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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1898
Page
8
A long list of local shop sales and promotions fills Monticello pages. Hicks Eilers Deutrick Sumter provide summer dress goods corsets and umbrellas while Wills Doutrick and Sumter prominent. Community mentions include travels visits and church events.
Mrs. Elizabeth Pearce, wife of John Pearce, died last Friday after months of illness not acute until days before death. She was about 67, maiden name Trainor. Funeral services were held Saturday morning at the Sacred Heart Church conducted by Father McCormick.
Mr Joseph R Appleby and Miss Martha Glauser wed at the Methodist parsonage by Rev E G Waite on the 26th inst Dr Henry Rogers returns to town seeking location and will practice at Dr Inglis office Will Cassady writes he may enlist from Mitchell SD and his parents approve Luther Vandermark arrested on peace proceedings but discharged after evidence Prairieburg mail carrier Wm Grimm injured in wagon accident Otto Gruenewald dies at 87 Nellie Matthiesen celebrates thirteenth birthday New spring suits offered by Lamer and Samter Funeral for Frank Holb Cass connections to Belle Plaine Two Cass men seek to join ex sheriff Hogan in Cuba Montgomery watch repair advert Knights Templars Ascension Day events announced
A southbound Milwaukee road train No 69 derailed between Delhi and Delaware last Saturday. Twelve cars ditched and about 60 to 70 feet of track torn up. No confirmed cause. Evening passenger and northbound freight were delayed. Reports of two tramp deaths were unfounded. no evidence found. Railroad loss about $5000.
A Milwaukee excursion drew seventy five tickets from the station for the Odd Fellows celebration in Maquoketa last Tuesday. Sixty two boarded the excursion train via Monticello and Delmar Junction, while others used earlier trains. A 12 year old Chicago boy, Floyd Lash, was picked up for vagrancy after jumping trains in switchyards. he faced reform options but was sent to railroad authorities for return to Chicago. Officers for the Eastern Town District I O C are listed with Davenport as next meeting site. The Jones county W C T U convention will meet May 11 at Center Junction M E church. A Meyer family infant died last Saturday. funeral Monday.
An auction notice advertises Lot No 14 the original Monti plat and the house thereon for sale south of Proctor's as a bargain. Listed by J B Smiru.
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