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The Monticello Express lists editors J W Doxsee Chas A Doxsee and Proprietors with a subscription price of 1 75 dollars per year.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
2
The Monticello Express lists editors J W Doxsee Chas A Doxsee and Proprietors with a subscription price of 1 75 dollars per year.
Center Junction notes a large turnout for a community sing with orchestra and special numbers by Inver Moses and others. Next Tuesday features primary-grade performances and a pie social to aid the event. Harvest Home service at Methodist church includes readings and a layman’s representative to the annual conference.
Scotch Grove Iowa outlines a weinie roast at Carsons grove next Friday evening and a Sunday school picnic a week later on September 27. The notice mentions visits by Mrs C A Sutherland to Cedar Rapids to see her newborn grandson and various local travel and family updates with several names and places.
Castle Grove dated September 17 reports employed teachers by district. District 1 Mary Delay. District 2 Mary Kehoe. District 3 Miss Hughes. District 4 Florence Calkins. District 6 Viola Stanton. District 6 Inez Hubbard. District 7 Josephine O'Brien. J Noble mentions a Chicago trip.
Social notes from Hopkinton and surrounding area list visits by Mrs. F M Wheeless and sons Dale Frank Doan Harold Doan and Paul Doan from Hopkinton. Relatives from Crofton Nebraska visit Mrs Henry Bohlken Jr. P Schuster with son Lawrence travels to Dubuque for school. George Lawrence and Hart visit from Colorado. Mrs H S Pierce and Lois visit relatives nearby. Ruth Guthrie visits A J Mitchell home near Cedar Rapids. J J and Ed Lang take cattle to Chicago. Walter Shuster of Chicago visits L C Little. EB Hicks of Monticello on business. Mrs H S Pierce also visits Monticello.
T J Smith of McCook Nebraska guests at Abbey home and notes grand encampment in Columbus Ohio. Bernice Walmutt and Edith DeLancey guest at Nora Illinois. Howard Peet recovering after illness. Tom White and Fred Jesse visit Dolan and Seward Smith homes.
Our boys' baseball team faces Center Junction Friday afternoon. Etta Schmidt missed Monday due to illness. Teachers enjoyed a George French timber picnic last Tuesday. Miss Corbitt visited Fayette. Miss Scroggie attends Cornell. Five Vargason children start school. Miss Brady hosted at Chatterton home. Miss McKune Doumer Brady Corbitt attended Ladies' Guild at Mrs. Bart Walter's. Paul Lynch begins in primary. Brady and Supt. Bailey spent Sunday at home. Students will canvass town to sell season lyceum tickets. price not yet set but under $1.40. Four performances planned. Onslow and vicinity urged to support the lyceum as a permanent feature.
Application has been made to the Soldier's Home at Marshalltown to receive R N Hocking. His mental condition has worsened and friends believe he will be best cared for at the Home. A wedding occurred at the home of Mr and Mrs W P Cramer in Hazel Green township on September 6. Ruth Jacob of Wahmira New York married Peter Hedwin Denure of Union township. Rev W G Rowley officiated. Mr and Mrs Michael Mulvehill celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on September 7. Frank Lux of Monticello went to Austin Minnesota for a brother's illness. William Holub of Castle Grove left for Dubuque to continue studies at Dubuque College.
Passage urges 7 p.m. as the decisive hour in a man’s life when he chooses between productive leisure and frivolous recreation. It claims success comes from hard work, improved leisure, and a shift between kinds of work, with most winners using their evenings to advance character and goals.
A 1919 letter dated August 15 lists German food prices received by J H Ahlers of Lamotte. Butter listed from 3200 to 500 per pound, meat 1 ah to 160 per pound, bacon ham bread also noted.
A September 15 demonstration at W. W. Gray farm in Cass township showed sprayed apples vastly superior. Sprayed trees yielded far more fruit and higher quality than unsprayed ones, with a net gain around 12.83 dollars per tree after costs.
The executor of John Fitzsimons estate offers for sale a 260 acre farm located about 15 miles east of Monticello in sections 28 24 and 25. Open bids are invited at 2 pm on Saturday September 20 1919 with right to reject any bid. Ten percent of the price due at sale with balance by March 1 1920. Abstracts to show merchantable title. deed to be delivered upon payment and court approval. 103 J W Doxsee Executor.
A collection of recipes includes Grape Fudge Plum Conserve and Apple Mint Jelly with instructions on fruit preparation and sterilization. The article also notes the nearly completed Revised Code, the printer preparation of 2,500 copies, and commission members J H Trewin J C Mabry and A G Whitney.
The New York World notes that thousands watched as a Black man was burned alive after being accused of murder in Athens Georgia a city with a university schools and factories. It asks what ails Americans who spectate in the face of savage violence despite progress and reform.
Director General Hines states that 1,590 wives, daughters, sons and relatives of railroad officials receive annual airline passes. He notes some are born to dodge payments.
Sealed bids will be received by the Jones county Iowa County Auditor until 1 PM September 23 1919 for removing 2640 cubic yards of earth from Station 8 to Station 18 in Section 124 Scotch Grove township. Plans on file in the County Auditor's office. I J Hines County Auditor. 11-2.
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