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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1907
Page
5
A Monticello newspaper page blends health notes on measles with a flurry of advertisements and social mentions. It cites Eilers & Bolton and Hall Hardware offerings, mentions travel by Mrs. Templeton, and notes sales on curtains and lawn mowers. It covers school sports, plumbing and farming items, and local people visiting relatives.
Local items recount visits and illnesses among residents including Mrs. Frank Dautremont and Mrs. Wm Schodde. Birth of a baby to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brundage proves brief, while several travel and health notes touch Cedar Rapids Wyoming and Des Moines. A May breakfast event, hardware ads, and schoolball trip to Hopkinton close the column.
Reports describe a party for Mr and Mrs George McKeever with many guests from town. Notices announce a Scotch Grove memorial meeting and canvassers for a soldiers monument. Cascade pledges funds for an interurban railway.
Obituary notes the death of John C. Huntoor of Bowen's Prairie near Marion from paralysis. Funeral at family home conducted by Rev. Troy with Masonic burial at Oak Shade Cemetery. Huntoon, born 1829 in Hanover New Hampshire, came to Jones county in 1867 and lived on Bowen's Prairie before moving to Marion. Also reports near-fire at Monticello depot, high school art display, Sabbath observance meeting, and various local classifieds and notices.
Miss Jessie Davidson, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Davidson, wed Mr Laurence Gaylord of Tampa Florida last Friday afternoon at the bride’s parents home near Monticello. Rev M A Breed officiated with Miss Clara Ricklefs playing the wedding march. Guests included distant relatives and friends from Perry Grinnell Des Moines Dyersville Laredo Missouri and Cedar Rapids. The couple will reside in the Southland.
Monticello and vicinity report a busy April 1877 with events from Duer in Chicago seeking spring goods to a revival at the Methodist church. Notables include deaths of John Sutherland Sr and Stanford Stives, a silver wedding, a school bond vote, a broken leg from Elva Campbell, a new dentist partnership, and a farewell sermon by Rev. Leavitt. The Masonic lodge election, a mum sociable fine for speakers, and a major kitchen party with a ring cake marked by a gold ring all appear. Also listed are a new class of Monticello High graduates, local lumber supply, and a donation of memories in local gatherings.
For sale a nine room electric lighted furnace heated residence with water inside and out, large cistern, fruit and furnace cellars, inside and outside entrances, large barn, box and single stalls. In best repair. Enquire of Dr A M Maurice. Also Dr Coffman Eye Specialist from Davenport to be at Lovell House on May 1 offering free eye examination 9 am to 6 pm.
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