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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1913
Page
9
Mrs. H. M. Carpenter visits Cedar Rapids today while Edgar Hubbard purchases a new car. Numerous residents travel for business, visits, shopping, and family occasions across Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Monticello, Hopkinton, Independence, Anamosa, Dubuque, Traer, Farley, and other nearby towns.
Local notes record visits by Mr. and Mrs. J C Kehoe of Farley and Howard Hicks of Dubuque. County officials and neighbors gather for weddings, funerals, and house moves while theaters promote Balmer’s Kaffir Boys choir and fall millinery openings.
A farm team bolted on First Street near the railroad yard with no driver. About a dozen men tried to stop it before turning onto North Cedar Street, and another dozen afterward. Lew Lawrence courageously stepped in front of the galloping horses and brought them to a stop with a plow. No damage occurred.
Wm Heeren calls in old Siebels Heeren accounts after dissolution. Rev Roy V Porter left for Tipton for church conference so no Methodist sermon next Sunday. Elmer Noble and M Hosford return from Chicago with cattle and hog sales. Monticello high school football hosts Manchester next Saturday in the park to help expenses. Acknowledgments from 1312 A G Hanken. Davenport conductor Henry Higgins improving after illness. Iowa associations growing in the West with a large Iowa picnic in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Gurney Seed & Nursery Co seeks 400 lb hazel nuts seed. youths may earn money picking nuts. KE Ramsey opens new bakery on First Street in Stirton building today. Miss Ethel Magee wins a Schaefer piano in district contest. Mrs Lizzie Herrington and children visit Mr and Mrs William Dale for Mrs Dale's 58th birthday with Hazel Green friends.
A Hopkinton fruit grower offered grapes at 4 cents per pound on the vines. Nearby farmers near Monticello quote 3 cents per pound for delivered fruit. In Dubuque growers retail grapes at 11 to 21 cents per pound.
Roy Farwell and Miss Belle Farwell from Freeport arrived by car yesterday to await kinder weather. Bert Hubbard returned from a South and North Dakota trip and bought three carloads of young stock for $40 per yearling and $60 for two year olds. Rev. W. Z. Allen attended Cedar Rapids duties and plans a lecture for Amber farmers Saturday evening. The Hopkinton Embroidery Club hosted a surprise luncheon at Mrs. C. L. Main’s home with numerous attendees. Friday night’s rain gave way to cold northerlies and frost by Monday. John W. Livingstone sold the Center Junction 240 acre farm, 70 acres to Moncrief Bros at $140 per acre and 170 acres with buildings to J. F. Livingstone at $150 per acre. total price $12,000 above three years prior. O S Soetje held a pencil guessing contest in his store window. 1712 total pencils. Top guesses of 1700 split 72 pencils among Mrs. Tom George and W. H. Lambert. others won smaller prizes.
Clerk Fisher issued marriage licenses for Nei man Moore to Cath erine Ambuehl both of Monticello and James McAleer to Fannie Locher also of Monticello. James Rhatigan wed Ester Rogers of Prairieburg, and other couples include Marion Money penny of Olin to Jessie Brown of Wyoming and Walter Larsen of Alber nette to Anna Thompson. The Jones County Fair at Monticello last week of August enjoyed financial success with about 2000 dollars in surplus. The fair, started with paid up capital and no debt, remains debt free and financially sound.
Time to refresh the home with new curtains and rugs. See Dou trick's for ideas and products to brighten living spaces and simplify cleaning routines.
Tickets for the annual leiture and entertainment course in Monticello advance well as local clubs push support. The effort aims to secure top talent with fundraising by ticket sales as the community responds to good wholesome entertainment. A baggage track near the station collision caused by a mail car incident from Cedar Rapids produced a crash moment but no injuries.
The Rev. J. S. Eberhart, senior member of the Upper Town Conference, is slowly recovering from a second paralytic stroke suffered last after Day. He and his wife left Seattle, staying with their son in Austin, Minnesota. A winter residence in the South will be necessary due to his frail health and intolerance to northern cold.
Miss Katie Ambuehl wed Nieman Moore at her parents home with Rev. Roland Kuentzel officiating in Monticello vicinity. A second ceremony united Miss Fannie Locher and Mr. James McAleer at the Church of the Sacred Heart. Henry Abraken died at his son’s home aged 77. funeral by Rev. Wm. d H. L. Schuetz with burial beside St. John's Lutheran. Survived by son Henry Abraken and daughter Mrs. Henry Schlemmepp.
A mail bag of about 40 pounds and another sack from Maquoketa were stolen overnight in Davenport. The Maquoketa mail was recovered downstream cut open and rifled. Monticello letters partly recovered. the Monticello sack remains missing. Post office detectives seek the thief amid easy river-side escape.
Robert Quirk of Waterloo died from injuries after falling beneath a cattle train of the Chicago Great Western Railway in Chicago while transporting stock. He was about sixty, survived by his wife and three children, and had lived in Cascade and Dubuque before moving to Waterloo three years ago. His death follows a life spent on farms and in cattle business across Iowa and Illinois, with ties to Monticello and the Sand Spring region.
The district court reveals five days of grand jury work resulting in 12 indictments some not yet public as arrests await band warrants. Indicted include Bench Powell for larceny of fur from Jones County fair and Walter Blink and Gladys Coppess for lewdness. Blink and Gladys fined 140 and 100 dollars respectively. defaults carry jail time. Other cases cover bootlegging, seduction, quarry disputes, and numerous civil actions with settlements, dismissals, or judgments.
In Wyoming a humorous incident unfolded when Wood and Stone encountered a woman in a tight skirt. The pair reportedly turned to rubber after the exchange, prompting local amused chatter.
Conn Welch a farmer recently moved to Garryowen hanged himself last Sunday using a halter tied to the stair banister after sending his two children on an errand. He was well known throughout Jackson county.
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