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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
4
A stream of short items lists visits and business travel across Greeley Cedar Rapids Dubuque Charles City Hopkinton Monticello Oxford Junction Anamosa Cascade and Manchester. People mentioned include Dr T M Redmond Miss Helen Hefner Rev Mott Sawyer and Mayor Fred Matthiessen with notes on illness births and purchases.
Local items report a mix of mild weather complaints and improving home projects. Updates include Henderson adding a kitchen and bath, Miss Peterson recovering from pneumonia, and Miss Gerry returning to work at Howell millinery. Community events include a Good Times social at Scotch Grove and a district court term starting in Anamosa with jury selection underway.
Work on the school house heating plant advances favorably with the building enclosed and roofed. Steam radiating coils in the heating room are being installed as air is circulated.
Mrs Chauncey Bates and her daughter Mary of Stamford South Dakota visit the home of her parents Mr and Mrs M W Herrick. They will stay until after the high school commencement when Miss Nancy Bates graduates.
Mr and Mrs O J Bucklin depart Tuesday for Danville Illinois where Bucklin will begin the carnival season with his equipment including a Ferris wheel and several Merry go rounds of different patterns They expect a successful season.
M. O. Felton, longtime Madison township settler, said his old homestead house burned last Saturday. The structure was insured and a new residence is planned for this summer.
The partisans of Tony Thompson will watch him wrestle a Ford promoter’s protégé at the opera house next Wednesday evening. Promoters tout the bout as fine sport for fans of physical exhibitions. Promoters Stabler Chase Haeussler and Welch traveled to Manchester last Sunday to brief a union church congregation on the Stephens brothers’ revival work in Monticello. The Stephens brothers start a series of meetings in Manchester next week.
Dr. Alex McKean of Saskatchewan spent yesterday in Monticello after visiting relatives in Hopkinton and Center Junction while returning home from a five week trip from the South to New Orleans and the East to New York City. Burrichter's advertised summer goods and low prices draw shoppers. Frank Eilers, sawing near the Dr. Hunter residence last Friday, lacerated his left hand on a buzz saw, two arteries were cut and he was treated by Dr. Hunter and is improving.
A letter from London Ontario informs Dr. Drinkwater of the unexpected death of Mr. Dugald Campbell at his daughter Mrs. George Duncan’s home on May 4. Campbell famed as the father of Mrs. Drinkwater who died in May 1903. He spent three years in Monticello and was born in Elgin County to Highland Scotch parents, aged about 86.
An old sewing machine repair service is announced at Lochers music store with expert J B Willard visiting once weekly to service machines. The note states no failures.
A fire started in the Locher lunch room yesterday from gasoline on the floor. The blaze burned for a few minutes before dying down and was extinguished without fire department help. No Memorial day announcements were reported for Monticello.
Martha Slone was arrested on a complaint from Mrs. Lillie Leggett who sought to have her bound over to keep the peace over alleged threats to violate the law. The defendant transferred venue from Judge Locher to Judge Koop and asked a postponement until her attorney returns. She pleads not guilty.
Farmers enter the corn planting period as field prep progresses. Some ahead have started sowing while a late spring caused postponements. Conditions now are better than last year when March warmth advanced fruit buds only to be killed by April frosts.
The Friday Club held a anniversary tea at Mrs. Harriet Coughlan’s home with a brief literary program and letters from absent and former members. Officers for the coming year are H. M. Carpenter president Nellie Carpenter vice president L. W. Lovell secretary and treasurer. Programs will focus on American literature with sessions on Iowa and its writers and statesmen.
Brown & Renk's advertises Dipolene to disinfect hog and cattle pens and prevent disease. It promotes using the product to maintain pen hygiene and animal health in agricultural settings.
E A Grimwood the assignee of G W Simpson Co spoke in Oxford Junction about creditor recoveries. He refused to predict percentage realizable but said chances are not near ten cents on the dollar. He notes preferred labor claims will be paid in full and may absorb much of the assets. Grimwood reports the Simpsons are still in Oxford Junction.
The Jones County Bar association will host a complimentary banquet on Tuesday May 16 honoring Judge Davis McCarn Anamosa Iowa the oldest practicing lawyer in the county and marking his 79th birthday The event includes bar members their wives and court officials. Earlier a street accident near the post office involved F J Pepin who was nearly struck by a Cascade driven car. Dr A M Maurice aided Pepin and the driver Roberts was not blamed.
The column surveys town life with satirical vignettes on advertisers, revival fervor, fashion, liquor debates, and spring, touching on riders about school maams, women in black, and car fever. It reports Roy Cropp buying into the harness firm Renk and Cropp, succeeding Brown & Renk in Monticello.
Monticello Midgets with five players defeated Hopkinton youngsters 17 to 7. Edward Sargent struck out 20, allowed two hits, and joined Hollingsworth in six-hit performances. Sargent’s maskless catching caused Holliday to suffer a black eye but he finished. The teams prepare for Wyoming next Saturday. Meanwhile Matt Noyes and Frank d Autramont traveled to Greeley to arrange burial for Samuel Dearth, identified by hospital clothing, found dead near Edgewood after escaping from an asylum. Delaware county will bury him, with Jones county paying expenses. The deceased, once at Independence asylum, left a brother-in-law near Edgewood and a poor widow in Secor seeking transport for remains.
William H. Laude traveled to Manchester last Tuesday to supervise the Tabernacle construction in that city for Stephens Bros. as preparation for a religious campaign in the dairy city.
Andrew Cassady and Mary Campbell celebrate fifty years of marriage with a May 6 1861 wedding in Scotch Grove. The couple, 71 and married in a ceremony attended by about forty friends, received baskets of provisions and a purse while the wedding cake marked 1861 1911. Rev James Anderson officiated the ceremony at the bride’s parents home with few survivors listed.
Andrew Cassady served in Co QO 2nd volunteer infantry and fought bravely. His wife returned to Indiana with her parents in 1863 and they moved to Monticello after the war. Mrs Cassady, born in Kentucky, came to Scotch Grove in 1851. The couple had four children, two died in infancy, and a survivor remains in Des Moines. They are active Christians involved in the Presbyterian church.
Oakwoods cemetery trustees report details of last year’s receipts and disbursements including salaries, supplies, water extension costs and fence work. They plan a permanent cement walk from the canning factory to the cemetery gate, to start this season if no objections arise.
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