Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1915 — MONTICELLO DOINGS OF INTEREST HERE [ARTICLE]

MONTICELLO DOINGS OF INTEREST HERE

Paragraphs Clipped or Briefed From The Journal —Free Picture Shaw For the Children. Monticello Red Men are always doing something. This time they are going to give free picture shows to all the Children in Monticello between the ages of 2 and 14 years. The shows will be Friday. The Matthews theatre will be open from 2 to 6 and the Majedtic from 6 until time to go to the Christmas trees. Special attractions have been provided and it is all a Red Men’s treat. A band concert and motion picture show Monday evening for the benefit of the municipal Christmas tree did not draw very well and the receipts were a disappointment. Another entertainment is to be given thus Wednesday evening, for the same purpose. It is by the Precier Concert Co. Hugh Steele and wife, formerly of Monticello, will this month prove up on a 320-acre claim near Glasgow, Mont. Mr. Steele has written back that there are still plenty of homes for gritty people who will come there and stick to the finish. Mrs. Mabel O’Connor and Miss Nina Malone, of Monticello, are now at Miami, Fla., after visiting many interesting points enroute, including the Chicamauga battlefield. Monticello schools will close Thursday evening and reopen Monday, Jan. 3rd. Most of the district schools will close Friday evening and open the 3rd of January. Ed Thacker gets off the following in his “Colyum:”

“Somehow we feel these winter mornings, when the kivers fit around us sntfg and tight, that there is more music in the hum of our neighbor’s lawnmower as-a help to early rising than there is in an alarm clock.”