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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1919
Page
2
The Monticello Express lists J W Doxsee and Chas A Doxsee as editors and proprietors. Subscription price per year is $1.75.
Center Junction groups from M. B. Aid Society Epworth League and teachers hosted a farewell for Mr. and Mrs. Ward and family last Thursday. Framed by Halloween stunts and music, Rev. J. M. Smith presented silverware, while T. R. Young gave Frances and Pearl keepsakes. The Ward family departs to Montana, while community members recall their church and business roles.
The Wyoming high school junior class of 24 hosted a Friday Halloween party at the Heasty home on West Green street with games and stunts followed by a supper at the Saxon home. Mr and Mrs Howard Day served as chaperones for the event. J E Ladage sold City Pharmacy business to J o Doluen of New Hartford and plans to move to Grundy Center Iowa to expand a drug business. Due to high prices and labor shortages, several factors are prompting adjustments in local business activity.
Leonard H. Carroll born April 21 1860 Delaware County Iowa died November 1 1919 aged 59 years 6 months 10 days married to Olive Barnes October 1895. Survived by daughter Grace Lewis and granddaughter in Newport Washington one brother and two sisters. Funeral at sister Mrs Lightfoot Onslow November 3 at 2 pm Rev B F Pickering. Services in Hopkinton for interment. Local notices include church remodeling and schedule changes, milk exhibit, social visits, and community events.
Prairieburg residents report family relocations as Mr and Mrs Francis Emig move to Champaign Illinois to manage Mrs Emigs mother farm. Local basketball saw Prairieburg lose to Central City. Parker DeLancey plans to reenter Cedar Rapids Business College. Visits include Burlingham home dinner Mrs Jane Peet birthday anniversary Nyra Gaskell and Myrtle Crawford Palo guests. Halloween party at Benson home a highlight. Paul Lauser family to move to new home this week.
Langworthy Cooperative Creamery Company schedules a patron meeting at the creamery on November 8. Miss Mary Heyen and her brother Clarence attended a shower Monday night for Miss Emma Herren and Henry Bartels of Scotch Grove. Miss Anna Siebels recently visited school. Coretta Ommen came home.
Last week various residents visited family and friends in nearby towns. Mrs Harms recovering from pneumonia at John McDonald hospital after illness. Miss Batchelder and Miss Heyen traveled to relatives in Wyoming and Cedar Rapids respectively. neighbors Soper Stutt and Hart families were seen at different homes.
Sand Spring notes list visitors from Manchester Orchard Strawberry Point and Dubuque. Jane Bohlken remains seriously ill. families visit Monticello and Delhi. R J Davis funeral attended in Hopkinton. Alphonse Schmidt from Dubuque on business.
Arend Balster takes over the postoffice and general store from I L Himebaugh. Willard Himebaugh moves to the vacated house and Lewis Wright to the Clark property. Socials, relatives visits, and travel notes fill a week with Halloween games and college departures.
Bonnie Brooks appeared last Thursday at the Onslow opera house delivering readings songs and folk dances to a sizable audience. Lucile Blakely impressed as a violinist while Dr J J Robinson is billed to speak November 11 on The Face at the Window bolshevism with single admission at 50 cents.
The article lists volunteers and ticket counts for the lyceum fundraiser. Irene Chatterton leads with 12 tickets, others such as Mildred Sireer, Ben Marris, The Tracy, and Carrie Hanson show varied figures. Miss Connor and Miss McCunnspear visit Paris and Iowa City, while a kegging project and window box plants add appeal.
Monticello residents host Rev and Mrs in Albans area with community space changes noted. Obituaries recall Mrs. Palmer of Cent er Junction age about 70 and services at Cedar Rapids with Linwood cemetery interment. Kenyon Jr. buried wife in Portersontown. Gallaher dies in Cedar Rapids after throat illness. Sister Mary Stanislaus dies in Amnonsa hospital. funeral at Cedar Rapids and sisterhood career highlighted.
A jumble of local items from Cascade includes Bert Deiseel delivering an ear of white corn, Jacob Koppes tearing down a building for a new filling station site, and notes on community figures like Heinie Sineel and Johnny ers. It mentions Private James O Crien returning from service, Edward Lippert's divorce case, a court ruling on engineers, and a river incident with fish dumped into the river at Desactoge pies.
Fish were obtained north of Dyersville and at New Vienna through applications from the Dyersville Commercial Club and a number of local citizens.
Walter J Challis sold his farm five miles south of Mechanicsville on the Red Star route for 520.6o per acre to Charles J Rhodes. The entire sum is to be paid in cash. J Popping brought to the village office samples of his crop describing the corn as the largest seen this year. Six rural schools were placed under the consolidation district supervision including Sugar Grove Madel Ess St John Merrick Center Pleasant Valley and Merrice districts with teachers named. A White left for Washington DC to spend the winter after reconsidering Florida plans and noting current events and unsettled questions.
In Washington he believes a serious crisis faces the American people and the supreme test of democracy is now on. Mrs. White will depart to join her husband in Washington shortly.
An American veterinary surgeon instructed a colored stableman to give medicine to a sick horse using a tin tube and a vigorous blow to force it down the animal’s throat. Thirty minutes later the man returned, looking unwell and saying the boss blew fast. Blighty.
A restaurateur recalls losing patrons from a rat problem and credits RAT-SNAP for a pest free return. Ad copy promises a guaranteed solution sold by W. W. Stickford and druggists at prices 25, 50, and 100 cents.
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