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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1926
Page
7
Readers hear about Delh weekend visits to Cedar Rapids and Monticello, Misses visiting relatives, homecomings at Cornell College, football games at Mount Vernon, and a Sousa concert in Cedar Rapids. Local merchants promote millinery sales, radios, auto supplies, heater and weather strip deals, and a big Volga Boatman film at Princess.
Cedar Rapids visitors and local guests are listed along with births and gatherings. Multiple families, theater listings, hardware and lumber ads, and upcoming community events fill the page including a Legion supper on Armistice Day.
Miss Betty Pasour leaves for Chicago to resume nurse training at Children's Memorial Hospital following two years at John McDonald Memorial hospital. Donald Louis born October 21 at McDonald hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Egger. first child, parents elated. B L Cobb ill in Waterloo after stroke, details scarce. Saggs celebrate tenth wedding anniversary October 25 with neighbors delivering baskets. American Legion auxiliary to hold annual supper November 11 Armistice Day at 5:30. Ted Koop elected to Phi Delta Gamma and Sigma Delta Chi. Iowa State University journalism class has 100 students. 20 elected to fraternities. Ray Leytem, 12, injured by horse kick. receiving treatment in Monticello. Louis Gardner of Chicago, former Anamosa Eureka editor, visiting Monticello. now with a state bank on the north side managing industrial loans. Warns motorists about garage starts due to carbon monoxide danger. A Dodge car with Muscatine number 75 abandoned on Cascade road. likely stolen. Armistice Day service at post office corner led by American Legion with ministers, choir, firing squad and taps. Halloween mischief waning but still reported. soapings persist. Poultry disease advice offered with Hub tonics and Kill-well worm expeller from Stuhler’s Grocery. Jones County Christian Endeavor groups host get-together at Presbyterian church. 90 members attend. district convention planned for April. Alice Reed among 13 Cornell college orchestra members. orchestra tours Iowa and Illinois. Messiah performances in Christmas time. Horace A. Miller leads. auditions required for membership.
Miss Helen Hosford former Monticello girl daughter of Mrs Amanda Hosford married Frank A Bolton in Washington at the Church of the Transfiguration. Rev J J Queally officiated with vendors and family at a reception at 6322 Fifth Street N W. The couple will reside at 5322 Fifth Street N W after a motor honeymoon. Both graduates of Monticello High School. Bolton a Yale alumnus and World War II lieutenant.
Benjamin D. Haeussler longtime Monticello resident died at his Marion home on October 27 after a long illness. He was born in 1846 in Mulheim on the Rhine and came to America at age four. A Civil War veteran and G A R member, he lived in Prairie Base before moving to Marion in 1920 with his wife Minnie Helgen. He leaves six surviving children, fourteen grandchildren, and was buried in Oakwood cemetery after services at St. Pauls Lutheran Church in Marion.
Maquoketa Camp Fire girls held a ceremony and planned a mothers event at the Reed home with performances by members. The column also reports compulsory tuberculin testing impacting Wayne county dairy herds, noting high defect rates and comparing barns and ventilation. Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Northrop visited Marion and Council Bluffs in a new Essex coach.
Bruce F. Gates of Waterloo, Eleventh district Rotary governor, spoke to Monticello Rotary Monday at Maples Inn on Rotarys future. He warned of overorganization, urged service over form, and said Rotary must build clean thinking and ethical standards while breaking down suspicions between people and nations. He stressed personal commitment and that membership is an honor with duty to uphold Rotary ideals every day.
The Monticello eleven lost to Marion 7 to 0 on Marion field. The locals led in first downs but failed to cross the goal line. A sixty-yard breakout by Reinard and a Straley kick gave Marion the scoring, while Monti mounted late passing plays but could not score.
Suter and Gundlach lead the Monticello association with an October average butterfat of 24. Holstein herd has 15 milking and 2 dry cows. Other noted herds include Henry Eden 20 milking 23 fat, Eugene McLaughlin 18 milking 23 fat, Harold Deischer 20 milking 22 fat, Aitchison Bros 17 milking 21.6 fat. Two cows exceed 500 pounds butterfat: Deischer grade Guernsey 60.2 and McLaughlin grade Guernsey 69.3. Several owners exceed 40 pounds butterfat, though the association averages low due to 70 dry cows. Call to start silage and balanced rations.
The Monticello Cow Testing Association schedules a November 11 meeting at 8 PM at the Monticello Country Clubhouse. A program includes readings vocal selections discussions of testing work by members and musical numbers. Jerry Spencer from the Ames extension service and County Agent Strike will speak. Refreshments follow. Members and others interested in cow testing are invited. Glenn Brookins Cow Testing Supervisor.
Misa Ruth Peters an 18 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Peters of Baldwin swallowed carbolic acid last week on a Wednesday in a rash act following a troubled love problem. Victor Kleineck of Baldwin and Reggie Filkey of Chicago, the two men involved, were at her bedside. It is believed Filkey’s Chicago visit to press his suit precipitated the decision.
A Chicago youth confesses love to a girl from a strict family. After a tense family conference on marriage she attempted suicide by carbolic acid. The girl and her father sustained burns, doctors feared for her life but she now has a chance to recover.
Preparations begin for Jones county farm bureau women to start the second year of home furnishing work around mid November. Mrs. Mary K. Gregg visited the county last week to organize township project leaders and arrange training schools and follow up meetings for all women.
A reflective adage notes youth excesses become debts of old age with interest payable roughly thirty years after death, attributed to Coilton.
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