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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1912
Page
7
Martin Kehoe visits Chicago early in the week while Miss Susie McMahon spends Sunday with friends in Anamosa. Numerous travelers visit Monticello from Cedar Rapids and Wyoming, and Dr. Deutrick's advertising features appear amid fall millinery openings and stove repairs offered by Cross Hardware.
Wilson and his son Late from Texas visited the Henry George home. Mrs Thoeni returned from Minneapolis after three weeks with her daughters. Mr and Mrs Webster of Council Bluffs attended Mrs Volney Webster’s funeral in Monticello. Mrs Mardorf and daughter Mary visited St Paul to see the former’s son Reverend Mardorf.
The Camp Fire girls of the Congregational church will conduct a monthly food sale with advance orders at Newton's. Mrs K Thomas and her children, visiting Keystone family, stay with Monticello friends. Peter Smith served as lay delegate for the local Presbyterian church at the recent Mechanicsville Presbytery session. Naniss and John Fluckiger named administrators of the late Elizabeth Fluckiger estate.
Dr Redmond and others noted visitors in Monticello including Mrs George Schoonover Edna from Hettinger ND and Rev W Z Allen returning from Pennsylvania. Local residents sold property and varied announcements from theater schedules autos to frost observed October 1.
Sunday evening at the Congregational Church features a varied program directed by Misa Moore with a large chorus. The event invites the entire community to attend and enjoy an engaging musical evening.
In The Express office E. J. Lightfoot praises the want column saying it produced a dozen inquiries for his second hand hard coal stove on first use and continues to bring requests after the sale.
The Methodist Episcopal women announce an annual chicken pie supper and sale at the church. The sale begins at 2 39 p m on Wednesday October 2 and the supper will be served from 6 to 8 p m. All are invited.
John Bohlken Will Beh rends Gerd Graft and John G Bohlken traveled to North Dakota last Monday to visit John Heeren’s family near Halstad Minnesota thirty miles north of Fargo. Henry Carlson of Monticello State Bank is on a two week vacation after planning Montana mountains, but snow three feet there may send him elsewhere. He returned to Clinton last Saturday evening.
Dr J E Gilmore plans to sell his Syc amore Street residence to Frank Ferring after living there twenty one years He and his son consider moving to Iowa or Grattan West Virginia Rev Roy V Porter of the M E Church is in Marshalltown for Upper Iowa Conference No preaching next Sunday The Graystark story play comes to the opera house October 8 by a guaranteed company Readers are urged to buy the 60 cent edition at Stickford's The corn canning factory will finish its season tonight or tomorrow It has canned about 40 000 cases and nearly a million cans despite low prices Ohio and Indiana output is down The James Van Voltenburg home fire alarm prompted quick response but no apparatus use The fire team swerved to avoid a car and struck the post office fountain The district court heard William Wink vs Edward Osborne with a verdict of 650 for the plaintiff I will occupy this building one more week and offer the entire stock Patrick jeweler announces clearance sale Mr and Mrs Jacob Matthiessen celebrate twenty fifth wedding anniversary with a luncheon and dancing by the Yossy orchestra
Andrew Bacon J N Peterson and Ben Holmes are laid up with hand injury carbuncle and wrist wound from factory work Esther Burrichter celebrated her eleventh birthday with nineteen guests, while James A McNeal and Co advertise jewelry. In naturalization a small class approved while four Italians and Greeks were refused for lack of harmony with US laws and customs.
Dr. Guthrie of Wyoming lost an injunction suit against the city over a sidewalk dispute and then sued the man who bought the sidewalk from the city. A trial yesterday directed a verdict for the defendant, ruling Guthrie had no valid claim or sued the wrong party. He left the court room still ready to fight.
Beginning Saturday September 14 the New Princess Theater will open on Saturdays at 3 p m for two complete shows. Matinees aim to accommodate all patrons especially country visitors who cannot stay for night performances.
The article notes that many streets’ dust-control by oil shifts heavy expense to adjoining property owners and some towns like Cedar Rapids and Bellevue see the city bear part of the cost. It urges residents who benefit to fund a larger share while cities continue to sponsor where workable.
Items from The Express record Monticello events in September 1872 including marriages, deaths from typhoid, prices for wheat and corn, new gallery nearing completion, a raised bell at the Congregational church, and political activity with a Grant and Wilson club and a fusion convention nominating a ticket.
Marcella Britting reports on a busy period at the high school. The eighth grade returns, basketball grows, domestic science begins sewing, seniors and sophomores win a class game, and a tramp-sowell picnic is planned Friday. Graduates return for post grad study as the chorus expands and flies disrupt recitations. Johnny misnames New York state manufacturing, freshmen settle in assembly, and class colors debate as a literature reading ends with a reflective line.
The Music Lovers club has organized four entertainments for the season. Performers include The Price Company The Ernest Gamble Concert Co Robert O Bowman in character portrayals and The Davault Company. Season tickets cost 1 dollar 50 cents with 75 cents for school children, available from club members. The first show is Friday evening October 4. Charles Fairbanks and his sister Mrs Clarence Thomas returned from North Dakota last Thursday reporting strong crop yields with oats up to 100 bushels per acre and wheat and flax also above average. Rev H E Wilcox of Wyoming visited town last Friday en route to Reinbeck then Marshalltown conference. after five years in Wyoming he expects a church assignment elsewhere.
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