Monticello Area Briefs Highlight Visits and Local Notices
Mrs. Martin, Hopkinton visitor. W D Magee on business in Florida. Ralph Baker in Parlor City. Miss Gertrude Tue] from Chicago. Hiram Lee in Davenport. Fred Matthiessen at Stone City. Leone Cooley of Cascade visits. Doatricks promotes Xmas dolls. Howell's millinery offers winter goods. J A Hall in Chicago. many short travel notes across Monticello, Anamosa, Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns. Football game Monticello Maroons vs Dyersville on Nov 22 at Dyersville. Willis Mastin visits Upper Iowa University. Ferring garage rented to R H Fuller for auto repair. Mrs Sam Campbell from Indianapolis aiding ill sister-in-law. Mrs Emma Goes recovering from pneumonia.
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Ferring
R. H. Fuller
Sam Campbell
Indianapolis
Indiana
Monticello Notes and Local Updates
Community items from Monticello include visits by Carl Dutton to Belle Plaine, Miss Floy Alcorn at a wedding, and a Congregational church supper. Reports cover shoppers at Stabler's and Stuhler's, a planned gymnasium basketball game between Anamosa and Monticello, and a weather shift with first real winter blast.
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Anamosa High School
Monticello High School
Anamosa
Monticello Notes of Visits and Local Events
Community notices recount visits by Webster and Kellogg families to August Schatz. a backward social at Rev Cushman’s home. Miss Arduser’s stop in Monticello. Porter family travels and Ford purchases. Mrs Beery’s illness. railroad stock tie up affecting brakemen. A G Hanken’s auction sales. Miss Clara Comstock’s appeal for orphan homes. Thanksgiving services planned. unclaimed letters at Monticello post office. Ruby Ely and John Bader wed. Fred Dahling re-elected Monticello Canning Co manager. cannery donations to Belgian relief.
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Monticello
Conductor Henry Fox Travels to Los Angeles for Visit
Henry Fox the conductor formerly of Monticello has gone to Los Angeles where Mrs Fox has been visiting for weeks. They plan to return to Oxford Junction in four to five weeks and will celebrate their forty seventh wedding anniversary in their absence. During Foxs absence Conductor Farrell will take his son and the Calmar line run will be managed by M W Pully from the Oxford Mirror.
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Henry Fox
Monticello
Los Angeles
California
Mrs Oren B Waite Dies in California After Illness
Mrs Oren B Waite died of heart failure in San Jacinto California two weeks ago and was buried in Hollywood near Los Angeles. Surviving husband is son of the late Rev E G Waite long pastor of the Monticello Methodist church. Rev Waite belonged to the Upper Iowa conference and taught at Cornell College. Mrs Waite had been an invalid for several years.
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Oren B. Waite
San Jacinto
California
Hollywood
Los Angeles
E. G. Waite
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Monticello
Upper Iowa
Cornell College
Hardworking Mary Bates Perseveres in South Dakota
Mary Bates fourteen daughter of Mr and Mrs O T Bates near Stamford South Dakota rides ten miles daily to school and back. With her father injured she feeds and cares for livestock and milks while continuing to attend classes on time. Stamford paper notes her dedication and resilience amid hardship.
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Mary Bates
O. T. Bates
Stamford
South Dakota
Mary
Domestic science class notes and school games
High School notes report several items including a Tuesday explosion disabling a domestic science store, basketball results with third team 33 to 16 over fourth, and a bread baking contest led by Inez Hubbard and Nellis Flubbard. Examinations planned for next week amid Thanksgiving vacation.
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William Cullen Bryant
Inez Hubbard
Nellis Flubbard
November 1884 Monticello items and quarantine news
The Express records local notes from Monticello and nearby towns in November 1884. Demands for post office patronage, marriages and anniversaries, a death of a respected Hopkinton resident, a mule incident, and an operetta fund raise are noted alongside a regional hoof and mouth disease quarantine affecting Jones Cedar Jackson and Clinton counties with strict movement restrictions and public health guidance.
Sudden Death of Max M. Smith at Ames Football Game
Max M. Smith a well known Cascade traveling man died suddenly of heart failure after cheering at the Ames versus Iowa football game in Ames. His body was sent to Monticello for interment at Castle Grove after funeral services led by Rev. M S Murphy. His widow Margaret Hogan Smith has lifelong ties to Monticello and Cedar Rapids. Also noted is a Metropolitan Grand Quartet performance at the Opera House and Walter M. Grafton’s lecture next Tuesday at the Presbyterian church on Europe’s Litanic Struggle.
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Ames
Iowa
Max M. Smith
Cascade
Metropolitan Grand Quartet
Opera House
Improvement Club
Lane
Neth
Eberly
Chase
Walter M. Grafton
The
Presbyterian Church
Europe
Dr. Grafton
School Board Proceedings and Local Notices
November 17 1914 special session of the board of education lists bills allowed for Contingent Fund and School Fund including W B Sloan labor 200 R W Henderson 360 J J Locher insurance 7600 3700 etc plus supplies from multiple vendors. Henry Winnekamp and sister notified by telegram of mother Mrs John Winnekamp stroke in Longmont Colorado after a three week visit. Mrs Winnekamp widow of former Wayne township resident. Miss Margaret Errickson of Waterloo visiting her parents E Errickson.
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Board of Education
L. W. Lovell
C. D. Chase
W. F. Rohn
W B Sloan
W Henderson
J Locher
Cross Hardware Co
L Lawrence
Arthur P. Schmitt
Bks
J J Locher
Ricklefa & McNeill
Davenport Bag & Paper Co
Iowa Telephone Co
E Heisey
Metropolitan Supply Co
O C Birchard & Co
Central Lumber & Coal Co
Monticello Electric Co
Hoag Duster Co
Lovell State Bank
Monticello State Bank
E. E. Reed
Henry Winnekamp
Wirt Bennen
Longmont
Colorado
John Winnekamp
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E. G. Burrichter
the Home of Shoes of Quality
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W.d. Magee
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Ralph Baker
Parlor City
Dorset
Deatrick’s
Cliff Mein
Gertrude Tue
Chicago
Hiram Lee
Fred Matthiessen
Stone City
Xmas
Doutrick’s
Leone Cooley
J.8. Hall
Howell
James Lahey
Farley
Urban Haeuseler
John Locher
Cedar Rapids
Mary G. Hogan
Martin Kehoe
Davenport
Pansy Carter
Wa. Storm
Delmar
B. L. Cobb
Waterloo
Amanda Hosford
Helen
Minnie Matthiessen
Dubuque
Tom Shafer
J. W. Coxsee
Evanston
Nathan Lathrop
Oxford Junction
Mrs. Cecil Curtis
Mr. and
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A. C. Foster
Williamsburg
Galen Mirick
Olin
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Raymond Slauson
Mississippi River
A. L. Dorner
Tilden, Nebraska
James McAleer
John Kehoe
Doatricks
Mamie Sistrunk
New York City
Kate Maurice
Willis Mastin
Jed
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
Emma Goes
People’s
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Carl Dutton
Belle Plaine
A. 8
Locher
Max Wendorff
Strawberry Point
LaPorte City
E. G. Hicks
Nancy Jewett
Detroit
Lyle Hicks
Stabler’s
Floy Alcorn
Florence Ricketts
Benjamin Ferguson
the Congregational Church
Stuhler
Mary A. Fawcett
Joseph Nye
Manchester
W. H. McClintock
Fred’ Stubler
Iowa City
Stubler
Stahler’s
Leonard van Kirk
Swaledale
Fred Binggéli
Hartford
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Ruby Ely
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Arch Koop
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Elmer Hubbard
John Greer
Sherlock
Michigan
Jones County
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Hazel
Helen Hoag
Louis Hoag
Robert Henderson
Bartholomew
Minneapolis
First Street
Anamona
J. W. Turner
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. C. Magee
W. D. Magee
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Magee
F. L., Webster
F. Kellogg
August Schatz
Christian, Endeavor Society
QC. EH. Cushman
J. L. Arduser
Ryan
Arduser
William Porter
Greene
R. V. Porter
Porter
W. A. Beery
Mrs. Springer
Garwin
Mr. Beery
Marion
A. G. Hanken
Clara B. Comstock
Children’s Aid Society
Des Moines
Miss Comstock
Presbyterian
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W. Z. Allen
United States
Mary Boody
Dora Dam
Carl] Dayton
Divine Clow
Curtis Cummings
John Febners
H. E. Folkers
John Haenbit
Essie Hastings
Albert Iben
Catherine Hepp
Fay Hutchinson
Thomas W. Hogan
John Lueken
Peter Meyer
Gerd Thaden
W. K. Welch
Frank .Welch
Ruby V. Ely
Reuben Ely
J. G. Bader
Monticello Canning Co
Belgium
John Balcar
Claseas
Express
George E. Wood
Albert Calkins
Cynthia Putnam
Simon Chamberlain
Matthew Nelson
Scotch Grove
Mary Bell
Emma Clark
J. L. Barrowa
Elko
Nevada
Leroy Jackson
Chauncey Mead
Peter Young
Jacobi
Ladies’ Library Association
Frank Mellette
Adena Little
Lizzie Whitemore
Emanuel Newman
Lathrop
Oxford Mills
Cedar
Jackson
Clinton
Jones
Bureau of Animal Health
Ohicio
Dubuque County
Jackson County
Maquoketa
Cedar County
W. B. Barney
Gibson
O. H. Stange
Division of Veterinary Medicine
Iowa State College
Dr. Stange
Dean Stange
School Board Proceedings
Margaret Errickson
Mrs
E. Errickson
C. H. Schipman
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