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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1911
Page
8
Cascade notes a Harvest Home picnic in Taylor's Grove on August 17 with $600 raised for attractions, speaker W. H. Torbert, and bands. Local families visit, births andcomings are recorded, and preparations frame a historic town event if weather permits.
Scotch Grove notes list events and visits with many residents in nearby towns. The August 22 Harvest Home picnic is announced and local social moves include visits by Loomis, Langs, and Lange, plus news of trips to Dakota Waterloo Des Moines and St Louis.
Castle Grove August 9 reports Sheriff Hogan nearby last Friday. The J A Mc Laughlin farm barn is being reshingled. Clergymen Parmott Des Moines and Innes Ames visited friends here. Mr and Mrs O F Krueger Doon called on local relatives. D J Hogan’s barn struck by lightning in recent storm. Mr and Mrs J A Deischer left for western Canada to inspect Deischer land. Ice cream social at the Catholic church lawn last Wednesday was pleasant. Mrs Bell Dunham and daughter Elma along with Leslie Dunham and wife Monticello were Sunday guests at Wilder home. Mrs E J Noble and Grace expected home soon.
After visiting relatives in California western travelers went on to Portland and Eugene City Oregon and Bozeman Montana. Wm McKenna who runs the engine of the Waddick threshing outfit fell from the machinery last Thursday striking his back on a wagon wheel causing a painful injury and momentary loss of consciousness before returning to the throttle.
An old advertisement claims one ounce of Aseptazone dissolved in a gallon of warm water forms a cure for cholera bowel trouble croup colds and canker. It recommends giving a tablespoonful to a quart of the solution in a drink.
John W. Modders of Moddersville Michigan suffered a cure resisting stomach ailment that forced sale of his farm. He praised Electric Bitters saying they let him eat foods he could not tolerate for years and claimed benefits for liver and kidneys with guarantee at 60 cents a bottle from O H Soetje.
Senator Cum ming seeks to distance himself from actions that would close doors on his own political standing. The remark frames him as resisting moves that isolate him from party support.
D. Frankel of Stroud Oklahoma says his wife treated their boy’s ugly boil with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and it cured quickly. The salve also heals burns scalds cuts corns bruises sprains swellings and is offered at 25 cents by O. H. Soetje.
Wanted and For Sale notices list coal by Voorhees Coal Co. For sale include a high room house near German church at 612 R. Grenenwald a rubber tired buggy and wind mill agency by Perkins Eclipse and Star wind mills with mill and pump repairs. Leroy Clark guarantees all work. Lochner Bros Music Store offers pianos organs Edison phonographs and more with sewing machines and sheet music.
The petition of John Tl Perrine plaintiff claims against Mary Allen and others a debt of 1664.95 with interest, plus costs and taxes paid, for a mortgage on Lots 10d 105 and lus of Railroad Addition in Monticello. No personal judgment against other defendants. Default will be entered if no defense by Sept 18, 141.
In the Iowa District Court for Jones County during the 1911 September Term, Frederick F. Hansen sues Francelia Tebo and multiple defendants to quiet title to the east half of the northwest quarter and west half of the northeast quarter in section 2, township 84, range 2. The petitioner alleges title by warranty deed, an error in description, and more than ten years of open, adverse possession. If no answer by Sept 18, 1911, default and judgment will be entered.
In the District Court of Town Janes County a September 1911 equity suit by Thomas James George and others seeks title to multiple parcels in Section 28, Township 86 North Range 2 West. Defendants include Samuel N Fain John Branner Michael Bairne and heirs with a history of open adverse possession and complex chain of title filings.
The petition describes a long chain of unrecorded deeds and tax certificates tied to James George and Mary Ann Mulkern that led to open adverse possession since 1887. It seeks title in fee simple for the plaintiffs and to bar all defendants from any adverse claim, with publication of notice for the September 1911 term.
In Jones County Iowa W G Wherry files a petition in the District Court naming numerous defendants descendants of Henry Paul and spouses for an 8 percent interest of a land parcel described as section township range. The notice directs all defendants to appear and answer the petition now on file in the clerk's office.
Michigan land excursion by special Pullman car to the Swigart Tract in the Fruit Belt offers 40acre and larger farms at $10 to $25 per acre with favorable terms. Departures from Chicago at 11:30 a m on the first and third Tuesdays each month. $6 round trip, fare rebated on purchases.
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