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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1913
Page
3
Miss Esther Howell visits Winthrop and various residents share Thanksgiving plans and social visits. Community stores advertise wares while physicians offer eye care and local auctions announce dates to attend.
The union Thanksgiving service is scheduled for this evening at the Methodist Episcopal church with Rev. Roy V. Porter delivering the address. Also notes A. Brant and others with unclaimed letters in Monticello post office and local social visits to Cedar Rapids.
Local notices report Harry Boots recovering from appendicitis at Anamosa Sanitarium under Dr Colen Thomas and a range of community items. Mentions of visitors, real estate sales, upcoming bazaars, court session opening, factory renovations, high school football outing, railroad career chatter, holiday shopping, and Davenport college enrollment drive.
Messrs James Harmon and John McDonough acquire Suter’s share in the Monticello Produce Co poultry business. The new owners are industrious and aim to operate independently seeking success and fair returns for their labor.
Mrs M R Doolittle of Hopkinton will speak to the Christian Endeavorers of the Presbyterian church next Sunday at 6 30 PM. She attended World in Chicago last year and will recount the missionary pageant. Endeavorers invite all to attend. Messrs J S Welch and John J Locher were at Independence seeking a writ of certiorari to review a Delaware county highway change and bridge relocation contested between Hopkinton and Delhi.
Funeral attendees for Robert Livingston at Center Junction include George L Lovell Peter Smith and others while Dr Colon G Thomas plans to set up practice in Monticello. He is a Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons graduate and spent two years as an intern at Cook County Hospital.
Farm boys may enroll in Lenox College at the start of the winter term December 1 to gain practical agricultural instruction. The school also offers a domestic science course for young women covering cooking sewing art needlework.
The second number of the library entertainment course will be given at the opera house on Wednesday evening December 3. The Musical Starrs, trained by top masters with years at Castle Square Opera Company and universities, head the act. Tickets and reserved seats on sale at Soetje's on December 2 and 8.
Mr and Mrs Orlando McDaniel celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their Long Beach California home on Monday December 1 with invitations sent to Jones county friends. The couple spent most of their lives around Onslow and many local friends cannot attend but offer best wishes for continued health and happiness. Mrs McDaniel is sister of E J Lightfoot of this city.
The birth of a child via Caesarean section was performed on Mrs. Fannie Shaffer Siebels near Monticello at Anamosa sanitarium by Dr. A G Hejinian and Dr. T M Redmond after pelvic malformation made natural delivery impossible. The baby was healthy though the procedure shocked the patient. doctors expect recovery. Also noted are obituary for Charlie King and Y M C A work by Guy Aldrich in Monticello with plans for evangelistic teams from Coe College.
The Monticello Improvement Club met last Monday in the library lecture room with a large turnout. H A Orchard of Cedar Rapids spoke on improving town life beyond commerce, stressing honesty in advertising, better living conditions, cleaner streets, and harmonious civic effort. Music by local performers accompanied the address, and attendees praised the speaker and the club’s aims to raise Monticello’s reputation and quality of life.
Proctor Wilkens notes thankfulness for the upcoming vacation while the pedagogy class visits grades. Freshmen excel in attendance and punctuality. star pupils miss exams and receive a question off. Domestic science girls sew instead of cook due to missed recitations. CornellGrinnell trip invites by Cornell coach. Y M C A leader speaks on the Yellow streak. Mabannah visits Monticello schools and lectures on country schools. Mass meeting for Thanksgiving game with West Branch. Reiss Stabler elected cheerleader leads squad on support views. May the game be well attended.
C D Chase promotes 820 acres 24 miles from a town with three elevators bank and merchant establishments. 260 acres cultivated with ample water and buildings. sale at 31 dollars per acre. Expected rental 10 percent or more. contact at Frank Page garage. ads to continue.
Carload of hand picked New York apples arrives with Greening Baldwin and Northern Spy leading varieties. Prices described as reasonable as demand grows. half the lot sold. Order by phone to Geo Stuhler Sona Co at 6M.
The semiannual meeting of the Jones County Medical Society is set for Tuesday December 2 1913 at the Monticello library. Afternoon program begins at 1 PM with papers by Dr B H Chamberlain Dr Seward White Dr W W Hunter Dr L G Stabler and reports from officials including Dr A G Hejinian and Dr L K Bobo who will attend. Also note a local house fire near Ray Fairbanks home Cass township narrowly contained and a new deputy income tax collector William H Stolbeten of Dubuque appointed
Fred Burrichter a respected citizen died early Monday at 78 after a long illness of cancer. Funeral services were held at the family home on Sycamore street with Rev. Roland Kuentzel officiating. Interment followed in Oakwood cemetery. Born December 26 1835 in Ossenbeck Germany he came to America in 1863 and married Lizzie Bovenschulte in Cincinnati. The couple moved to Iowa in 1870 and raised a large family of thirteen children eleven living today. Surviving children include Henry Fred William Edward Martin Emil Otto and others and a sister Mrs D Dickman Lost Nation. He and his wife were noted for stable family life and strong citizenship.
The county bar association held a meeting yesterday and decided to honor M. W. Herrick of Monticello with a complimentary banquet at a later date. Resolutions of respect were adopted for the late Judge J. H. Preston and sympathy extended to Attorney KE Hogan of Cascade after his wife’s death. Newly elected officers include President H. M. Remley, Vice President J. W. Coxsee, Secretary J. J. Locher, and Treasurer A. A. Cole.
Local families and relatives from Iowa City to Waterloo enjoy Thanksgiving visits. Names include Hicks, Lambert, Balear, Carmichael, Brazelton, Fletcher, Dunham, Noyes, Templeton, Coxsee, Cooper, Hanawalt, Hubbard, Fawcett, Stoddard, Beery, Lathrop, Huene, Heune, King, and Winner. Trips span Norwoodville to Edgewood and Oskaloosa with stays in Garwin and Waterloo. Several entries note guests, travel, and holiday hospitality with shopping mentions at Golden Rule Variety and Doutrick's.
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