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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 19, 1914

Page

7

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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J. W. Duxser Howard & Foster E. G. Burrichter the Home of Shoes of Quality Home News Mrs. Martin Hopkinton W.d. Magee Florida 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 Mrs. Arnold A. C. Foster Williamsburg Galen Mirick Olin W. A. Mirick 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 Deutrick’s 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 South, Dakota Richland Township Camp Fire Girls Congregational Church Camp Fire Thais van Meter John Oswald Knights of Columbus O. J. Cash Sam Reid Clerk Fisher District Court John P. Bader Ruby Ely Algin Miner Marjorie Livingston Arch Koop Royal Hubbard Orville Peet Elmer Hubbard John Greer Sherlock Michigan Jones County Elmer Hogan 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 Congregational Methodist Episcopal Churches 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 MAIN Hicks & Ricklefs ER. A. Hubbard Graham L. H. Lang
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