Local items and notices from Dawson's and neighbors
Items list shopping ads and personal notes. Clara Koop visits Dubuque. J G Sater builds additon at home New Idea Patterns Deutrick’s. Miss Alma Matson visits Rolfe. Nellie and Jennie Haeussler on trip to South Dakota. Miss Deva Coykendall visits Strawberry Point. Alma Matson and friends frequent area stores. Mrs Hefner visits Delaware. Prof McCracken returns from Mechanicaville. Rex hog remedy at Dawson's. dresses on sale Hilers Bolton's. J B Houser offers houses lots for sale or rent.
Fairfax Notes and Local Advertisements
Miss Delia Hennessey stays at Fairfax and local stores promote lace curtains Deatrick’s and Eilers Bolton’s. The Onslow Juvenile band marches to the Fairfax fair while Mrs Hogan visits Des Moines. A variety of merchants advertise groceries, flour, hosiery, and summer clearance sales as the community awaits church reopening and a midsummer sale at Wills.
Monticello Notes and Local Happenings In Brief
Miss Luella Chapman hosts in Maquoketa and visitors from Cedar Rapids Chicago and Kansas City fill Monticello social pages. Engagements, trips and weddings loom. The town teams win 6 to 0 while sales ads and real estate offers fill the docket. A carnival scam rumor sows confusion among merchants and officials.
Monticello notes and court row fill local page
E Lee travels to Elgin on business last Thursday and returns Saturday to take a higher post at Elgin. Treasurer Petcina of Anamosa visits Monticello, reports quiet county politics, while Ray Schaeffer runs AP night service from Minneapolis. A mid summer dance at Hotel Lovell. Dubuque Congregational meeting Sept 28. E M Baker leaves Diamond creameries to join Cedar Rapids Creamery Co as general solicitor. A burglary attempt at Golden Eagle fails. infant Edna Catherine Schatz dies. funeral in Monticello. Public sale of Montana horses announced by W A Hogan. List of petit jurors for September term published. A Castle Grove threshing altercation ends with a midnight court scene in Monticello.
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Castle Grove Township
Monticello
Matthiessen
Castle Grove
Anti Saloon League convention in Anamosa details and threats
A county Anti Saloon League convention in Anamosa drew about one hundred delegates with officers elected to the executive committee and numerous township superintendents. The group adopted resolutions urging organized temperance work, enforcing laws, opposing pro liquor candidates, and supporting state and local anti liquor officeholders. A separate report recalls a near lynching after Thomas Belknap, charged with a child assault, was mobbed while escaping custody. the crowd dispersed as Belknap fled with relatives present and weapons drawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
League
L. N. Lockard
W. E. van Buren
Monticello
J. C. Orth
William Thomas
I. H. Brasted
Anamosi
C. S. Barker
Bobb
Crain
Wyoming
G. W. Bottomstone
Onstow
H. T. Pan. Martello
J. W. Brown
Olin
R. D. Gordon
James Mc
Des Moines
Mth. IL
T. Lockard
A. O
Thomas Belknap
Belknap
Henry Nordman
Cass Township
Special train Marion to Monticello for Marion Fair visitors
The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway runs a special Marion to Monticello service on Thursday August 20 leaving Marion at 8 p.m. and returning from Monticello at 9:05 a.m. A. I. Jackson, A.t.
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California
Portland
Seattle
Tacoma
Victoria
Vancouver
Chicago, Milwakee & St. Paul Railway
F. A. Miller
Chicago
Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
Marion
Monticello
Marion Fair
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the Express
J. W. Doxsee
East First Street
Home News
Talmo Coffee
Dawson’s
Clara Koop
Dubuque
J. G. Sater
Deutrick
W. P. Jaquith
Doutrick’s
Alma Matson
Rolfe
Nellie
Jennie Haeussler
South Dakota
Eilers & Bolton’s
Deva Coykendall
Strawberry Point
Martin Kehoe
Dentrick’s
Lawther’s
Dawson's
Nellie Lawrence
Dan Gilchrist
H. C. Wills
Prof
Clarence McCracken
Mechanicaville
Filers & Bolton
S. A. Hefner
Delaware
F. A. Hefner
Hilers & Bolton’s
Lou Stambaugh
Youngstown, Ohio
Mr. W. Stambaugh
Deutrick’s
Frank Schneider
Davenport
Davis
Cyrus Heisey
Leona Mayberry
Farley
Rex
Deiley
Kansas
Cora, Deiley
Robert Barnhill
Corra Cameron
Galatia
Missouri
J. A. Doutrick
Eilers & Bolton's
Nellie Reiger
Emma Schneider
Ryan
Houser
Delia Hennessey
Fairfax
Deatrick’s
SA ‘Wise
Hilers & Bolton's
W. W. Hogan
W. J. Dawson’s
Onslow Juvenile
Fairfax Fair
Dawson
Owatonna
Messrs
H. C. Wills and
G. W. Eastwood
Council Bluffs
Grand Lodge
the Knights of Pythias
Sprague
Bacher & Abel
Joe Peterson
Price
Eilers & Bolton
Congregational Church
H. H. McKinney
Provident Life and Trust Co
Philadelphia
J. M. Hofacre
C. D. Walrod
Frank Thomas
Mr. Walrod
Eastwood
W. Davis
J. K. Milner
Clinton
Robert Milner
Methodist Episcopal Church
C. D. Chase
Tillie Cramer
Jones County
Mason City
A. W. Cramer
Sun
Davis’ Hardware
Loop
The
van Buren
Lee
C. W. Brown
David Street
Charter Oak
Omaha
Purmort
Presbyterian Church
Street
RE. A. Grimwood
Oxford Junction
Grimwood
Luella Chapman
Maquoketa
Peter Prahm
Emma Harsch
Cedar Rapids
J. K. Lesch
Kansas City
Deette Squiers
Misa Alice Dawson
James Myron Young
Center Junction
J. W. Coxsee
J. S. Hall
Bert Byers
Register Life Insurance Co
Iowa
C. W. Smallwood
Albia
Thomas Dawson
Frank Buxton
Wheatland
James Shelley, Sr
Oregon
Alvah
Chicago Tribune
Oscar Bucklin
Bucklin
Delaware County
Hazel Green Township
Coggan
David Farrell
Scotch Grove
Monticello State Bank
E. Landherr
Waterloo Courier
John Jacobs
Minnesota
E. Lee
Elgin
Diamond Creamery Co
Petcina
Ray Schaeffer
Associated Press
Minneapolis
Association
Great Northwest
Lovell
E. M. Baker
Diamond Creameries
Cedar Rapids Creamery Co
Baker
Cedar Rapids Company
Golden Eagle
T. A. Rohn
Carl Schatz
Edna Catherine
C. Mardorf
Oakwood Cemetery
Arthur Young Coyle
Montana
W. A. Hogan Auctioner
Anamoga
E. L. Barber
Hale
Chris Balsiger
Richland
A. Belknap
Fairview
W. Bowman
Chris Bulgren
Madison
John Burda
Oxford
B. R. Cotton
Frank Curran
Washington
J. W. DeWitt
Sam Eby
Carl Eden
Wayne
Thos. Flaherty
Cags
Chris Flitch
E. H. Gavin
Euield
Anti-Saloon League
H.C. Wills
Sale
Data and Lace
Now
Lovell Block
A. Il
H. Schipman
Louis Sinox
Errs Ayala
O.H. Soetje
Deering
Rei
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