Time For School Shoes
Local shoe shop promotes a wide selection for boys youths girls and children as the school term begins. The notice stresses durable footwear for daily use and appeals to parents seeking value and fit.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1910
Page
4
Local shoe shop promotes a wide selection for boys youths girls and children as the school term begins. The notice stresses durable footwear for daily use and appeals to parents seeking value and fit.
Miss Mamie McMahon visits Anamosa. M Brown in Chicago for stock. Catherine Lovell and Alice Deischer travel to Cedar Rapids and Coe College. Carl Stabler visits Dubuque for two weeks. Tony Cartano visits Monticello from Springville. Various residents visit Cedar Rapids, Edgewood, Marion, Maquoketa, Dubuque, Manchester, Hopkinton, Wyoming, and other towns. Local business and personal moves noted.
A notice of social visits and travel includes Miss Clara Hogan staying with friends in Cedar Rapids and Mrs. James Hogan returning from Omaha due to her son's illness. The column lists numerous small-town moves, arrivals, and local business notes.
Miss Gladys Fairbanks and Blanche Hunter along with Charles and Mary Cox were reported returning to Cornell College last Monday morning. Blanche Fairbanks had left the previous Saturday.
Percy Smith the Cedar Rapids engineer in charge of paving First street presented his schedules of assessments against property holders to the city council last evening.
F W Koop urges entitlements to call for premiums at Burrichter store. Ex Representative Sokol in town en route to western state and to spend winter in California. Raymond Sandhouse heads to Harvard College on merit scholarship. Nic Maurice heads west to South Dakota homestead for fourteen months’ residence. Three bids for county farm well rejected. new tenders called. Bell Telephone consolidates wires into cables on First street. Four divorces since May term. sixteen quieting title suits pending. A thunderstorm caused limited rain. center state got 1.5 inches. Mrs P Schoonover auction set for Sept 17. Rev H E Wilcox from Wyoming visited with son bound for Mt Vernon. J W Armstrong moves family to Monticello while doing concrete work. Frank Hayden to South Dakota with stock and household goods. father Marcus Hayden accompanies. Fred Matthiessen Jr goes to Cedar Rapids to join Great Western Creamery Co. plans cream buying stations on former Diamond Creamery turf.
The September term of the district court will convene at Anamosa with Judge Milo P. Smith presiding. The petit jury will not report until the following Monday. Docket includes 19 criminal cases 71 law cases 49 equity cases and 39 probate cases.
Thomas Waddick, official in the Southwestern division of the O. M. and St. P. Ry. Co. Chicago, spends a week at his parents’ Castle Grove home. John Winkler sells the John Hoss farm northeast of town to Hassler Brothers for 100 dollars per acre, with a reported 10 dollar an acre rise offered. Thomas Kasper leases his 230 acre Richland township farm to Gerd and Carl Tjaden of Wayne township, citing poor health forcing his retirement.
Mrs. Sarah Conlin aged 87 of Dubuque visiting her daughter Mrs. James Lane in Cascade fell down stairs suffering broken wrists and left elbow plus internal injuries. She previously broke a hip last winter and has since recovered.
Peter Meyer and Mrs. Harriet Mc Farland were married at Anamosa last Thursday evening. They traveled to Monticello the next day where residents serenaded the groom. The Anamosa papers praise Mrs. Mc Farland and the couple receives warm wishes from Monticello society.
Miss Alicia Whiting departs Monticello to take a teaching post at Charlevoix Michigan in the state normal school. The move follows six years as Monticello’s primary principal with satisfactory service.
The report notes a light frost Friday night and silvery frost Saturday morning not harming vegetation. It warns that a further temperature drop could be disastrous, as corn stands uneven in maturity with some seed corn poor and needing replanting, leaving much crop immature.
Rev Roy V Porter pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church leaves for the annual conference in Charlies City with strong support for his return to Monticello. Church finances are in good condition and benevolence subscriptions are well collected. Mrs Porter visits New Hampton. D E Pond sold a 25 foot lot to Dr George Albery for 900 dollars. the property backs the burned building site now to be a veterinary office and hospital for horses. Bertha Ridgy owns a vacant 50 by 122 foot lot listed at 1600 dollars, with plans to build a barn for rent if unsold.
Six suits filed by G. W. Hughes of Olin seek to bar sale of intoxicants in Oxford Junction. M S Odle of the Anti-Saloon League represents the plaintiff against defendants Frank Shedeck J E Roubinek W A Benjamin Sam Carrington John Rees Sr and J A Mizaur. The petitions allege irregularities in the supervisors board action similar to a prior Olin case that closed local saloons.
W J Purchas longtime manager of Diamond Creamery Co Monticello has purchased a centralized creamery plant at Rock Rapids Iowa with a 15000 pounds per day capacity The two year old modern plant sits on a railway hub and will be operated by Purchas The Monticello community will miss him and his wife as they plan to move next month.
George Billings lost a tailor made pair of breeches stolen near Strawberry Point fair. A Monticello thief wore them briefly before a detective recovered them. The pants were two inches shorted by the thief, leaving George ready to prosecute for the theft two inches worth.
Charles Cramer, long time rural mail carrier on Route 4, has taken the civil service examination for a railway mail clerk position and may resign his route if he accepts the new work in Iinoiy. Mrs. Brazelton covers the route during his vacation. several applicants remain in line for his place. Ray Hoag and Miss Jorgia Hayes wed yesterday at the bride's mother's home, Rev. J. W. Innes officiating, with a small company of friends present.
Col Charles W. Gurney a former prominent city citizen and ex lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry with long service in internal revenue work visited Monticello with his wife last Sunday. He and four sons run a large nursery and seed house in Yankton and Dixon County Nebraska earlier years.
Mrs. Sarah Barnhill Caldwell widow of the late William Caldwell died at her daughter’s home in Manchester on the 7th inst at over 81. She was born February 18 1829 near Indianapolis and came to Iowa in 1851. Survived by Milo Caldwell J Clark and Mrs A ST Marshall. Interred beside her husband in Monticello after funeral in Manchester Christian faith noted.
The Express notes a September 1800 roundup: John Dickerson’s death on the 238th day, Monticello beat Anamosa 11 to 1, N S Noble former Jones County sheriff dies, Frederick Markle moves to New Hampton, multiple marriages, a baby’s death, and several local actions including burghlaries, funerals, and church weddings. The 37th Jones County Fair faced rain reducing gate receipts though total for the week reached 2269.00.
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