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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1914
Page
9
Miss Daisy Noyes visits Chicago amid a flurry of local social mentions. The piece catalogs visitors from Waucoma Hopkinton Cedar Rapids Anamosa Monticello and Ottumwa area towns and promotes Doutrick's sales on dress goods and silk petticoats with various remarks on gates windows and home items.
Bill Jones is sent to the county jail for a disorderly public seance. Monticello headlines include marriage licenses Floyd Hampton Luella Binns, theater ads for The Calling of Dan Matthews at the opera house, and visits by residents to Cedar Rapids, Monticello, Anamosa and Center Junction. Local events feature church suppers, services, fencing ads, horse and wagon incidents, and community updates on residents, births, and travel.
No service or Sunday school next Sunday as Rev. Kuntzel attends the Synod of the Northwest annual conference in Waukon Iowa. Caesar Page a centenarian died at Worthington yesterday funeral tomorrow aged 100 born January 12 last year survived by three daughters. Eyes tested and glasses fitted J L Stubler Axe.
Dr. Driett of Anamosa, long a physician at the Anamosa penitentiary, is very ill and not expected to recover. The Knights of Pythias will start the fall campaign with a social tomorrow evening inviting all members and families for dancing games and refreshments. The Donovan farm of 840 acres west of town sold at partition to Dennis Donovan for 100 per acre after limited competition. Weather in September was unusually pleasant though soon to yield to December winds. Carl Schoon Henry Frieze George Tobiason George Schoon and Fritz Reuter traveled to Moline Monday evening under Siebels Schoon guidance to visit implement manufacturers.
The Reed and Coxsee farm in Richland township, occupied by the Yossi brothers, has been rented to Rudolf and Adolf Kennen for three years. John Yossi plans to move to a farm near Ryan in the spring.
Superintendent Dahling of the Monticello Canning Co notes reports from Iowa canning factories show the lightest corn on hand in years. The scarcity has driven an upward trend in prices already observed at this time.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Hubbard Mr and Mrs J M King Mr and Mrs H J Richardson Mr and Mrs H J Lang Mr and Mrs Lewis Lang Miss Mary Clark Miss Carrie Clark and Rose Wenger visited Cedar Rapids last Sunday to hear Bishop Quayle deliver his conference sermon.
The Monticello ball club beat Wyoming in a field meet at Center Junction yesterday as locals enjoyed good weather and warm hospitality. William Netcott left for Hazelton to begin an 8117 contract for brick and concrete work on a new school building there after finishing Center Junction project.
Frank Hughes and Floyd Truesdale, former county jail inmates, are named in Federal grand jury indictments at Cedar Rapids. Hughes’s sentence expired last Sunday but federal arrest prevented his release. In Center Junction region, George Seehusen and his wife hosted a dance at Kinsella hall last Thursday where they celebrated their son in law and daughter’s marriage to Tiede Behrends. Mike Hogan sold 120 acres in Castis Grove township at $200 an acre to John Inabnet, a rising high price for local land, with Hogan having bought it four years earlier for $131 per acre.
Miss Marcella Quirk daughter of the late Robert Quirk was badly hurt in a Waterloo automobile crash with a street car last Sunday. She was thrown from the car and suffered facial and head wounds with possible internal injuries. Her sister Lauretta and others in the car were bruised but less seriously.
Rev James W Turner appointed pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church arriving from Edgewood after three years in the Upper Iowa conference. He is married with one child and trained at McKendree College and Northwestern University Theological Department. He entered ministry in the Detroit conference and has served rural, suburban and city churches. Supported by Dr A M Billingsley district superintendent, he will preach next Sunday morning and evening.
J P Monnier, an 82 year old former Monticello barber now living near Coggan with his son Emil, visited town last Saturday and recalled fighting with the French in the Crimean War. He carries a saber scar from a 1854 56 hand to hand clash and prefers peace over war, hoping rulers avoid armed conflict.
The Mary Hanson v city of Anamosa case remains in district court and will not finish tonight or tomorrow. Hanson, a young woman, injured by a fall near the Gillen House, broke her hip and is permanently crippled. She seeks 20000 damages, and the court ruled questions of fact remain for the jury on city negligence in sidewalk approach construction.
A farmer boasting no bank deposits since last spring says he saves in cash at home to guard against a panic. The piece argues such behavior would spark panic nationwide and warns of theft risks in every hiding place from stove pipes to bed ticks, urging calm and not scapegoating banks.
Citizens facing city street improvement assessments must file objections with City Clerk C J Northrop by October 7 after notices published September 17. No further notices will be issued. Grievances must be in writing to survive review. failures to object void recourse. Assessments should not exceed a quarter of the property value.
State highway engineer Prof. McDonald and county officials visited Monticello to review extending concrete paving from the city limits. Twenty rods of paving would fill boggy sections with drainage and tiling, followed by turnpike and gravel work to the bridge. Adolph Schlemmer of Sand Spring died at 30 after brain tumor surgery in Iowa City. He leaves a wife Kate Dirks and daughter, plus two sisters and two brothers. Funeral services were held at the German Lutheran church in Monticello. interment at Oakwood.
Herman Brodersen purchases the Zachariah Ericksen farm in Madison township. The 160 acre property sells at 160 dollars per acre with possession on March first. The sale price is described as reasonable.
District court proceedings show final reports approved and administrators discharged in multiple estates including Sillabee Cunningham Hart and Howard. Defendants in Iowa cases plead guilty with fines and jail time. receivers appointed in mortgage disputes. guardianship and executorship matters updated with bond actions and discharges.
The Express records Monticello events in October 1894 including marriages of John H Perrine to Minnie Ryan on the 24th and Rudolph Bohren to Lizzie Friedley on the 25th, farm sale by E N Bachelder, and church assignments for Rev K N Earhart. A fatal fire on the 18th destroyed multiple properties, worth about 12000 dollars, and political nominations were made at both major parties.
Jones County Times reports Joe Rourke of Anamosa toured the city yesterday with a proposal to buy a resident and relocate here. The piece notes a proposed gasoline tax could cost Dubuque consumers about 15,600 dollars more per year than current payments.
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