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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1907
Page
4
Community blurbs record chats and visits by Mrs W G Eilers in Chicago Mrs Elmer Hicks and Mrs John Miller visit Manchester Dan Magee and Miss Christie Brazelton travel and guests frequent Dubuque Wyomin e Hopkinton Independence and Monticello with rail and market mentions. Potatoes for sale and coal yard offers appear alongside health updates on H Chadwell and Mrs Schodde.
Local items recount staff changes and travels, trades, and notices from Monticello including workers resignations in Minneapolis, moves to Wilton North Dakota, and visits by residents. Advertisements for cement, hardware, lumber and curtains appear alongside bank statements, injuries, and upcoming events and travels of residents and officers.
Miss Jennie Haeusseler leaves Eilers & Bolton to take a post in Davenport. Martha Miller succeeds her. Also, state lawmakers authorize a ten cent bounty per head on pocket gophers killed, effective likely July 4. May breakfast by Young Married Ladies Working Band May 1 at Congregational church 6:30 to 8. Fred Rohn jailed 30 days for assault and intoxication on George Holmes.
Mrs. Neva Starks Wilson changes address to Coleridge Nebraska and recalls visits with G W Curtis Edith in Upland. Edl gar Hubbard seeks Missouri baths for months of confinement. Cement car arrival. paper press break fixed. P D Bell sells to J J Hayes Tama City. Hayes plans embalming, stock, service. Big D flour ad. Dan Magee grand jury exonerates him from arson charge stemming Prairieburg fire. no bill returned.
County board notes outbreak across southern and western regions with Byerley of Jackson township under quarantine and two hundred cases reported in Olin area. Quarantine rules lax in some homes as illness persists and affects families including Charles Fairbanks in Casa township.
Misa Johanna Friedericka Tobiason age 20 from Wayne township died a day after severe burns. Her funeral at the Lutheran church drew about 200 vehicles, with Rev. C Mardorf delivering a memorial sermon. Her family mourns deeply as townspeople recall her kindly nature. Also noted is the death of Dana I McIntire of Simpson McIntire Co a Monticello born executive in Boston who led banking and dairy interests. The notices include local business ads and upcoming Visitors Day in public schools.
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