Monticello Express Ad Heightens Local News Tone
The Monticello Express lists subscription price at 1.75 in a brief masthead item attached to the paper’s editorial address and publisher details.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
2
The Monticello Express lists subscription price at 1.75 in a brief masthead item attached to the paper’s editorial address and publisher details.
Threshers at work yield reports and heat reaches 96 degrees. Dr Tregloan returns home after weeks away. Robt Young ill but improving. Church repairs planned by ladies aid society. Mrs Mary Van Neys back from Marshalltown. Sunday schools to picnic at Canton spring next Tuesday. Visitors from Anamosa Galena Cedar Falls Clinton. Epworth League to serve ice cream at J Z Mackrill home Friday. Will Sears celebrated 21st birthday with surprise party. Maud Wolcott back from Clinton with Helen Spencer staying a few days. Rev Westphal of Wyoming preached at M Ek church. Next Sunday service for American Sunday Union.
In Scotch Grove on July 31 residents report visits from Mrs. Alex Sutherland in Cog gon and Mrs. Collins of Center Junction. Miss Nettie French returned to Monticello after a week here. A social at Rob t Clark's drew a good crowd. A creamery dog killed for hydrophobia. Rev and Mrs Hugh Robinson to depart for Madison SD after several weeks here.
A rural item notes Will Hiller has a new buggy for mowing weeds along the roadside. Other short notes mention Tuesday cattle trip to Chicago, Monticello visits, threshing outfits starting, and local incidents including a man injured by a horse.
Iowa letter describes Clear Lake as a garden retreat with tents cottages and hotels affordable food and drink. Excursion by Milwaukee Road to Clear Lake priced at two dollars round trip next Sunday. Metropolitan attractions include lectures chautauqua debates Epworth League and scenic lake amenities.
Church notices list services at multiple churches including Presbyterian Deer Creek Christian U B and M E in Monticello with sermon subjects and Sunday schedules. Also notes ice cream social, moonlight picnic date earliest, and post office unclaimed letters. Local ads promote mite extermination service, farms for sale near Langworthy and Monticello, and a 147 acre farm four miles west of Monticello.
A mocked wedding report from Palmyra style critiques Willie Shortike and Bettie Bloomers. The piece lampoons decorations borrowed from townsfolk, attire, and spending, noting the couple’s plan to travel to St. Louis and the groom’s $27 monthly salary. It ends with a ribbing on the cake and a quip that the wedding is “none of our funeral.”
160 acre farm featured with first class buildings a good well and windmill located five miles from town. Terms and information available at the office of A MATTHIESSEN.
An advert describes a well located Monticello home in excellent repair offered for sale at fair terms. The text also includes a fragmented humorous dialogue about a romance and a chicken farm, followed by a note on wine color and grape juice.
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