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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
7
Monticello area reports show Rev. Wm H Schuetz at Waterloo and M W Herrick visiting Manchester. Numerous locals travel for business and social visits, with Locher Brothers promoting pianos and Edison Victor phonographs. It notes adjourning supervisor session at Anamosa and rental listings, shop ads, and church announcements.
Potatoes offered for 500 bushels by Mr Perrine as farmers bring more help him. Crain returns to Fort Pierre after Monticello visit. Mrs Gill family returns from St Petersburg. Apex fence features rigid stay and swinging strand. Doyle jail term for pilgrim from Lost Nation. Weather and crop hopes improving since two weeks earlier. Local trips to Waterloo and Onslow etc. May breakfast by Congregational church. Kin Kaylor to Battleford homestead. Catholic parish coverage by Father Donahue. Fence ads and hardware at Davin's. McDonald brothers visit from Des Moines. Monticello baseball purses raised. Sutherland and others seek supervisor seats. John Perrine runs best Monticello restaurant. John Simmington of Astoria visiting kin. Weather frost caution and fruit not greatly harmed. Onslow Sunday School Convention May 7 8. Tyrone area political petitions. Olympic May 4 free first night vaudeville. John Livingstone death noted in Montana. Holst Rohwedder wedding near Wyoming. Petticoat sale at Doutrick’s.
Dr A M Maurice narrowly escaped a gasoline fire after a blow pipe line leaked and sprayed flame several feet. He tossed the burning tank into the hall and a nearby extinguisher prevented an explosion that could have wrecked the second story. Also reports on Friday Club anniversary tea at Mrs M A Breed home and club plans for American literature and parliamentary law.
A historical April 1868 digest notes phrenology lectures by Dr A K Traer, Brown & Co selling agricultural tools, M W Herrick attorney appearing first time, G W Hunt's purchase of The Express, and post office stamp figures. Also robberies by footpads, new foundry plans, a trotting horse death, Republican delegates named, prairie fires and fire losses, vestrymen elected, local prices on fabrics and basic goods, live animal prices, and lists of teachers and city orders condemning water closets and street cleanup duties.
Judge B H Miller remains ill but able to sit up part time while Judge Stacy walks to his office daily, showing cautious but welcome improvement. Bell and Plamadore ship six carloads of eggs to Philadelphia for cold storage with plans to send about twenty more cars this spring. Louis Kohwedder reports a large wolf bounty near Pleasant Hill church, taking eleven wolf pups and earning $22 from Auditor Mills. L Niles improves rapidly and rides downtown daily, indicating ongoing recovery after a long siege. a local resident is wished well by friends.
The Independent notes the automobile as a major fatality factor. Citing New York Life Insurance data, it reports 1,568 killed or injured last year. It criticizes drivers and warns that most accidents arise from machine powered travel.
First Jove is the most beautiful thing in life as long as it remains first. A short life and a merry one implies a sad fate for your children. Make a living first, then love. A man who believes a woman cannot keep a secret should ask her age. To overcome evil light it, not hide from it. Those who think the world worsens are often newly wicked.
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