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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1914
Page
7
Monticello and surrounding towns show a flurry of visits and trips. Notables include J M Hofacre in Minnesota, Agnes Stirton Cedar Rapids visitor, Hans Roof Dubuque visit, and many others touring Dubuque Maquoketa Boone and nearby locales. Local stores advertise fashion and yard goods as autumn arrives.
Local residents update on visits and family trips from Denver Straw berry Point and Dubuque to Hopkinton Anamosa and Montezello School opens with teachers and new enrollments. Local trades and businesses advertise fall lines while courts and churches schedule events and seminars.
A hard rain last Saturday evening fell fury for hours, soaking fields and aiding pastures. The downpour improved ground conditions for plowing, though it was not as steady or gentle as a milder rain.
A. E. Kimball son of Rev. E. P. Kimball and longtime Monticello resident returned to town for the first time in twenty three years. He heads the First National Bank of Elco Nevada and was in town with a Wershing Organ Co representative from Salem Ohio who serviced the Methodist Episcopal church organ reporting it in excellent condition aside from minor adjustments.
The note mocks a person who must shovel snow at about 5 p m so his wife can hang clothes while suggesting a Clay Lawn Drier as the cure. The reader is urged to consider the product as a solution to winter chores.
Misses Mary and Alice Hanawalt visited Cedar Falls last Thursday and will teach in Norwoodville public school this coming year, continuing their residence and duties in Iowa.
Former Monticello resident Mrs Hannah Kline now of California sold a west side lot of the Odd Fellows building to John T Lanigan. Lanigan plans a two story building on the site next spring.
Mr and Mrs P D Bell plus daughters Almeta Marie and son Donald left yesterday by car for Milwaukee where Almeta will receive eye treatment from a specialist. They plan to visit Chicago before returning home.
Dr and Mrs A M Pond and daughter Dorothy of Dubuque visited Mrs D H Pond’s family Monday. Rain sent the Ponds home by train while Dorothy kept the car. William D Magee was named delegate to the Knights of Pythias 45th annual jubilee in Chicago, leaving for the event last Saturday night.
Rev Elges announces communion at Center Junction and Scotch Grove with new members infants baptized and a new elder to be elected at Center Junction. Frank Byrne returns to Monticello to auctioneer and arrange sales. Neal and son buy Lyons oil firm rights delivering to local towns. Alpha Lambert arrested in Wisconsin on wire desertion, out on bond awaiting grand jury. Monticello Davenport train hit washout near Donahue. passengers aided by conductor Henry Higgins. Meter water ordinance prompts local resistance as wells are dug to bypass rates. City distributes circulars explaining the ordinance before its November 1 start.
Roy Slauson and Stephen Deshaw collide at the four corners of a highway intersection one mile north of Sand Spring. Slauson’s car rear ended Deshaw’s, rolling the latter’s vehicle. Hale, Deshaw’s wife, and another passenger are injured lightly. both cars damaged. bystanders aid at the scene.
James Skelley sold his east of town farm to John Lubben for his son Harrison. We will be sorry to lose the Skelley family as longtime early settlers, whose descendants are landmarks of the town.
The state crop bulletin reports the last seven days saw more rain than any week this season. Eastern and southern districts measure over three inches, some stations over five. Destructive wind squalls and hail damaged corn. average temperatures were near normal with light frosts in northwest counties.
Charles A. Higby, a convict who murdered his wife in Cedar Rapids on December 12, 1912, and was sentenced to the penitentiary later sent to Fort Madison before being moved to the Anamosa reformatory as insane, escaped yesterday afternoon. The crime was described as a cold blooded murder after his wife supposedly went dancing with another man. Higby surrendered after the act. The method of escape is not known.
Kathryn King reports excitement over the great war in Davidson Saskatchewan as many volunteers emerge and others prepare after physicals. locals rush to the post office with trains and telegraph dispatches, wheat yields about 10 bushels per acre amid a broad crop shortage and good prices. Mary King teaches school.
At a regular city council meeting the vote approved Iowa Telephone Co to lay underground conduits along streets as per a plat. It requires bonds covering damages and costs. The council also instructed borrowing 5 000 dollars for a new pumping outfit and water department expenses.
The state railroad commissioners will hear the complaint for a second train on the Calmar and Monticello branch of the O. M. & St. P. railway on September 22. Evidence already showed heavy passenger use and critics question the line’s finances while the Gollmar Brothers circus and Dr. Arthur B. Baker introduce local happenings in Monticello and Rock Island.
Clarence Hubbard a paralyzed 10 year old and Lowell Hicks injured when an automobile driven by Lowell slid on a slippery patch beyond a cemetery. Clarence faces serious prognosis while Lowell’s wounds are less severe. Dr W A Mirick treated both, with Dr Guthrie later consulted. Bert Hubbard hurried home from North Dakota as news spread.
Mrs. Edward N. Howard dies at her Monticello home after an acute bronchitis and complications. Caroline Dighton born 1848 Hopkinton later married 1966, lived various Iowa towns before settling in Monticello where widower Edward N. Howard died six years ago. She leaves grandchildren Grace Podlaski and Charlea Podhaski. funeral Saturday at 2 PM.
Claude Andrews aged twenty from Manchester died last Thursday in an automobile crash midway between Dyersville and Earlville. He was son of Mr and Mrs A J Andrews. Returning from Dubuque with his mother sister Gladys Andrews and Beatrice Pentony the car turned around after he lost control. He was thrown through the windshield and neck broken. Mrs Andrews suffered a broken leg and crushed ankle. Gladys Andrews fractured collar bone and severe facial wounds. Beatrice Pentony was thrown twenty five feet but uninjured.
Mrs Louisa Cozort of Olin files in federal court seeking discharge of debts totaling 8329 01 with most obligations arising from notes in Texas land deals. The piece notes the Mechanicsville Pioneer-Press printing from slug type cast from Linograph and praises the paper while a Chicago Herald quote critiques left wing bias from Germany.
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