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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
7
A long list of local residents visiting relatives and traveling to nearby towns and cities. Movements include Cedar Rapids Chicago Omaha Dubuque Anamosa Oelwein Belle Plaine Man chester Sioux City Macomb Paulina and more. Devlin Millinery announces fall and winter hats with a Millinery opening.
Local notices list multiple residents visiting relatives and moving between Davenport Monticello Dubuque Cedar Rapids and other towns. It notes travel for teaching positions camp visits and concerts plus a Red Cross gasoline launch raffle update with 325 chances sold.
The George Stuhler family drove to Ames last Sunday to visit Albert Stuhler who is in training for overseas duty. Miss Carrie Lang with Margaret and James Maurice visited Sand Spring last Friday evening at the Lang home. Miss Mary Smith returned to Lorain Ohio last Thursday after summer with her mother Mrs. Douglass Smith. Mrs. John Sutton visited Vinton last Friday morning with her brother C Goarcke. Miss Ruth Wilson accompanied her as far as Cedar Rapids where she spent the day.
J. D. Arnold of Moline visited the C. W. Bosley home last Sunday. He returned with his wife and son Monday morning after a several day visit in the Bosley residence.
Rev W H L Schuetz attended a Boone meeting of church moderators. Miss Marcella Britting left for Newhall to teach, as did Miss Berdena Wenger. Miss Katherine Smits returned to Fairmont after summer with her mother, Mrs Gladys Smits. Marguerite Perrenaud visited Atlanta then went to Sioux Falls. The Woman’s Board of Missions held a Thank Offering service with speaker Miss Rada Pavlova of Bulgaria. St John’s parochial school starts September 5 with Prof Carl Huelle returning. Ben Behrends has sent two or three sons to government service. one in France ill with diphtheria. Del Wrights’ three boys in service listed at Fort Bliss, Camp Gordon, and Great Lakes. a fourth to register on the 12th. Mrs Grant Stambaugh visited Fort Leavenworth to see Will, a bugler in the Signal corps, soon to go to France. The canning factory began war work and required oath of allegiance. visitors restricted. Golf tournament attendees include R C Stirton, Keeh, Hicks, Henry Carlson, Frank Locher, Fred Stuhler duo, Harvey Richardson, M H Teeter, Henry Templeton, and Billy and Pete Stuhler.
John Matthiessen lives south of Monticello and owns an elegant, fully wired home. The well kept grounds surrounding the residence draw the visitor’s attention.
Foreman Cliff Main of The Express takes a week off this vacation time visiting relatives and old friends in Hopkinton. He enjoys returning to his hometown haunts and reconnecting with cherished memories.
Capt. L. W. Lovell came home from Camp Dodge for a family visit on a 48 hour leave of absence. He served as adjutant to the commander of the Fourth Officer's Training camp, which recently closed its session. He expected orders on his return to camp the following Sunday.
Dr. George J. Wenzlick an Iowa City physician and surgeon purchases the Dr Mirick property and will practice in Monticello after seventeen years of experience including a year in federal medical service. John Breen is named rural mail carrier on Route No 3 to fill vacancy previously held by Mrs B G Brazelton. G J Liddy, recent civil service examinee, may be assigned to a southern county route.
St John’s Lutheran church will observe its annual day of missions next Sunday September 8. Services start at 10 30 a m and 2 80 p m with sermons by Rev G Bertram Reinbeck and Rev George Koch Garner. A noon lunch will be served on the premises.
County physicians met with full attendance except two and all offered their services to the government. The move shows patriotic sacrifice and a commitment to ensure medical aid remains available to communities.
Among the Cedar Rapids visitors last Tuesday were Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McLaughlin and children Mesdames Edward Templeton Eugene Byers Wm Stuhler Charles Northrop John McLaughlin Miss Clara Schod de Janet Hazard Mary Petcina Minnie McLaughlin Wm Stuhler Jr. and Henry Templeton.
J. H. Milroy a Monticello high school teacher in 1917 1918 has completed infantry training at Camp Dodge Fourth Officers Training Camp and received a Second Lieutenant commission last week Monticello pupils and friends extend congratulations.
stockholders and patrons met last Saturday evening voting 27 to 1 to renew the Langworthy Co-operative Creamery Co. organized twenty years ago on the 19th prox. The creamery is in a central dairy region and has been efficiently run. A stockholders meeting is set for Saturday evening September 21 at 10 to act on the contemplated action.
In a private letter Daniel L. Davis of Monticello now runs a department store in Ashtabula Ohio says his son serves as a lieutenant in the field artillery at Fort Sill Oklahoma. His eldest daughter Marion is married and lives in Ashtabula. The younger daughter graduated last June from the New England Conservatory of Music in piano and will return in October for a voice course.
Rev C Mardorf pastor of the Lutheran church in Wayne township resigns effective at month's end after forty years of service. He cites health and eye troubles and has not chosen a new destination or successor yet. The congregation expresses deep sorrow and gratitude for his faithful leadership.
Frank Lafferty a brakeman on Marion freight No. 95 was injured near Monticello last Tuesday. He may lose a foot after his shoe caught between rails and a moving car dragged his foot before he freed it. He is at John McDonald hospital under Dr. T M Redmond. Mrs. Lafferty was notified.
George A. Fisher, present clerk of the district court, declines renomination after joining the War Department's law division in Washington several months ago. His absence has drawn no complaints as a deputy and a clerk have managed the office satisfactorily. Fisher will remain in Washington and cannot campaign. The Democratic county committee will fill the vacancy on the ticket.
Shaw, a Mackrill farm tenant in Clay township, was bound over to the district court last Friday by Justice Brownell of Wyoming on an alleged assault on a 14 year old neighbor girl. Denying the charge, Shaw’s case was deemed to require grand jury investigation. he remains free on bonds until the September term. He threatened county attorney and the girl’s father in court and was restrained by bystanders.
It is estimated that 287000 men subject to military duty will register on September 12. Jones county will see about 2800 or 3000 registrants. Helpers fear the workload, noting that 1600 questionnaires took ten days to process in 1917 and courts were adjourned. The upcoming effort will be larger, with more married men in service demanding longer preparation for agricultural and dependency schedules.
Luelle B. Miller son of late Judge B. H. Miller killed himself in Anamosa while visiting his mother in law. He was a mail agent on a westbound Chicago line train. The tragedy occurred Monday morning as his wife found him with a bullet wound in the head in a bedroom. their daughter played the piano nearby. Miller had been in ill health, and a despondent state is suspected as the cause. He was brother to Earl Miller, a familiar county figure.
A malicious individual distributed poison across town last week killing several dogs. Owners named include R C Stirton Eugene DeWitt Ray Jacque Rolland Griffith and Vert Hanssen. Some dogs were saved in time. The Iowa code section 4818 prescribes up to five years in penitentiary or a year in jail and a fine up to 300 dollars for poisoning domestic animals.
Monticello records from September 1898 note Charles S. Bidwell with L Z Farwell on business in Leadville Colorado, Lou Gibson leaving for North Manchester Indiana to teach music, and Grace Lovell at Kalamazoo College. Oscar H. Soetje sold a hill residence to George L. Lovell for seven to eight thousand dollars. The school board lengthened high school to four years and the public schools opened with a full slate of teachers. Volunteers Clarence and Ralph Seober returned home on furlough after typhoid illness. Democratic and Republican county conventions nominated ticket items. Walter Noyes died of typhoid fever in service. J H W Bacher sold his drug store to D C G Pradar. Mrs Mary Wigabeth Arach died. Norman M. Smith left for four years medical study in Minnesota. John Miller of Bowen's Prairie died suddenly at age 40, leaving a widow and three children. Eugene Byers fractured his arm in a fall from a horse.
The Anamosa Journal notes several Iowa families with multiple sons in the army. The McCulloughs of Anamosa area count four sons, with Arthur killed in France in May, while two others remain in service. The Wroblewski family of Jackson township has six sons in the army, with four in service. Washington township resident Joseph Gavin left for Camp Dodge with four sons in service, a count also shared by Mrs. Alice Becks and Mrs. Louise Rickels of Monticello.
The president designates September 12 as the register day for all those aged 18 to 21 and 31 to 46, plus those who turned 21 since the last registration. Registration occurs at polling precincts unless away, in which case blanks are obtainable at the local county board office.
Local notes report Red Cross collecting garments from Wayne township Richland and Lovell Auxiliary Castle Grove Scotch Grove and surrounding areas with 3 women's chemises 15 boys undershirts 15 undershirts and 6 pairs of underdrawers. August knitting quota shipped last Wednesday. Market prices at Chicago show best cattle and hogs records with steers up 20 cents and hogs tops at 20.85. Hog prices reach 20.40 but overall market closes 0.25 to 0.60 lower from Tuesday. Packers predict further decline as trade remains top heavy.
Arthur Luck, a young farmer near town, found his horse missing after returning from the city. Two youths were seen driving toward Cascade, pursued by Luck and others in an automobile. One Hopkinton resident was caught in a cornfield. the other youth, a farm boy southeast of Monticello, fled. An information was filed and a warrant issued, but no confirmed arrests reported.
A fifty dollar reward is posted for information leading to the detection of a jackal that poisoned several dogs in Monticello. The notice is signed by JaBL WEGN and R. C. Stirton.
The latest styles in hats will be on display Saturday September 14 at Devlin Millinery. Mrs. C A Palmer and her daughter traveled to Maquoketa this morning for a visit.
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