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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1906
Page
4
Several travelers shoppers and visitors appear in Cedar Rapids Anamosa Independence and Manchester. Entities include Miss Carrie Page Miss Matilda Moore Mrs Cornelia Skelly Dr Puleston and C A Errickson Co. Local merchants advertise hardware farm supplies dry goods and a new millinery store.
Monticello residents receive visitors from Indianola and Greenly while families report travel to Missouri and Florida. Town businesses advertise sales including Deatrick Dry Goods Co and Easter goods, with notices on post office uncalled for items and millinery openings April 12 to 14.
The Passion Play at the Catholic church in Castle Grove township was postponed due to bad roads and weather. A new date will be set in late May with further notice to follow.
A Monday Monticello civic gathering drew forty nine attendees to a Cummins supporting event at city hall. Clarence Simpson led a cigar fueled whip act while Rev Murphy urged unity under Cummins and Lanigan praised the candidate’s democratic line as townsfolk drifted away after cigars ran out.
The Monticello High School senior class will present their graduation orations Friday evening at the opera house. Admission is free with tickets. The program features a music section and student speeches on topics from The Fight Against Trusts to The Making of the Constitution and The Value of Subordination.
William Moncrief eighty two years old died in Scotch Grove township when his team startled by a blowing paper bolted and struck him, breaking ribs. He lived less than a half hour after being found. Born in 1824 in County Monahan Ireland he came to America in 1844 and settled in Jones county in 1853. He married Martha Carson in 1862. seven of eight children survive. Funeral held at Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church with burial on the homestead.
The district court clerk issued marriage licenses in March 1906 to several individuals including Clark Reville, Tillie Zacher, Ada A. Peckoo, Fred W. Bearon, Theresa Baur, Ellsworth Workman, Lelia Blanche, Floyd A. Darrow, Anna L. Aldrich, Arend G. Zimmerman, Catherine M. Folkerts, Amphsian Muisker, Charles R. Schofield, Amy Burlinghaim, Rudolph A. Ricklefs, and others with respective ages noted.
District court records show multiple guardianships and estates approving reports, sales, or executors. Names include James Porter, Peter Davis, Nancy Mandey, George Darrow, Thomas Connery, Clark Williams, James McKeever, Michael Neville, Henry Friismer, Angeline Hale, and others with bonds set or executors appointed. Also notices of final reports and discharges plus probate of wills.
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