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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
2
The Wyoming column notes visitors from Oklahoma and Wisconsin, plus local business changes as Corner Store changes hands to C. P. Price of Chicago. It covers school and social events, the Woodmen Picnic and fair attendance, a death and funeral, baseball results, and civic improvements including a cement culvert and rail line walk.
August town items include visits by the McGuinnis family and Mrs. Ganfield, plus tours by Miss Kate Maurice and Miss Ella Little. A 10 inning Cascade win over Dyersville 4 to 3, bank meeting voting directors, and other society brief items accompany reports of illnesses, travel, and a new baby born in Chicago.
Onslow notes mark August U1 as Mrs. Scott of Maquoketa visits, Gene Mackrill from Wall SD visits relatives, and Prof. J A Thompson of Highland Park College stays with Ruth Spooner. Carrie Mackrill returns from Platt SD. Mrs Quenzel and Daughter from Baltimore visit Norris home. The Streeper baby’s death is reported. Presbyterian services resumed after a vacation. Sunday Schools plan a picnic at Supple’s bridge. various residents visit Spokane, Clinton, Chicago and New York. The Great Barrow Dog and Pony show arrives Saturday.
Center Junction reports visits and travels among residents on August 8. Mrs Mead Sanford visited near Amber with several locals. Muted illness brings Mr M Y Witham from Janesville several days. Wooduren picnic draws about 40 to Wyoming. Children’s Day planned at Center Junction Presbyterian Church August 16. Local visits include Dr W W Hunter and attorney Chas Sutherland. Several residents attended events in Hopkinton Marion and Cedar Rapids. Several families plan harvest work in North Dakota.
A rural column from August 12 records local visits and news including George Tobiason delivering veal calves to Monticello, the Hammis and Harns families visiting, and health notes on an elderly neighbor. It notes a red hog missing since August 7, a notable corn crib project, and Ed Stutt’s soon completed house. Other items include threshing reports, crop yields of oats and barley, straw stacking observations, and bids for a district 3 school house in Scotch Grove Iowa with a August 15 deadline. The section closes with farm ads and a sale offer for a 40 acre Monticello area farm.
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