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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1912
Page
7
A compilation of local visits and events in Monticello and surrounding towns. Names include Misa Carrie Clark Anamosa Joby Welch Dubuque and George Pond Davenport, with mentions of Cedar Rapids Hopkinton Des Moines Monticello Chicago and Oxford Junction. Store promos for trimmed hats and ladies’ silk petticoats accompany social items.
George Abel heads Cedar Rapids wholesale coal office owner visiting with his parents. Wisconsin visitors Mr and Mrs Charles Exsle tour Rev Schuntz’s home. Coggan residents Mr and Mrs Carl Wenger and Mrs Charles Barnts call on relatives. Ames family returns to Ohio after visit. James A McNeal & Co jewelers advertises guaranteed protection. Joe Dunn travels Cedar Rapids to Mason City to see parents. Reiken farm sold to Art Hanssen for 170 per acre near Charles City after trade for larger farm. Dairy convention attendees from Mesera Rickles Gerdes F W Lehman Rudolph Behrer John Behrens in Waterloo. Aker of West Liberty and Deardorf of Tipton visit Bateman as guests. Hicks & Rickless advertise made to order coats and suits. P A Kehoe of Castle Grove injured in stairway fall. Mrs Thomas Dewald returns to Ottawa Kansas after visiting Castle Grove and Hopkinton. Mrs Mary Binning returns from Hartville. Cornelia Shelley and daughters travel to Manchester for supervisor Mead’s sister’s funeral. Caroline Schneider of Iowa City visits Isaac Schneider’s home with Mrs Perryman and Mrs Breed from Marion.
Local notes recount Theo Schuetz from the Northwestern Railway dining and parlor car team visiting his brother Rev. W. H. L. Schuetz in Chicago. The column lists various community moves including sales, visits to Cedar Rapids, and grand lodge events with names like Ahab DeWitt, Fritz Yossy, Peter Bell, and Rev. Naetner.
A son was born last Sunday to Mr and Mrs Charles A Holmes of Donnan Iowa. The Holmes family formerly lived in Montiello about a year ago where Mr Holmes worked as a butter melter at the Klondike Smeltery.
Mrs Myrtie Barnhill Rader remits her Ex press subscription for January 1914 and praises the paper. Mr and Mrs James A Voorhees return from South Dakota where he proved up a homestead and now offers real estate assistance locally. Catholic Montivelto plans a two grade parochial school per archbishop demands. Patrick registered optometrist notes. Newton Parrott returns from Saskatchewan reporting vast, high quality crops but delays in threshing due to rain and snow.
Reverend W Z Allen conducted a mission for Gee College at Reimbeck early in the week and will preside at Onslow services tonight marking the formal installation of Reverend E W Benbow as pastor of the Onslow Presbyterian church.
The Knights of Pythias host a members-only Hallowe'en smoker and chicken pie supper at Castle Hall this evening followed by a postprandial program. The article notes the crowd expects a fun event and a festive mood.
H F Pierce of Jacksonville visits Frank Pierce's family, rekindling Mon ticello ties from early creamery days with H A Sherman. Mayor Hoag returns from Oklahoma after buying broom corn for the Hoag Duster Company, planning ten car loads. The Oklahoma town, 700 population, shipped 97 car loads in eighteen months. Farmers complain soft corn exists due to frost and wet weather, though overall corn is plentiful though quality may be off this fall.
James A. McNeal & Co. promotes its large jewelry stock in Jones County inviting customers to visit before buying. A fire damaged Gilmore's office last Friday morning but was controlled by the fire department with limited damage. the building now belongs to Frank Ferring and some medical appliances escaped harm.
Senator Kenyon will deliver a political address at the Monticello opera house next Monday evening October 28. Those who have not heard him will have a chance to hear and meet the junior senator, who is expected to become a leading figure in Iowa politics. He is a good public speaker and should draw a strong audience.
Superintendent Van Vliet of the Colorado Midland and Santa Fe line travels north, unaware of local discontent over a time card change delaying the Cedar Rapids Farley train into Monticello. The piece notes a 1302 pencils counted at Sestre drug store with several patrons posting varied guesses and small prizes awarded.
Henry Doering of Scotch Grove marries Minnie Van Valtenburg, daughter of William and Mrs Van Valtenburg of Monticello, at the home of George Oltmans in Scotch Grove township on Friday October 18. Squire Oltmans officiated in presence of witnesses H Q Balster and others. The groom is praised as honest and industrious. the bride is described as young and self reliant after hardship.
A social event on Friday October 25 at the Congregational Church invites attendees to wear a four cap or buy one. Admission charges apply: gentlemen 15 cents, ladies 25 cents, ladies without escorts 10 cents. Refreshments cost 10 cents. 1672.
J P Monnier sold his hillside residence on Flat Street to J D Poppe of Maastle Grove for 85600 aided by a seven acre north tract. Senator H R Chapman of Bennett broke his right arm cranking an auto motor. The family prepared to attend Mrs Chapman's sister’s wedding in Maquoketa.
A fire began in the kitchen roof of the Miller cottage yesterday after one. A fire alarm sounded but firefighters arrived to find the blaze extinguished quickly. The resident professor vaulted onto the roof and doused the flames with water, ending the incident in two seconds.
T B Booth and UC A Beemas will speak at the Congregational church next Sunday evening on temperance. S C Huber, Democratic candidate for congress, spoke at the opera house last Friday to a poor turnout. Will Sandhouse was badly hurt in a runaway near the Aitchison farm with a broken shoulder blade and ribs. Dr Redmond says recovery proceeds without current blood poisoning.
Mrs. Michael McKeever died at her Gill Street home after months of illness. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church with Rev. John McCormick officiating. She leaves her husband two children and her father along with siblings and other relatives. The obituary notes sympathy for the family amid many local losses.
In Richland near the Maquoxreta river last week Nellie Hoffman, two, wandered from home while the mother was busy. After a search by neighbors and the husband away at Monticello, Sam Anderson found the child asleep in the corn rows. The mother rejoiced at the safe, tired return on a perfect October day.
Mrs C L Loree daughter of Mrs Harrison Rosa and sister to W L Rosa died at her Lake Charles home on Pury Street after months of illness. Funeral services were held at 3 30 pm at the Loree home conducted by Rev G B K Weed and burial was in Orange Grove cemetery. She leaves a husband and one son Rosa Loree.
A union service of Presbyterian Methodist and Congregational churches featured three pastors condemning alcohol and urging voters to oppose saloon reestablishment. Rev W Allen argued economic waste and brewery influence, Rev M A Breed highlighted social benefits of prohibition, and Rev R K Porter stressed moral opposition and urged turnout to defeat saloon aims.
October 1872 records show a birth to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Rigby, sales of a lumber yard to H E Burdick, and a post office opening at Oxford Junction with Frederick Erdmann as postmaster. Republican meetings occurred countywide and Monticello formed its bank with capi tal stock of 50000 and officers including S C Langworthy and S S Farwell. The Monticello National Bank later became Monticello State Bank.
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