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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
7
Local brief features multiple visits and errands around Monticello and nearby towns. Names include Dr. Redmond Mrs. Smits and Mrs. Bates with Cedar Rapids trips, Miss Fay Anamosa and Miss McMahon Rockford Illinois, plus shoppers and service notices from Devlin Millinery and Monticello Exide Station. A weather vane lightning strike is recorded.
Local items report visits by G H Shipman Hicks and Kempt families, college student Leo Locher at Ames, residents from Dubuque and Cedar Rapids, and a church meeting at the parsonage. Other notes cover theatre listings, autumn fruit, a mummy of regional travel, and calls for life insurance amid farm conditions.
Monticello area reports include Ackerman potato crop praise and Holmes recovery from a Greeley auto crash. Local moves see J H Thompson selling Grand Street residence and the American Legion leasing Odd Fellows rooms for a post home with auxiliary and Red Cross use.
The district court sessions continue through the week with multiple cases. Russell et al vs. M & St P R R Co ended in a 4500 dollar verdict for the plaintiffs over a fire at a Anamosa livery house linked to locomotive sparks. Additional trials include Kimball vs Johnson, and J C Cook et al vs Amanda Cook where the guardian issue for the 90 year old was rejected. A potter v Baldwin replevin granted the horses to the plaintiff. Anamosa physician Dr W W Hunter's illness left him unconscious but improving. An auto wreck near Sand Spring injured John Miller and Dora Miller, with others uninjured. Football games loom with Mt Vernon and Armistice Day plans amid Monticello v Anamosa rivalry.
On select Tuesdays in November and December a special sleeper departs Cedar Rapids via G M & St P to Kansas City then Santa Fe Lines with no changes. Reservations through C A Moore Des Moines or C L Sherwood Cedar Rapids agents.
Nellie V. Morey announces regular examinations for uniform county teachers certificates at Anamosa on October 26 27 and 92 anu ou 17 1. For car battery service Monticello oxide Battery offers free pickup and delivery by phone 60.
Peter Mandinger faces a preliminary hearing in Anamosa after being charged with manufacturing and selling hootch on his Richland township farm. A sheriff raid uncovered seven large rye mash barrels, a 20 gallon wash boiler, a 20 foot worm, and finished liquor. A coroner’s inquest ruled the death of Carl Schatz was due to a motor vehicle strike on the Jones county road.
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