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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
7
Dr and Mrs M H Teeter came back Tuesday after a visit in Minnesota. The items note local shopping at Lovell Block Store and Eastwood and Chase's. Numerous brief society updates mention visits, vacations, and errands across the community, including Miss Lane, Miss Leyden, and Mr Hofacre seeking help in haying.
Short items report travels and visits of residents from John Reichart to Dorsets-Deutrick's and Two Ednas advertising fall goods. Mentions include hospital nurse Martha Bates Cedar Rapids, a hay accident to Chas Fairbanks' son, quarantine for scarlet fever at Amanda Hosford's, tax lists for 1901, railroad time changes, and a horse-kick injury to John Brown Castle Grove with a related death in a prior incident.
Various Monticello items include health trips to Colfax, half price summer goods at Hicks & Eilers, political activity with B H Miller as judge candidate, a business association funeral closure, new farm for Sam Yousse, local hires and moves, a biscuit powder promotion with a prize, upcoming theater lineup at the opera house, and social notices including weddings and hair tonic ads.
The Monticello item reports an 85 old maids count and details a proposed C M St P depot relocation near First Street to reduce crossing dangers. It notes school census duties, a U S A Business College ad, a 1891 high school reunion, and vendor Shayne’s Catholic calendar canvassing with church disavowal.
Mrs Lena Rohn died at her Monticello home last Saturday after four days of illness from pneumonia and stomach trouble. Born in Hanover Germany 1855 she moved to the United States in 1875 and to Monticello in 1876. She ran the family grocery and poultry business after her 1882 husband Frederick Rohn’s death and aided the poor with credit. Surviving children are Theodore and William, plus Frederick and Mrs Minnie Melchert and Mrs Fr W Apel. funeral at Methodist Episcopal church with German and English addresses. Interment at Oak Woods cemetery. Golden Eagle Clothing House advertises summer stock closeout.
The council’s regular meeting mainly routine with two resolutions passed. One transfers 700 dollars to park funds and the other condemns the current depot, urges a new building, and promises support for its construction. Financials show July scale receipts 16 dollars and weighmaster salary approved.
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