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Onticello Express notes weekly publication by J W Doxsee with Thursday issue and editor proprietor details. Subscription set at 1.75 dollars.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1901
Page
4
Onticello Express notes weekly publication by J W Doxsee with Thursday issue and editor proprietor details. Subscription set at 1.75 dollars.
August 13 news from Wromine reports F D Hawley gravely ill. Rev A Bronson is sick from age and heat. Mrs Fred Bronson of Chicago arrives for his illness. Visitors include P C Tourtellet Cedar Rapids and John Crissick buying the store room. social at Presbyterian Ladies with 200 attendees. Fire drill 3 am no alarm. Onslow belles Dolly Paul and friends attended the sociable. visitors urge return visits.
August 13 notes report a new baseball team organized locally. Mr Bright replaces Agent Robison. Hoyt Bros. buy a gasoline engine. Mrs Filla King visited friends, Miss Minnie Clark returns home from Center Junction, Miss Gertrude Edwards back to Epworth. Delbert Kerr travels northbound. R W Brady called to Farley. Farmers show cautious corn outlook. Local youths plan picnic at Supple’s Bridge Wednesday. Phillip and William Kuhns ship two cars of steers. Mr and Mrs Sweesy of Monticello visit daughter Mrs C S Applegate. H V Robison works briefly at Strawberry Point depot. Elizabeth Shipley visits Bates’ between trains. Mrs Robison and son visit Greeley on Friday. Mrs Adam Sutherland, Simon, and Mrs Allen Hutton depart for two weeks in Winois.
Henry Reade returns from Northwest trip. Geo C Lawrence of Anamosa on official business. Mrs Geo Smith and son visit from Clinton. Mrs Taylor of Epworth visits family of Aunt Spooner. J H Cooksey reports alarming spells. Beth Neelans hosts tea for seven. Fairs draw visitors from Anamosa and Monticello. Henry Stoffel of Mechanicsville visiting with son Earl. A A Vaughn and daughter Florence hosted Monday evening. Attorney John Orr of Orange City visiting relatives. Mabel Adams leaves for East home. Mrs Geo Chase recovers enough to visit neighbors. A P Norton finishes Sokol house and returns to Wyoming. Lyman Osborn and family depart for Wisconsin lakes then Niagara Falls and Buffalo Exposition.
AmBer notes report Dr Drinkwater in the area yesterday and O T Ruhe and wife visiting near Waubeek last week. Mrs James Brown visited her sister at Sand Spring, last Saturday. Mr and Mrs Clarence Taylor of Epworth are visiting here. W J Sanford in Kansas sends word of heavy rain there. Postmaster Weirs joined the Cedar Rapids convention and cheered for Cummins. Maurice O Connor, a section boss, et al.
At Bryant, who was home over Sunday visiting his parents Misa Libbie Hathaway of Freeport Illinois and her sister Mrs. E Ramsey returned home yesterday after the visit.
Castle Grove reports include R. Shear losing a colt and his father’s funeral in Albany New York. Monticello visitors Stephen Hosford and C F Hosford are noted along with Mamie Waddick at the Marion Teachers Institute. Threshing is active oats yield 26 to 50 bushels per acre rye 30. Fred Cramer and Elsie travel home from Coggin where a dog scare caused a buggy accident leaving Fred unconscious and Elsie unhurt.
The September term list names jurors cited to appear September 17 1901 at 10 a m in Anamosa. Included are John Brownell Jule Brant W E Tallman Geo Switzer Louis Kohl Ike Grover J A McDonald Elmer Newman Wm Hanken W J Ketcham J A Belknap E F Hartman Hugh Corbett John Crawford J John Gillen J G Reid pes J W Callahan Chas Dennison Gilbert Blayney John McNeilly Ed M Moore Will Hosch and others from Fairview Monticello Magison Greenfield Love Castle Grove Scotch Grove Jackson Richland and nearby areas. The notice also advertises the U S A Business College Fayette Iowa with courses in bookkeeping shorthand typewriting penmanship and more.
About 60 farmers witnessed a corn binding contest on Nick Bisenius farm near Cascade. The McCormick binder outperformed the Deering light running model by lighter draft easier operation neater bundles and binding all stalks in the bundle.
Nine thousand acres of timber and meadow lands in central Minnesota offered at 3.50 to 4.50 per acre. Smooth land with good soil and easy terms. Excursion rates available twice a month via Nickel Plate Road. John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 111 Adams St., Chicago. city ticket office also at 111 Adams St. Chicago. Through trains to New York City with vestibuled sleepers and dining cars. Letters for particulars to Calahan.
H M Remury is named as judge of the district court for the 18th Judicial District of Iowa. The appointment marks a key expansion of the state’s judicial seating and responsibilities within the district court system.
City council adopts an ordinance to declare dangerous buildings a nuisance in Monticello Iowa. It allows repair removal or destruction with a special tax on the property and owner to cover costs, reported to the county auditor for collection. The health committee enforces repairs or removals and the ordinance takes effect after publication. Signed August 9 1901 by Mayor Gev G Schaeffer.
Court notice to numerous defendants that James T. O'Brien seeks to quiet title to specific lands in Jones County Iowa. The petition asserts long adverse possession and asserts predecessor conveyances and heirs names, seeks reform of a deed title and permanent estoppel against any claims. Publication ordered in The Monticello Express for six weeks beginning July 25 1901.
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