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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1921
Page
2
Local residents from Center Junction report frquent visits to Anamosa Monticello and Cedar Rapids areas. Many socialize at church events and plan family trips to Florida while updates note nursing and hospital stays.
The Castle Grove farm bureau plans a September meeting with songs recitations and talks by local residents. Farmers Insurance directors approve a barn loss claim for J. B. Hauken and note sufficient year funds. Seven carloads of cattle bound for Chicago, with prices around eight dollars per hundred pounds, and local officials discuss road work settlements.
Mr and Mrs WLW Lawrence of a Monticello farm plan a Te year ahead visit. Mrs Huggins and two children from near Hopkinton stayed with Mr and Mrs A Olmsted. Margaret Greer teaching in Strawh Poetit visited relatives. Several families from Barlville Delhi and Quasqueton were guests at local homes and attended events incl. an American Legion picnic.
In Scotch Grove on September 14 Mr Lee Hutton and Miss Wilson of Excelsior Minnesota planned a ceremony but left soon after arriving in Saot Auto amid rain ridden roads. Mutton neighbors extend wishes as the couple stays briefly at the Sinclair cottage Lange's Mill Mrs Charles Fisher of McCook Nebraska visits nearby friends.
The passage records several relatives traveling and visiting across towns. It mentions Mrs M M Sinclair and L 74 Hutton, a trip on Wednesday to Tarido Missouri, and visits by Mr Arthur Timebaugh family from Thopiinton and I L Himebaugh family from Center Junction. Mrs John Edwards of Green Island Nebraska visits in Mrs Lewis Wright’s home.
In Prairieburg on September 19 Mrs. Joe Bebec and Miss Marcella Bracelin travel to Waterloo for the funeral of their nephew Clarence Bebee who died in combat. The body was sent home for burial as local services are arranged by Dudley Dean and Frank Stock at the Mt. Peet building.
The Rev J Milton Winkle begins as pastor of the Methodist church in Bovrinton, joining the Leader family and meeting members. Also reported are a September 10 wedding of Florence Hill to Irvin Rhoades performed by Dr Joe Hinkheeuse, and local notes on a telephone line expansion and business sale. A near accident involving Waldo Blanchard’s son and a Sand Spring driver Messerli prompted safety reminders for children in traffic on Saturdays.
The September term of four promises to be heavy with new cases as two students depart for colleges and an engineer surveys a proposed sewage disposal plant. Also revealed is the belated public announcement of Miss Josephine Sheean and Frank Raymond Beels marriage from 1907 after fourteen years.
Iowa State College Farm Crops reports rye performs best as a green manure pasture or cover crop, with rapid fall growth on most soils and stronger hardiness than winter wheat. Six to seven weeks of grain seeding between September 1 and 20 yields results, earlier planting boosts pasture growth, Rosen rye shows strong Iowa results, and demand for the grain remains small.
Jones county Iowa supervisors meet with Streeper as chairman and approve highway changes and appraisals. They establish sections, award damages, approve road work funding and adjourn to late August with notices of hearings and contracts. County auditor Lee Van Kirk records docket and bonds.
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