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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1910
Page
7
Local society mentions numerous visits and visitors including Miss Jessie Abel in Kirkland Illinois and Mrs. Lem Berlin of Sanborn visiting near Monticello. Reports cover alumni meeting, May musical festival, and various moves and health updates across Cedar Rapids Wyoming Worthington Dubuque Mt Vernon and Ottumwa area.
Local social notices include visits by Mrs. Emma Cooper and Mrs. Ethel Hooker, a German trip for Harm W. Gerdes, and a marriage license for Louis Lauser and Matilda Mortensen. Dramas, sales, and school events run through Monticello with concerts, baptisms, graduations, travels, and weather notes.
Daisy Burkett sued Harry J Lang for breach of promise of marriage and the case was settled on trial day. Lang paid Burkett $1000 and costs yesterday, ending the action.
The Alumni banquet will be served in Kinsella Hall by the Ladies' Aid Society of the Presbyterian church, June 3rd at 6:30. Everyone interested in alumni and schools is invited to attend. Ruth Frances Maurer is born to Edna Bevington Maurer in Seattle on May 10. Edna spent her childhood in Monticello and will be remembered by the community.
Last Monday marked the final day for Aling nomination papers for township positions in Washington and Fairview townships. County affidavits were filed after the closing, and several townships in the two areas reported filings. Emma Bobzin declined the Sixth grade school vacancy. Baxter school board raised her salary to 855 dollars per month to retain her services. Center Junction loses Oren Freeman and wife who move to Freeport Illinois to live with a nephew. One Monticello man filed a declaration of political change to vote in the opposite party primary. Iowa State College commencement will be June 9 with 214 graduates. Maude Mirick and Johanna Leesekamp are noted graduates. John Helmrichs married at Scotch Grove and will reside on a farm near Manchester. Martha Miller returns from Colorado with Nina of Waterloo and a brief Omaha visit en route to Monticello. Locals open baseball season at Anamosa. Fuzzy arrives in good form as Anamosa visits on Decoration Day hoping for two wins.
Wyoming mayor J S Brownell travels home from Anamosa with rheumatism forcing crutches back into use. Library fundraiser advances with ticket sales ensuring project costs covered and profits for the library board. Also notes travel of Mr and Mrs George W Davis and Mrs L W Appleby to the West, corn replanting due to cold and seed gaps, Union services at Congregational church with a memorial sermon by Rev Roy V Porter, caution to boys about birds and guns, census supervisor Jeremiah Morissey passing through, death of Robert Skelley in San Francisco, Monticello high school commencement set for June 1 and 2 with reserved seats beginning May 27.
Theodore Lazelle F J Cross Will Dawson and A M Webster visited Cedar Rapids last Monday and returned with three new roadster automobiles plus several demonstration cars lined before the Cross Hardware storefront for a late afternoon photograph. Two Delaware county women near our line died last week of breast cancer. Mrs Harper of Hopkinton aged 65 to 70 and Mrs Wilson of Buck Creek aged 52 and mother of 20 children, 16 living, attended her funeral. Prof K D Miller newly elected Monticello schools superintendent visited town with Superintendent Foster to learn about the district. Miller will relocate shortly before fall term. he will assume duties in September.
Hand made shoulder shawl missing since last Friday at Monticello area. Finder asked to leave it at this office.
Ira Forman lies ill in El Paso Texas as sister Mrs Newton Parrott travels from Alamosa to be at his bedside. Memorial services for Scotch Grove are set for May 30 at the Presbyterian church with address by Hon. O B Paul and graveside decorations to follow.
Members of the Eastern Star hosted a lodge reception in Monticello for Mr. and Mrs. F B Bolton and Mr. and Mrs. John B Foster before their departure. Roses for the ladies, refreshments, and social games followed. The note urged deferring a Monday ball after Memorial exercises honoring soldiers. Steward T A King recalls meeting Edward VII in 1860 at age 19, correcting a prior date assertion.
A groggy Prairie burg man drank at a saloon last Friday and wandered to a grassy ditch bank. A bold passerby kicked him into the ditch, then covered him with brush and left him to sleep amid imagined comets and beer.
Mrs Mary Howell returned from Lamont last Monday evening after visiting friends for a few days.
Superintendent John KH Foster of Monticello schools will lead an 18 member party on a nine week Europe trip sailing from Montreal aboard the Cassandra. Participants include Miss Jarman and Miss Ethel George, Des Moines teachers, a nurse, and two Iowa Wesleyan University faculty members. The route covers the British Isles Holland Rhine Germany Oberammergau Italy and Paris with visits planned to Switzerland.
District court hears Walter Marsh claim of knee injury from icy Monticello sidewalk in front of Patrick's Jewelry store. City contends no valid notice. court rules notice sufficient but directs verdict for the defendant after plaintiff rests.
The school hosts two commencement nights with valedictorian Ada L Moore and salutatorian Raymond M Sandhouse delivering speeches. Programs list class poems music and readings including The Problem of Immigration and The Panama Canal, with diplomas presented by Supt Foster.
The May acquisitions include Suitable Child by Duncan and The Foreigner by Gordon. Other titles span The Shadow Between His Shoulder Blades by Harris and The Snare of Circumstances by Buckey, plus works by Wemyss Clemens Churchill Faust Hitch cock Chambers and Hindrances to Good Citizenship Bryce.
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