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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1899
Page
7
Monticello area reports illness of Mr Wm Allen Sr and Mr John Rueger. Local shops feature ribbons laces and deatrick's goods with spring styles. A child dies aged five weeks, drownings reported in Madison township, and farmers move to town. Various ads for hats carpets butter vegetables and millinery showings.
Local notes report Rev D H Staebler and family visiting in Hopkinton this week. Model Grocery offers California Blood Oranges and fresh strawberries while Petcina's advertises potatoes and strawberries. Baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Fritz Husmann of Castle Grove last Saturday. Mayor Farwell visited Sioux City to see his daughter Mrs Smith and son Sewell. The Forty-ninth regiment receives two months extra pay upon discharge. W. G. George ships fine draft horses to Chicago. Millinery, dress goods, and corsets advertised by local shops.
Social visits include Miss Mabel Lawrence and Miss Mollie Grassmeyer in Cascade. Edgar Smith’s wedding in dependence draws J. J. Smiths. A gun club expects 25 to 30 out of town marksmen for tomorrow’s tournament. Opera company to perform Martha on April 18. County treasurer Waite notes tax rush at end of March. Local marriages, theft scare, and a mother goose party with a grand opera tease appear in society items.
Mrs E G Drury visited as a Marién guest while Perry Buxton of Wheatland stayed in town with relatives. Mrs Hoffman of Belmond Iowa and Hiram Seeley of Oxford Mills are noted with Seeley to be taken to an asylum. A millinery department and a saloon lawsuit are mentioned along with a plasterer charged with incest and a hospital update from Camp Columbia. Concert plans, a marriage notice, and local business ads close the item.
Executor James B Smith announces the sale of a 180 acre farm in Castle Grove township. Possession available March 1 1900. Open offers invited at his Monticello office.
The April 3 1899 council session notes the board of equalization meeting with members Young Suter Schoonover Bohiken Hoag the mayor and clerk. A resolution to raise assessed values lists numerous individuals and properties with revised ranges and includes personal property and real estate adjustments. The board set April 13 1899 at 9 am for parties to appear and show cause before the city hall and adjourned after unanimous votes.
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