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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
2
J. W. Doxsee and Chas A. Doxsee listed as editors and proprietors with a $1.75 figure noted, indicating a price or dues context likely from a historical newspaper page.
Center Junction held a Towa Day program at the hall featuring songs America Iowa and America the Beautiful, drills, and readings by students led by Bruce Smith and Harold Alexander. Rally Day is planned at the Presbyterian church next Sunday at 11 o clock, with Sunday school and choir.
Onslow notes a backward social at the Manse hosted by the Ladies Guild on Friday evening October 24 with 15 cent admission and refreshments. Visitors Lou Butler and wife from Los Angeles are in the area. Mrs Jennie Smith and Mrs Bertha Stimson host Priscella club at Mrs Smith’s home Thursday. Various locals and visitors including Orlando McDaniel of Sierra Madre and Mrs Robert Elwood of Everett are mentioned, with several calls on Onslow friends and relatives.
In Scotch Grove on October 24 Mr and Mrs Will Sutherland visited in the C A Sutherland home. Will Sutherland has bought an irrigated farm in Washington and plans to move around January 1. Monticello high school pupils enjoy a two day Teachers Institute vacation and rural schools close too. Mr and Mrs Elmer Ernst hosted several young people Friday night with games and fellowship. Mrs Dirks, patient at the hospital, is steadily improving. Mrs Blanche Hoyt and her son of Cedar are mentioned in the notice.
Sand Spring October 20. Mr and Mrs I J Gestel and two daughters spent last Sunday at Lamont at the home of Mrs C Lo Wilson. Mr and Mrs W Duncan and Mr and Mrs J G Duncan and son Harold of Manchester were Sunday guests at the A Blair home. Mr and Mrs Andrew Miller and family departed Friday for Wisconsin. Mrs F J Bohlken and daughter Jane visiting the Glass family at Prairieburg. Sunshine club hosted by Mrs RR Guthrie. Lois Pierce stayed with Mrs H S Pierce, Hopkinton. Mrs A Bowers of Cedar Rapids visited at J P Schuster home. W A Ottilie county superintendent from Manchester called. H S Pierce and children visited relatives at Lamont. R J Guthrie a Monticello business visitor. F J Bokiken left for Hastings Minnesota. Miss Kya Warner Hopkinton visitor. A Blair spent Saturday Cedar Rapids.
Prairieburg October 20 Allen Umhoefer and Mrs. Umhoefer returned to the Burg after recently marrying at Ashton the former home of Mrs. Umhoefer. A number of the boys gave them a charivari Saturday night. They will occupy the house vacated by the Murphys. Dr and Mrs Felt of New Providence visited Prairieburg the past week and Dr Felt considered locating there. Mr and Mrs C O Rowley were in Anamosa Friday. Miss Bernice Walmutt resigned from Lauser Grocery. Mrs Ellen Hull of Missouri visited her sister Mrs Jr L Rogers. L M Corn and family moved to the Kula bungalow last week. A D Benson was in Cedar Rapids over Sunday.
The Bonnie Brooks Co. two performers from Wyoming present a program of character songs in costume and violin readings by Lucile Blakley. Tickets go on sale after October 1 with season passes $1.25 and four numbers about $2.00.
Monthly report covers receipts and expenditures of Scotch Grove Shippers Association from June 13 1919 to October 1 1919. Includes membership fees total 182.00 insurance on hogs shipped and dead hogs and crippled hogs costs and manager commissions. Notes overall patron totals and linked editorial clippings on labor negotiations and local sports interest.
A government representative reviews county records amid tax inquiry rumors for 1919. Gertrude McDonnell becomes Sister Mary Mercy after joining the Sisters of Mercy at Sacred Heart Academy Cedar Rapids. Community events include a reception for Rev Edward Lang and his wife, with music and welcome remarks. Authorities seized eighty eight bottles of whiskey, twenty four pints, and sixty quarts of beer at the city hall after arrests of Norstein Kahler Kahler and Cowell for liquor offenses. Judge Lawrence forfeited the liquor as transported for illegal purposes. it may be used by a state institution for medicinal aims.
Mrs Kilmer Martin moves to Monticello and Ed Miller takes the vacated residence. R N Hocking dies in Independence after long illness. funeral in Hopkinton. Worthington Savings Bank opens in a new building with crowds from Dyersville Farley Hopkinton and Dubuque admiring the structure though vault fixtures are missing.
Bernard Ward a respected Whitewater township citizen died at his family home Tuesday afternoon around 4 30. Locals recount visits from relatives including Joseph O Rourke and family of Monticello and catch up with Dr and Mrs Lane on the way to Dubuque. KH D Hogan attended the World Series in Chicago and returned with Urban Faber. Mechanic Ray Leytem returns from two years military service in France and England with a discharge at Camp Dodge. The Keans also returned from a western trip with plans for Omaha legal practice.
A state portrayal extols Iowa's 69 percent home ownership, high literacy, and per-family school spending of over 50. It lauds Liberty Loan leadership, wartime support, and contrasts Iowa favorably with cities, praising plains, streams, and ample per-person space for growth.
In Springfield Mass a Republican review notes Rev Dr Fort Newton accepts a New York church call. He previously preached in London at City Temple but faces English middle class resistance to an American cleric's permanent settlement. The piece argues both nations need external viewpoints from strong preachers.
Philadelphia Public Ledger notes the Baptist minister nicknamed sky pilot as a figurative term in the aerial derby debate. The piece weighs language choices and the public reception of the name.
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