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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1898
Page
7
A collage of advertisements and social notes from Monticello Iowa highlights sales at Wills & Deitrick and Hicks & Eilers with umbrellas gloves hats and corsets. Local visits by Mrs. Monnier Miss Leyden and families are mentioned along with farm supplies feed garden seeds and Easter outfits. A church event by Rev W J Ralph is listed for April 17.
Local notes report Mrs Rebecca Church visiting Rev and Mrs Case in Monticello and Mrs Agnes Hale of Waverly visiting. A. A. Palmer is re elected superintendent of Anamosa schools for another year at a salary of 1200. Various social events, accidents, and notices fill the week with births deaths and sales.
Local residents include Isaac White visiting Missoni Monticello. Mrs. Carl Frerichs of Coleridge Nebraska with her brother Henry Bohlken of Monticello and her ailing mother in Scotch Grove. Birth notices report a boy at Bowen's Prairie April 11 and a girl in Wayne Township April 10. Wills & Deitrick advertise carpets. Oxford Junction suffers a major fire. two prisoners escape from Anamosa quarry. a boy fractures his arm. charity supper planned April 27. Miss Jackson of Augusta, Georgia, speaks on race needs in Presbyterian churches raising funds.
The Monticello Odd Fellows will attend a Maquoketa celebration on April 26. A Milwaukee Railway special train will depart Monticello at 8:45 a.m. and return from Maquoketa at 11:15 p.m. Round trip fare is $1.05. The Maquoketa event will be in a large tent for over four thousand attendees.
Moxvicenne April 18 The board of education met and approved several bills including an elocutionist and repairs. It announced standing committees for the year and advertised opera house rent bids due April 23 with a two year renewal option and right to reject all bids.
A major blaze in Oxford and Oxford Junction last Monday destroyed seven brick stores and many homes, with losses over 75000 dollars and no insurance for some. The fire likely started in Dr J A Downs barn hay mow and spread along both sides of the main street, narrowly missing the Corwin house. Banks opened the next day with intact vaults, while several businesses begin rebuilding and reoccupying vacant rooms.
City council directs immediate arrest and filing of informations against persons within town limits who ride trains in motion disturb meetings or use obscene language in public. Independent school district of Monticello Iowa seeks bids by April 28 1898 to lease the opera house for one year with option of two more years and right to reject bids.
Sheriff Welch of Johnson county faces removal after allegedly aiding a prisoner’s escape by leaving the inmate in Cedar Rapids to roam saloons while he disappeared. The prisoner later surrendered himself, prompting calls for action if the claims are proven true.
Alfred Friedrich, an expert repairer, opens a shop in front of Hagen's photograph gallery. Trained under noted German makers, he offers workmanlike repairs and invites public patronage, guaranteeing careful, satisfactory service. Call for details.
A ten part portfolio with sixteen half tone pictures per part, highlighting the American Navy, Cuba and Hawaii, is published in Chicago. The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers a special edition for patrons with specimen at the depot ticket office. Single parts are ten cents each and the full set costs one dollar. Subscriptions may be left with the agent. Also an ad for painting and finishing services by Jacob Jacobson at shop 145, W First Street.
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