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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1896
Page
2
Leffler Conley a six year old boy is burned to death inside a burning house. A narrow escape for other family members is reported with a daughter's bravery highlighted in the incident. The Monticello Express notes the horror in Onslow as the tragedy unfolds.
On a Wyoming township farm the Conley family suffered a fatal fire when six year old Leffler Conley perished in the ruins after May Conley and others escaped. May jumped from a bay window with burned feet and a sprained ankle while her siblings fled downstairs. The house was uninsured and a community effort organized to cover losses as Mrs. Conley battles grief.
S R Mackrill shingling his house. Farmers plow season begins. Easter services planned for next Sunday. J J Bender visited Oxford Mills relatives. Luta Niles of Cedar Rapids visiting. James Hall and wife of Center Junction in town. Wm Kilmer and wife from Oxford Mills in town. Mrs J A Bronson home from Omaha visit. Garrison adds summer kitchen with new shingles. Mrs Dr Kirkpatrick and daughter return from Maquoketa. Elizabeth Crawford back from Monticello visit. Mrs John Ernisee hosts visit from Davenport. John Kettlesen returns from Davenport visit. H W Jeffries buys Olin barber shop, to move there soon. Southside Jones residents petition for sidewalk.
Dr. Potter from Maquoketa locates in Amber as farmers begin spring work. Belknap brothers return from Florida. Agnes Jewett visits Strawberry Point. W. F. Lake attends Eureka office in town yesterday. Black Oak school to begin next Monday with Lillian Farragher. Ed Hartman’s wife is dangerously ill. Kathryn Doran begins spring teaching. Mary Farragher at Monticello declamatory contest. Hans Lahn starts as peddler. Farragher also begins wagon work. Ida Stevens arrives from Tennessee for summer visit with sister Mrs. George Frazer.
Miss Aggie Dennison will teach the spring home school. Dave Agnew and John Meelan visit from Buchanan county. Cascade well drillers reach 175 feet at the French's. A social hop at Orrin Snyder's last Friday. John Supple recovers from Cascade runaway injuries. Lizzie Dennison returns to Lenox college after vacation. Jackson county sheriff closes Canton watering place. A co operative creamery to be built east of C. W. McMaster's crossroads. Cascade entry notes safety concerns near the city limits.
SAND SPRING. SAND SPRING, April. 18. W. R. Parrott on sick list. L. E. Ford visited Monticello last Saturday. Chas. Brodst again runs the feed mill. E. M. Chaplin will attend court at Manchester this week. John Horsch and wife were Dubuque visitors last week. Frank Johnson plastering his house this week. Mrs. F. E. Wood Jr. slowly improving after a severe illness. D. Garlinghouse and wife very ill and not better. Farmers begin spring work amid spring fever. Rumor of a young lady to marry next week. cards out. John McDonough’s children recovering from lung fever.
Castle Grove reports include the death of George A. Gill from paralysis at age with funeral at the family home, visits by Monticello residents to Castle Grove, a grain sowing start, a large sale by Martin Englebarts, and a colt of N Kehoe dying after breaking its neck. Also mentions Lulu Laude resuming studies at Lenox college and local illnesses. Lon's advertises Chicago Yeast Powder at 25 cents a pound.
The Thatchers Association outlines its April 4 1896 program at Center Junction Opera House with sessions on reading, text books and library plans. Afternoon talks by D R Perkins Nettie Sleeper Stella Beam and others cover Rural schools reading systems and teacher retention. The St Joseph Herald lampoon contrasts a Chicago Democrat candidate choice with a jacket for a corpse.
The pillion saddle linked churchgoing custom in colonial New England and England, with living memory of Devonshire usage near Dartmoor. A parson’s parable on the marriage supper is cited to show the same social ties to riding and invitation. Also notes Native American seed processing and a brief street-level exchange from the Chicago Record.
A London Letter anecdote recalls a Boer who claimed he was £200 short after an English debtor paid £800 of a £500 debt using a Ready Reckoner. The man said it was last year's edition, and the Boer accepted the explanation. The piece ends with two aphorisms on self-perception and a note on color in animal bones.
In Chicago the story centers on a bachelor who leases bachelor apartments for two years to secure a wife. He marries, redeems his plan, and the couple moves in, forcing the manager to accept them. The bride’s clever action defeats the rule against female residents.
A dirty, small boy with a cigarette stump uses charm to offer wax and windproof matches to a well dressed passerby, selling two boxes for a nickel as part of a crowded local notices page listing land transfers and property deals in multiple townships.
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