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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1916
Page
9
A string of social visits spans Cedar Rapids Dubuque Anamosa Iowa City and other towns. Guests include Mrs Lewis Lang W A Beery Miss Hensetta McHugh and many families visiting relatives and attending events. The John McDonald hospital work advances as visitors tour the site.
Miss Katherine Lovell attends cousin Wendell Smith’s wedding in Battle Creek Michigan. District court term opens November 27 with Judge Ellison. jury called December 4. Presbyterian bazaar December 6 with chicken pie supper at 5 PM. Mrs. Thomas Smithson and Ollie back from Oxford Junction. Uncalled letters at Monticello post office. Mrs Jennie Chapman visiting relatives in Geneva New York and Chicago. Royal Neighbors social box social in Woodman Hall Friday. Etta Woods versus Brancis Woods divorce suit filed in Lion county district court. Ed Lightfoot rents South Cedar Street home to Henry Schoon. Lowell Hicks returns from federal forestry service to visit parents. Bethel church Bazaar and supper December 6. Rev George Hauck attends Dyersville banquet. Isaac Sears and son Weir Davenport visit Monticello. entering auto supply business. Mr J S Brownell Wyoming and Ellsworth Lawrence Peoria Illinois in town. Pension increases for widows of soldiers 70 years and older. Woman’s Club auction sale November 24 at Rest Room 2 PM. Fred Mattheson rural carrier adds two miles daily after December 1. J L Faber Cascade attends Iowa meetings. Auction dates for L P Waddick list several sales through December 21. Old fashioned church ladies party. Loraine Day reading Maude Goodherren violin Grace Lt Fox song. Henderson estate: Jennie Porter Davenport buys homestead Chestnut street. Robert W Henderson buys corner property. C H Gooch of Chicago succeeds J E Kelsey as Davenport Monticello mail clerk. New Monticello automobile hearse from Rock FallsMotor Co. features Circassian walnut interior and electric start. electric lighting. dust-proof rear doors.
The St John’s Lutheran church featured a pipe organ recital by Prof Rechlin from New York, praised by a grateful audience. Cedar Rapids plans a municipal Christmas tree funded by the Improvement Club, with charity drives to aid the poor due to high food and fuel prices. Denkhoff’s new 12 by 12 soundproof victrola room aims to showcase records, and corrections are made about Monticello Lutheran church membership. Mrs A M Fairbanks returns from Jureka, Montana after her father John Stephens dies at 77 in Castle Grove several weeks after paralysis.
At the last meeting Mayor James A Voorhees was tasked to contract Baldwin Bros of Winona Minnesota for an electric bell fire alarm. A sixty foot brick tower will be built atop the new fire station to house the bell and replace a temporary siren.
Thirty five years ago in November 1881 local items record births marriages and moves. Notable entries include births of a son to Mr and Mrs Q A Bowman on the 15th and a marriage of Miss Eva Crane to Charles J Rowley on the 24th plus other unions in Langworthy and Marion.
Miss Gayle Servoss visited the high school on Wednesday while exams loom Thursday and Friday. The first basketball game of the season is set for Friday night against Springville at the gym. Domestic science showcased salad dressing, and a home economics student proposed dye experiments. Seniors study Macbeth as they prepare dramatic passages. A Glee Club member near Miss Fox caused a fall, prompting laughter and a scolding. The Ames football defeat by Lena last Saturday drew sympathy for Miss McClintock. Mr Mulroy’s doorway moment led to musings on centrifugal forces and plaster near the science room. Manuel training outputs include book racks, pen racks, flower stands, coat hangers, tie racks, medicine cases, waste baskets, serving trays, plus a jewel case shaped like a pyramid. The gasoline electric car on the van to Calmar faces heating issues. C M & St P line works on a new heater as the car remains cold. Charles M. Thomas, formerly Maquoketa attorney, elected to Washington legislature on the Republican ticket.
A Friday meeting in the public library discussed organizing a Monticello country club with a 2850 yard nine hole golf course inside the city park. Plans include a clubhouse with showers and a dining room, tennis courts, a gravel park drive, and limited fifty member entries funded by an entrance fee.
The supreme court affirmed a lower court ruling in Clarke v Dirks. Margaret Clarke of Canada claimed an eighth interest in land once owned by her father and inherited through Frank Bailey, but John H. Dirks bought the tract in 1891 with a warranty deed. The case hinged on cotenancy and color of title, with the court ruling the trial judge erred.
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