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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
7
The column lists visits by many residents to relatives in towns such as Chicago Delhi Springville Cent r Junction and Mason City along with shop promotions like special clearance remnant dress goods and a large lumber stock sale. It notes piano tuning eye care services and a baseball game in Wyoming with local vendors and merchants touting goods and services.
Monticello and surrounding towns report visits and news including Mrs. H Hagen closing her dry goods store in Chicago week ahead. Cannon Hole area residents, Miss Irene Henderson and Miss Edith Tasker visiting Cedar Rapids Wy oming and Madison. rep Clifford Paul in town from Des Moines. several shipments and sales at Deatrick's, Davis Hardware and Eclipse Lumber.
J A Voorhees promotes Canadian and Texas land options with broad northeast southwest holdings. George W Curtis plans Iowa travel via Upland California, visiting Monticello next month. Mr Mrs Peter Matthiessen and daughter visit Colfax for a two week stay. Mrs Matthiessen seeks springs relief. A farmer finds a hen laid an egg under a buggy seat. The Anamosa Fair gets a special Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul train on August 29 from Monticello, returning from Anamosa at 7 05 p m.
Mr. Charles Rastede remains very ill with inflammatory rheumatism at his Langworthy home and has been bedridden for eleven weeks with little sign of improvement. His wife and daughter care for him.
The Rock Island baseball club defeated Monticello 3 to 0 on Thursday after rain, then won 5 to 3 in Saturday’s game before a small crowd. Monticello showed good fielding but weaker pitching.
A bending fence causes strain on stay wires throwing them out of perpendicular. The Apex swinging joint corrects the alignment and restores proper angle.
Mr J B Moses of Center Junction reports strong honey sales after placing an Express ad with buyers in Minnesota Texas and Nebraska. He plans 6 000 pounds this year from 75 bee stands, two years ago he sold 12 000 pounds. Meanwhile John Marugg reports beer thefts near town as two suspects eyed a night barrel lift. police expect arrests after recovering the beer.
The next quarterly board of supervisors meets on the second Monday in September the 9th. Legislation moved meetings from the first to the second Monday in September each year with other schedule changes. Community notes mention Rev J W Innes coping with Dr Inglis and others in the North, and Harvey Richardson breaking into the camp.
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