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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1897
Page
7
An assortment of notices and ads from Monticello area papers includes purchases of bricks and textiles, shoe styles, lamps and curtains, and groceries. Individuals such as Mrs F M Podhaski and Florence Langworthy are mentioned alongside events, sales at Hicks Eilers Wills Deutrick and Koop Hicks, and upcoming Decoration Day addresses.
Local residents attend events and visits across Cascade and surrounding towns. Notable items include Proctor returning from California, Mr. and Mrs. Dennison and Kingsleys attending a Friday contest, births and deaths, pension news for Cascade resident Matthias Welter, and Rev Millikan’s continued call in Anamosa. Also noted are sales pitches, a bear street performance, an insurance claim payout, an airship exhibit at Lon's, a May Day breakfast plan, a marriage at Sacred Heart, and upcoming horse shipments from Jacob Schneider through Switzerland.
A rundown of Monticello area events and notices includes Dr. C B Rundle missing next week for the Iowa State Dental association meeting in Des Moines, Miss Lou Shaw traveling Europe, Rome to Paris route via Pisa Genoa and Nice, hog loss for Conrad Pfeil of Castle Grove, Mrs John Husman’s death and funeral, road travel woes after Friday evening contest, Brown Dick the trotting horse seen in Monticello now owned by Osborne Bros, fall weather items like sun umbrellas and parasols, Miss Jessie Matthies sen funeral large turnout, Presbyterian spelling school at Robert Clark home, Mr James Young Jr accident with a wheel off his buggy, ads for cheap embroideries and painless extractors, Walt Butler critique of Monticello schools, a May 5 1897 extraction event at Lovell house, fire at Alice Schaeffer’s store injuring a display sign, and promotions for men’s and boys suits plus the New Process milk cooler by Wa Schoppe and associates.
The Masonic members host a dance and social at the Masonic hall Friday evening. Harry Shelley, eight, fractured his left arm in a fall at O. G. Meyers' lumber yard. Local ads note shoe sales, insurance policy exclusions for hail damage, and cloth caps on sale. A Cedar Rapids policeman with Monticello ties died, and storm damage includes shattered glass and swollen streams.
The second annual High School Declamatory Association contest at Monticello drew twelve Iowa school winners in four categories. Ray Schaeffer and Magdalen Feyereisen won in oratory, Belle Andrews and Maude McKinney in drama, Will H. Martindale and Ray Shillaim in humor, with medals and state-contest spots awarded for northern Iowa to be held May 7 at Pella.
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