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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1931
Page
2
Local items list items for sale at McNeill's Hardware including eggs, lanterns, Dutch ovens, seed corn dryers, and hats. It also records visitors and greetings in Monticello, plus notices for services, a rummage sale, and local social mentions from October era community pages.
Local residents and visitors are listed across several towns with travels to Dickeyville Cedar Rapids Dubuque and Chicago. frequent visits include Dr and Mrs Phillips Fraser Husman Bartels Oswald Paterson Shannon and others. church and club events appear along with a chicken pie supper and radio shop ads.
Dr J C Garrard and Dr John Dyer of St Anne s hospital Chicago visited last Monday in the F J Kay home. Carl Schneider and family from Vinton spent part of the week with relatives in Monticello. Mr Keyes reports his brother s condition improving. Various visits and illness fringe Monticello Maquoketa Hopkinton and Grinnell with church meetings and family news. Aegerter and Stoddard guests visited Ambuehl home. Poppe welcomed a son born October 3.
Mr and Mrs E J Farley with Mrs H F Kettlitz and Mrs F E Stimson drove to Chicago last Sunday. Mr Farley attended a poultryman's convention. They visited the home of Mr and Mrs W W Low and returned yesterday.
Mr and Mrs Forrest Hearn welcome an eight pound son born at John McDonald hospital last Saturday morning. This is the couple’s first child and Mr Hearn works in the North Western Bell Telephone construction department.
Rev. William H. Tillman, pastor-at-large in West Florida's Congregational churches, will speak at the local Congregational church next Sunday morning. He has organized a large parish for preaching and pastoral service and is noted for religious education uplift. He is expected to share insights about his southern work.
Libbie Oliphant the last of her Richland county family died in Des Moines and was brought to Cascade for burial. She was the youngest child of Ezekiel Oliphant whose partnership with Russell Sage linked the families. Oliphant girls were noted teachers with many former pupils in the northeast county.
A sale of the Tischouser property will be held Saturday October 10 on the John Carson farm near Center Junction. Eight or nine cows that are fresh will be offered among the property. The notice warns against trichinosis and advises cooking pork thoroughly. Jean Echternacht, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Echternacht, has an infected eye and is hospitalized at St Luke's in Cedar Rapids after visiting Dr Foster in Cedar Rapids last Friday.
Local residents hosted and visited relatives across towns including Greenfield Oelwein and Omaha. Obituary reports note the death of Mrs Harriet Bridges in England at 87. Ruth Van Buren of Cass township earned high scholastic honors at Cornell College. Portland attorney Marcus Matthiessen and wife spent weekend in Monticello visiting the Ambuehl and Adams homes.
Mr and Mrs James Davis and daughter Jean of Grayslake Tr spent a week with Mrs Lowell Black in Castle Grove township. Davis, a former Monticello boy, now with United Tree Experts, plans to leave for Florida this month to work there this winter. Louis Zubler, who visited Monticello with his parents, is with the same company and will likely work in Florida as well.
Dr. Albert E. Fretwell of Columbia University will speak at the Northeastern Iowa Teachers Association convention in Dubuque on October 8 and 9. Monticello schools will close those days to allow teachers to attend.
Mrs. Gertrude Hubert Specht aged 87 15 died after a long illness at her son Chris Specht's home in Buffalo township Linn county She born September 18 1844 in Moolage Germany immigrated to America in 1880 with husband John D Specht They had eight children six surviving Anna Stimpson Myrta Gerdes Herman John George and Chris Funeral held at Castle Grove Lutheran church with Rev G Wolf and Rev Paul Meyer Interment Prairie Hill Cemetery beside her husband
John Buol netted 2531.71 from twenty shorthorns at 10 cents per pound, with 731.71 profit after pasture and hay costs. He wintered on silage and corn, kept 40 head on grass, and reports a high sale price of 10.40. George Kurt topped with 10.25 for twenty whiteface steers, while Buol Brothers also sold 20 fat steers and plan more sales. TheBuol herd includes Brown Swiss cattle.
The Sacred Heart juniors present a Columbus Day program next Monday October 12 at 3 pm for teachers pupils and invited guests. Admission charges are five cents for children and ten cents for adults to raise funds for new school books. Performances include orchestra pieces Always Jol ly and Wooden Shoes poems dialogues readings and glee club selections featuring students Herman Burkert Maxine Redmond and others.
Mr and Mrs C A Coxsee attended a Toledo Chronicle cooking school session in Toledo last Friday. It marks the start of a series of 76 cooking schools planned by Iowa Newspapers Inc this fall and winter with The Express set to host events on October 38 30 and 31 in Iowa.
Charles Wesley Fuller born September 9 1845 near Troy New York died September 36 1931 at his home in Council Bluffs Iowa aged 86 years 16 days He moved to Monticello Iowa at age nine joined the Union Army 1861 served in Company D 9th Iowa Cavalry fought at Pea Ridge Vicksburg Corinth Iuka Moscow Germantown Nashville Franklin and more He married Georgia Darling in 1868 and had seven children He and his family later settled in Nebraska remaining there over 50 years a pioneer and community leader He attended Congregational church at Cowles later Christian church at Bethany and supported education for his children.
Leaves to mourn his passing elder brother William of Monticello Iowa a Civil War veteran six grandchildren seven great grandchildren numerous relatives and friends The passing of Comrade Fuller takes from this community its last surviving veteran of the Civil War He has joined his comrades on the shores of eternity and the last member of the Grand Army of the Republic is gone.
Deeds filed for record show Anna C. Ernst transferring to J I Merritt and Matilda Merritt as joint tenants with survivorship for $1.00. J I Merritt and wife transfer to Anna C. Ernst the south 15 acres of ne% swt section 7 and se% sw section 7 with described boundaries for $1.00. Also entire lot in Morley and Wurzbacher additions to Morley and Wurzbacher’s second addition to Morley, plus all of 833.100 acres, for $1.00. Opal Freda and Eugene Gordon and wife transfer to George Calvert Lot 6 Block 7 Cronkhite’s addition to Olin for $1.00.
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