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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1917
Page
8
The Monticello Express issue with J W Doxsee and Ch A Doxsee as editors and proprietors. Printing firm details and local notices accompany the newspaper masthead.
In Wyoming October reports show farmers filling silos for abundant feed with about 22 silos in the township. A fire destroyed the Pegerick farm near town. efforts failed to save contents as neighbors aided. Community concerns rise over crop stealer activity and road improvements advance before season end.
Center Junction notices include Mrs Beals thanking Presbyterian Working Band for a farewell souvenir on her move to Kenwood Park and best wishes for the group. The Junior League held a farewell for Richard and Cora Davis at Mrs Propst home. The Beals family moved to Kenwood Park Friday, wished well by the community. Mrs Olimer Henderson of Belle Fourche arrives for a few weeks visit with her son Mr Mack Sinkey. Mrs George Kelley and children of Cedar Rapids visit Mr and Mrs Joseph Leggett. Further items note Forest Craig family activities.
Sand Spring residents share visits and callers from Hopkinton Monticello and Cedar Rapids. Local families attend funerals and host guests while others travel for shopping and work.
The Presbytery meeting at Blairstown elected F. M. Benedict and Rev. H Irvine as Cedar Rapids district delegates for the Ames gathering next month. A young son of Edward Miller suffered a hand injury from an oil can incident. Miss Bessie Harken and Master James McLaughlin had minor operations in Monticello. Mr. and Mrs. Marl Carson moved to a farm near Manchester. Corn work and silo filling occupy farmers. S M Hosford sold hogs to Hopkinton buyers at 18 per cwt.
A Monticello chapter reports progress toward an October 31 quota of 75 knitted sets for soldiers. Instructions stress no sale of Red Cross items and practical knit standards, while critics note a national alert about improper distribution and calls for continued support from volunteers.
Albert Schneider reports on the opening of basketball practice and a lively run of high school happenings. Students and teachers share humor from temperaments to seven wonders of senior life, with faculty in a dinner party and a stray auto-car tale ending in a horse ride to school.
Pastor of Sacred Heart church, Rev George Hauck, leaves for Milwaukee Wisconsin for a month long vacation, returning in early next month with plans to resume parish duties.
A Sibley Tribune report praises the selective draft for leveling opportunity from rich and poor. A camp letter describes a bunkmate with 8,000 acres who must drill and work as hard as any recruit.
One Certainty voiced by Mitchell Republicans that no organization or person can gain favor in the United States unless animated by genuine and unflagging patriotism at all times.
Springfield Republican notes Germany’s reply to postwar terms, asking for a legal title to seized assets before accepting a treaty. The statement frames Germany as offering compliance only after ownership is legitimized through formal title.
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