkers shipped cattle to Chicago. Reinhart Helgens tends a lame horse and forecasts it will be useless for service.
Castle Grove May 10 reports Corn planting underway. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. A F Caspers from Coggan and Hopkinton guests Mrs. W D McLaughlin and Miss Minnie McLaughlin. Eugene McLaughlin home from Lenox College helps with farm work. A Bellevue nurse aids Mrs Harken who has pneumonia. New Sunday School officers elected at the chapel: W D McLaughlin superintendent, Harold Deischer assistant, Charles Fairbanks secretary, F C Cramer assistant secretary, Miss Grace Noble organist, Miss Florence Hubbard assistant organist.
Henry Aldrich of Wyoming died at the Soldiers Home in Marshalltown last Wednesday morning after a brief illness. He served in the 381st Iowa Volunteers and earned a fife major rank before an injury ended his Civil War service. He was a longtime member of the Wyoming Presbyterian church and lay in state as his funeral was held in Wyoming with the Q A R post pallbearers. He leaves sons John Henry and James Franklin and wife Laura J. Aldrich, with his surviving son Harry Lionel Aldrich.
Roy Fisher returns from Dubuque after a three day absence. Jennie Conklin visits Verner Conklin’s home. Mrs. H Joslin ill but recovering. Jennie Burnside visits relatives at Anamosa. Baccalaureate sermon by Rev Dinsmore May 24 at the M and church. J L Joslin buys a 1600 dollar auto. Dwight Smith visits Monticello with Grandparents LeClair. J G Bristol from Missouri visits family. Dean and Emery with Ryan creamery work. Community urged to help repair Baptist church steps by contributing at the post office. lumber donation option offered.
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