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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
2
The Monticello Express issue from Thursday August 10 1899 lists J W Doxsee as editor and proprietor and a yearly subscription price of 81 75. The notice confirms the paper’s weekly publication schedule and pricing.
Miss Blanch Paul is safe from Chicago and many visitors call on Onslow residents. Threshing begins with good grain yield though corn looks risky. Woodmen celebration drew 500 to 800 attendees after a wet morning. Local politics aim for a unified ticket. I J Sokol for representative is proposed and delegates urged to reveal candidate lists early.
Castle Groves updates show Kromminga Bros purchasing a new threshing outfit and Will Zimmerman trading his old machine for a Port Huron outfit. Michael Haley made a business trip to Anamosa. A F M Caspers family visited Wayne. Harvest Home attendees went to Hopkinton. Elsie and Edith Cramer visited Manchester. Mr and Mrs A Danks of Monticello were Castle Grove visitors. Frank L Virrell of Chicago is visiting sister Mrs Charles Fairbanks.
Miss Blanche Milne of Monmouth Illinois visited over Sabbath. Mrs. Florence Wells of Marion guests of Mrs. D. O. Sinclair. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hanna and daughter Cora visit with C. M. Hanna. Mrs. J. M. Warner and daughter Mabel visit Robert Clark. Mr. and Mrs. W. Moats and the Misses camping at the river. Spencer of West Union visits A. P. Moats and attends the Fair. Myrtle Stevenson and brother Harry of Dubuque visit with relatives here. Mrs. Alex Rice and children from Center Junction spend days in Scotch Grove.
Miss Emma Hutchins visits Stone City friends. Chris Ingwersen adds a house extension on Main street. Win Like of Cherokee visited the town last week with brother David. Miss Mary Calkins and Master Walter Calkins went to Davenport. Fred Jepsen of Onslow rents the Commercial House taking possession September 1. Mrs C N Witler and Mrs W J Chamberlain visit Willoughby Ohio relatives. A goodly number of our people attended.
The Woodmen picnic at Onslow last Saturday drew a good crowd and pleasant reports. Berty Thomas of Aurora is visiting home for a few days and states business is good with satisfaction at his new location. Attorney Park Chamberlain attended a lawsuit at Seatch Grove and performed duties at the county seat. Trijah Day, aged father of Alfred Day, died last Wednesday at Alfred Day's home after a long illness. Funeral services were Sunday morning at the house conducted by Rev. A W Smith with Rev. A Bronson assisting.
San Jose horses travel to Dubuque for a Thursday half mile race with a $75 purse. JHllert marks 2 114, entries from seven states including Wisconsin Minnesota California Missouri South Dakota and Iowa. Admiral Dewey 2 27 pace among noted entrants. large crowds expected.
Rev A T Hooker of Olin will fill the U B church pulpit on Sabbath morning. Rev J F Black of Anamosa will preach at the union meeting in the opera house Sunday evening. Presbyterian church holds morning service next Sunday. Church of Christ will not meet next Lord's Day due to the pastor's travel. social service and communion follow. Congregational church will conduct its usual morning worship.
A temporary 80 by 50 foot pavilion is set up by local Christians on the grounds with Mr. Alexander Rice caring for the space. The program for the next Saturday evening includes a band concert featuring Battleship March Coochi Cocchi Over the Waves Palitinus Mareh sacral tunes Uncle Dooley's Delight Old Kentucky Home and more with social meeting and informal services planned throughout.
The Anamosa fair runs August 14 to 18 with the Hassan Ben Ali Arab troupe and contortionist Juno Salmo among many acts. Gymnasts the Palos and Eyton Bros, the Vegarra Jays, and four daily horse races highlight the program with children's free day Tuesday. Officers listed include John 4%, president, and E R Moore, secretary.
A San Francisco Argonaut note recalls Mrs. Julia Ward Ilowe's dry wit. At Newport a guest sought a lovely sentiment about her piazza, and Ilowe replied in her refined tone that it is a bully piazza.
The poem laments a broken engagement as the speaker confesses a love wasted before. He accepts the end of the vow, expresses sorrow and shame, and vows to hide the heartache while wishing the beloved well and longing for strength to endure.
Boston Herald recalls a rare 1860 meeting when President Buchanan invited Vice President Breckinridge to review his Thanksgiving proclamation. Breckinridge, a Kentuckian aligned with southern leaders, left after offering polite remarks, the only such private interview Buchanan granted him.
A true story from the Atlanta Constitution recounts a dog trained to carry a written cracker order to a grocer. The clerks failed to read the blank paper, leading to overcharges until the owner inspected the document and uncovered the ruse.
A New York area woman tracked begging letters over 42 days to test the cost of every request for money. She found that granting each plea would have spent 1 600 000 dollars in six weeks, a striking figure highlighted by Harper's Bazaar.
The 18 inch gun on US Navy battleships fires a 34 foot long projectile weighing 1100 pounds. It travels 80 feet before exiting the muzzle and spins at 75 revolutions per second. The gun’s rifling has 52 grooves cut 0.05 inches deep at the bore.
A fragmented item notes a tire puncture this morning while riding in a strange country. The exchange cites Toronto World as the source, with dialogue between Sprocket and Crocket.
A humorous excerpt features a wife told by her husband they must divorce due to rheumatic tendencies and giving up sweet things. The sample also notes Japan’s pauper count below ten thousand in a 38 million population and a social stigma against idleness.
Two Aristean fops, Count Crober and Marquis aroncea, competed at a court ball over costumes and jewels. Crober revealed a cloak tied to Correggio artwork, winning 1000 ducats while the Correggio valued at 100000. Crober later died penniless, pension cut after Francis I’s death, his frozen body found on the Danube shore.
The Granary burial ground near the Boston Comion was disturbed to make way for a subway. After removing 910 remains, a Scots elder resisted a new tomb being used for his ancestors. He finally agreed if a tomb were built, but objected to his bones being put there. The guard then demanded the old tomb be closed.
On a remote South Pacific island a lone white planter traps attention with coconut trade, island dances, and a pet sperm whale nearly 70 feet long. The whale, fed from a horn signal, performs ponderous tricks for meals of meat or fish aboard his compact harbor home.
In Sharpers Bazar a yokel reads a two year old newspaper report about Duffty who has died again from a premature blast. He misreads the date and laments bad luck as Mrs MecLubberty questions the tale.
The quote highlights five keys to wealth: push, squareness, clear head, thrift, and steady rule of not overworking. It warns against excessive labor and urges modest profits over risky, grasping schemes. Ten hours daily is the upper limit for any man.
A miscellany notes Siberian bridal custom testing a wife’s education with a home prepared dinner and family reputation. It cites tin as an ancient metal used by Chinese in brasses and bronzes. Additional items mention Leo's Lice Killer for poultry, a Monticello seller, and land prices in the Blue Grass region.
Len T Smith and General Towell Clayton plotted with a gambler to run a large faro scam on a Cuban contact in New York. They entertained him lavishly for days and planned to split fifty thousand dollars taken from the Cuban, but the scheme failed. Estimates show the gamblers spent about $1,000 during the affair.
A Chicago Record correspondent recounts a visit to a museum with an impressive marble sarcophagus showing Alexander the Great bas reliefs. An Egyptian mummy case bore a warning against disturbing the mortal remains, yet excavators found gold clasped in the mummy’s hand, implying greed persists after death.
A Columbus Dispatch report recounts a colored inmate punished in a jail cellar who fearfully pleaded with a deputy to spare him. He claimed a crocodile in the fountain had bitten him, insisting he would not return to the jail, while the reptile remained present and the inmate kept his word to stay away.
A new servant confesses to discovering a bottle labeled Kid Reviver in the medicine cupboard after a baby grows suddenly ill. The young wife overhears the claim and questions the girl's story, noting there is no medicine in the cupboard. The incident is reported in London Tit-Bits.
In Hull a girl invited to a friend’s party declined a bun offered by the hostess after ten games. She explained she could not eat more and said she would bring a basket next time, adding she was full but would save room.
A professor mocked Darwin with a demolition of his theories asking where our tails would be if we are monkeys. An audience member quipped we have sat on them so long that they are worn off ending the exchange with a sharp joke.
The text compares the United States unfavorably with older European countries where milk and cheese intake per person is higher. It also notes that some royal crowns are merely silk wadded caps with jewel decorations.
In Kreuzeber Saxony a parish priest amid a Sunday sermon named Herr Meinhardt for glancing at girls. Meinhardt denied the charge saying a neck boil kept his head tilted and caused the misunderstanding, per London Leader.
A young wife proudly says she made her first mince pie without help and suggests framing it as a keepsake while her husband agrees it could be kept rather than cut. The exchange captures a playful domestic moment from London Tit-Bits.
City clerk of Monticello Town invites bids to furnish 670 feet of three inch cast iron water pipe to be laid on Center and Waryell streets. Plans and specifications available on request. Bids due by September 1, 1809. City reserves right to reject any or all bids.
Five acres of land with two houses offered by HL M Carpenter. Inquiries directed through Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Co. Harvest hands travel offer available in parties of five or more at two cents per mile. Full information at the depot.
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