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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1917
Page
5
Local notes report numerous visitors and travelers: Mrs Martha Peet and families visit Anamosa Viola Cedar Rapids Chicago and Moline. Dr T J Peet in Monticello. Miss Dennison Onslow and Miss Grace Fox Dubuque. J Jacobs returns from Denver. soldiers in France. Also theater ad and watch shop promos.
Local residents return home after visits including Ellsworth and Dubuque. Visitors from White Sulphur Springs Montana plan winter stay in Monticello. Illness recovery for Mrs N G W Winner with Noble as chief nurse. Stag dinner at country club draws 50 plus patrons. Unclaimed letters persist at Monticello post office. Iowa Telephone plans Ford utility car to aid linemen boosting rural service.
A Monticello item details the Dress family moving to Monticello, a Presbyterian chicken pie supper on November 20 with a sale of aprons, a new optometrist ad from Patrick, and a farm equipment sale showing wagons and a riding cultivator. Leah Hubbard visits family as Meservey school adjourns for corn harvest.
Marshall Hall spent the week in Chicago on a business trip after returning from Stamford South Dakota where he summered at the Chauncey Bates farm. He expects to work for Hall Manufacturing Co this winter. Len Reichart and Elmer Kurt went to Waterloo last Monday evening to bring home two Paige automobiles, sold by Reichart to Stephen Grover and Peter Kurt. Reichart has sold six Paige cars in the past two months.
H Barnhill formerly of Scotch Grove now lives in Eldorado Kansas reports his oil district farm has six producing wells and one gas well. Crane Theatre will operate three nights weekly starting next week on Monday Wednesday and Saturday with no shows Tuesday Thursday and Friday unless a holiday or special booking.
Fred Mastin of the 20th Cavalry Provisional Field Artillery moves from Fort Riley Kansas to Camp Logan Houston Texas. Henry Seimering of the 7th Infantry band shifts from Gettysburg Pennsylvania to Camp Greene North Carolina.
Electric lighting work continues at the Congregational church. Two large bronze chandeliers will hang in the main auditorium providing direct and indirect illumination. Indirect fixtures will brighten the lecture room and halls.
The Monticello Improvement Club will hold a supper at the Lovell house tomorrow evening at seven. Landlord Staff promises a fine supper. After the meal, members will discuss important business matters.
Mrs. W. S. Wilkinson suffered a shoulder dislocation after a rug mishap, anesthetic used for reduction. Miss Mary Gordon, sister of Isaac Maxwell, died in Sacramento November 6 after a summer illness. she grew up in Richland township. Horace Downer remains seriously ill with pneumonia. his granddaughter Nellie Wales tutors in his absence, with Clara Ricklefs filling in.
Percy Guilford, visiting Monticello, is stationed at Camp D. A Russell Wyoming on a thirty day furlough. He serves in the cavalry and prefers it, hoping to winter at a southern camp. He remains healthy and eager, urging support for the Y fund and liberty bonds. Postmaster Lanigan received Washington telegram about Rosco Scott’s death aboard the Michigan. the father listed lives near Monticello, but no such resident exists there. The sailor likely hailed from another area.
The country club hosted a Red Cross benefit with a daytime games and music program followed by an evening auction and attractions. Merchants donated items for the auction and organizers reported about 125 dollars raised.
Sheriff W J Mills stated his son Ray, who joined the army’s engineering arm, is somewhere in France. He cannot reveal location or many plans. a later letter may be censored or edited before England departure for France.
C B Wernimont guards a group of squirrels living in trees behind his farm in South Fork township Delaware county. Last Sunday hunters fired at the squirrels while he was away. He offers five dollars reward for information identifying the shooters and warns hunters to stay away.
Canadian soldier Private Peat spoke at Monticello Opera House to a record crowd about his war book Private Peat published by Bobbs Merrill. He lectured in Chicago at Orchestra Hall on Two years in hell and back with a smile. He is badly maimed with the loss of a right lung and a powerless right arm.
The funeral service was led by Rev J H Barr last Friday forenoon and the interment took place at Oakwood cemetery. The body was brought from Good Thunder Minnesota by daughter Nellie Bev ington and son Frank McConnon with plans for Wm G McConnon of Pittsburg to join but he arrived too late. Born Ackworth New Hampshire April 27 1831 she was over 86 at death.
Brazelton and his brother Carl returned to Monticello after a 4000 mile drive from El Paso via Colorado Springs. He noted fair southern roads, rough mountain passes, and a 900 foot drop in one stretch. Gasoline along the route ranged from 20 to 35 cents.
W A Sap of Blanchard Iowa learned yesterday of his youngest sister Maude Brown's death. Maude lived with husband Charles Brown near Blanchard after leaving Amber ten years ago. She was daughter of Alexander and Isabelle Sutherland and is survived by her husband and three children. Sutherland had been visiting Scotch Grove relatives and planned to drive to Tama then take a train home. No illness details reached him before departure.
Mrs. John Yousse died after a stroke last Thursday. Funeral held at Congregational church, Rev. Cushman officiating, burial at Bowen's Prairie. Born May 12, 1851 in Meadville. moved to Iowa 1863. lived in Jones county 54 years. Survived by husband John and three children Ray Wayne Netcott. Knights of Pythias plan Cedar Rapids session November 20 with 200 candidates. Shapley, 81, to be candidate and attend with lodges from three districts.
A Seatech Grove youth accompanied two auto loads of friends to the Gid Hughes area for snipe hunting. The bag holder stood silent as his companions beat the bushes, only to return home after a fruitless vigil and laughter from nearby onlookers.
A note promotes a wide clock assortment at C. R. Coons quality jewelry store. In local obituaries Stephen Finn of Cascade, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Finn, died on the 1st of the month at age 29.
The Y M C A plans an eight thousand dollar fund drive in northern Jones County to keep county and cantonment buildings open for soldiers in Europe. EK Reed chairs the northern district with township captains and helpers. Monticello’s BE Hicks leads a local committee meeting Friday at nine in the Monticello State Bank. The drive prioritizes the last three days with contributions from Lovell and other townships.
F I Pike lies seriously injured in John McDonald hospital after being struck by J C Kinton of Corgan as he crossed near the post office. Pike suffered deep scalp wounds, dental loss, and a broken hand. Kinton fled but was pursued, captured, and held on $1000 bond awaiting grand jury.
Word arrives that surgical dressings reached headquarters and were approved. The club house hosted Red Cross events on Friday November 9 with games, knitting lessons, a fish pond, palm readings, and a merchant auction that raised $65. The auction and evening dancing contributed to a total of $152 with knitting shipments approved for quota completion this week.
FP E Pike shows gradual improvement after being struck by a car. He suffered facial bruises a hand wound a broken bone in a foot and temporary arm paralysis. Paul Maire returned home after appendicitis surgery. Mrs John Wollert had an operation last Friday. John Folkers went home last Monday. Erma Rohr had neck glandular surgery this week.
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