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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1926
Page
7
A fall footwear ad touts oxford and high shoe styles in sturdy leather with careful construction. It promises long wear and best town values through current fashions and appealing prices for the season.
The column lists multiple visitors from Anamosa Davenport Cedar Rapids and Monticello along with H B J Farley McNeill's Hardware and Matthiesen Auto Supply Co promoting radios enamelware and roofing materials. Notes on local dances pancake flours and farm supplies accompany several social entries and business pleas.
The article lists numerous local visits and events in Monticello and surrounding towns. It mentions Sacred Heart school pupils visiting a monastery near Dubuque, plus various residents from Minneapolis, Chicago, Davenport, Cedar Rapids and West Union visiting relatives or attending events. It notes sales, hardware ads, church suppers, bake sales, a card club, dances, and wedding travels, all set in a late 1910s or 1920s small-town Midwestern context.
A week of October 11 is a special sale at McNeills Hardware featuring the Great Majestic range with a free nickelplated copperware set with each range sold. The item highlights a promotional exhibit and mentions community notices, weddings, a barn fire, Red Cross meetings, and local civic updates tied to the event.
The Monticello city council plans a potential spring paving campaign. An engineer from Green Engineering of Cedar Rapids will prepare investigations and schedules to meet Iowa law. Costs must stay within ten percent of estimates and bids below the estimate are common.
Zellner to present Plashes from Life Literature and History tomorrow evening at the Monticello high school auditorium. He impersonates famous biblical figures and world leaders with wigs grease paint and rapid changes, promising an educational and electrifying experience.
The Davenport association of Congregational churches convened at the Toca church in Monticello for a two day annual meeting. Rev William Lee of Cedar Rapids delivered the associational sermon, with Rev P A Johnson and two missionaries among speakers. Fifty ministers and delegates attended, with a reception and strong fellowship. next year’s meeting will be at Berea church Davenport.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Putnam widow of Howard Putnam died yesterday morning at John McDonald Memorial hospital after a three week illness. Born August 10 1849 in South Fork township Delaware county she resided at the old homestead after her husband died in 1924. She left twelve siblings and three stepchildren and will be buried in Oakwood cemetery after funeral at the family home tomorrow at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. Albert H. Coe of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Monticello boys rout Olin 246 to 0 on Friday as students back the team. The piece notes homecoming plans, a talk by Mr. Coxsee, lyceum events, and staff changes amid a lively campus week.
Mr and Mrs Marlin Holub of Prairieburg and their nineteen child family posed for a Helms Studio portrait in Monticello regencity. Sixteen children survive from ages born between 1882 and 1905. The couple wed November 1 1878 with eleven sons and five daughters all on farms or engaged in farming enterprises.
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