Monticello Express edition details and price
The Monticello Express notes Thursday publication date April 20, 1899 with J W Doxsee as editor and proprietor. Subscription price is 1.75 per year.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1899
Page
2
The Monticello Express notes Thursday publication date April 20, 1899 with J W Doxsee as editor and proprietor. Subscription price is 1.75 per year.
Updates from Castle Grove Cass and Clay counties report oats nearly sown and several residents ill with measles rheumatism and pneumonia. Carload potatoes sold for 60 cents a bushel. D J Hogan loses cattle in snow blockade. J L Carpenter builds blacksmith shop. Shroyer widow buried. school terms start. local travel and farming activity noted.
Chronology of residents visits and events in Scotch Grove and nearby towns. Includes Ed Hoyt’s Texas trip return, visits by Mrs. Moats and Mrs. Hanson, church gathering in Vin ton, Jay Griffith visit, and Judge Treichler’s May term with juror list for Jones County. Also bids sought for a Monticello office building, architects Netcott & Donnan, and J F Wisner announcing May walks option.
The Dubuque Association of Congregational churches gathers Monday evening with representatives from twenty seven towns from Dubuque east to Waverly west. Sessions feature sermons by H W Tuttle and Rev A A Tanner with papers on denominational standards and pastoral methods. Special events include Miss Haskell of Samokov and a stereopticon lecture on Christian Education and Pioneer Fathers.
A winter clubbing deal combines six papers for one year at 2.20 dollars. The Homestead leads with forty pages and its Special Farmers Institute edition adds twenty four pages, totaling sixty four pages weekly. Targeted at farmers, the package includes Agriculture titles and related journals.
The ad notes Dr King’s New Discovery has given away over ten million trial bottles and cured many throat lung ailments. It promotes free samples via D C Prader & Co with regular sizes priced at 50c and 1 and guarantees refunds. It also mentions a German finding on paraffin wax delaying milk taste change and a Swiss law requiring married couples to plant trees.
Public notice from Jones county Iowa names J W Doxsee 434 Administrator of the estate of M H Hutton deceased. Creditors must file sworn claims with the district court clerk within legal time. Debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Monticello April 14, 189. Herrick attorney for the estate.
The executrix of the estate of Susan Alman deceased in Iowa requests all claimants to file sworn, clearly stated claims with the court clerk within the legal time, and asks debtors to pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Monticello April 1, 1899.
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