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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1919
Page
9
Cedar Rapids shoppers see hats on sale with trims and wide selection at Devlin Millinery. Visitors from Anamosa and Dubuque tour the town while locals and guests test glasses and browse reduced prices on winter hats and millinery items.
Mrs. Lake of Edge mont South Dakota visits Monticello and Castle Grove friends. Round Oak stoves advertised with reasons they heat with less fuel. Services announced at Monticello Presbyterian Church with Rev. Scott W. Smith. Local notices cover conventions, hauling, weather impacts on corn husking, and community events.
Mrs. Alpha Lambert won a divorce in district court with alimony set at 600 dollars, payable 15 dollars monthly, after her husband deserted their five children six years ago. The antici pated proceedings followed a prior stipulation.
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed the lower court and affirmed in part in the Kasper case involving Meta Kasper and Andrew Kasper over title to the 240 acre farm near Monticello. The decision ends with no retrial. rehearing rights apply within sixty days.
Report by Albert Britting notes Monticello fell to Springville last Tuesday in a game on the home court. The piece also covers school activities from armistice day marches to plant propagation studies and a car race story.
Several residents underwent operations last week including Mrs. T. C. Sackett Miss Clara Boss Clarence Heyen and John Oltmann all treated at Langworthy and surrounding areas. Other cases include Mrs Howard De Moss Miss Minnie McLaughlin and Miss Mary Johnson with assorted medical and surgical needs. A list of patients returning home named Mrs Wess Holub Mrs A B Wilcox Wm Thrum Mrs J C McCallum Mrs J H Rickels and Mrs M J Cass. A new $1000 washing machine was installed at the hospital this week.
The Methodist church Sunday morning sermon is The Logic of Reward with an evening topic The Prince of Life. Sunday school starts at 10:00 a.m. Prayer meeting is Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. A cordial invitation to all to worship with us, signed W. H. Mitchell. Discover why Round Oak Heaters resist clinker formation. Ricklefa & McNeill Hardware will exhibit the stove as a long standing standard.
The Monticello Improvement Club banquet was served by the St Elizabeth society of Sacred Heart church. J C Vant Hull secretary of the Clinton Commercial Club spoke on unified effort for community betterment through education roads and orderly growth while urging retention of members and focused projects. Music by Nell Davis with booster songs led by Frank Locher.
The season end gathering at the Country Club featured a reading by Ruth Hemingway Shaw of Friendly Enemies with two German immigrants and a plot about loyalty and war. The event included a half hour of entertainment, refreshments, and dancing with a golf cup presentation to H. B. Richardson.
Josiah Myers 83 dropped dead on a street in Anamosa last Tuesday while pursuing boys who had stolen benches from his porch for a bonfire. A 60 year resident, he is survived by his widow, daughter Eva of Fairview, and sons Louis in Alaska and Robert a Nevada gold miner.
In the season opener Springville beat Monticello 34 to 17 on Monticello’s floor marking a second home defeat in three years. The first half ended Springville 12 Monticello 10 with Skelley scoring Monticello’s early baskets and Cushman and Land contributing other scores. A rematch with Oxford Junction is slated for tomorrow night as locals rally behind the team.
The government reports reveal a radical scheme to seize farms and railways, shutter banks and stores, destroy prisons and courts, burn courthouses, erase police and military leadership, cancel debts, repurpose churches, and install a village commune after toppling the current regime.
A faulty heating stove causes discomfort and wastes fuel but Round Oak Heaters in all sizes are available from Ricklofa and McNeill Hardware in Marshalltown. The Republican notes Mr. Rawson’s succession as governor is not a profitable venture for the town.
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