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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1919
Page
2
Ef Doxsee and Chas A Doxsee publish the Monticello Express with subscription price listed at 1.75 per year. The notice identifies Ef Monticello Express editors and proprietors.
Wyoming, September 30 correspondence describes a Kansas trip via Milwaukee and Sante Fe, noting dry conditions and wheat yields 10 to 25 bushels per acre south of the Arkansas. It mentions Jones Co. in Sumner Co., Kansas, visits to J. C. Ileasty and family, Uncle Mith Heasty in Wellington, and a golden wedding planned for RR, M. and wife in December. The note covers farming land values around 200 dollars per acre, local marriages, property deals, a Modern Woodmen field day, a new filling station project, and various residents visiting or moving.
Local items recount patient moved purchases land sales and visits near Center Junction with numerous names including J L Himebaugh Scotch Grove D S Ward Cedar Rapids and George McDonald. The column notes arrivals departures trips family visits church events and a chicken pie supper raising eighty two dollars.
In Scotch Grove on October 1 families and friends traveled to Davenport for medical care and a postponed sale. Local weddings and visits filled the week with multiple trips to Central City Anamosa Marion Cedar Rapids and Monticello.
Onslow September 20 Miss Velma Conley underwent surgery for chronic appendicitis at her grandparents home. Doctors Carson and Rawson performed the operation. Velma is progressing well and friends anticipate a rapid recovery. Miss Ella Orr and Bert Isenstrayer married last week and plan to move to Minnesota to start a farm.
Center Junction beat Onslow 66 to 8 last Thursday after a tied score in the final half inning. Bernell Close drove in the decisive run with a two bagger after two outs as Malvern Starry returned to school and exams were held for four weeks.
Prairieburg residents participated in a free eye examination week at Dr Adams office in Central City. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Verner Conklin and Chancey, Mr and Mrs Joe Smith Cedar Rapids planning a Wisconsin move, O D Deene recovering from treatment in Anamosa, Madge DeLancey visiting Central City, Mr and Mrs Mell Peet and Mrs Iva Wolmuit shopping in Cedar Rapids, Mr and Mrs John Sible hosting relatives from Worthington, Mrs N J Benson and children visiting Anamosa Flaherty home, Rose Chismore shopping Central City, and C O Rowley repainting his house.
Sunday guests in Manchester include Ww. I Hobbon at the A Blair home. Mrs. Robbins returns after a week with relatives. F J Bohlken’s farm is now rented to Claude Slauson from Alphonse Schmidt. Alphonse and Mrs. Schmidt of Dubuque visited on business. Fregger and Ray Chaplin spent Friday in Cedar Rapids. Fred Egger and Barney Schaeffer made Monticello visits. Louis Schuster attends school at Worthington. M Wheeless and family also noted.
Son Dale of Hopkinton visited with the Pierce home Sunday. Mrs. H. Pierce visited Monticello on Wednesday. Louis and Ruth Guthrie were in Monticello on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bohlken plan a move to Minnesota. Louis Guthrie attends Lenox College.
The female population at the local reformatory will be released next Monday after sentences of 26 inmates expire. A bridge and road improvement project near W. M. Byerly farm in Jackson township reduces a dangerous roadway, with a new cement bridge to be installed. Morris and Mannie Chaplin were overcome by gas in a Main Street trench but recovered after aid. Three convicts from the reformatory, Jas Bradley, Geo Dittmar, and Lee Martin, pleaded guilty to assault with intent to murder Guard Chas Kidwell in the boiler room. Public defender C B Paul assisted them. A Jones County Red Cross meeting at Hotel Gillen in Anamosa approved hiring a home service worker and visiting nurse, with Aliss Trene Wheeler elected home service work chairman.
G. J. Brown of Monticello visits his mother and his wife visits relatives in Temple Hill. W. L. McGovern enters St Paul Seminary in Minnesota for theological studies. C. H. Macomber and son Eugene buy T. A. Durkin grocery. to operate as C H Macomber & Son by Oct 1. Peter M. Sadler dies at East Cascade after pneumonia complications following a severe cold. Albany Evening Journal note mentions aging and Villa.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Boots celebrated their golden wedding at home in Hopkinton last Friday. Born in New York and Ohio respectively, they moved through Iowa and North Dakota before returning to Hopkinton to be near their seven sons J L Boots Jess Boots Boots of Viola Ollis Bert and Frank Boots of Charleson North Dakota.
Farmers craft their own concrete fence posts at about 40 cents each. Use one part cement two parts sand three parts gravel with quarter inch steel rods in all four corners. Leave moulds 24 hours and cure posts upright in shade damp for a week. use after a month.
The Sioux City Journal notes that mosquitoes grow bolder as people grow used to them, a lighthearted take on familiar pests and the outdoors season.
A. T. Irwin of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station reports a half normal potato yield for Iowa with the Upper Mississippi Valley one-fourth below normal. Weather, including spring rains and dry spells, also reduces cabbage and onion crops, prompting calls to store potatoes early to ease spring shortages and potential price rises.
In Springfield Massachusetts a Republican column argues China declared the war's end, claiming Germany will feel relief. it mocks peace treaties as unsatisfactory and endorses a simple, popular approach to stopping the war without detailing any concrete plan.
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