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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1881
Page
4
Fragmentary timetable lists passenger and freight services with times and routes including NORTH SOUTH WEST and various class notes. Readable entries show departures around early morning and afternoon with mixed passenger and freight terms.
Monticello newspaper brief with ads for groceries dairy butter wagons harnesses and services and notes on local events. Includes plans for agricultural fair preparations and a county Republican convention upcoming with commentary on candidacy and community concerns.
Meadow View society notes list residents and visitors including Hon John Rynsell and wife in town last Saturday Mrs GA M Greg of St Louis visiting sister Mrs GA Boman in town Mrs G W Garloot departed for Mik Pont Dakota to visit daughter Mrs De Witt and Hon Win Shaw on creamery business Also mentions butter makers Latha Blaze and Mrs G B Wales visiting Chicago with plans to visit Milwaukee before returning Other locals and travelers are noted with various departures and arrivals including updates on families and business prospects in Monticello and surrounding areas.
A list of obituaries notes Alice Noyes, aged one, and Mrs. Bickford of Monticello, Maine era, with lines about their deaths and eulogies. It details Alice’s brief life and the family’s grief, and recounts Mrs. Bickford’s long life from Kennebec County to Iowa then Monticello, with children and surviving kin.
Palmer and Co. plan to keep coal prices at a record low through the season. They thank customers for patronage and expect steady orders for the future from Danan and Co.
Last evening a dispatch announced Hon G G Banghart died at 8 o’clock. Born February 12 1817 in Belvidere Warren County New Jersey he became Cascade's leading merchant and a longtime public official. He survived by wives and ten children with a career through multiple panics and local development including stake in the Cascade narrow gauge railroad. He was a conservative Democrat who backed the nation during the Civil War and was known for honesty and reliability.
Acknowledgments pour in from residents as a well regarded business leader who lived in Canende County is mourned after death. Friends and family express enduring sympathy, noting his benevolence and community impact across a broad circle.
A traveling 80 performer company from New York will present a continuous program of entertaining acts in Monticollo on August 87th at Qporn House. The troupe tours in a special car and is praised by local exchanges as first class and side splitting with no long interludes.
Coal merchants advertise heavy sales of Goth Nut and Ranga coal at A No. 1 quality with cash on delivery. They urge potential buyers to contract now for delivery from October through Lat and promise close prices to all contracting parties.
Farm goods and harness offered for cash by Will J C Guawust two doors east of Grassmeyer’s Hardware in Monticello. Specialized stock includes whips dusters fly nets brushes and related gear. Repairs available promptly and neatly.
Des Moines Register reports Leywood's Mastodons, a minstrel troupe, performed at Des Moines Opera House last evening. The show drew fair attendance with familiar features and several novelties, praised for the orchestra regarded as exceptionally good.
Notice invites descendants and landowners to attend a surveying day on Tuesday August 6 at the Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church cemetery to arrange lot shapes and sizes as desired.
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