Monticello Express April 8 1897 Edition
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1897
Page
4
Spring work and local notices from Castle Grove
April showers bring road troubles and active local business. Residents travel to Anamosa Cedar Rapids Cascade and Monticello for errands while a jury report is filed. A wagon accident near Monticello injures a driver. a 14 year old shoots his 12 year old brother accidentally. The Bethel Presbyterian church hosts fellowship and the Y P S C E is organized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Howie
Chicago
A. W. Cramer
Anamosa
J.S. Fagan
Cascade
Board of Equalization
N. Kehoe
Cedar Rapids
Margarette Cramer
Walter Crawford
Lone Tree
Iowa
Mr. Willard
Johnson & Willard
Hopkinton
Jas. F. Lande
Lucy
Hazel Green
R. Shear
Monticello
F. E. Black
Mr. Black
Tommie
M. A. Waddick
Drs. Mirick
Inglis
Music concert planned as Easter program ahead
Onstow April 6 with a forthcoming concert. Mrs. Sawyer of Olin visits her daughter Mrs. Jos Wasson. An Easter program will be held next Sabbath at the M FE church. Bernard Connell unveils a fine new front for his store. D R Perkins attended a wedding in town. Delegates Mrs 8 A DeWitt and Mrs C F McDaniel go to the Christian Endeavor convention at Monticello. Mary Cameron and Edwin Wilcox wed last Wednesday. Ida Chase bridesmaid, John Cameron groomsman. The band and young folks serenade the couple and wish them prosperity. The couple will reside on a farm three miles east. A surprise party for Miss Ella Wasson celebrated her seventeenth birthday with games, music, and a photo case gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onstow
Sawyer
Olin
Jos. Wasson
M. FE
Bernard Connell
D. R. Perkins
A. DeWitt
Christian Endeavor
Monticello
Mary Cameron
Edwin Wilcox
Ida Chase
John Cameron
Ella Wasson
Death ties knit community in Scotch Grove news
The Scotch Grove column notes the death of Carrie Stottlemeyer aged nine in Clinton with burial at Scotch Grove cemetery. It records Mrs Isabella Sutherland's funeral in Scotch Grove, birth of twins to Rev Sutherland of Cascade with one died, and mentions local attendances and upcoming society and school events in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Applegate
Isabella Sutherland
Missouri
Kitty Cole
Augustus Sutherland
Adam Sutherland
Sutherland
Cascade
John McIntyre
Hanover
Woman’s Missionary Society
Center School
Miss Dennison
Riverside
Miss Hall of
Maquoketa
Wm. Sutherland
Anamosa
Board of Supervisors
John Niblo
Wyoming
Easter egg coloring and decoration tradition features
The April daily Time Journal notes dyeing eggs with ani line dye diluted to shade for boiling. Green stands for hope and resurrection, with red pink blue yellow and purple also popular. Eggs may be hard boiled and painted with spring motifs like primroses or butterflies, arranged in moss nests, with German belief linking Easter eggs to hares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daulies
Toime Journal
Teacher fears illness sends pupil home over fevered mother
A Reflector tale recounts a county teacher who, fearing contagious disease, sent a child home due to a sick mother. The next day the girl returned with finger in her mouth and a hood swinging, declaring a new baby at home is not catching. The teacher blushed, admitted relief, and allowed the child to sit.
Accident near Martelle shoots boy in the head
In Cedar Rapids Republic report dated April 6 Irvin Reed son of John Reed a farmer two miles north of town was accidentally shot by his 12 year old brother Guy with a 22 caliber rifle they had been using to hit a dog The rifle was loaded and Guy fired hitting Irvin just above the eye He lived about two hours without regaining consciousness
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martelle
Cedar Rapids
Irvin Reed
John Reed
Guy
Irvin
Monticello House Mover Charles McCarty Dies
Charles McCarty a renowned Monticello house mover died in that city after a several week illness. His last work was moving May and Moore’s rear warehouse in February. He was a genial gentleman whose death is deeply regretted by many in Cascade Pioneer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles McCarty
Monticello
McCarty
May & Moore
Cascade
Davenport Leads Republican City Ticket in Narrow Victory
Davenport won the city ticket for the Republicans by about 400 in last Saturdays election. It marks the first GOP city win in fifteen to twenty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Poultry Mixture Ads Offer Salary for Distributor
A Kansas notice offers a weekly ten dollar wage to a man with a rig to introduce a Poultry Mixture and Insect Destroyer. Reference required. Send address with stamp to 1wl Prerrection Mra. Co. in Parsons Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra. Co
Parsons, Kansas
Sleeper Service Added on Nickel Plate for Train No 2
A D J W sleeper will be attached to train No 2 leaving Chicago daily at 9 30 p m on the Nickel Plate road and arrive in New York the second morning at 7 30 a m The service begins Monday April 12 and supplements the existing sleeper to New York via Nickel Plate and West Shore patrons may contact J Y Calahan General Agent 111 Adams St Chicago UL for details
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Nickel Plate Road
New York
Nickel Plate
West Shore Roads
J. Y. Calahan
Adams St
Willing to Listen dialogue in London Tit-Bits
A fragment from London Tit-Bits shows a tense exchange about a daughter with a father objecting to sudden removal and a respondent proposing to listen before warning. The excerpt hints at family conflict and protective parental concern within a 19th century social context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goslow
London
Large Evergreens Cheap At Scorcu Grove Nursery
Scorcu Grove Nursery in Scotch Grove Iowa advertises three to six foot evergreens including Norway Spruce White Pine and Red Pine offered at 20 to 25 cents per tree by wagon load. Roots are fibrous and matted making shipping bulky. buyers urged to bring heavy hauls and come soon to clear ground. Apple trees in best Iowa varieties also sold in large cheap lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Scorcu Grove Nursery
Hoyt Bros
Propr’r
Scotch Grove
Jones Co
Jones County Education Figures Reported in Local Notes
Jones County Teacher highlights teaching moves and events across towns such as Olin, Monticello, Anamosa, and Center Junction. It notes or references normal schools, library cases, fundraisers, and the Jones county normal institute slated for June 21 1897 at Monticello Town with term adjustments due to road conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Pike
Olin
St. John
Jones County
Ames College
May Taylor
Alice Hess
Wayne Township
Temple Hill
M. Scholastica
Daine Grove
Center Junction
Jones County Normal Institute
Monticello
Gertrude Lang
Perle Lamb
Morley
Nellie Hanlon
Anamosa
Ada Maye Waite
Harriet Brainard
Wyoming
Mable Overly
Lizzie Neelan
Onslow
Clementina Krumroy
Mechanicsville
Myrtle E. Clarke
Scotch Grove
Mae Everhart
Oxford Junction
Lucinda Farrington
Stanwood
Lena Higgins
Hale
Myrtle Bixler
Alice S
Frank
Clarence
Paul Eilers
Frank Joseph
Nellie Bruce
Joseph Wilcox
Lou Miller
Sadie French
Florence Lindeman
Katie Foulks
Cascade
Dollie Lane
Lizabeth Kellogg
Jessie Byerly
A. Guiles
Kathryn Hanson
Fairview
Mrs Booth in declining health mourned by Anamosa paper
Mrs Booth wife of the senior editor and now past 80 years of age has been in declining health for months. Last Tuesday evening her symptoms became dangerous but she later rallied and remains fairly comfortable with no immediate change in prospect.
Women Displacing Men Across Professions In Cities
An editorial argues office girls are replacing office boys in major cities. It praises women for moral behavior and diligence, warns men to improve mentally and physically, and claims women are more deserving in schools, professions, and other jobs, urging reform among men to regain parity.
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Capt. O’brien
Jas. Eckler
Geo. Shroyer
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Clay
Will Cummings
John Dennison
Fayette County
Lizzie Dennison
Lenox College
Bertha Ellis
Valparaiso Normal School
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Alex McKean
J. M. Stearns
Viola
Martele
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Jones
Pope
Laurel JT
Greenfield
Estee Zimmerman
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Libbie Beaman
Vale Township
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Nellie Bennett
Oxford Mills
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J. M. Sokel
Annie Mitchell
Valley
T. J. Cowan
J. W. Marker
Cedar
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W. L. Douglas
Russia
W.l.douglas
Brockton
Mass
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Goldstone Bros., Propr’s
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Cascade Pioneer
America
Earth
Eastwood & Chase's
George L. Lovell
N. Holst
J. W. Coxsee
L. Clark
H. Sandhouse
W. A. Mirick
R. A. Rickless
H. A. L. Bigley
J. 8. Hall
R. C. Stirton
C. S. Bidwell
E. G. Hicks
Lowell State Bank
R. U. Ricklefs
J. S. Hall
Herman Sandhouse
R. U. Ricklets
General Assembly
RK. C. Stirtron
Cushler
Monticello State Bank
Auditor of State
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State OF
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HW. M. Carpenter
WF. M. Wicks
Wm. Stuhler
Parweny
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H. M. Carpenter
M. Wicks
J. W. Doxsee
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Jiadies
Avalon Bicycle Co
Milwaukee
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District Court
George W. Lovell
A. D
J. W. Doxbee
Samter’s
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Minnesota
Red River Valley
WM. H. Phipps
F. W. Wilsey
Hastern Land Agent
N.p.ry
St. Paul, Minn
Chicago Record
Harrisburg
J. T. Hatfield
Evanston
Madison St
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Second St
R. Zacher
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