Death of E J Farley Ends Monticello Produce Era
Edward J. Farley died after a stroke in the Monticello produce plant. Born June 7 1869 in Atlantic Iowa he built a long career with Armour & Company and later owned and expanded the Monticello plant. He was survived by his wife Augusta Hay a son John and his brother James with funeral services at the Presbyterian church conducted by Rev William J Grossheim and Masonic interment at Wyoming cemetery.
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Monticello
Edward J. Farley
James
Atlantic
Iowa
Wyoming
Eliza (McCabe) Farley
Farley
Will Eldridge
Armour & Company
Rolfe and Gowrie
G Out
Dennis Liddy
Grim Reaper
Grossheim
Mgr. Farley
Augusta Haeussler Hay
John
James B. Farley
Modern Woodmen
Dillon Behnke
Wichita
Kan
Lester Behnke
Albia
Leslie Behnke
Chicago
Henrietta McAdams
Lansing Mich
James Farley
Manley Bryan
Hopkinton
Presbyterian Church
William J. Grossheim
Burns Lodge Noa. 173
A. F
A. M
Wyoming Cemetery
Sand Spring Creamery Proposal Voted Down
Farmers Mutual Creamery at Sand Spring rejected a plan to build a new creamery by 49 to 15. The current creamery building is twenty years old.
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Sand Spring
Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Company
Lois Kuhns Weds Renk Eilers In Wayne Zion Church
Lois Eileen Kuhns daughter of Les tus Kuhns of Scotch Grove became Mrs Renk Eilers son of Mr and Mrs Ben Eilers of Richland in a Wayne Zion Lutheran church ceremony conducted by Rev Willms. Attendants Eunice Kuhns and DeLite Folkerts wore black taffeta as the couple celebrated with a dinner for 50 plus relatives and a dance at Zimmermans hall.
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Lois Kuhns
Lestus Kuhns
Scotch Grove
Wayne Zion Lutheran Church
Renk Eilers
Ben Eilers
Richland
Willms
W. B. Henrichs
Wilma Kuhns
Eunice Kuhns
DeLite Folkerts
Herbert Balsiger
Lester Wenger
Eilers
Monticello
Anamosa
Zimmerman’s Hall
Republican Speaker Will Be Here On Tuesday
William F. Schilling of Northfield Minnesota will deliver an address Tuesday evening October 27 in the Monticello high school auditorium. Speaking for the National Republican Committee he is a farmer dairyman and lecturer on agricultural problems with long service in Holstein cattle breeding and farm journalism. All residents regardless of party are invited to attend and hear campaign issues from a practical farm perspective.
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William F. Schilling
Northfield
Minn
Monticello
National Republican Committee
Twin City Milk Producers’ Association
Schilling
Appleton, Minn
Monticello League of Women Voters
League
Lyle McMullen
G. S. Martin
A. M. Miller
H. Cherrington
Jacob van der Zee
Iowa City
Kennedy
Solo
Dale McConnell
Harriet Cunningham
Anamosa
George Haskel
A Word For County Republican Ticket
The Express vouches for a county Republican ticket led by George Miller and include Harry Holcomb Lee Sherrill J. E. Heiserman LeRoy G. Dirks H. J. Mayberry William J. Bailey Herman Helgens A Ray Fairbanks Harlan Shu maker and Bess Sherman. Ten good men and one competent woman make a strong slate.
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Express
George Miller
Harry Holcomb
Lee Sherrill
J. E. Heiserman
LeRoy G. Dirks
H. J. Mayberry
William J. Bailey
Herman Helgens
A. Ray Fairbanks
Harlan H. Shumaker
Bess Sherman
First Monticello School Child Norwin Rice Visits Town
Norwin Rice aged 87, one of the Monticello Rice twins also called Mate, visits during the Centennial and stays with his niece and nephew Mr and Mrs Ed Rice. He recalls the twins as Monticello’s first school children. Carrie Stevens of Ottumwa, formerly Carrie Rice, also visits the Rice family.
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Norwin
Mate” Rice
Mate" Rice
Rice
Monticello
Ed Rice
Norman
Norwin Rice
Carrie Stevens
Ottumwa
Carrie Rice
Manly Rice
Jones County American Legion Elects Officers
New officers of the Jones county American Legion elected last week include Leg Van Kirk of Anamosa as commander, G. J. Wenziik of Monticello, James Cave of Oxford Junction, and R. J. Kleineck of Newhall as vice commanders. Cecil Wilson of Anamosa was chosen adjutant and finance officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
American Legion
Leg Van_ Kirk
Anamosa
G. J. Wenziik
Monticello
James ‘Cave
Oxford Junction
R. J. Kleineck
Nee Low
Cecil Wilso
Post And Auxiliary Elect Officers For Next Year
Monticello Auxiliary No 1683 VFW selects officers for 1937 at the October 14 meeting. Edith Helms is president with Elsie Meade as senior vice president and Minnie Rickels as junior vice president.Honor L Clark reappointed publicity chair and Emma Jacobs Iowa Cottage chairman. Post leaders for 1937 include Commander Henry W Helms and Senior Vice Commander Fred W Hein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Edith Helms
Elsie Meade
Minnie Rickels
Honor L. Clark
Florence Metzenberz
Iane Hein
Florence Carmichael
Dora Che
Hattie Hinrichs
Emma Jacobs
Anne Echternach
Fred W. Hein
Ralph Kuriger
L. D. Barrack
J. H. Hinrichs
W. H. Jarrett
J. A. Hoegen
Albert L. Trumbull Dies in Cedar Rapids
Albert L. Trumbull died in Cedar Rapids after a long residence there of 35 years. He was born September 4, 1884 in Spokane Washington and earlier visited Monticello. Survived by wife Gilda daughter Mrs H C Lawrence brother L P Trumbull and two grandchildren. Funeral in Moon chapel Cedar Rapids at 2:30 p.m. Saturday led by Cyrus Metcalf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta Bliss
Cedar Rapids
Albert L. Trumbull
Mr. Trumbull
Monticello
Spokane
Wash
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Gilda
H. C. Lawrence
L. P. Trumbull
Moon Chapel
Cyrus Metcalf
Alice Green and Alva Hahn Married in Galena Ill
Alice Green daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Pickett Monticello and Alva Hahn son of Mr and Mrs Herman Hahn Castle Grove wed in Galena Illinois on Wednesday October 14. Rev B A Ballis officiated. The couple both attended Monticello high school and plan to relocate with Mr Hahn employed in a Manchester radio repair shop.
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Alice Green
Lloyd Pickett
Monticello
Alva Hahn
Herman Hahn
Castle Grove
Galena
Ill
B. A. Ballis
Ruth Bender
Junior Burris
Monticello High School
Hahn
Schultz Brothers
Manchester
Mr. Hahn
Zimmerman’s
Mrs. Espy 90 Dies in Tulsa Oklahoma
Word came of the death of Mrs. Robert J. Espy aged 90 at the home of her daughter Blanche Espy Chenoweth in Tulsa Oklahoma on Tuesday October 20 at 4 p.m. Funeral services are set for Friday October 23 at 10 30 a.m. at Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church with Rev. Abram Alyea officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert J. Espy
Blanche Espy Chenoweth
Tulsa
Okla
Leslie Bright Promoted to Manager at Standard Service
Leslie Bright, a mechanic with seven years of experience, has assumed the management of the Standard Service station in this city. The station is fully equipped to serve the public with Standard products. Irvin Rhatigan was the previous manager.
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Leslie Bright
Irvin Rhatigan
Musical Program And Candle Light Service
A beautiful musicale will be given at the Reformed church on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock with an inspiring candle lighting service. Further details will be announced next week. Watch for the notice.
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the Reformed Church
Ben Roberts Sr Wins Monticello Golf Championship
Ben Roberts Sr defeated Gene Byers 8-7 to win the Monticello country club golf championship for the 1936 season. It was the final round of the club's golf matches, which began with 12 competitors.
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Ben Roberts Sr
Gene Byers
Monticello
Absent Voters Ballots Ready In Jones County
County Auditor George Specht announced that Absent Voters ballots are ready in Jones County. Distribution began this last Monday and voters outside the county are being mailed theirs starting October 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
George Specht
Fifth Annual Corn Husking Contest Set For Oct 29
The event on the Allen Shaffer farm 51 miles west of Wyoming on highway 117 starts at 10 am with results announced after the contest. Hybrid corn averaging 55 bushels per acre fills a weed free field.
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Allen-Shaffer Farm
Wyoming
Allen- Shaffer
Highway 117
C. H. P. Hanson
Mr. Hanson
Hanson Yard
Short Plays At Reformed Church Social Friday
Two short plays will be presented at a pie social in the Reformed church basement Friday at 8 pm. Casts include Girl Wanted and An Ounce of Prevention with numerous named participants. Special music will accompany the event. no admission charge, but offerings accepted. Refreshments served. the public is cordially invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Len Rodman
Lewis Burrichter
Ethel
Margaret Schilt
Bog
Harold Steiner
Fay
Bob
Margaret Tagger
Casey
Vernon Meier
Mrs. Jones
Ladies Aid
Pauline Schneiter
Aid
Smith
Olga Meder
Black
Anne Maire
Davis
Elda Buel
Clark
Lucile Yossi
Atkins
Mary Jane Weltsch
Simms
Maude Perrin
Anna Egger
Operations Performed On Two Boys Past Week
Two appendicitis operations were carried out at John McDonald hospital last week. George Coxsee fell ill after playing in the Centennial program on Wednesday October 14 and had his appendix removed that evening. He is recovering well. Willis Fairbanks, son of Lester Fairbanks of Cass township, underwent a similar operation last Tuesday morning and is progressing satisfactorily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McDonald Hospital
George Coxsee
Willis Fairbanks
Lester Fairbanks
Cass Township
Aged Woman Patient at John McDonald Hospital
Mrs John Corbin lies at the John McDonald hospital with a fractured collar bone. Her advanced age adds to concern among relatives as doctors monitor her condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDonald Hospital
John Corbin
John McDonald Hospital
Nuptials Of Last July Announced At Dinner
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Rickels announced their marriage that took place July 15 in Slayton Minnesota. Mrs Rickels the former Lillian Lunsmann of Ocheyedan trained as a nurse at University Hospital Iowa City then at John McDonald Hospital. Mr Rickels a Montecello high school graduate 1925 has worked in the ice cream business in Anamosa. They plan to reside in Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Rickels
George A. C. Rickels
Slayton
Minnesota
Rickels
Lillian Lunsmann
Carl Lunsmann
Ocheyedan
University Hospital
Iowa City
John McDonald Hospital
Lunsmann
Sigma Theta Tau
Montecello
Anamosa
Monticello
Helgens Fall Auction Sets Boar and Gift Averages
Helgens Brothers Poland China breeders held a fall sale with 42 boars selling for an average of 47 dollars 80 cents and 16 gifts averaging 33 dollars. Top boar fetches were 115 dollars by A J Stoll Monticello and 110 by Lippolt Clark Davenport. George Thomas Alburnett won top gift at 45 dollars. Sales extended to Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helgens Brothers
Poland
Herman Helgens
A. J. Stoll
Monticello
Lippolt and Clark
Davenport
J. E. Peyton
Coggon
George Thomas
Alburnett
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Monticello Girl Competes in Cornell Poetry Contest
Miss Lucile George of Monticello joined sixteen freshmen in a poetry reading contest in Cornell's school social rooms last Thursday. Prof. C. C. Tull judged. the winner from Mapleton read Patterns by Amy Lowell and will receive a current literature book. A tea followed the readings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucile George
Thomas J. George
Monticello
Corner College
Cornell English Department
C. C. Tull
Mapleton
Amy Lowell
Cornell
Date For Diphtheria Immunizations Set
Luella Kennedy county nurse announces diphtheria immunizations on October 29 at 4 30 pm at the Monticello school house. In cooperation with the Jones county Medical association the immunizations are available to any child for a dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luella Kennedy
Monticello School House
Jones County Medical Association
Honest Abe of Jones County Returns to Pay Old Bill
Oliver O. J. Felton now of Cedar Rapids recalls a 1877 candy purchase in Monticello with his father M. O. Felton. The bill remained unpaid for 59 years until Felton paid a quarter at Stahler Grocery, proving continued honesty.
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Jones County
Abe
O. J. Felton
Cedar Rapids
Center Junction
Oliver
J. Felton
Monticello
M. O. Felton
Mr. Felton
Stahler
Castle Grove Man Buried
Funeral services for Richard McDonald a Castle Grove farmer who died from injuries after a fall at Iowa City were held at Immaculate Conception Church with Fr J J Hennessey in charge. He was born in 1869 in Canada and later settled in Duncombe before moving to the Castle Grove farm in 1910. He is survived by his widow Anna and son James five brothers and five sisters. One daughter died in infancy.
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Richard McDonald
Castle Grove
University Hospital
Iowa City
Castle Grove Immaculate Conception Church
J. J. Hennessey
Canada
Duncombe
Anna McManus
Temple Hill
Anamosa
McDonald
James
John
Omaha
Neb
Michael
Paton
Joe
Thomas McManus
Vincent
Patrick Leddin
Will Mullen
Webster City
Carrie McDonald
Margaret McDonald
Frederick J. Cross Dies at Stuttgart Arkansas Home
Frederick J. Cross, age 70, died October 6 at his Stuttgart Arkansas home after years of declining health. Born near Grimsby Ontario, he lived in Monticello earlier where he ran the J. S. Hall hardware store and built Monticello’s first 24 hour light and power unit. He developed power facilities in Central City and surrounding towns, later moved to Cedar Rapids, California, and Chicago where he built an automatic electric self parking garage. He promoted a mausoleum in Stuttgart during the last years. Survived by wife, son Cecil, two grandchildren Donald and Lynne, with brothers Charles in Ontario and Will in Winnipeg deceased.
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Ward
Frederick J. Cross
Stuttgart
Arkansas
Mr. Cross
Cecil
Donald
Lynne
Charles
Ontario
Canada
Will
Winnipeg
Grimsby
Monticello
Hawaiian Islands
Chicago
J. S. Hall
Cross
Central City
Cedar Rapids
Northern States Electric Company
California
Katherine Kasper
Farm Sale At Liddy Farm Yields Four Thousand Five Hundred
The C. J. Liddy farm two miles east of Monticello drew a strong crowd and total proceeds reached 4500 dollars. Prices listed include corn at 1.18 per bushel oats 0.43 a bushel corn in the field 21.25 per acre cattle averaged 53 with Eden top at 62.50 feeding shoots 8.25 each and chickens 0.68 apiece. Auctioneer Lee Bebee of Anamosa and the Monticello State Bank served as clerk.
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C. J. Liddy
Monticello
Car Eden
Lee Bebee
Anamosa
Monticello State Bank
Hopkinton Minister Appoints New Pastorate
Dr. Harry Travis of the Dubuque district announces Rev. R. V. Porter of Hopkinton will lead Sunday morning services at the Community church in Dyersville and Farley each week.
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Harry Travis
Dubuque
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
R. V. Porter
Hopkinton
Dyersville
Farley
Monticello Centennial Fest Rewinds History and Honors Past
The Monticello centennial celebration closes with a Thursday program at the schoolhouse featuring the Monticello high school band and glee club, a modern vs old time school comparison, and a capacity evening with the high school orchestra and a keynote by Hon. Charles Sloan. Maude Mirick Cooper narrates living tableaux of Monticello’s 100 years.
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Monticello
Lyle McMullen
Dale McConnell
Kate Maurice
Clara Palmer
Charles Sloan
Geneva
Sloan
Maude Mirick Cooper
L. E. Hong
Farmer Mike Tobiassen Injured in Barn Fall
Wayne township farmer Michae Tobiassen is hospitalized at McDonald hospital with fractures in both bones of his right forearm and several small bones in his left hand, a badly injured knee and a broken nose after falling ten feet from a barn repair on his farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michae Tobiassen
Wayne Township
McDonald Hospital
Tobiassen
John McNeill Dies of Cerebral Hemorrhage
Funeral services for John N. McNeill, a prominent Hopkinton farmer, were held at the Reformed Presbyterian church after he died from a cerebral hemorrhage that followed a stroke in Monticello during the Centennial celebration. He was born May 6, 1871, married Annabelle McGlade in 1910, spent 20 years in railroad service, and is survived by his widow, one sister and four brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John N. McNeill
Hopkinton
Reformed Presbyterian Church
McNeill
McDonald Hospital
Monticello
Hoppinton
Allen
Saskatchewan
Robert J. and
William H
Albert J. H
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First Street
Lois Eileen Kuhns
Wayne Zion Church
of Citizenship
League of Women Voters
Jones County American Legion
Post and Auxiliary
Galena, Ill
Smart Chevrolet Coupe
C. M. ST. Paul Railway
Combined Lutheran Church Float
Tulsa, Okla
Farm Bureau Ofnce
Glenn Sones
J. E. Porter
Lee Streets
August Hanson
Art Lincoln
Stanley Waggoner
Ed Sazma
Carl Smith
Harry Newman
Ray Sanford
Oscar Kinler
Henry Eichhorn
Farm Bureau Office
W. B. Clarke
Clarence Grafit
Louis Lorenzen
Ray Stivers
Gene Porter
L. T. Lorenzen
William Stanton
Will Reese
Harold Hartman
Oli Dawes
Hans Rohwedder
Bob Alden
Loyal Byerly
Alvin Byerly
Lula Weighels
Lilian Lunsman
Helgens Fall
Fred Cross
Liddy Farm
Monti
Monticelio
the Express
Mr. Sloan
Mr. Carpenter
Nebraska
Daniel Varvel
John Clark
Andrew Jackson
Towa
American
Boston
Massachusetts
Detroit
Michigan
Fairmont
Tam
Fairmonticello
Mike Tobiassen
John McNeill
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