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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1897
Page
3
Local item highlights from Monticello noting Geo Suhr returning from Clinton and various visits, shop promotions, new goods at Wills Deitrick and Hicks Eilers, a fair week sale on tan goods, and fashion items at Curtiss and Goldstone Bros with discounts and calls to visit Henderson's and Lon Jennings' groceries.
Local residents and visitors appear across Monticello with tales of trips to Keokuk Clay Scotch Grove Marion and Delhi.Rail improvements on passenger depot platform noted. A baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Cartano and various trips visits and socials fill week notes.
Local visits include Miss May Hallock Cedar Rapids and Frank Williamson Hopkinton in Monticello. Phyician Dr E A Kegley Cedar Rapids to visit Aug 28. weddings and fairs loom with sales promotions and studio invites.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hicks marked fifty years of marriage with a reception in Monticello after a life shared from Arcadia New York to Bowen's Prairie Iowa. Hicks served in the Thirty-first Iowa during the Civil War and raised ten children, now spread across Iowa and Washington.
Monticello hosts the Jones County Fair association guests with a reputation rivaling state fairs. The fair guards against gambling and corruption, ensuring daily exhibitions and promised pledges fulfilled. This year Ellen Vetter performs a spiral act encased in a 26 inch apparatus, a standout novelty.
The article describes a county fair with thrilling novelty acts including Harry Tangslow the wire artist performing from 40 feet high. It notes daily appearances plus races base ball and other amusements. Special trains from Fayette and south line offer convenient visits to Olin Martelle and nearby stations with evening return connections. A six room residence with garden is for sale or rent through W. HL Hour.
Frame dwelling house in a good location with one acre of land. The house has five rooms and a cellar. Price four hundred fifty dollars. J. B. Smrrir.
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