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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1924
Page
7
Little snippets detail shop ads for Locher's and Devlin Millinery, Dr Redmond eye tests, Millinery styles, and fresh onions in Monticello with deliveries. Visitors from Dubuque Oxford Junction and Solon appear alongside birth, travel, and small business notes.
A digest of local social notes shows residents visiting Dubuque Des Moines and Chicago while others travel to Center Junction De Witt and Kenyon Minnesota. Attends conventions, church events and college pledges, with several returning home from trips and new appointments in Monticello churches and schools.
List of social events at area clubs and churches includes guest parties at the state park in Anamosa and a good fellowship supper. Birth announcements note Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Stambaugh of Kokomo, Indiana welcomed Betty Gean on September 24. Ruth and Margaret Hanssen will start new jobs in Chicago Heights. A frost threatens crops across Eastern Iowa, while local court matters and school commencement plans proceed. Rev. Charles Medbury to speak at Monticello class of 1925 exercises.
Mrs. William Hogg, 82, longtime Monticello resident, visited the city with her son Charles from Wisconsin. A Los Angeles resident, she traced her roots to the Peaks, Jones county’s first married couple, and met many old timers on the street before planning to return alone to California.
Dr W J Stiehl died at his parents home after a nervous breakdown. He practiced dentistry in Provo Utah for twelve years with two years in world war I service. Survived by widow and three children, his parents Mr and Mrs John Buehl, brother Charles Stichs, sisters Mrs Orlando Shumaker, Hdna Stiehl, Mrs W W Stickford, and Mrs Selma Lau.
Monticello resident Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bejasch will mark 50 years of marriage tomorrow. They wed October 8, 1874 in Waukonia Minnesota and have six children, five of whom live in Monticello. He is a carpenter who built local landmarks and the couple share strong health for this milestone.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway announces a weekly through sleeping car from Calmar Fayette Strawberry Point Hopkinton Monticello Anamosa Cedar Rapids and other points to Los Angeles via Kansas City and Southern routes. Dates include October 21 28 November 4 11 18 25 December 29 16 26 30 and January 6 13 20. Consult local ticket agents for full information and reservations.
Edward Tobin of Worthington announces the engagement of his eldest daughter Loretta Ella Tobin to Leo J Soppe of Cascade. The wedding is planned for Monday morning October 6 at St Pauls Church in Worthington.
A large barn and about 40 tons of hay on the W. H. Mohr farm northeast of Lost Nation burned last week. The cause is not known though spontaneous combustion is suspected. Estimated loss stands at 4500 dollars with 500 dollars insured.
Mr and Mrs Henry Badbury Mrs Henry Balster and John G Egger attended Frederick Haak funeral in Faribault county Minnesota He was son of Mr and Mrs John Haak and son of John G Egger’s daughter The boy aged 23 was accidentally shot while driving to a field with companions carrying a shotgun The discharge destroyed half his head and caused instantaneous death Funeral services held last Saturday afternoon.
The Monticello Rotary club hosted school teachers and the board of education along with their wives at a six o'clock dinner last Monday at Maples Inn. A program featured Rotarian Louis Hoag and Fred L. Mahannah with student performers and talks on school reforms. In Monticello, John Thomas Zimmerman died in Sioux Falls at age 13 from tuberculosis. funeral held at Sacred Heart church with local pallbearers and relatives attending.
Mrs. Alice Keith widow of P C Keith formerly lived in Monticello died at her son Harry Keith’s home near Boone on September 27 at age 68. She was born September 24 1866 and married December 27 1876. Survived by sons Frank of Des Moines and Harry of Boone and by siblings Charles Curtis Nelson Curtis Florence Chamberlain and Mattie Starks. Funeral held at Monticello Methodist Episcopal church with Rev Albert E Coe.
J Fred Mann a former Castle Grove resident died September 24 1924 at Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids following stomach ulcer operation and subsequent pneumonia. Born April 28 1875 in Troy Mills he leaves a widow Mary Brown five children two sons and three daughters. buried at Prairie Hill in Castle Grove with services in Marion and Castle Grove churches.
In a high school spectacle the auditorium learned of a Thursday and Friday break for Teachers Institute at Anamosa. The Philomathean Society held its second meeting initiating fifteen new members in the junior high study hall.
Monticello traveled to Colesburg last Friday and battled to a scoreless tie. The young Monticello squad, under Coach Whitford, showed progress but failed on two red zone drives from the four and five yard lines. Colesburg managed their best field position to Monticello’s twenty yard line as Monticello prepared for a bye week and planned hard workouts. A large Monticello fan delegation supported the high school team. Lineup listed with Chambers Sutherland Rickels Schweitzer Rhatigan Buol Anderson Barnts Zubler Donkhoft Van Buren. no substitutions. Referee W. H. Milroy.
The German Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Monticello Iowa will hold its annual meeting Saturday October 4 1924 at 10 30 a m at the Wayne Center school house Wayne township Jones county All members are urged to attend Gerd Harms secretary The Ladies Aid of Cass Center Congregational church plans their annual bazaar and chicken supper at Charles Guilford home five miles north of Anamosa on Friday October 10 Supper served from 6 00 pm for 40 cents all you can eat
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