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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1896
Page
7
A collage of small town ads and notices including Wills & Deutrick's stores, sales on shoes and hats at Goldstone Bros. Hicks & Eilers' carpet deals, and medical, legal, and household mentions. Local residents like Miss Hattie Thompson and Mr. Gee visit Monticello, while the Methodist church steeple remains down.
Adams and Mrs Sarah Farner of Richland township wed by Rev David Street at his residence last Saturday. The Ladies of M E church serve supper at the church parlors Friday April 17 from five to eight. Numerous local business ads and notices follow, including shop sales, personnel moves, and a council water works cleanout.
Local notices report Andrew Guler selling his Monticello home furniture at auction next Thursday April 23 at 1 pm before moving to Cincinnati for shoe factory work. Other items include store ads by Wills Deatrick, cemetery meeting details, and a dam incident near the Monticello dam.
Fred Rettig earned a silver medal in the Northern Iowa high school declamatory contest, securing a place at the state meet in Marshalltown on April 24. Vin nie Northey of West Waterloo won first for The Little Boy's Story. Monticello high school has claimed ten state declamation medals and leads in the state. Also noted are obituaries, local events, theater plans, and community notices across Monticello.
Mr and Mrs David Benatty of Sich Twnda township celebrate fifty years since their Philadelphia wedding on April 8 186 yesterday. Their children Rev J W Beatty Mrs Mary Ann Kingsley Samuel B Beatty and Elizabeth Carter attend along with grandchildren. A master of ceremonies remarried them at noon as sixty plus relatives and neighbors dine at their home.
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