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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1912
Page
7
CORRESPONDENCE Wyoming July 30 reports a Woodman picnic planned for August 8 with expected turnout from surrounding towns. A Monticello train is promised for Thursday afternoon. The item also includes local notes on fires, obituaries, visitors, church and business updates, and upcoming baseball games.
Cascade notes a bountiful fishing season with blue cat, mud cat, bass and quillback caught in the North Fork Maquoketa. Residents enjoy day and night angling, while local harvests and haying near completion bring optimism for crops. Community updates include visits from Rev H F Linn, Masonic picnic at Anamosa, balloon sighting, auto sales, and farm activity.
Mrs Harvey Snyder suffered a broken arm and head wound when a horse dragged her after a misstep in Onslow. Dr Worthington set the fracture and stitched the head injury, with T Horton driving her home. The buggy wrecked but the horse paused behind Cole’s shop. Also reported are travel updates for Lou Noyes Easler and N.B. Noyes family, a baseball win by Onslow over Cascade, and local moves and visits including August Hansen’s wedding trip and Dr Worthington’s health notes. Holtz and Carstens dissolve partnership. business changes at a local drug store. and Peach shipments arrive.
In a travelogue style reminiscence the author recalls a London visit after Holland and Germany. They describe theatergoing in London with pit seats at two shillings sixpence and watching Johnny Bull in amusement. The trip continues to Holland noted for quiet clean homes then to Cologne’s cathedral and Bonn on the Rhine. Beethoven’s birthplace and the market place are highlighted along with the grand bridge and university city ambiance.
A narrator recalls travels from the Tower of London to the Hague and Dutch royalty quarters. The trip covers the Mauritshuis galleries, Huis ten Bosch, Dutch costumes, windmills, and Rhine castles. The writer notes seasickness, language quirks, and vivid impressions of Bingen and R Hoffenfels, with reflections on German history and scenery.
In a July 14 1912 Washington era dispatch from Bingen Germany Mary E Coxsee notes a sunset view over vine covered hills. The article mentions Mr Foster the traveling leader and a soldier in Algiers reflecting on the scene as light fades. A separate local notice reports an Anamosa bottling works owner sued for 25000 for breach of promise of marriage. Cascade to host harvest home on August 22. Salt Sulphur water promotion and medical ad copy appear.
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