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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1897
Page
5
The page blends prices and goods from Wills & Deatrick s Hicks & Eilers Goldstone Bros and Sumter Sumter with social notes. Residents visit Cedar Rapids Dubuque Waterloo Hopkinton and Monticello while markets flood with eggs butter and bananas. Local sales auctions and church events anchor the community chatter.
The note says John Dawson, killed in the Oklahoma cyclone, formerly resided in Cascade where his elderly mother now lives. The item also mentions local goods and events, including sales at Koop & Hicks, tailor offerings at Bohlken’s, and social notes from Monticello including weddings, funerals, and store promotions.
Stottlemeyers mourn daughter Carrie died at nine and a half after measles and heart enlargement. remains brought to Scotch Grove for burial. O D Crane issues Red River Review from New Mexico. Theft at Mrs Curtiss millinery. $14 stolen. Cascade man loses son George, funeral held. Water tax audit ordered. avoidance not. Northern Pacific sells cheap farm lands in Minnesota on ten-year terms. Hopkinton duo visit Monticello. wife sight loss fears. Anamosa contest attendance notes. winners listed. Novelty Weather Strip Co incorporated with $60,000 stock. Rastede leads. Spring fashions advertised by local stores.
Sheriff Babcock reports a 1876 notice seeking ten thousand dollars for a conspiracy and malicious prosecution in the Jones County Calf Case. The suit spanned twenty one years before refiling. Also notes school and town updates including W. A. Doran’s move to Eldora schools, thefts at Dr. Rundle and Dr. Erb offices, cemetery association meeting, business league gathering, and church growth among the Disciples with appeals to attend services at the opera house.
The Jones County Teachers Association held a meeting at the opera house last Saturday with a modest turnout due to road conditions. President A Palmer presided. Miss Mitchell acted as secretary. Supt Hursh of Sterling gave a keynote lecture on the literature need in public schools. officers were elected Curtis as president and Gregg as vice president. resolutions thanked Monticello for hospitality and the program’s success.
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