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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1925
Page
7
Monticello hosts a flurry of visitors and locals during the week long fair. Guests include Mrs. Mildred Yousse of Chicago Mr. and Mrs. L A Oltmans and daughters Luella and Pauline in Dubuque, and Dr Hoffman the Chiropractor away August 29 to September 14.
A parade of Monticello residents and relatives from Lost Nation Lisbon and surrounding areas are listed visiting relatives in Monticello and nearby towns. Families such as the Dickmans Burrichters Ducketts and many others travel to Auburn Chicago Des Moines and Cedar Rapids for visits vacations or teaching posts. A stock cattle sale 235 head is planned at the stock yards Friday at 1 30 PM along with several trips to fairs and schools.
A cattle sale is planned Friday at 1 30 PM at C M and St P stock yards with 235 head of Kan sas cattle offered. The column also lists numerous visits travels deaths and community events including visitors from Washington D C Chicago Fond du Lac Wisconsin and other towns and notes about church events and the return of residents from trips and school and millinery actions.
Miss Teresa L. Lux, stenographer in the Dox sea and Doxsee office, leaves last Monday for Cedar Rapids to study for three months and will return December 1. Miss Hather Benson of Davenport will fill the position during the absence. Mr. and Mrs. Arduser and daughters Lisle and Mary visit from Minneapolis and Lisle begins her sophomore year at Minnesota State University. Doris McCue and Mrs. Gideonson visit Miss Ella Fae McCue. Doris remains for longer. Both McCue sisters will attend Town State College at Ames this fall.
Signor Cilley of Buenos Aires visited Monticello with his son Alberto and plan to join Ricardo now in Nevada Iowa after Iowa State College graduation. Local jurors were drawn for Cedar Rapids federal court session starting September 22. An automobile crash near Fillmore injured William Matthiessen and a Dubuque driver. no blame assigned. Hoag Duster Co led Monticello income taxes last year with 3954.53, Monticello Electric 1713.24, banks near 2000. Mr. and Mrs. Booth of Anamosa and Prof. and Mrs. Brewer of Bozeman visited Monticello. Booth once ran the Anamosa Eureka for 51 years.
John A. Liddy will leave Saturday on a business trip to Chicago as Monticello representative for Wollenberger & Co. The firm requires out-of-town representatives to visit yearly to inspect properties tied to First Mortgage Real Estate bond issues.
Last Saturday evening a Dodge touring car driven by Miss Bessie Potter of Cedar Rapids collided with a car driven by Herman Schneider near the O. B. Burrichter garage as Potter attempted a turn. Potter’s car had a bent fender and broken windshield while Schneider’s vehicle was badly damaged. Mrs Repstein and her Cedar Rapids son, riding with Potter, suffered cuts from glass.
Mrs Mollie Rogers died at her home in Randolph Nebraska on the 31st of a month after a brief illness heart trouble being listed as the cause. She taught in Montana and spent most of her life in Randolph after marrying Mr Rogers who died years ago. Funeral services were attended by Mrs Adolph Grassmeyer of the city.
Miss Rebecca Appleby daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles A Appleby wed Clarence Griffith son of Mrs Walker Berlin on Monday evening August 17 at the St Matthews Lutheran parsonage. Rev S M Ide officiated with Hazel Mundinger as bridesmaid and Claude Appleby as best man. The couple will reside in Monticello where both work at the Hoag Duster factory.
Six girls entered the nurses training school at John McDonald Memorial. Gertrude Schweitzer Monticello Velma Larkey Wyming Irene Bohlken Prescott Wis Betty Pazour Marion Bernice Kurrelmeyer Colesburg and Elsie Winch Hopkinton are listed. Seven students depart Tuesday September 14 for nine months at University Hospital Iowa City Phyllis Schelde Gretchen Gilchrist Helen Hoag Muriel Youngstrom Julie Webster Dorothy Tidey Irma Josifek complete the group.
The 60th annual convention of the Jones county Sunday School association will convene at Wyoming on Thursday September 10 in the Methodist church. State workers and local speakers will participate with a pageant Challenge of the Cross by Wyoming youth directed by Mrs Perkins of Anamosa. An ambitious program aims to boost Sunday school work and asks all county schools to send delegations and pastors and superintendents to attend.
The Rotary club visited J LeRoy Farmer’s canning factory last Monday evening. Fifty teams lined up to unload corn as the plant ran day and night to handle fast ripening corn. The filler operated at 112 cans per minute and workers faced no restrictions.
Will Dietiker 18 died five minutes after arrival at John McDonald Memorial hospital from a car collision on the Monticello Cascade road. His brother George, unhurt, called Abe Allamand who transported Will to the hospital. The Ford roadster driver fled, identity unknown. Burial at Oakwood cemetery follows services at the Dietiker home and Reformed church led by Rev. Roland P. Kuentze.
Mrs Anna Maria Herren Wolken died at her son Johns home in Wayne township last Monday evening at 5 30 She was born in Hesel Germany Sept 13 1853 and emigrated to the United States in 1875 She married John Dietrich Wolken Dec 9 1879 and left three children two sons Ben and John Wolken survive Funeral services were held at the Wolken home and Zion Lutheran church Wayne township with burial in Wayne cemetery
Mrs. Hanora Breen of Monticello died last Friday August 28 after a year of illness. Born in Kilalor Ireland in 1545 she came to the United States in youth and raised a family of six children three sons and three daughters. The funeral was held at Sacred Heart church Monticello with Rev George Hauck officiating and burial followed in the Catholic cemetery beside her late husband.
Worthington was defeated 2 to 3 as Cascade struck first in the third inning and held on. Cascade’s Bergman and Hunwartsen teamed with pitcher, while Worthington’s Thompson and Schwendinger fought to stay in the game. Marion edged Ryan and teammates 3 to 2 after ten innings in a tense county contest.
Dubuque authorities move to restore the riverfront once lined with shacks and houseboats. The crackdown follows about 200 arrests in the area over the last two years on charges from bootlegging to murder.
The Country club party at the club house featured bridge music dancing and an impromptu play with Miss Janet Hazard taking high bridge honors. Mrs Ralph Resehart hosted a six o clock dinner for visiting Mrs G N McGarvey of Tulsa with Miss Janet Young first honors. Presbyterian picnic and Miss Tnez Young hosted an evening bridge party for Mrs G O McGarvey with Miss Bernice Podhaski winning and Mrs McGarvey the consolation.
Thursday pacing record set at one mile in 2 7 1 3 4. Nellie Hedgewood and other entries posted times and placings in pace and trot events. Friday saw Volley Patchen and Rene Russell Jr. among leading performers with multiple times and a tied trotting sixth heat won by Ben T.
Thomas Shover wins six Holstein championships at Maquoketa including grand championship. Aitchison brothers sweep Guernsey events at Manchester fair with eleven firsts and three seconds. Hetgens brothers sweep Poland China hog show. Musk ox skull found near Monticello, sent to state university. notes on prehistoric fauna. Cedar Falls report on Rev. Fox Miller. pork exports account for about 15 percent of US production.
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