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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1922
Page
4
Twenty years ago in November 1902 Monticello recorded county offices filled including clerk J H Ramsay and recorder C W B Derr. Births marriages deaths and community changes noted with post office routes expansion and a major fire on the 30th at Hastwood and Chase causing substantial loss.
The Lovell township farm bureau met at the library last Tuesday. Pauline Meier recited, then Hiller advised winter preparations from haying to corn husking time. Podhaski urged culling winter layers and artificial lighting to boost eggs. Maurice praised purebred poultry and urged keeping Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds. Wilcox and Clark debated the bonus bill.
Monti High defeated Grant High Vocational of Cedar Rapids 101 to 0 in a lively home game on the Monticello field. The Monti athletes later traveled to Iowa City to watch Iowa vs Purdue with the track team placing fifth in the two mile race.
Monticello hammered Grant 101 to 0 in Monticello last Thursday marking its fifth shutout of the season. Big crowd watched Grant fight hard but fail to threaten the Monticello goal as the home team surged with long runs and sharp passes. The next schedule lists Anamosa for homecoming week in Iowa City on November 11, a likely Monticello victory but not guaranteed.
Mrs Elizabeth Rigby Jarrett longtime Monticello resident died October 28 at 8 30 p m after a short illness of heart trouble She was born November 22 1846 in Salem Ohio and lived in Monticello 58 years She married John Benjamin Jarrett in 1866 eight children were born two died in infancy Surviving include Mrs George Keough Joseph Millard Jarrett Mrs William Guilford Frank Jarrett William Jarrett and Mrs Edith Haeussler one brother Lee W Rigby Funeral services were held October 21 at the Jarrett home conducted by Rev Leonard Duckett Burial at Oakwood Cemetery She was noted for devotion to family and acts of kindness.
Pastor Thomas M. Neilsen invites all to Sunday worship with services at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school begins at 10 a.m. The theme for Sunday morning is The Mightiness of Faith. Youth meet at 6:45 p.m. and a prayer meeting is held tonight.
Regular services each Sunday including Sunday school at 10:00 a m. and preaching at 2:00 p m and 7:30 p m. Christian Endeavor meets at 6:45 p m. Mid week Thursday at 7:30 p m. Next Sunday morning November Sth theme Knowledge Through Obedience. Evening theme Working for Peace.
George W McNary pastor schedules Sunday morning worship at 11 00 with sermon and holy communion at 11 00 am Sunday school at 10 00 am and cordial welcome to all services Thursday evening mid week meeting at 7 30 pm and 7 30 pm evening service public invited to worship with us
St Matthew's Lutheran Church announces Sunday school at 10 00 a m and preaching at 10 45 am Each Sunday alternates language for the sermon German or English The Luther League meets on the first Sunday of each month Pastor Sigmund Ide leads services
Regular services held each Sunday with Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. and preaching at 11:00. German or English sermons on alternate Sundays. A cordial welcome to members and friends to attend all services.
George A. Hauck pastor delivers first mass at 8 00 a m second mass at 10 00 a m Sunday school instructions at 2 15 p m and devotions at 3 00 p m for church attendees.
The undersigned offer ten dollars for a list of fifty Monticello Iowa men aged sixty five or more who are not required to work for a living. Pensioners are excluded and the aim is to verify that only five in one hundred at sixty five are self supporting. Schoon and Gerdes of Universal Life Insurance Company make the solicitation.
The piece blends soldiers dialog and jokes about duds and pay days with light sketches of army life. It shifts to practical home heating advice from Iowa State College experts, detailing how to fire soft coal efficiently, maintain steady heat, and prep furnaces for cold weather.
Tuesdays on November 7 and 21 December 5 and 19 January 2 and 16 a California tourist sleeper party departs Monticello via C M and St P to Kansas City then Santa Fe lines. Stops at Fred Harvey meet stations. Reservations through local C M and St P agent or C A Moore general agent A T S F Railway 616 Flynn Ridge Des Moines Iowa.
Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League asks William Jennings Bryan to travel to Missouri to oppose a wet U S senate candidate. Bryan is currently assisting a wet Nebraska senator, making the Missouri request seem presumptuous to him and his allies.
An exhortation praising a well furnished mind over shabby surroundings through The Youth's Companion. It promotes a 1923 52 issue year for 2.50 and 1922 remaining issues with calendar for 3.00, urging subscribers to Birmingham Age-Herald text.
Wanted to hire a young man or woman to call on a few people daily for pay. Real money offered. Write Leon A. Huffman, Oxford Junction, Town. 191 pd.
For sale cholera immune Hampshire boars sired by Prince Tom 101056 grand champion at Iowa State Fair. Priced to sell. H G Manuel and Sons located 3 miles south and 1 mile west of Center Junction, Iowa 18-2.
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