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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1924
Page
7
Numerous brief items show social visits and business trips around Maquoketa Iowa including Dr Redmond Mrs August Jensen of Wyoming and A G Hanken hosting in town. Mentions of Heneke Stuhler Keyes MccNeill family news and a large Jackson Clinton picnic with Milo Reno speaking.
Monticello residents host and travel for visits with relatives in Oxford Junction Anamosa and Sterling Illinois while locals buy Scranton hard coal for $18 per ton A bake sale by the Sacred Heart church Indies and a notice about Legion and fair premiums are listed.
Miss Carmene Bancroft and Glad ys Alcorn plan to Iowa City for nurses training while Lincoln Thoeni and John Ross Jr attend the American Legion convention in St Paul. Numerous Monticello and Cedar Rapids figures travel for education, visits, or events including anniversaries and births.
Kent Ohio hosts Davey Tree surgeons from the well known organization for two weeks aiding owners of elm shade trees. Experts who were here eight years ago pruned and treated locals trees and saved many of them from damage.
Miss Lena Bohren and Miss Mabel Helsey left for Cedar Rapids to teach in public schools. Bohren will resume kindergarten teaching and Helsey will teach English at Washington High School. Mrs. Charles Luett, formerly Miss Ruth McNeilly of Springville, is noted for her prior Monticello teaching. A local clothing store plans a new hat for a swelling headed youth named Charlie. A young woman named Mary Lou is identified in the passage.
J L Tetlon, formerly of Monticello, visited friends and now runs a dairy farm near Gay's Mill Wisconsin with his wife. Albert C Comstock and family from Cedar Rapids were in town. he once was a Stone City station agent. Several locals hosted visits and a 79th birthday dinner for B D Haeussler's son John. Chapter PP PEO hosted a picnic at Castle Grove. A missionary talk is planned at the Congregational church. Locker space issues and new clock bells affect Monticello schools. George Shaffer and relatives plan a trip via Zanesville Ohio after Monticello visit. Shaffer once lived here.
A varied city note reports many noncompliant vehicles with one headlight or excessive noise and speed, with motor cops promising warnings and fines. It also covers an auto accident on cemetery hill injuring Ambrose O’Rourke and John Corcoran, and a second crash near Eclipse Lumber Co yard involving John Ross, Louis Ahraken, and a Studebaker and Ford.
Mrs William B Allen dies at Gill Street home after long illness including a paralysis stroke. Born Hannah Emily Allen September 23 1846 in Biddenham England she married William B Allen June 12 1871 at St Marys Cambridge England. They lived in Sydenham Surrey before moving with their daughter to a later residence.
Mrs. Allen and her husband lived in England Kansas and Iowa from 1873 to 1901. They raised five children W J Allen Fontanelle Atlantic Anita Mrs Homer Hanna and Mrs F W Hunter Anamosa plus twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. They celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary June 12 1921 and she remained devoted to the Methodist Episcopal church.
Newton's Variety Store invites boys under 14 from Jones and Delware counties to enter a seed corn contest. Entries must include five ears of the best seed corn grown in 1924 and delivered between October 1 and October 28. Prizes include an American Flyer motor train, a Weeden steam engine, a football, art set, a tool chest, and five jackknives for near matches.
The firm of Drs Seckler and Schoenhut dissolves as Dr Seckler retires due to ill health and need for rest. Dr Caroline Schoenhut will continue the practice in Monticello and asks the public to support her, as she has earned high regard from patients.
William Holub described the National Catholic Charities Conference in Des Moines attended by about four thousand delegates from the United States and Canada. Topics covered include care for the poor and aged, reform of penal institutions, rural to city drift, and boosting Catholic boy leadership through a Notre Dame program.
Monticello residents urged to mark letters air mail via Iowa City. The rate drops to 16 cents per ounce for territory east of Chicago and west of Cheyenne. Air service now saves about twenty four hours for west coast routes. Devlin Millinery advertises attractive ready to wear styles.
Hopkinton Leader notes Monticello residents celebrate the new school building begun this week. The facility, costing $200,000, marks a milestone in community pride and places Monticello among towns with strong school facilities.
In Cedar Rapids Iowa authorities request contact to confirm transgender IDs or related records. Officials seek assistance from residents who have information on issued identifiers and any discrepancies in local records.
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