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The Monticello Express notes weekly publication with J W Coxsee as editor and proprietor and lists subscription price at 1 75.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1901
Page
2
The Monticello Express notes weekly publication with J W Coxsee as editor and proprietor and lists subscription price at 1 75.
J. G. Reid's reports a boy baby. Jessie Klima resumes Epworth studies. D. W. Russell ships two cattle cars to Chicago. J. F. Russell visits from Anamosa. F J Sokol plans a modern residence. H. D. Hall family returns from the South. D. P. Reade brings more horses from the south. J. E Orr buys Lamey Bros. lot for a new building. Several townsfolk ill. Geo Chase and Mrs. Chase bedbound. Mrs. Hattie Lamey poorly. Lottie Chase improving. Mrs. Cameron steady. Frank Coburn killed by live wire. funeral held with K P uniform. Floral tributes from Chicago cost $75. Frank, son of Samuel Coburn, an early area settler.
April 9 news from Wyomina reports garden duties and yard clearing as the day’s work. Clara Dellett has been ill for weeks. Mr Hooker spent Easter in Cedar Rapids at Dr Green's church. School resumes after vacation with fewer students. Mrs E Green returns from months away visiting her daughter in Steamboat Rock. Easter services held at First Presbyterian and E Church to full houses. Dr A W Harold of Ackley IA, a recent State University medical graduate, toured the area but will not practice locally. Presbyterian church annual meeting April 4 includes a church parsonage dinner and business, delinquencies settled, officers elected.
Center Junction reports Miss Lucy Andrews visiting Center Point while Alice Williamson studies at Epworth Seminary. Elizabeth Shipley Gertrude Shipley and Nellie White visit Mon ticello with John Cook ill with pneumonia but improving. Roof at M E parsonage shingled by Coder and Lee. Laura Livingstone owns new horse and buggy and plans summer music teaching. John and Lillian Livingstone recovering from diphtheria. quarantine lifted. Local sick improve slowly. Mrs. McNeilly Mrs. Kent Mrs. Woodward and Mrs. John McNeilly not improving.
The infant child of Henry Gerdes is seriously ill and Albert Weers reports another child with pneumonia. W A Hale travels to Missouri and Illinois to buy horses while John Oltman recovers from a horse kick. Local visitors include Geo Schoonover and Wm Overing from Monticello. School openings feature teachers Bevans Anamosa Cass Center Nellie Bruce West Cass Ida Lake Fre mont Nettie Page Hickory Grove and Miss Ford No Mr and Mrs Brainard and Mr and Mrs Ketcham named delegates to the Cass church convention in Dubuque April 22 with Mrs Jettie Loggie and Miss Emma Crawford to represent Sunday school and Endeavor.
A list of petit jurors drawn for the May term 1901 is issued. Summoned jurors must appear at the Anamosa courthouse on Monday May 27 at 10 a.m. The roster includes W W Walbridge A Dean Frank Reside Jackson Dayton Cunningham Greenfield Ames Scotch Grove and multiple townships with names and initials across Monticello Fairview Wyoming Madison Richland and others.
Mattie Herrick earns state primary certificate. R M Heasty to teach near Wyoming this spring. About ten boards resist the library law amid wage raises. Mildred Bates studies at Cedar Falls after Clay Mills term. Social at Wm Keating's for No 1, Scotch Grove. about $14 raised. Forest Matson weds Beasie Fairchild at Mechanicsville. Kenneth Richmond Marshall donates Cooper's complete works in memory of F R Marshall. Bunker Hill Greenfield board and teacher fund library with $40 raise. Miss Lawrence in third term. Florence Richardson and Hilah French discontinue at State Normal. Hale Village and Victory schools assigned. Wage increases urged as solution to teacher problem. Castle Grove $45, Fairview $20. Golden Glees chosen as county music book. price 23 cents. J H Abel to attend State Normal to prepare for teaching. May Brainard year's end program and social. $9 for library fund. J J Locher filed final report and leaves Jones county teachers. address Davenport Washington.
At the Anamosa Sunday School convention last week officers were elected for the year. President J S Westfall First Vice President A O Sones Second Vice President A A Vaughn Secretary Treasurer Mrs M W Pully. Delegates named to the state S S convention in Clinton in June include Harriet Cunningham Jean Atkinson Della Dawson A O Sones and Rev W M Lemen. Delegates present include Rev S M McConnell and others from Wyoming Langworthy and Cedar Rapids among many listed members and attendees.
All Cascade saloon keepers are charged with selling intoxicants contrary to law. Named arrestees include Peter Abplewalp, J. B. Lees, John Kemmel, John Neirs Jr, Henry Pinnell, J. H. Lauser, Seery and Barrett, T. W. Williams, and Frank Keefe. Warrants issued at Mrs Theisen's urging after her husband caused a disturbance. no verdict expected, as Cascade juries rarely convict saloon keepers.
Anamosa notices report Wm Cash’s death in Stone City, Prof A Palmer’s unanimous re election as superintendent, and new city marshal Matt Kenyon with night watch James Stickley. Frank W Booth visits from Philadelphia, state declamatory contest set for Anamosa, Grundy County Gazette publisher C E Hunt praised, Judge McCain’s relocation and five years as county judge noted.
Anamosa Eureka surveys bank deposits totaling 3.12 million on Feb 1, mostly county residents. Creamery payments in 1900 reached 566,1966, about 2580 per person, with substantial outlays drawn from New York City. Supreme Court notes estate case of John and Mary Brown. joint ownership dictates $800 to estate and $800 to widow. Street crews clean mud from macadam streets amid wet fall and open winter.
The water committee orders collection of May 1 1901 rents within 30 days with delinquent accounts shut off June 1 1901. Payments accepted at Kempf's drug store or to R Carrano Water Supt. For Rent a five room house in southern town with city water and large garden. Enquire J A Voorhees 42w2.
TIFLIS plans the 1901 season with events at Schweitzer settlement creamery on Wednesday and Thursday, at Al Kiburz's barn in Monticello on Friday and Saturday, and the rest of the week at John Kurt's farm.
A collage of quotes contrasts a man’s boastful brain power with cautions about war talk. Uncle Eph jokes that those who boast most of fighting in fact have long legs. A note mentions South American tea as a life sustainer in hunger.
The notice lists charges of fifteen dollars for live cost insurance twelve dollars for season and eight dollars for single service. Breeders of mares must cover the service fee and agree that the undersigned bears no responsibility for accidents despite preventive efforts.
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