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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1921
Page
7
Mrs. Frank Johnson and Mrs. Carl Schatz visited Anamosa and Cedar Rapids while many readers are urged to test eyes and battery trouble numbers. Ads promote Edison phonographs, Gulbransen player pianos, cheap slippers, hats, and three hundred hats at Devlin Millinery with a Thanksgiving theater showing Mary Pickford in Daddy Long Legs at the Princess.
Local notices describe visitors and residents including Mrs W D Magee, Mr and Mrs Hicks, and Miss Farnham visiting Monticello homes. Advertisements promote Christmas records at Denkhoff's Jewelry and Ford side curtains at Hattendorf's Auto Top Shop. Community events include bake sale by Reformed church, box social, and a Masonic-Eastern Star gathering. plans for a July 4th Legion picnic are announced.
Dr Grant Hicks of Tacoma Washington, a prominent state physician, makes a brief visit with his brothers Elmer and Eben Hicks and sister Mrs Fred Koop while en route home from a trip to New York City.
Monticello area items include home demonstrations in Lovell township with dyeing, a November 29 farm bureau meeting and officer election, church services, births, marriages, and obituaries. Activities cover railroad wireless service in Pittsburg, a public cattle sale near Monticello, and plans for Nutrition as a county project in 1922.
Multiple weddings occurred yesterday afternoon in area churches including Wayne Lutheran Castle Grove First Presbyterian Monticello St Matthew Lutheran and the Lovell hotel reception. Brides Miss Bernita Hutton Miss Lena Marie Hedden and Miss Hannah Zin merman wed at church ceremonies with attendants and plans for future homes noted. The couples include Lewis Langer Alva Zimmerman and others with local family ties and wedding trips announced.
Snow covered Monticello grounds and Anamosa cited weather and other excuses for not playing the Armistice Day football game. Tickets were sold and refunds issued as several other state games proceeded as scheduled. Mrs. S. M. Yoran of Eugene City Oregon died at 88, survived by her husband and three sons and a daughter.
Miss Elsie Catherine Lubben daughter of Mr and Mrs John Lubben of Cass township married Arnold Jacobs son of Mr and Mrs Rudolph Jacobs of Monticello. The ceremony was at Wayne Lutheran church at 2 pm conducted by Rev M Scherf. Guests included Misses Lubben and Hanken and Mr Fred Lubben. The couple will reside on the Rudolph Jacobs farm in Wayne township. Jacobs served in the US Army in the recent war with six months in France with the 27th New York Division.
The Arthur P. O Rourke Post of The American Legion held Armistice Day ceremonies at Oakwood cemetery led by Post Commander George Wenzlick with a prayer talk by Rev. Leonard Duckett and three rifle volleys plus taps. Businesses paused two minutes at 10 58 for silent homage. Michael Hannan died aged 101 at St Anthonys Home Dubuque after marking his 101st birthday May 20 born in Ireland in 1820.
Ralph Milroy, longtime assistant to the late Thomas Wilson, has been appointed by Manchester to succeed Wilson as city manager. Milroy will oversee city operations and continue the administration's policy direction in the post.
The report notes no school last Friday for Armistice Day and a cancelled football game with Allamosa due to bad weather. It lists student visits, class activities, and upcoming events including basketball practice, annual staff efforts, and a sub-district declamatory contest invitation.
The team finished the season undefeated against high school rivals, with a lone defeat to Cornell Freshmen at Mt. Vernon 19 to 0. Five first team players graduate, but prospects for a strong next year are bright. Basketball shifts in, Captain Shelley expects a fast team, while Captain Skelley, Hubbard, Schneider, and Zuebler are setup for key roles.
The farmer in a consolidated district argues taxes are too high with rates up to seven dollars an acre. Education is vital, yet concerns rise about overburdening rural patrons. The piece urges moderation, opposing neither education nor progress but calls for a balanced path.
The program lists an evening service at the Methodist church on Sunday November 20 at 7 30 with organ prelude scripture prayer and music by orchestra and vocal solos. It includes offertory by a men's choir and quartet and duets by Mrs Reed and Mr Mitchell. All are cordially invited.
The Jones county study center will be held at Anamosa High School on Saturday November 19 starting at 10:00. Armistice exercises occurred at the Methodist Episcopal church with Dr. George Wenzlick presiding. Addresses by BE. E H. Reed and J. W. Coxsee discussed wartime lessons and postwar disarmament issues. Devlin Millinery offers hats for Miss and Matron.
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