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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1914
Page
7
A sweep of social notices lists Mrs. Kness and others visiting Anamosa and Hopkinton, plus residents traveling to Cedar Rapids, Bancroft, Monticello, Dubuque, and Marion. Movements include visitors, relocations, a county supervisor vote result, and shop sale promos at Doutrick's.
Oscar Newton plans a California winter after a stop at Oxford Junction. Bernice and Blanche Button head to Chicago for business college studies. J. B. Ramsey votes in Keokuk county. Mrs. Anna Schmidt visits Cedar Rapids. Thorough local updates include marriages, licenses, store events, and upcoming entertainment at Crane Theatre.
Letters addressed to Jno A Anheier A J Cannon Geo Holmer Adolph Lazeycamp Mrs M E Longford Blake A Mapledorain Jackson Maron Charles H Nieman Mrs G C Moreland Geo Quade Miss Lizzie Schumer Bipie White remain uncalled for in the post office. First number of the Saturday November 7 edition urged.
Advertisements note A G Hanken selling New York apples and O B Larkey, a horse buyer, will visit next Saturday to buy for export to Canada and likely for the English army. Local items cover Halloween pranks, church assignments, and community events from Monticello and nearby towns.
All participants in The Girl from Luxemburg at the Olympic on November 9 are principals. The company is large with no chorus girls. Each young woman was chosen for vaudeville ability as well as beauty and graceful dancing, according to Ady.
Messrs Jack Graves and Elmer Cropp purchased the Gifford stock from C D Chase at a price that allows a low selling figure with profit. The store did big business last Saturday with day and evening trade. Mothers are urged to bring boys to Foster Clothing Co for outfits with money back satisfaction.
Report notes several unsportsmanlike hunters shooting quail on highways and between sundown and sunrise in violation of law. Warnings that such offenses reach the game warden will lead to penalties. Ray Dewey and Frank Melendorf are held to the Missouri Valley grand jury over bath tub sale irregularities. a Dewey worked near Monticello retailing and wholesaling baths.
Arrangements advance for four six foot diameter clock dials to be installed on all sides of the tower. Each dial costs 100 and four electric lights will illuminate them from behind. The Soetje fund of 1000 will pay the electric lighting expenses from its interest. Mr and Mrs Frank Calkins and two sons from Seattle visited Monticello host Hue Kidd. Calkins is a C M & St P Ry importer exporter handling western terminal business from Orient.
Eyes tested and glasses fitted as recorded for patient L. G. Stubler. The note indicates standard optometric service and frame fitting completed.
Prairieburg residents bid farewell to Mr. and Mrs. KH F Monnier and their son Marty as the family moves to Detroit Michigan. The Monniers have long been central to local society and their absence will leave a gap in the community’s social fabric.
Will Corbin began a lengthy auto journey to California driving a Ford runabout with over fifty thousand miles. His uncle will join at Alliance Nebraska. they plan to travel south through Texas New Mexico and Arizona to escape cold weather and visit California areas through the winter before returning in spring.
Mrs Z Dunning nee Drusilla Ackerman native of New York died Monday at age 80. She married Dunning in 1853 and moved to Jones County in 1854. Surviving children are Mrs William Smith on the homestead and Mrs Marshal Davis of Bolivar Missouri. She was a longtime member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Funeral conducted today by Rev Frank Sbater of Anamosa.
Washington ordered a nine day closure of the Chicago stock yards to halt cattle hog and sheep shipments. The quarantine due to beef and mouth disease in Indiana Michigan and other states may last up to a month and force farmers to sell stock in markets already influenced by the order.
It was a strong alfalfa season for GQ. H. George who harvested four crops and expanded acreage with summer seeding after early setbacks. Experts advise using state or national bulletins and experienced guidance for best results, noting soil drainage liming inoculation and weed control. A new concrete dam on the Maquoketa River near the old site is largely complete, with a flood gate due before winter. Monticello Electric Co. helped construct half last year and the rest this year at a cost between 15000 and 18000 dollars to reduce leaks and conserve water. The dam spans a wide river bed.
The local postal savings branch holds $139 in deposits from two people, with no growth seen locally since the European war. Nationwide gains reach about $10 million in three months, concentrated in big cities. Analysts note locals prefer higher rates from sound banks despite the government guarantee at two percent.
The Improvement League presents winter programs at Monticello starting November 11 with Captain Richmond Pear son Hobson, famed for the Spanish American War. Also featured are the Metropolitan Grand Quartet on November 18, Sidney Landor on February 17, and the Oxford Company on March 18.
Farmers invited to a public demo of a Pull tractor at A. D. Le Clerc farm northeast of Hopkinton on Saturday November 7 at 10 am and again in the afternoon. The unit claims five horse pulling power, belts twelve horsepower, powers a silo grinder pump and more, with one acre plowed at 1 ½ gallons of gasoline. It is offered at 395 dollars plus freight to Monticello.
Mrs Jennie M Campbell Cartano wife of Richard A Cartano died Monday afternoon November 2 after a two year illness. Born August 11 1868 at Springville Iowa she married January 17 1893 and moved to Monticello with her husband. Survived by her father Charles Campbell a sister Mrs Flora Dunbar and three brothers. Funeral at Gill Street residence officiated by Rev J W Turner with interment at Oakwood cemetery.
The Express records a November list of events in Monticello and nearby towns. It notes farm sales including Kate Galligan’s 115 acre property for 5600, marriages such as Dr Eugene Gilmore to Maude Sleeper and Bessie Rundle to Gerry Matthiessen, and community deaths including David Ralston and Mrs Harriet Walterhouse. It also covers a high school arm injury, a 92nd birthday, a child whooping cough death, land sales at 865 per acre, and political results showing a Republican sweep in Iowa with Cousins leading the ticket. The column closes with crime and court notes about KR GQ and R B Curtis.
Adams and Guhl German comedy duo bring new material to Pepple and Shean's The Girl from Luxembourg at the Olympic next Monday. They are lively rivals of Weber and Fields and promise parodies and fresh business with a lighter, humorous attack on Melancholy.
Nebraska defeated Ames 20 to 7 while Drake tied Washington 7 apiece. Monmouth beat Iowa Wesleyan 9 to 0 and Cornell won 33 to Leander Clark 6. Kilaworth ’28 defeated Dubuque 0 and Coe crushed Grinnell 85 to 0.
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