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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1919
Page
9
Local notes show Cedar Rapids visitors including Mr and Mrs Dan Hearn and Mrs Gladys Smits with Miss Catherine Stuhler. Business trips include J B Welch Dr Redmond Oscar Newton Q H George Rev R P Hurlburt. Millinery ads from Devlin and Denkoff highlight styles and sales.
Community notices recount visits and departures among Monticello residents and neighboring towns. Family guests include Mrs. Cushman in Grinnell, Mrs. Brown in Monticello, and Miss Baer in Chicago. Travel spans Ames to Santa Cruz with weddings and enrollments noted.
Howard Harrington of Cedar Rapids visited Monticello friends yesterday. He was discharged from the U S army for physical disability last June. He contracted scarlet fever in January this year leaving a bad leg. The government pays him 10 a month and he hopes to begin a three year vocational training course offered to disabled soldiers.
The J L Prouty auction sale shifts from October 1 to next Wednesday October 8. Sale begins 11 o’clock at the Prouty farm three miles northeast of Scotch Grove. Also notices of local business and family movements across Monticello and Farley Iowa, with community updates.
Miss Ola Edna Jakelin and Frank L. Himebaugh were married last Tuesday at 10 am in the bride’s parents home in Delhi. Rev. Stubbs officiated, with twin sister Ona Jakelin and brother Leslie Himebaugh as attendants. A four course dinner followed and the couple plan a short wedding trip before settling at Center Junction, Iowa.
Nellie Bevington to visit Seattle with Mrs Mauer and Frank McConnon already there. Grueber Tire Co reports first tires sold to Henry Scheer and Clarence Heyen of Langworthy as factory aims to increase output. Anna G Behrands wed John D Seehusen at Castle Grove Lutheran Church. Center Junction wedding dance to honor the couple. Nurse trainees begin at John McDonald hospital with room and board details and invitation to apply. Twenty three census enumerators to be appointed in Jones county with exams and eligibility rules. Fatal crossing accident near Independence leaves Frank Weed unharmed after train collision. four damages including two horses. Bond conversion notices urge exchanges before deadlines. John Mullen Jr killed at Hopkinton while unloading poles. remains survived by father and siblings.
Vieve Britting entered training at the hospital yesterday. Walter Mueller had his tonsils removed last Friday. Mrs John Oltman of Anamosa underwent an appendicitis operation last Saturday. John Marek of Anamosa is a minor surgical case at the hospital. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs William Heath on the 23rd at the hospital. The following patients had tonsil removals recently: William Altman Wither Johnson Anna Brishman and Mary Fagan. Mrs Jane Shover, ill with pneumonia, returned home last Monday. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs William McLaughlin of Castle Grove township yesterday afternoon.
Q J Farley fainted this morning in front of his store. He was taken to his office then to the hospital where medical help was given. By press time his condition is favorable and he is sleeping. Auction sale by L P Waddick postponed from Oct 1 to Oct 8 at Bouth of Hbys Mill.
The case records settlement with plaintiff to pay all costs except those borne by the defendant and a judgment accordingly. Several docket items note continuances, guardianship steps, probate actions, and trial progress in multiple Iowa matters.
The Monticello post met in the public library auditorium last Friday night to elect permanent officers and adopt by laws. Officers serve until the annual meeting on the first Monday in January 1920. The next regular meeting is Monday October 6 at the library. Dues: joining fee one dollar and annual fee one dollar, payable next year. President Wilson signed a bill incorporating the American Legion. national convention planned for Minneapolis November 10 11 and 12. The post urges membership, outlines the Legion’s non political aims, and stresses patriotism, democracy, and comradeship.
Norman Wilson reports on star pupils week events. Spelling exam scheduled for next Friday. Basketball team trains for honors. Delphia Williams missed Monday due to ankle infection. Dunlap and Brainerd covered her classes. New students Marguerite Cooper Ricardo and Alberto Cilley join. Visitors listed. Senior boys find a better way to saw wood at Ibys Mill during a class party. all enjoyed themselves.
The National Red Cross plans a $13,000,000 drive in November with Jones county’s quota reduced to $2,207.58 after a $702.42 surplus. Monticello and the southern townships hold large surpluses totaling over $14,000, removing the need for a county campaign. Sealed bids in Matticello seek 1350 feet of 4 inch cast iron water pipe.
Events from the Monticello Express recount the October 1899 month: Alexander & Hunter dissolution, O C Hunter takes over, Sumter family moves to Wisconsin, Ricklets stock sale, Eliza Welch dies at 79, Odd Fellows building expansion, Dr M T Yooter travels to Chicago for Northwestern dentistry, J B Hepler to oversee practice, land sale near Castle Grove, McLaughlin tours for Chapman & Co, births to Rotchart and Hanken families, Mossra Worvest and Matson hire in Chicago, Tawa Telephone Co erects poles for long distance line Cedar Rapids to Chicago, Matthews celebrate golden anniversary, Padhuski and Ryan marriage, Kissling buys estate land, Gudenhaul buys Harper farm for 14000, Pahrni and Nolan wedding, Mundell opens Monticello shop, James O South dies, Hergensater obituary, Rev Street delivers sermon, Bateman new pastor for Monticello church.
Notice that the German Mutual Fire Insurance Assn of Monticello will hold its annual meeting on October 4 1919 at 11 o clock am. at the Wayne Center schoolhouse in Wayne township Jones county. All members urged to attend. Gerd Harms secretary.
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