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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1899
Page
7
Local merchants Hicks & Eilers and Deatrick's promote linens curios clothing and millinery while residents like Miss Lillian Henak and Miss Kate Curtin visit Cedar Rapids. Shippers, farmers and townsfolk attend sales and observe improvements as stores tout new lines and low prices.
Monticello residents share updates on illness and recoveries, births, marriages, and community events. Notables include Mrs. H H Starks ill with threats of pneumonia, a new birth at the Rienets home, and Miss Katie Dehner's death at 17. Local shops advertise bargains while churches host fundraisers.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway runs a round trip to Davenport next Wednesday the 26th from Monticello at 7 45 a m returning from Davenport at 11 30 p m. Fares are 1 50. The excursion is open to all not just Odd Fellows and families.
A livery stable man Wes Adams was jailed seven days after a street quarrel with Albert Sequist the tailor leaving Sequist with a black eye. A court refused to bind Adams over. A later scuffle near Hawkeye saloon left Sequist injured and Adams fined twenty five dollars. The Louise Brehany Concert Co entertained Monticello with violin piano and a performance of Flotows Martha.
John O'Brien survived a brush fire that spread from a nearby burn into Geo. Rogers' pasture. Neighbors quickly formed a line and plowed a fire-break around O'Brien's property to prevent damage to his home and buildings.
News from Cedar and Jones counties reports a smallpox outbreak linked to the Zimmerman family near Mt. Vernon and Lisbon. Authorities impose quarantines, urge vaccination, and warn against rumor-driven alarm while Cornell college students are kept isolated and certain towns deny infection reports.
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