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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1905
Page
5
Local items note Miss Carrie Clark visiting Anamosa and Mrs. George Lovell returning from Chicago. Reports mention new carpets, lace curtains, dress goods, millinery openings, chocolates, crackers, and Ferndell coffee promotions. A boat found on Maquoketa river owner to claim. warnings about windbreak planting and an upcoming Missouri Girl production.
Misses Mabel Heisey and Ramona French visit Dubuque. Hoyt's nursery peddles large evergreen stocks and cheap steel tanks. Davis Hardware runs a sale on tanks and plaster. The Missouri Girl play comes to Monticello April 11 with strong scenery and laughs.
Monticello announces a K of P special meeting for the second degree. Local events include bakery expansion at Haeussler market, Mrs. Burnside relocating, and a street corner sermon prank. Library board staff changes, school calendar, teacher elections, and a lecture by Rev Mackintosh are noted along with tax assessment adjustments and public notices.
A pleasing performance by a competent company of one of the season's best written comedies titled The Missouri Girl played at the Third Avenue theater last night according to the New York Telegram. The local Meat Producers' association will meet at city hall next Saturday afternoon. D. H. Smith presides over the branch with George as secretary and James Hogan as treasurer.
The late H. C. Wills dry goods store will open for trade on Saturday, April 8, or earlier if stock is sold. The stock is fine and many new items have been unpacked inviting bargains for ladies. Theodore P. Shonts, now Panama canal commission chair at 80000 yearly, is Eva Marshall Shantz’s brother who gave a temperance lecture in Monticello. The Missouri Girl is a bright rural comedy depicting Ozark life with a strong moral, akin to Old Homestead and Way Down East, and endorsed by the press nationwide.
Louis Van Buren son of Rev and Mrs W E Van Buren married Edna Freeman at the bride’s parents home near Farley. Ceremony performed by the groom’s father. They plan to reside in Wisconsin and are described as a worthy couple with bright prospects and happiness wished.
The Monticello library reports expenditures for the year ending March 31, noting items such as heat 172 28 and salaries 360 00 with a balance of 28 20. Also covered are a Butter Makers Association meeting in Monticello with awards and speakers from Mason City and state officials.
Mrs Pauline A. Hosford aged 85 years 6 months 28 days died after seven weeks illness from grip congestion lungs and stroke at Monticello Iowa funeral at Congregational church conducted by Rev A M Breed last Tuesday She was born Sept 8 1810 in South Canaan Connecticut and lived in Johnstown Trumbull County Ohio before moving to Monticello in 1863 Survived by four of eight children Orlando Alonzo C W Hosford and Mrs C Curtis and a sister Mrs Robert Henderson Sr Her life centered on home and faith and five years ago she lived with her son Cecil
Mr August Schlimme of Richland township died at his daughter Mrs Minnie Eggers home in Monticello after a brief illness aged 82 years 3 months and 22 days. He was born December 9 1822 in Gertz Holstein Germany and came to America at 38. He lived in New Orleans Davenport Lyons Bryant Clinton county before moving to Jones county 22 years ago. Survived by children Mia Minnie Eggers Augusta Ladehoft Augist Schlimme Henry Schlimme Louis Schlimme and Fred Schlimme. Funeral was held last Sunday in Bryant Clinton county and he rests in the family cemetery with his mother wife and three children.
Announcement of Miss Marvin resigning as librarian of the public library. Report covers June 1, 1900 to April 1, 1905 with statistics: 2611 books, 500 repaired, total circulation 16789, average daily 64, fiction 66, 10726 visitors, 842 borrowers, 2 talks, 4 classes, 1 club, 14 reference lists, $32.77 overdue cash, $16.50 non resident card cash. March report shows 2140 issues and 1417 reading room visitors.
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