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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1906
Page
4
Castle Grove updates include Joe O Rourke's gasoline engine, Downerville Creamery's fifty patrons, and Sheriff Hogan nearby on Tuesday. Various visits, pestering coughs, and weather impacts on corn are noted along with many travels, injuries, and funerals shaping community life.
Cascade news rounds up visits as Kingsley family vacationing in Chicago and others scattered to Fort Dodge Monticello Cheyenne Falls and Anamosa. Local events include a large girls picnic a Baptist social and a St Marys church trustees treasurer election. A fatal asthma case and a rain storm with hail impact plus hog shipments and a dramatic runaway stint are noted. Funeral for Mrs Kinsella held at St Marys Church.
Onslow July 31 H H Roberta purchased the Steyne restaurant. George Miller attends the state convention in Des Moines. Threshing has started with no reports yet. Roy Paul helps in the drug store during Miller’s absence. Preston Hammel of Cascade visited the McMasters last week. Mrs Ora Holleman and two children visit Mr and Mrs T B Johnston. Eva Byerly of Jackson township visits her cousin Mrs George Miller. Eli Streets family attend a nephew’s funeral at Maquoketa. Sunday School picnic held without incident. Gertrude Dautremont and Amelia Borgelt of Monticello visit Miss Lou Sear.
August 2 rural route notices list residents visiting Monticello and Anamosa, threshing and harvest tasks, stock movements to Chicago, and health scares. Community figures like Rieken, Behrends, Kearns, and Harms frequent nearby towns, with Wayne farmers in Monticello and Pumpkinville locals headed to Mitchell, South Dakota for wheat prospects.
Center Junction daily notes Mrs. D Ward ill at this writing. Mabel McNielly shopped in Wyoming. Mrs. Miller of Cedar Rapids visits Mrs. Schofield. Harry Stingley called on Wyoming friends. Alma Isbell of Maquoketa visits aunt Mrs. McKelvey. Gerald Preston of Davenport spends weeks with relatives here. Mildred Williamson of Hopkinton visits relatives. Mrs. Dr Chamberlin of Wyoming visits J M Young. Frank Livingstone and Roscoe Stingley visit Rock Island Illinois. Florence Livingstone visits near Wyoming. Nellie Williamson of Monticello visits her brother Richard. Bell Lyons visits Monticello. Mrs John McIntosh and son of Chicago arrive for extended visit. M Burton of Delhi at bridge construction for Main street improvement.
The Delaware county fair is planned for September 4 to 7 with an old settlers program tied to harvest home festivities. Berry raisers report a large crop. blackberry prices at three cents a pound may not deter overall supply. Monticello leaders Simpson and Voorhees reviewed an interurban route from Hopkinton to Centenary creamery and on to Dyersville, aiming to minimize farm disruption while maximizing regional benefits and future quarry brick and tile growth. Hopkinton residents express strong backing, though right of way funds are needed. promoters plan to finance and begin construction once easements are secured. Loveland expects the canning factory to start sweet corn operations around the 20th.
Jones County Coe alumni and students gathered Friday July 27 for their annual picnic along the Wapsie, with 28 of 45 eligible participating. Guests Rev A Raymond Eckles and Miss Jessie Graham attended. the group toured, ate, and held an impromptu Main Street concert before planning next summer's reunion at Scotch Grove. The Oxford Mirror item describes a playful scene of a woman spraying a hose on a boy, leading to a humorous chase and resulting chaos.
The piece surveys famous quotes on the press from Bryant Parton Napoleon and Jefferson. It cites Cardinal Gibbons praising publicity as a cure for graft and argues the newspaper's social usefulness is greater now than ever. It stresses exposure helps remedy corruption and the press as a people’s university.
The past fiscal year saw twenty one German imports into the United States totaling more than one million dollars and twenty articles exported to Germany also exceeding one million dollars. The Ponca City Courier reports the Oklahoma City convention motto was one state one flag two beers.
A masked robber entered a Gazelle saloon in Siskiyou County California during the night and robbed 15 men at gunpoint after emptying the cash register. He emptied all the cash on the bar and told the patrons to take a drink on him before vanishing into the darkness.
Rediscovered in 1814 by Joan Marsh, Petite Anse salt deposits yielded stone hammers and tools that testify to Aboriginal American mining activity.
A large shipment of bananas arrived in Manchester from Costa Rica, totaling 57,600 bunches. The consignment marks a significant fruit cargo milestone for the port and local trade.
Reports indicate sharks have appeared in the Adriatic Sea, arriving via the Suez Canal. Local observers note increased marine activity and caution for coastal traffic and divers.
In New York City upon his return from Europe, W. J. Bryan offers a low rate excursion over the Nickel Plate Road from Chicago on August 28th and 29th with return tickets valid September 4th. Chicago depot La Salle Street Station. Information from John Y. Calahan General Agent 107 Adams St Chicago.
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