Monticello News Items and Social Notes
Mrs. Julia Hagen and Mr. Harry Faber spent Tuesday in Manchester while Deutrick's promoted dress goods and millinery. Several residents visited Cedar Rapids and Maquoketa. many locals reported social calls, trips, sales pitches, and a new baby. A fur collar was lost and a medical claim noted a rupture cure by the fidelity method.
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Julia Hagen
Manchester
Mesdames O. R. Davis
J. B. Hoag
H. M. Carpenter
Cedar Rapids
Local notes on business and people in Monticello
Mr QO Bucklin builds a warehouse on South Chestnut street for his street fair outfit. Mrs Fred Meade returns from Manchester after visiting her mother. Harry Skelley goes to Vivian South Dakota to farm. John Fitzsimmons recovers from grip. Wm Shanklin visits M E church with Arthur Norton. Lace curtains advertised at Deitrick's. Several Monticello residents attend Ben Hur in Cedar Rapids. News on fishing, gravel bids, and household sales. High School ball game scheduled April 17 at city park.
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QO. J. Bucklin
South Chestnut Street
Monticello Revival Meetings Start April 11
All residents of Monticello are invited to two weeks of revival services at the M B H church starting Sunday April 11 at 7 30 p m each night except Saturday Rev J Ludgate will lead as evangelist Separately at St Johns Lutheran church last Sunday Rev W Scheutz confirmed Fred Null Fred Broerkens Arend Balster George Poppe Henry Eggers Mary Hinrichs Louise Rieken Mary Pleuger Fred Bohlken.
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Monticello
M. BH
Rev. J
Ludgate
St. Johns Lutheran Church
Wm. L. Scheutz
Fred Null
Fred Broerkens
Arend Balster
George Poppe
Henry Eggers
Mary Hinrichs
Louise Rieken
Mary Pleuger
Fred Bohlken
Local couple’s trip ends with new car swap in Cedar Rapids
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Halli and Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Cross visited Cedar Rapids last Monday and returned home in the new Chalmers-Detroit. Mr. Hall had ordered an Overland but it could not be delivered for a month or more, so the order was cancelled.
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J. S. Halli
F. J. Cross
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Hall
Hall-Benedict Company
South Cedar
Varvel
Hall-Benedict
Hall
Syecamore Street
Frank Hayden
First
Center Streets
First Street
Easter services at Presbyterian church and local notes
Christ the Victor Easter service by Sunday School and Choir set for next Sabbath at 7 30 P M. Morning service will feature Easter music and a baritone solo by Mr Hartley of Lenox College. Prairieburg councilmen Lamott Joslen Seibels inspect new cement jail and consider camelit jail plan.
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Christ the Victor
Presbyterian Church
Hartley
Lenox College
Chas Lamott
Fred Joslen
John Seibels
Pririeburg
Prairieburg
Eamelit
Merits of a horse sale dispute and local notices
A Linn County column reports a court case where Harry Skelley and Tom Shover disputed a horse with heaves and a venue change. the jury ruled in Skelley’s favor. Additional items note potatoes for sale, travel visits from Kansas farmers, school leadership re elected, a Pecos trip irrigation article, a Cedar Rapids Ben Hur train special, Palm Sunday and Good Friday masses, an auction list, Lenox College penmanship notes, and a farm injury to a twelve year old boy.
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Harry Skelley
Tom Shover
Heaves
Skelley
Shover
Locher
Squire Oltmanns
Scotch Grove Township
Tom
Shelley
Monticello Board Tackles Bridges Taxes and Will
The April Monticello board meeting passed bills, referred the Monticello township bridge petition to the district road and bridge committee, and appointed Fred Koop as justice of the peace. The equalization board adjusted real and personal property values with April 12 set for objections, and Mrs. Walker Berlin died after a pneumonia illness.
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Board of Supervisors
Anamosa
Monticello
Sycamore
M. Noyes
District Road and Bridge Committee
Fred Koop
Scotch Grove
April 1880 local notes from Monticello town column
The Sxpress files cover the month of April 1880 with items: Rev. M. S. Murphy named postmaster at Argand. Rev. J. Montman hired by the Presbyterian society. Monticello schools Arbor Day observances. Little Clara Rickless fainted after rope jumping. Friday Club held anniversary tea at Mrs. I. S. Dunham’s home. Alfred Woods of Iowa Talls died at 73. P. A. Connor returned from Millville after his father's death. Prof. W. A. Doran bought land later occupied by Rev. George Rettig. Krank Friend left Monticello Lumber Co. for Anamosa yard. Michael McLaughlin took Gus Mosier to the Glenwood institute. J. S. Gilmore elected health physician, Joe Peterson waterworks engineer, Jim Graves marshal, John Welch city attorney. Artie Maurice photographed with his donkey and spotted goat at Doyle's gallery. Potatoes at 15 cents a bushel. farmers sold stored crop at 25 cents in fall and hog feed at 15 cents in spring. School board named Lucy Leech principal along with a full faculty. several vacancies remained. High school declamatory contest on the 6th saw Margaret Young win with 95.144 average. other participants listed. Emma Pond’s pupils presented a souvenir. Names of many young participants noted. Blanche Monroe left for Martello to teach.
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Presbyterian Society
Monticello
Clara Rickless
Dunham
Alfred Woods
Lowa Talls
Isaac Russell
P. A. Connor
Millville
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W. A. Doran
George Rettig
Krank Friend
Monticello Lumber Company
Anamosa
Michael McLaughlin
County Board of Supervisors
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Cus Quimby
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J. 8
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Kate Maurice
Mattie Fawcett
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Alberta Soetje
Henry Davidson
Cherty Rodman
Carrie Hicks
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May Oliver
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Josie Rice
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Addie Chapman
Addie Hubbell
Blanche Langworthy
Clara Pierce
Artie Coyle
Nellie Coyle
Fred Sarles
Willie Cassady
Carl Brazel
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