Monticello Express Issue August 17 1899
Weekly Monticello newspaper notes Thursday publication by J W Coxsee editor and proprietor. Subscriptions priced at 1.95 per year with the August 17 1899 issue details.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
2
Weekly Monticello newspaper notes Thursday publication by J W Coxsee editor and proprietor. Subscriptions priced at 1.95 per year with the August 17 1899 issue details.
A C C submits Warren B Gregg as the republican candidate for county superintendent of schools in Jones county Iowa. Gregg born January 2 1871 in Michigan has taught seven years with five years in the Anamosa district quarry school and was president of the Jones county teachers association last year. He has attended Valparaiso Normal and keeps up to date with educational methods.
CastLe Grove reports Newton Parrott will build a new house this fall and D J Hogan hauled cattle to Kansas City last week. Frank Miller suffered heat exhaustion threshing on Wednesday, Alfred Laude is ill, W A Krueger back may be lame. Mrs C A Davis and granddaughter visit from St Peter Minn while Mrs Wiley Eberhart from near Manchester visits and attends Jones county fair. Frank McLaughlin received a gold watch and chain an easy chair and a toilet set for his twenty first birthday on Aug 5. Harriet Hosford of Concordia visited her uncle O F Hosford and family then returned to Kansas. Mr Chamberlain of Winthrop eyed the Downerville creamery with plans to lease it, and the rumour says the creamery will open again after a long delay.
Rev T W Hine visits Chicago this week and will return Thursday with his wife and baby daughter Mrs H Robinson and children depart for Madison 8 D. Their friends wish them success in their new field. The Sunbeam Mission band holds its annual social August 22 in Sinclair Bros warehouse with recitations and a male quartet. Refreshments will be served.
Louis Gardner of THE Express force produced a creditable daily for the Monticello fair last week. The document was refused circulation on the fair grounds by Secretary Bishop despite listing the fair's daily program and other items of interest to the association.
Monticello hosted the Jones County Agricultural Society fair last week. Gate receipts lagged slightly due to the early date, but concession and entry fees surged, keeping total receipts near 1898 levels. Races impressed. track records tumbled in the free for all pace and several items won praise for effort and organization.
A new pastor asks congregants who has read Jude chapter two. half raise their hands. He notes only one chapter exists, then urges readers home to reread Jude to learn something new, quoting Guthrie in the Leader.
Don’t discard linen trimmings from new tablecloths. Save the long threads to reinforce and extend the cloth’s life as wear develops. Also iron and fold the linens in varied ways to create different creases so wear doesn’t repeat in one spot.
A red heifer about two years old is offered at a farm four miles north of Monticello. The owner may obtain it by proving property and paying expenses. Also notice of land prices in Blue Grass region southwest Iowa from $25 to $40 per acre and contact Write S Shoemaker, Fontanelle, Adair county, Iowa.
A Paris fashion portrait notes how artists and professionals adopt striking styles to signal their roles while the London observer observes Paris observers. The piece also reports Professor Joly of Trinity College Dublin explaining how skate bite arises from high edge pressure on ice and the need for hollow ground blades in very cold conditions.
A Pittsburg man asks if a town is growing during a train conversation. The reply notes quiet improvement in tastes with daily bananas from Cincinnati and groceries stocking shredded codfish and Limburger cheese. The chat foresees no building boom yet predicts gradual advancement to modern amenities.
The Republican delegates from Jones and Cedar counties meet in Stanwood Cedar county on Tuesday August 22 1899 at 10 oclock a m to nominate a candidate for state senator for this district and to transact any other business before the convention A MATTTHESSEN W A HAMM Chn Repln Centl Com Chn Repln Centl Com Jones county Cedar county
The building committee of Richland sub district No 4 Jones county Iowa invites sealed proposals for a new school house to be erected on the NE corner of Section 29. Bids due September 9 1899 at 2 pm at Leonard Wismeyer home. Plans available after September 1. Bid will require a bond and right to reject any bid. Leonard Wismeyer Wa L Moore Adams Prints Building Committee 8w4
The Scotch Grove School Township building committee in Jones County Iowa will accept sealed bids for a school house in sub district No 1 on Saturday September 9 at 2 PM at the undersigned residence in Scotch Grove Plans and specs available after September 1 at the same place C M Hanna Secretary of the School Township of Scotch Grove.
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