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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1919
Page
2
The Monticello Express lists subscription details with editors Chas A Doxsee and associates. Per year price shown as $1.75, reflecting period offer at the publication.
Center Junction reports its first seasonal community sing at the schoolhouse with readings piano solos and vocal numbers. Local weddings births illnesses travel and school changes fill the week with notes on neighbors and events across Maquoketa Lisbon and Volga City.
Sand Spring opens the week with Miss Florence Sampson of Monticello teaching in the advanced room and Miss Edith Gestel in the primary room. Several residents visit family, attend fairs, or travel, including R J Guthrie to Deer Lodge Montana and many students resuming high school at nearby towns.
Onslow residents report Robert Scroggie’s return from Anamosa sanitarium after a leg wound from an accidental gun discharge. He plans to attend Wyoming school when able. School opens with good attendance under Principal Bailey and teachers Corbit Brady Domer McCire. Bert Garnett now transports rural schoolchildren, a relief for his weak health. The post office and pool room have moved to Mrs. Maggie Macbrill’s building. Local visitors include Fred Paul and wife from Woran Kansas and W. E. Lamey party from Maquoketa. Mrs. Emma Powers of Sheldon visits. Mrs. F. D. McLaughlin of Monticello calls. Presbyterian Guild to meet. Mildred Lamey returns to Albia School. Mrs. H. F. Paul visits Marion.
Prairieburg notes water service expansion to the school and two homes. Local families move and repair property, with residents traveling to nearby towns for visits and business. Individuals mentioned include Dr and Mrs Wilkinson, Oliver Caldwell and son, Miss Hanore McLaughlin, and several towns and nearby places.
Residents travel to Cedar Rapids and Manchester for health and fair related events. Cattle bought for feeding, silos being erected, and fields lifting as corn ripens. A cow was lost to lightning and cemetery trees were felled in Argand. Community members visit relatives in Wayne and Minnesota this week.
Robert Scroggie partly recovers from an injury and will start to school in Wyoming tomorrow. The Defiance Hill School consolidation adds busloads of pupils to Onslow. Upper grade girls begin basketball while Mabel Streeper is ill. Enrollment this year is about eighty with two juniors moving to Maquoketa for vacation. A new north upstairs partition splits the room and a book case was added in the assembly area.
Dr W W Hunter plans five to six weeks absence due to health. Howard M Remley earned a law degree from the state university ending the summer session with 26 degrees awarded. he would have graduated in June but for military service. J W Conmey and Louis McDonnell seek a mandatory injunction against C A Miller to open a road used for 40 years to reach Cass township lands, removing gates and obstructions. Wm McMurrin was arrested on a Friday night for associate with a 14 year old girl on Powerscourt steps and released on bonds with case continued to September 18. Judge Mison admitted Jos Warren to University Hospital Iowa City for surgical treatment. Warren, 61, endured hernia since childhood, lacking nourishment, sleeping in barns in Washington township, first county applicant under Perkins law extension for over 21s.
Thomas and William Kingsley depart Saturday for Chicago to resume studies at Armour Technical Institute after enlisting in 1917. The piece also notes deaths, weddings, and local fair results, including J P Sauser attending a funeral in Cumberland and J L Weber winning multiple cattle premiums at Monticello.
W G Lux and Son have loaded a car of melons bound for Minnesota while Bort Bros assist in shipping to nearby towns to reduce surplus. Hopkinton schools opened under Prof Louis Hillman with a staff including Miss Lane Miss Heisey and Mrs Belknap. Mrs Livingston’s 15 cent card board investment yielded $5 in premiums at the Monticello fair and daughter Huberta’s drawing shows early talent.
The estate of John Fitzsimons offers for sale a 260 acre farm about 2¼ miles east of Monticello in sections 23 24 25. Open bids at 2 pm on Saturday September 20 1919 with right to reject. Ten percent down, balance March 1 1920. abstracts provided. deed to be court approved. 1208 J W Doxsee executor.
The Anamosa Journal News reports EB L Barrager sold nine farms covering 1600 acres in O'Brien and Osceola counties for 560,719 dollars averaging 354 per acre. Also notes Rev J A Lang's reappointment to Anamosa by universal demand. A Vernon farm fire injures a child and destroys dwelling. insurance partly covers loss. T Th McQuillen of Cascade dies at 75. longtime Cascade resident, former county supervisor, linked to Dubuque and Charles City, survived by Dr W C McQuillet.
A funeral was held Monday from the residence of Mr. McQuillen’s brother at the old homestead birthplace, following a Saturday transfer of remains to Cascade. A report of Scotch Grove Shippers Association receipts and expenditures spans June 16 to September 1, detailing hog sales, dead hog insurance, membership fees, overdraft payment, and various disbursements. The balance in the sinking fund stands at 31.10 with 66 paid-up members.
The Portland Oregonian suggests sending President Carranza a biography of Sergeant Alvin S York as a patriotic gesture. The note frames York as a model hero and calls for diplomatic or symbolic steps tied to World War I era ideals.
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