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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1910
Page
2
A new girl draws attention at the Reade home while Wyoming residents report travels and visits. Local events include band concerts, cemetery association elections, town council appointments, and a mayor celebrated for seven years in office. Lectures by Orchard and Leeds mark a successful season, with church and Sunday School activities ongoing.
A fragment lists church officials including assistant secretary Robert Alden treasurer Miss Minnie Wilker and organist Miss Alice Kirkpatrick. The incomplete text offers only partial names and roles for the congregation’s leadership.
In Prairieburg on Friday Mrs. Dave Church of Coggon visits between trains. A teachers meeting is announced in Coggon for April 9. Numerous residents and guests travel from Anamosa Dubuque and Monticello. A marriage in Oxford Junction ties Frank Laurence to Mary Ruley. The L A S sewing social unfolds April 9. Death of HE E Brown noted with full services led by Rev S B McClelland and Joseph Newton. Brown leaves four sons and a daughter.
Monticello resident Will Corbin visits Center Junction with others from Anamosa Olin and Beloit guests. Local families host visitors while Miss Ethel Moses returns to Wisconsin. A home talent play at the I.O.O.F. Hall benefits the park.
Miss Florence Maple returns from Waterloo visit while John Dennison remains sick in bed for three days. Miss Vera Paul enjoys a week's vacation from Marengo school. Mr and Mrs Spoo of Monmouth visit locals, and Rev T P Potter calls on old friends. Hopkinton students resume studies after a home week. Belden Denni is noted among returning students.
Board of equalization met. Miss Katie Caspers home from Coggon. Mrs. Frank Brady ill. E. J. Noble lost a horse. Wm. McAleer of Independence in area. Grain sown in March. Henry Hedden and John Caspers visited Scotch Grove. Dr. Teeter and wife of Monticello called on friends. Peter Caspers ill with lung fever but improving. J. A. Hubbard went to Cedar Rapids to serve as juror. M. F. Byrnes appointed township trustee to fill vacancy. Elsie Noble returned to Albia schools. O. F. Hosford roofing barn replacing 21 year old sheet steel. Mrs. George J. Van Buren visiting Crumer family. Van Buren resigns Little Rock teaching post and will join family in Wisconsin.
Mrs Lucy Dunigan returns from Gilmore Iowa Otto Frank Miller named Cascade street commissioner for the year Bertha Faber visits from Pella Macadamizing on Worthington road spanning one mile northwest of Cascade Dr and Mrs A J Skinner and Mrs R H Huntington Jr spent days in Dubuque R H Beatty and John Beatty travel to Chicago to fetch Beatty’s wife from sanatorium Emma Garrett Miss Agnes Kenny and Mrs Cunningham head to South Dakota for spring farm work Fire on College Street East side destroys Frank Peters house loss 750 with 500 insurance.
Edison and Victor phonographs at Locher Brothers feature in a music shop listing. The ad also promotes mixing instruments and machines including pianos organs sewing machines violins and sheet music. Other items advertise sales of White Wyandotte eggs and a corner-house for sale with various notices about settlements and cures.
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