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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1918
Page
4
Home news item highlights Karl Young and Merle Deischer visiting nearby towns, customers urged to buy hats now with specials on boys knickerbockers at Péterson's, and ongoing social notices from Cedar Rapids to Waterloo with church services and hospital visits.
Monticello residents report school time routines and visitors from Dubuque Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Soldiers and students transfer to service and university roles while local farms and factories face shifts and a world war era grind. A Red Cross shipment to Belgium and a rye frost highlight community efforts amid upcoming rummage sales and a Duroc Jersey hog sale.
Miss Anne Stirton resumes duties at Coe College in Cedar Rapids last Monday morning. Miss Martha Balecar will also enter Coe College this year, leaving the same morning. Clarence Schneider and Willis Mastin have enlisted in the student army reserve corps and gone to Coe College, with Clarence leaving Monday and Willis Tuesday.
Mrs. Alice Fulton went back to Denver Colorado last Saturday after a stay with her sister Mrs. EB Hicks in Cedar Rapids. Mr and Mrs EH Hicks accompanied her as far as Cedar Rapids.
At the Congregational church Sunday morning a Liberty Day sermon titled After the War What will be given. In the evening the Presbyterian church hosts a fellowship service where Prof. Dunlap will speak about his experience in Camp Dodge.
Rev. J. H. Barr attends the annual Upper Iowa conference session in Clinton this week and will report a prosperous year for his Monticello charge. Mrs. Barr accompanies him to Clinton.
Miss Carrie Hoag and Miss Harriet Clark along with Norman Clark returned to Coe College to resume duties and study. Miss Hazel Brazelton also entered Coe College for the coming year, marking new arrivals and ongoing attendance at the institution.
Mrs. R. Rowles returned to her Dana Iowa home last Monday after visiting her brother Joe DeBoest. Mrs. DeBoest and daughter Ruth accompanied her to Cedar Rapids where they spent the day.
Irving Hintz and Clarence Hayden, Monticello high school graduates, left last Friday for Iowa State College at Ames to enroll as military students and begin their post graduation plan.
Charles and Ben Schneider who entered Camp Dodge last spring were separated to different cantonments and are now back in the same division in France where they frequently see each other. Charles serves as a corporal.
Lucian Rice reports the death of his brother Frank Rice in Placerville California on September 25 at about 81 years old. He was an early resident of Monticello.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Davidson Mrs. Corbett and Wm Warner visited Maquoketa yesterday to see Mrs. Emma Warner who was very ill. They learned this morning of her death.
Harold Mann of Castle Grove township, a Monticello high school graduate last June, left Friday for Iowa State College in Ames to pursue the college military training program.
Mr and Mrs J H Place and grandson Harry Borah of Lancaster Wisconsin visited G D Smith home last weekend. Mrs Place stayed longer while Mr Place and Harry Borah returned Sunday evening by auto. Roland Griffith left for Chicago to visit relatives then to Vancouver Oregon to stay winter with his uncle Robert Henderson. his mother Mrs Hattie Griffith will also go to Vancouver soon.
George S. Howard writes from Baltimore that his son Stanley L. Howard, a Johns Hopkins graduate, is stationed at Norfolk and has been doing engineering work at Camp Mead and Fort Howard.
The Spanish influenza outbreak in military cantonments has led Provost Marshal Crowder to cancel the October 7 reporting date for selectives. A new date will be announced once the danger of the illness declines.
Mrs Harriet Cahill visited Monticello friends and stayed with her grandson Arthur Baker in Moline while her daughter Mrs E M Baker lived in Tama. Emma Warner formerly Emma Piper died in Maquoketa hospital after a ten day stay, survived by Thomas Warner Monticello Bonnie Gearhart Kenwood Park and Hazel Dickinson Rock Island. Juli Husmann reports a near nine thousand dollar sale near Monticello last week plus a 20 acre corn field sold at 75 dollars per acre, with an estimated yield of 90 bushels per acre on Husmanns 160 acre farm sold for 300 per acre.
School children are asked to deliver pits of fruits and nut shells to school buildings on Friday October 4. People with collections should hand them to a child who will ensure delivery. Pits should be sun dried with meats extracted from nuts but not from pits. If delivery is impossible or details are needed call 128 or 120 for information.
The United States will end daylight saving with clocks set back one hour at 2 a.m. on October 27. The plan began March 31 and may save 1.0 to 1.5 million tons of coal in 1918. Adoption stems from successful use in Britain and many European and allied nations.
The Women's Relief Corps of Anamosa presented a large service flag to Jones county to honor soldiers who left to serve. Mrs. Bagley represented the W R R C and accepted by B B Rhinehart for the county. Louis Gardner and Judge Ellison gave remarks and the principal address.
Martin V. Kehoe, at Charles City last Friday, attended a Town State Manufacturers association meeting. An enthusiastic convention represented over sixty manufacturing establishments in the metal trades. They inspected the Hart Parr Company's plant with several large war contracts and more in sight, with plans to subcontract parts to smaller state manufacturers.
Mrs. John W. Nelson showcases a giant potato from Nick Nelson’s ranch near Billings after others doubt its size. A bronze Lincoln statue was unveiled at the Jefferson courthouse grounds, a gift from E B Wilson and wife Mrs Wilson, with Mrs Wilson once Monticello high school principal Minnie Ainsworth.
The Great Lakes band gave a concert on First street to a large crowd last Sunday afternoon arriving by special train from Anamosa where it played earlier. Private David Murphy of Dubuque spoke at Camp Dodge and was praised as a liberty bond booster. The band performed at the union meeting in the opera house that evening then left for Dubuque the next morning ending its tour.
In Monticello last Saturday, Liberty bond subscriptions showed broad civic willingness to support the war effort. About 95 percent of eligible subscribers met their quotas, with some overage and occasional adjustments for overestimation, while a few were urged to participate.
Miss Frieda Gruenstein wed R. H. Friederici of Chicago in a quiet home ceremony officiated by Rev. C. B. Cushman. The couple left for Pensacola Florida where Friederici, a civil engineer, works for a shipbuilding company.
Lorna Palmer the only daughter of Frank A. Palmer superintendent of the School for the Blind at Vinton died last Tuesday morning from pneumonia after influenza. Palmer says influenza raged among blind children at the school with seventy six of under one hundred afflicted. The Liberty loan drive in Jones county fell short by about 225000, with 150000 to be made up by laggards. Oxford township reported a full subscription. several townships near quota include Lovell Fairview Madison Rome Scotch Grove Washington Wayne and Wyoming.
Citizens urged to self isolate and seek bed rest as Spanish influenza spreads in the region. Eastern Town reports cases and fatalities in Independence and Dubuque amid notes on fever chills and severe headache. Congress funds a million dollars for study and fight against the epidemic.
Rev Samuel Johnson of Clarinda spoke at the opera house to a packed patriotic audience. He recalled Hopkinton boyhood days and urged continued food conservation and rallying Allied energies while reflecting on spiritual aid from God in the Civil War era.
Mrs. Sarah Peltier 65 died at home in Monticello after a long illness. Funeral by Reverends Barr and Walton was held. burial in Oakwood. Born 1855 in Nashville New York she lived on Bowen’s Prairie and in Monticello. Survived by husband Louis and four daughters in Washington Lakeside Monticello Abbeville and Dubuque. united with United Brethren church.
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Lyman Charles Hoyt died at 15 from endocarditis at the family home in Pasadena California September 26. Born September 22 1908 in Scotch Grove Iowa he spent much of his life in Jones county. He is survived by his mother Blanche Hoyt and younger brother Ben who returned to Iowa with him for burial. His funeral was held at H F Kettlitzs home conducted by Rev Pendleton of the Cedar Rapids First Christian Church with interment at Oakwood Cemetery beside his father.
Roy Sackett seeks medical treatment at John McDonald hospital while Frank Ferring travels to Davenport for a brief stay. Mrs. Louis Hoag and son visit Center Junction for a short time as Monticello business men assist at a canning factory due to labor shortages. Harry Stuhler leaves for Town City to enroll as a military student. Frederick Von Shrader dies at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station from Spanish influenza. his mother Imogene Von Shrader is related to Mrs. F. P. Stuhler. The funeral is held in Maquoketa.
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