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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1896
Page
2
Maquoketa items list visitors and movers including F. E. Hopkins from Maquoketa, DeEtta Countryman visiting Anamosa, and Isaac Pelkey’s visit. Notices of new homes, retirements, and relocations follow, with forestry, church, and social events. A winter snowfall, storm damage, and a large Hanna estate sale are reported along with church membership and wedding updates.
Cronica items report Brown’s return to studies after illness and upcoming wedding, visits by Geo Sweezy with his brother, a creamery processing nine thousand pounds of milk daily, and H E Bowman on business trips. Prices for eggs and butter. sermons by Rev Mackintosh and President Robinson. Cloud’s oration in Lenox college hands. track construction on five acres. plans for spring intercollegiate activities. social events at Geo Croot’s and Cass community news.
April notes from Castle Grove report health, farm losses, and visitors. Fred Cramer nurses a broken thumb while N. Miller reports four horses stricken with paralysis. Hogs shipped to Chicago by Thos Haley Jas F Laude and O F Hosford netted 3.53 per ewt. with higher prices than local buyers.
April 14 notes list visits and small town happenings. Wilbur Sweesy returns home. D E Dreibelbis moves to Center Junction to raise hogs. Wm Sutherland attends Anamosa supervisors meeting. Auntie Robinson of Cascade visits Scotch Grove. Minnie Rice tours Monticello. J E Glenn leads Easter entertainment. J L Prouty finally marries. Edward Hoyt markets evergreens. Aunt Kate Clark celebrates family recovery. local church window damage mentioned with comic tone. Maggie Samels of Monticello dies in Iowa. Frank White hosts, Maggie dies aged 26 after lung hemorrhage. funeral at Guardian Angel church. sympathy offered to bereaved family.
A Detroit Tribune fragment quotes a murderer boastfully laughing as he raises a dagger. The victim shudders but the killer dismisses seriousness, insisting he is merry while taking a life.
A grieving woman criticizes a man's present after admiringly inspecting a ring she just received, sighing that she can overlook his past but remains bitterly disappointed with his current behavior.
A fragment from a Century essay recounts a spider keeper and student of natural history discussing tarantulas centipedes and scorpions. It notes tarantulas' defense poison their care of young and hunting habits as well as a vivid observation of Browney the tarantula and human curiosity about animal behavior.
The District Court of Jones County Iowa has appointed and commissioned the under signed as executor of the estate of John Seerey Sr deceased. All persons having claims must file them with the Clerk of the Court sworn and stated within legal time. Those owing the estate should make immediate payment to avoid costs. Dated Anamosa Iowa March 26 1806.
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