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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1923
Page
9
A crowded report lists Cedar Rapids visitors Dr Redmond and Mr Mrs A W Steiner and Miss Minnie Hasler while Miss Frieda Hanken attends a nurses convention at Waterloo. Other items mention Devlin Millinery sales, Princess Cafe promotions and a Prisoner of Zenda showing, plus various local social visits and arrivals.
Cedar Rapids visitors include Miss Clara Koop and Mrs. John Bateman. Dubuque and Marion seen by several locals. Rev. Hauck of Arcadia Wisconsin visits in the Hauck family. Families travel for church events, vacations, and millinery shopping.
Local readers are urged to place orders for fresh dressed chicken and home baked goods for a bake sale on Saturday October 20 with a request to notify Miss Minnie Hasler by Friday October 19. The column also records visits, club meetings, church events, and personnel moves across Monticello and surrounding communities, including teachers, doctors, and civic groups.
Congressman Cyrenus Cole spoke to the local Rotary about Alaska's 500 mile railroad built at 60 million dollars and the need to protect forests, promote tourism and farming limits. He warned of deflation, recalled postwar policies, and urged patience, thrift, and faith as signs of better times ahead.
On Tuesdays October 16 30 November 13 27 and December 11 and on Wednesday December 26 a special California tourist sleeper party will depart Monticello via C M and St P to Kansas City then Santa Fe without change. Economical and comfortable way to see the Land of No Winter with thirty minute stops at Fred Harvey meal stations. Reservations through your local C M and St P agent or C A Moore general agent A T and S F Ry 616 Flynn Ridg Des Moines Iowa.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway will run a through tourist sleeping car from Austin Calmar Monticello Cedar Rapids Ottumwa and intermediate points to Los Angeles via Kansas City and southern routes leaving weekly on October 16 23 30 November 6 18 20 27 December 4 11 18 26 January 3 For full information consult local ticket agents December 27.
Sheri Bodenhofer Deputy Ray Burcell and agent R C Adams led a large raid seizing eight stills and 1000 gallons of mash plus 60 gallons of clear hootch and arresting seven men Gert Gerdes Henry Alferts Fred Huts Gerd Weers Lewis McBride William House and Clarence Haven. The haul centered at Garret Gerdes farm Cass township with five stills and 1000 gallons of mash found in a straw filled barn. Additional finds included 16 gallons hootch and 600 pounds sugar at Alferts farm and six gallons hootch 700 pounds sugar at Fred Huls garage. Weers was arrested with 18 gallons of liquor in his car. Officers also found two stills at McBride and five gallons of booze at House. They seized a Ford, sampled booze and warned a local postmaster while noting broader county losses to fines and costs since 1922. The article ends with details of a Du Buque conference meeting and church topics.
Miss Bernice Raffety and Harry Schneiter were married Wednesday afternoon at 4 o clock at the bride’s mother’s home two miles southeast of Hanlontown. Only relatives attended as Frances Raffety played the wedding march. The bride wore ivory satin and chiffon with Helen Schneiter as bridesmaid. Lloyd Raffety served as best man and the ring was carried by nephews Charles Warren Eisner and Donald Gordon Van Riper. Rev. Schmidt officiated.
The Fertile Christian Church ceremony united a couple who then left for a Waterloo and Cedar Watts honeymoon. Miss Ratlerty, a former three year high school teacher in Hantontown, is noted locally. Mr Schneiter, a longtime Worth Cow Testing association tester, now farms east of Hantontown on his father C F Schneiter’s farm. Out of town guests included Mrs John R Lincoln, Miss Esther Fisher, Ernest Raffety and Lloyd Raffety from Grinnell and Ames.
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