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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
7
Last Friday and over the weekend numerous people are noted visiting relatives and towns including Lydia Bader Bidwell and Mrs. Henry Rickels in Dixon and Cedar Rapids. Others travel to Anamosa Garner Hopkinton Monticello Lawler and Oelwein with mentions of birthdays sales and auctions forthcoming.
Monticello notes list visits and guests including Miss Lucy Tucker in Anamosa and Miss Catherine Lovell near last Friday. It mentions Presbytery meetings in Cedar Rapids and multiple visits to Cedar Rapids, Marion, Edgewood, Farley, and Chicago, with arrivals, departures, and hospitalities from numerous families and individuals.
The Maquoketa area buzzes over state fish commissioner plantings in the Maquoketa River a year ago with no sightings or reports. Local affairs detail hospital training for Dr Colin Thomas and roadwork at Kitty Creek cemetery. Community lives, travel, illness and wedding notes fill the page.
Ben Starks suffering heart trouble was not dead last Friday despite rumors. Friends hope for improvement while he remains in poor condition. Naturalization granted to Henrich G Tjaden and Herman D Tjaden after a strong exam. City installs a five light electrolier at Beery corner to encourage more fixtures along the business street.
Rev and Mrs Edward Lang visited in the home of his father H J Lang last Tuesday while returning from the Methodist Episcopal church conference at Waterloo. Lang has been stationed at West Branch for several years but will be moved to Miles Iowa for the coming year.
On the tenth Wednesday the coupling of New ton E Ireland and Miss Mattie I Howard took place in the Onslow parsonage officiated by Rev. S B McClelland. The couple plan their home with the good wishes of many friends. The piece also notes the Dare Devil Casterline died in an airplane accident after performing looping the loop at the Jones County fair in Monticello and mentions his summer message about taking up flying.
Dr. D. P. Breed of Grinnell and his brother Rev. M A Breed visited last Sunday and preached two sermons at the Congregational church. They left Monday morning for Decorah to attend the Congregational Association meeting for the district.
The Presby terian church voted to extend a call to Rev W F Allen of Reinbeck last Thursday. Rumor says he may accept or pursue pastoral work in Los Angeles. A Milton Byerly farm in Jackson township sold for 160 dollars per acre, up from 60 three decades earlier, illustrating rising farm values. Mrs Frank Rider, sister of James Howie, is seriously ill in Wyoming with stomach ulcer requiring surgery in Douglas. Reuben Hubbard enters Iowa State College at Ames for a four year course after a baggage mix up with a young lady’s trunk. In Anamosa trial, Spertz Bros. vs CO M St P Ry Co settled for 60 dollars over delayed hog shipment to Chicago. William Lehne returns to Monticello after Mayo Clinic procedure reduces diseased flesh. he now walks without aid.
The first entertainment in the public library course will be at the Presbyterian church on Tuesday evening October 3. The Fraternity Glee Club billed as the jolly entertainers provides a short program under Redpath-Slayton Chicago. Their music spans classics and popular tunes with humor and lively encores. The Express has declined local dry goods ads despite Monticello’s strong stock and competitive prices versus Chicago.
The Cedar Rapids line freight train struck an accident at the Fourth street crossing in Anamosa last Friday afternoon, throwing loaded cars off the track. The cars blocked the line for nearly a day, delaying mails and transfers between No 21 and Cedar Rapids, with passengers and mail rerouted to Farley and back.
Landon Taylor nicknamed the Black Hand faced a grand jury indictment for threats to extort from W. W. Eye of Wyoming township. He was captured by federal agents, surrendered to U S marshal Mike Healy, and bound over by a Cedar Rapids United States commissioner to the federal grand jury for using the mails to extort money. He may face two prison sentences based on the evidence.
George Pfeil fell from a thirty foot silo on his George Pfeil farm two and a half miles north of Prairieburg last Friday afternoon. He landed on a cutting machine beneath and sustained severe injuries including a torn left ear, scalp, broken rib, deep cuts to the left hand, and a fractured leg bone. He is improving rapidly as expected.
Dennis Connally and his mother were in a buggy when Dr Albery’s buggy and a horseman named Carl Sand House collided in the dark last Friday night. The boy suffered a four inch gouge to the leg and a thigh wound. Dr IT M Redmond treated the injury. Mrs Connally was frightened but uninjured.
Rudolph Bohren sends a letter from Grindelwald dated Sept 1 detailing a Switzer land party leaving Monticello August 12 and sailing August 16 aboard the Cunard 8 8 Campania. He praises the English crew and describes engine room power, dock concerts, and Marconi news, then travels via Fishguard Dover Intolaken Davos to Grindelwald and the Jungfrau tunnel. He notes strawberry crops, sheep from America, Swiss rail deals, and his longing for his new home in town.
Miss Vera Content Smith and Fred Kempf married at four yesterday afternoon in Madison township home of the bride’s parents. Rev R A Brough officiated in the presence of relatives and close friends. The bride, Cornell Conservatory of Music graduate, taught in Miles City Montana and is Monticello high school alumna. The groom, in the drug business at Oklahoma City, is connected to Northwestern University’s Pharmaceutical department and is described as a successful businessman. He is the son of longtime Man residents A Kempf.
A Friday evening recital in Masonic lodge rooms featured Mrs. J R Moore Miss Nellie Hackett Mrs Palmer Anamosa and Miss Mary Jewett Cedar Rapids with Mr Ballheim Cedar Rapids on violin. The program included Sayings "To My First Love" "A Perfect Day" and "Ava Maria" plus "Humoresque" and a sweet duet "Love Shou" by Pinsuti.
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