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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1911
Page
6
A stream of social calls and travel notes from Anamosa Freeport Manchester Cedar Rapids and nearby towns. Residents Hettie Grady Jessie Matthiessen Ed Howard B J Lightfoot Orrin Breidenthal and others are listed as visiting relatives friends or traveling to cities including Cedar Rapids Chicago Davenport Monticello Waterloo Oklahoma City and Ottumwa during the past week.
Local notice reports Rev Mr Traeger of Basset will preach next Sunday at the German Reformed church. Various notices list residents traveling to see relatives attend funerals or visit friends, plus upcoming millinery openings and church events.
A mix of local updates from Monticello and surrounding towns. Harms returns from Kansas to Princeton. Miricks back from Wisconsin after visiting Irving Mirick. shop changes at the Monticello bank area and Cross Hardware. Barn ey Magee faces rental pause. Mrs. Boss travels to Meirengen for health and weather reports from the Alps. Civic events include a Crees millinery opening and a Christian Endeavor sociable at Castle Grove, plus a barber shop heater incident and a wedding at Wayne church. Reports on Apple harvest, corn fodder, and a note on local farm movements and confirmations at church.
Mrs Carrie Sullivan Palmer, a known Monticello vocalist, will give a complimentary musical recital at the Masonic lodge rooms Friday evening. She will be assisted by Mrs E R Moore, Miss Hackett, and Mr Ballheim. Admission is free, a music lovers’ treat for the community.
Sunday and Sunday evening audiences heard Rev Frederick W Leavitt son of former minister William Leavitt who led the church from 1870 to 1877. William Leavitt died in 1904 aged 75 and lies buried in Ashland Nebraska Emma A Leavitt now 70 in Boothbay Harbor Maine. Frederick heads Franklin Academy in Franklin Nebraska seeking funds and has not visited Monticello since 1882.
A naturalization hearing before Judge Smith featured questions on US presidency and city sizes. The applicant failed to name the president but correctly named New York as the largest city, prompting laughter from Wyoming residents and the courtroom. He was eventually admitted to the republic.
Judge Smith heard several divorce cases last Tuesday but granted relief to only some. Mrs. Oscar D. Smith saw her case continued for more evidence, later obtaining sufficient proof. Thomas Kostick ailed to prove cruelty by his mail order wife, citing sand in his grub, yet the judge required more testimony before granting a divorce.
Miss Anna Balear daughter of Rev and Mrs Balear and Dr Louis H Schultz of Denver Colorado married yesterday afternoon at the bride’s home in Richland Township. The ceremony was in the presence of relatives and neighbors with the father of the bride delivering the vows. The bride had taught in the local schools and at Monticello, later moving to Colorado Springs. The groom, a Denver physician, has a strong practice and frequent consultations with nearby doctors. The couple will reside in Denver.
Mrs. Peter Bell mother of seven children born July 1883 in Troy New York died suddenly last Sunday at her daughter’s home in Marion. She lived in Stirling Illinois Tama County Van Horn and finally Marion where she resided since 1907. Funeral services were conducted by priests from Monticello Marion and Cedar Rapids with interment at Kenwood Park Cemetery. Peter Bell and family of Monticello attended.
The Monticello Express notes Rev J W Davis began Congregational church work on Sept 6 with his family arriving weeks later due to a ill daughter. A Jones County Fair opening Sept 2 reports improvements including a picket fence and arched entrances.
The Monticello Iowa city council invites written bids for street and alley lighting power and hose houses and calaboose. Bids cover one year and five year terms for incandescent and Tungsten lights including clusters of one hundred candle power. Bids due by 8 p.m. on the first Tuesday in October 1911.
Landon Taylor the Black Hand suspect sits in jail awaiting grand jury action in Wyoming township. He may disclose more about the affair while authorities gather evidence for a federal case. In Dubuque several suspects received letters and a bomb was exploded at the Mulholland residence, with police trapping the sender through decoys.
A roll of students attending various institutions lists names by school and city including State University Iowa City Mark Bateman Jacob Carmichael Paul Baliar Iowa State College Ames Frank Dautremont Lowell Hicks Cornel College Mt Vernon Blanche Hunter Blanche Fairbanks Minnie Grunenwald Gladys Smith Don OoHege Cedar Rapids Starriet Hall Alice Margaret Delacher Yale New Haven Verdon Welch Harvard Cambridge Roy Peterson Wisconsin Madison Russell Stuhler Iola George Sinsinawa Mound May Nogan Mount St Josephs Dubuque Mazie Meyer Esther McAleer Stella Berdina McNamara State Normal Cedar Falls Kitta Campbell Northwestern Evanston Fay Clark Chicago University Halstead Carpenter Moody Institute Chicago M Ethel George
Farm of 240 acres in Taylor township sections 4 and 9 will be sold to the highest bidder starting at 1 pm on September 80 1911. Located 1.34 miles east of Farley and 2 miles west of Epworth along the Delhi road. Property includes a good house barn other buildings cistern and a spring branch running through. Terms disclosed sale day. 1212 CHAS L KAY SR proprietor. Dr Richman auditor. The Corset Store Deutrick's. Subscriptions for German and English papers at D E Ponds office over the Lowell State Bank. Sweaters at Burrichter’s. Dr Puleston cures ruptures by fidelity method with no pain or work interruption. 36tf
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