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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1927
Page
2
Cedar Rapids visitors and local errands appear throughout this Monticello page. People like Miss Pauline Newton, Mrs. James Shirley, and Mr. and Mrs. Tom White travel between Cedar Rapids, Chicago, Dubuque, and Sioux City while shops promote Winchester paint and McNeill's Hardware. The town hosts bake sales, theater ads, and community events alongside school updates and birth notices.
Monticello notes deliver a wide set of items from hospital nurses duties in Chicago to local road conditions and school weather disruptions. It covers a quintet of births and anniversaries, a scarlet fever quarantine end, fish rescues near Maquoketa river, and reports on fairs and auto trips, with forecasts for a cooling spell later in the week. Local sports mention a Dyersville vs House of David game, while farmers plan seed corn harvest as hog and cattle prices rise.
Richard Calkins aged 12 of Monticello Iowa works after school at the local telephone office to learn switchboard duties. He is described as a live wire by P J Danke manager of the Monticello exchange and earns by helping care for the switchboard threading wires and installing telephones. He balances school work scout honors and has $12 in a time deposit plus a checking account.
Two baby beeves and eight purebred Holstein calves will represent Jones county in national club calf competition. Lee Embree and Arthur Domer plan to enter Angus calves at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago from November 26 to December 3. Calves from Mildred Wilcox, Anna Marie Orcutt, Emelyn Hoffman and John Shover will enter the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress.
Edgewood gains its historic first bakery opened last Saturday by Waggoner formerly with C Schoen hut City Bakery. Other notes include Prairieburg dance trouble with Ammeter brothers fined 451.50 and bound over, a missing 8 year old girl found after 29 hours, a Seattle robbery near Dubuque, church debt cleared at St Matthew, and potato consumption statistics for US and Germany.
Mrs. Ben Redmond received a surprise birthday party last Tuesday with friends delivering baskets and a merry afternoon. Royal Neighbors hosted a shower for Mrs. Edmund Cashen with thirty guests, while the Congregational missionary society met for their annual thankoffering at Mrs. Harriet Coughlan’s home. A picnic celebrated Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bohlken of Prescott with thirty attendees, including out of town guests. Schreiner Chapter No. 226 OES opened its season at the Masonic Temple. Mrs. George K. Meyer received a leather purse from the chapter and hostesses assisted with refreshments.
The season finale party at Monticello Country Club Tuesday afternoon featured hostesses led by Mrs. H S Richardson with assistants C A Palmer W A Suthers E C Rickless C G Thomas and L W Lovell. Laura Koop read a one act play followed by Chloe Carson singing two solos. Rose Wilcox closed with two violin solos as Monticello public school music supervisor. Thirty two guests attended.
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist Biscopal church elected officers for the year at Mrs. H. B Richardson's home. Officers include President F. E. Stimson, Vice President Clyde S. Bixler, Secretary Cliff Main, and Treasurer L. H. Lane. The group organized into three divisions led by Lang and Landis, Pfeil and Hoag, Daake and Rodman. A collection and social hour followed, with a $10 purse given to Mrs. George K. Meyer by Mrs. A. E. Coe on behalf of the society.
Henry M. Carpenter president of the Monticello State Bank was feted at a surprise birthday lunch in the bank directors' room last Saturday. Elmer E. Hicks presented a silk umbrella with buckhorn handle as a gift. Bank employees later joined the celebration.
Mr. and Mrs. George Zeadow of Richland township were honored at a Sunday gathering for their twentieth wedding anniversary. The event took place at Mrs. Zeadow’s mother Mrs. C. J. Leek’s home in Center Junction with many relatives attending a fine dinner and pleasant afternoon. The Zeadows farm in Richland township and are the parents of ten children.
Northwestern Bell Telephone workers held a picnic near the Iowa Electric power plant on the Maquoketa River last Monday evening. Afterward the group rode three launches on the river. A minor mishap occurred when pilot Jake Jacobsen steered into a pump causing a jolt. Attendees included Pearl McLees Bernice Van Voltenburg Clara Che Florence Marsh Bess Dickey Mrs Keith Florence Reichart Mary Helen Lundin and Mr and Mrs K W Kennedy and Mr and Mrs Paul Daake.
Ames Abe remarks that some people market themselves while others actively make things happen, distinguishing vanity from real achievement in public life.
A Monticello public notice denounces muffier attachments on vehicles as a nuisance and urges compliance with exhaust laws. It distinguishes law abiding citizens from offenders and promises enforcement action against scofflaws.
Notice states the partnership Mack & Bloomer in gravel contracting is dissolved by mutual consent. J L Mack disclaims responsibility for debts contracted under Mack & Bloomer after September 9 1927. Voss power washing unit plug appears from Mc Neill's Hardware.
Highway No. 20 will be moved to bypass the town of Earlville eliminating four short turns in the route. The change aims to shorten travel and improve safety for through traffic.
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