This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 19 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1916
Page
7
Cedar Rapids visitors and relatives figure in a long list of social calls across Anamosa and nearby towns. The report notes engagements, family visits, teaching assignments, and theater notices including The Missouri Girl play at Kettlitar & Kay's.
Social notes report visits by Mr. and Mrs. Coykendall and others to friends in Strawberry Point Anamosa Cedar Rapids and Monticello The Missouri Girl show advertised seats on sale at Kettlitz and Kays paving on First street completed births and farm travels are noted Inter-Synodical conference in Waterloo business move to Monticello and hospital grounds tours frost and medical treatment in Iowa City travel by automobile to Alliance Nebraska and California plus election campaign hints
Friday night event invites the public to a Talent social at the Congregational church with reports from participants on their talents, free admission, and sales of ice cream and candy. A note warns against canvassers and a barn ad with the line Not Wanted.
The First street sewer project extends to the hospital site. To fit the new survey the brow of the hill sewer must be lowered with the deepest point reaching 9 feet 3 inches below street level.
Rev and Mrs J H Barr attend the Upper Iowa conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in Waterloo. No preaching services will be held at the local church next Sunday. Trustees have sent a letter to the conference requesting Mr Barr be returned to Monticello.
Miss Katherine Husmann daughter of Mr and Mrs Willie Husmann Langworthy will marry Gerhard Dirks son of Mr and Mrs Diedrich Dirks today. Rev Conrad Mardorf will conduct the ceremony at the bride’s parents home. Refreshments follow and a wedding dance is planned this evening. The couple will reside on a farm.
A police drive last Sunday captured thirteen violators while last year’s effort urged drivers to slow down. Esther Cheshire, 14, is quarantined with infantile paralysis, treated by Iowa City and Marshalltown doctors alongside local staff. Thomas L. Warner married Bessie Leaper at Anamosa. they will live in Monticello as Warner works at a garage. A new pension bill expands widow benefits for soldiers’ widows married by 1905 and raises some pensions to 20 dollars for those 70 and older. Also noted are a Leadville miner’s letter about ore quality improving, and several marriage licenses issued in the district. A Kellum trial resulted in a not guilty verdict after alleging it was a fire chief clearing decks during a fire.
Andrew Kasper sold the remaining Jacobs farm tract of 150 acres to Fred Plueger at 210 dollars per acre. He had earlier sold 70 acres of the 220 acre farm to another buyer. Kasper originally paid 175 dollars per acre three years ago, a price now seen as part of rising local farm values in Jones county.
A De Garmo, claim agent for the C M St P Ry Co, fell while attempting to board a train between Monticello and Langworthy last Friday. He was rushed to Cedar Rapids, where doctors found a dislocated left shoulder a deep head cut and a wrenched back. He remained unconscious for hours.
A new roof is being installed at the Congregational church under S P Neilly to remove metal gutters and allow water drainage, reducing ceiling stains from ice and snow. Ingwald Rudolph Barney aged three died at Proctor Colorado from bowel inflammation after illness, born Lovell township April 8 1913 and later moved to Proctor with parents. Funeral services and burial were at Proctor. Mrs Barney is daughter of Mr and Mrs Andreas Ambuebl.
The Monticello fuel situation is growing urgent as fall shipments fall behind schedule. Fuel dealers report a monthly shortage and railroads lack equipment and workers to move what is available, with mines also short on cars. The nationwide labor scarcity compounds the problem.
Excavation for the McDonald hospital foundation is finished and workmen lay the base. A Monticello visitor, a prominent engineer, congratulated the Monticello State Bank trustees on selecting Newman C Co of Des Moines as hospital contractors. He cited two previous summer projects as evidence they are on the square.
A straw stack within twenty feet of the barn caught fire on Sunday at Walter Hall’s Lovell township farm. Neighbors rushed to help but lacked firefighting gear. Monticello was called. Volunteers arrived with ladders and buckets, keeping the barn wet and saving it from fire while the straw burned. Dr. L. G. Stubler offered eyes tests and glasses fittings.
Tom Wilder, president of the Iowa Mercantile Co., is under arrest on a warrant issued by Justice Harvey of Anamosa for obtaining property under false pretenses. He was arrested in Cedar Rapids and is in the Jones county jail awaiting examination, with no bond posted. Residents in Delaware and Dubuque counties say complaints will be made to their grand juries over alleged misrepresentations.
Visitor Miss Fraser and Fayette student Victor Servoss joined the sophomore class while juniors enjoyed a Clark's Grove picnic. Riess Stuhler visited classes. Cedar Rapids Miss Mary Walker came Thursday. Students remark on boy cap fashions and risky boat rides at the senior picnic. Two seniors walked miles for water and plan longer walks. the program is settled. Some seniors worry about many algebra lessons in the forenoon. A Latin exchange with a junior yields a playful remark. A senior sailor fell into the river after bragging. Basketball candidates were called for the 1916-17 season with coach Begulin, practice set to begin.
Mr and Mrs W A Rosa along with Mrs D B Pond visit Monticello friends and plan wintering in California at the home of Mr and Mrs Jerome Mc Mahon Mrs Pond to return in early spring Miss Stirton and companions in a car accident near Anamosa with minor injuries and about 100 dollars damage Marie Kaiser stages a tone test recital with Hoison records at the opera house Joseph Kehoe dies at 54 in Castle Grove Township inscribed burial at Castle Grove Catholic Cemetery Jacob Rohr Jr judged insane sent to state hospital for care.
A large Monticello crowd attended Dairy Day with lectures by H. B Estes and W. G. Barney. Cattle on display included Shorthorns Herefords and Holsteins as experts advised on milking quality and herd improvement. Barney urged continued Iowa dairy expansion and modern home-farm comforts to keep youth on the farm.
The Jones County rural schools report fall term in session. County Superintendent Kate Maurice says attendance is up to the rural average with smooth work. Listed teachers include Lovell district staff and names for Castle Grove Richland Rome Scotch Grove Black Oak Wayne and other locales.
Improved 160 acre farm twelve miles west of Monticello with good soil. Small down payment and long time balance at low interest. Ideal for a buyer with limited means seeking a home. R O Stirton appears as contact in a 1lw2 listing.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.