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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1912
Page
6
T J George went to Cedar Rapids and many residents visited relatives in nearby cities including Cascade Manchester Dubuque and Quincy. The county supervisors meet next Monday. The Express offices announce improvements as local stores promote curtain goods and cleaning.
FF D Slauson visited Leamen SD to tend his land. Pansy Carter and Marjory Nelson teach in Coggan and Hartley IA. Mrs. Gerdes broke a wrist in a cellar fall. Mabel Hessay will teach in Ionia IA next year. Rudolph Ricklefs and family toured Platteville WI. Uncalled letters remain in Monticello post office. Francy Schneider returns to Osage to teach. James A McNeal Co jewelers advertise honest goods. The next district court term begins September 17 in Anamosa with Judge Milo P. Smith presiding. John and Martha Moore visit Minneapolis. Doctors Colin Thomas and Jéliot of Chicago visit their families. Fred Springer returns from Garwin IA. Blanche Hunter leaves for Grauens IA to teach Latin.
B. L. Cobb of Waterloo visits Monticello and greets customers. Charles L. Peterson resigns as deputy treasurer to join Standard Oil in Davenport. Lizzie Barrack returns to Ames after a week with Monticello parents. A Wild West show draws Monticello residents from Anamosa. Weather brings rain Saturday and Sunday. crops show growth. Jessie Fawcett resumes teaching in Mechanicsville. Eugene Harma visits from Princeton, Kansas, returns home. George Lesenger family from Cedar Rapids leaves after visit. Hicks & Rickless advertise made-to-order coats and suits. Stella and Berdina McNamara head to Dubuque for Mt. St. Joseph's seminary. Charles Stockwell takes annual vacation at uncle’s Buck Creek farm. Mackinbrook family from Norfolk, Nebraska, visits Welch home. William Hiller travels to Wisconsin to manage land and attends Minnesota State Fair. Millington Carpenter to Houston, Texas as English teacher. Mrs. Wood Allen and Victoria of Arnold’s Park, and Mrs. George Tousley of Manchester, visit Grover family. Rural school graduates’ entrance exams to Monticello High will be held Friday and Saturday. Deutrick’s promotes La Porte dress fabrics. Elizabeth Stutt returns from Cedar Rapids Business College. Heating stove repairs available from Cross Hardware with guaranteed fit. James A. McNeal & Co. jewelry. Mrs. J. W. Hoult and sister-in-law Mrs. Hérrenaud visit Sioux Falls. Hérrenaud stayed three weeks. Two Maquoketa men seek a site for a variety store, inspecting several buildings.
Miss Irena Manning visits relatives in Wyoming while Miss Calra Ament from Worthington explores Monticello. Dr. W W Hunter travels to Dubuque on a professional trip. Mrs. O Tobin and daughter from Worthington visit sister Mrs K Dunham. John J Bateman attends Knights of Pythias grand lodge in Des Moines representing Ivy Lodge No 57. The local band and Hwine's Zouaves perform a park concert to a large crowd. David Terwilliger, Boston Tech master’s grad, to teach next year. Mrs Yousse and others tour western Pennsylvania and New York. A Free sewing machine is given away by Hlanken & Jacobs. the lucky number is held by Mrs Charles McCarthy. Lowell Hicks returns from Idaho forestry work and heads to Ames for forestry studies. Jones county students Earl and Claud Barker study civil and electrical engineering at Ames. Mr and Mrs Charlen Cramer relocate to Cedar Rapids for railway service work. Lie (Lleury) Trekin visits Europe. Willeal sails from New York on the George Washington to the North German Lloyd. George Cropp goes to Los Angeles for the winter and National A R encampment. Mr and Mrs Hr Bl Carpenter head to Detroit for the American Bankers Association session and other travel. Miss Florence Hefner returns to domestic science teaching in Allen, Minnesota. Patrick auction sale of jewelry next Saturday draws town chatter. last similar sale by A and Bidwell nearly twenty years ago. A Allemand of Bowens Prairie builds a fine summer farmhouse with contractor John Heisey. lighting and modern touches planned.
Last Tuesday the Doutrick residence was transferred to John J Locher who recently contracted for the purchase. Locher secures a fine property while Mr and Mrs Doutrick move to a comfortable second home for their occupancy.
Mrs Lou King wife of Joseph King son of John Ising of Angus Nebraska has left the Slauson home where she visited with relatives and returned to her home in Uellinger North Dakota last Tuesday morning.
Messrs Reuben Uubbard Frank Dautremont and Liewise Terwilliger have gone to Ames to attend the State College. Terwilliger is a new student while Dau tremont and Ubbard have been there two and one years respectively.
Mr. and Mrs. William Weir and Mrs. Melissa Weir traveled by automobile through Cascade to Davenport last Monday, after spending the prior Sunday in Monticello. The elder Mrs. Weir remained for a visit at the Byam home.
Senator Morace Chapman of Bennett attends the Jones County Fair renewing old acquaintances from Monticello where he graduated high school and meeting new friends during the event.
Superintendent K D Miller of Monticello schools suffers hay fever after summer duties at the University of Chicago. He sought relief in Northern Michigan spending time at Bay View near Petoskey.
Mr Fierman Rickels of Wayne township Weft departs Tuesday for a several months journey to California and other western points. His first stop is Garden City Kansas where he owns a 320 acre farm bought years ago at 100 dollars per acre.
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Breidenthal have returned from the West and visited Mesdames Sexton and Hudson yesterday at their home. They left for Hopkinton this morning where Prof Breidenthal begins work at Lenox College next Monday.
A hot July like day caused widespread hardship for workers as they toiled under a blazing sun. The article notes people abandoning straw hats amid the heat and references the date September 1.
Dog Smith boasts a giant tomato show with a three pound and a half fruit weighing 19 inches in circumference. Doc corroborates it as the best tomato yet seen, topping other specimens in the field.
A note explains the Diamond Cipher serial will run in this week's Express with the first part in the extra insert and the next installment inside. The issue also covers social notices of attendances at a Straw berry Point fair, birthdays, obituaries, a wedding, Wild West show impressions, and reflections on new North Dakota wheat shipments versus historic Jones county transport.
N P Starks 82, long time Monticello resident, arrived last week from Nebraska with his daughter and son in law for a visit. He came to Monticello in 1857 as a cabinet maker then grocer. He later moved to Nebraska to live with his daughter Mrs Neva Wilson. He has two Monticello sisters, Mrs J M Linnell and Mrs J M Houser.
Montgomery Wyrick of Casscade reports a flying machine over his honey house last Friday evening. He compares the birdman Jimmie Ward’s swift passage to Elijah’s chariot and notes no one was hurt or charged for the airborne visit.
The article praises candidates at the county fair as jolly, friendly figures whose smiles and greetings lift spirits. It likens their voice to a brook and urges kindness to cheerful party supporters, comparing their visits to springtime benefits to sarsaparilla.
The canning company has extended work hours for ten days to handle a bumper corn crop. Deliveries arrived rapidly day and night, with 100 tons on Monday and similar amounts on Wednesday. As many as 40 to 50 teams waited to unload and 27 were in line by 6 PM Tuesday. Some corn arrived as late as midnight. Workers used double shifts and 15 000 to 20 000 cases have been packed. Quality reported good. Mr and Mrs A Seery of Cascade visited the John McDonough home Thursday.
Readable items from The Xpress record Monticello and area events in September 1892. Tax levy at 10 mills. births, marriages, deaths. local travels and social notes. a criminal horse theft case involving John Yerrington bound over to grand jury after arrest in Anamosa.
Dr. Harl Gordon has resold his dental fixtures and practice to Dr. F A Hefner a year after purchasing the business. Gordon has been offered a demonstrator role at the Dental College of the State University Iowa City and will move there immediately. Hefner’s long record in Monticello is noted as a strong asset and many former patients will seek his services again.
Misses Gertrude and Elizabeth Mc Donough of Johnston Pennsylvania and Isabel McDonough with brothers Ray and Lewis of Dubuque spent fair week at the John McDonough residence.
Mrs Harry Maurice, who traveled from New Mexico to Katona Iowa due to her daughter's serious illness and subsequent death, was in Monticello this week.
Mr and Mrs Gerd Rickels and Mr and Mrs Vobias Folkers have traveled to California for a pleasure trip and to visit relatives.
Alien Fisher arrived back at Estevan Canada after an extended visit with relatives near Monticello.
Tom Lamep of Rockford Illinois spent last week in the William Herron home according to local notes.
Miss Margaret McDermott of Cascade spent last Thursday in the city. Maurice Collins of Topeka, Kansas, is in the city visiting friends.
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