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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
2
Local notes recount visits by Ernest Horton, Mrs. James of Chicago, and others to Genoa Nebraska. A large family reunion of the Hall family in Onslow is described with 84 attendees, a 48 foot long table, and a poetry reading.
Miss Elsie Macomber visits Cascade while Des Moines College professor stays in town. The Co-operative Creamery paid 24 cents for July butter fat. Cascade beats Galena 6 to 1 in a Sunday game and 9 to 2 against Hazel Valley. The Railsplitters visit Cedar Rapids in a 7 to 5 Cascade win. Restoration of Farley mail service credited to late Senator Allison. A neighborhood machine wreck injures a man. Kean and Dirkin sustain injuries in a ball game. Fannie Rogers born 1866 and died 1908 with family in Cascade.
A funeral was held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the M E church where the deceased was a devoted member. The family has deep roots tracing back to the area's earliest settlement.
Center Junction notes Perry Scroggie of Clay and Mrs. Kate Hunicut with visits and a sociable on Hart's lawn draws a large crowd. Premier events include Harvest Home in Hopkins and Lenox College recital in Castle Grove with Pearl Orcutt and Hector Smith performing.
In Clay on August 18 Orr Bros commenced threshing while Frank Howard remains on the sick list. The wind damaged corn last Saturday. Clifford French of Onslow visited here Sunday. Defiance Hill school opened with Miss Amy Streeper as teacher. Robert Moncrieff uses a new No 4 Iowa Dairy cream separator. Sunday School class at Mrs Sarah Orr's home met last Thursday with a good time. Robert Mead returned from South Dakota reporting low harvest help and reduced wages. locals discuss church liquor restrictions and note illicit liquor concerns with unusually strong contents.
Rural Route No 3 reports Wm Sandhouse says the boy is fine. Mrs Hagen and daughter Dena visited Nordman. Misses Kuehn and Otto Nipp stayed at Burrichter home. Lawrence Bros hauled outs to town last Monday at 45 center bushel. H Behrends and H Peters headed to Dakota for threshing season. Siben and Harms families shared Sunday with Onslow relation Christ Siben and S z.
Castle Grove scenes include the school board meeting and repapered schoolhouse No. 3 with new windows. Neighbors report sales, visits, and social events plus farming changes. A nine pound boy joins Mr. and Mrs. Henry Evans, and Raymond Repstein reports killing a rattlesnake. The old Davidson farm houses remain a topic of note.
Anamosa earns fame as a premier fair town with a 1908 lineup featuring Griff Bros European Acrobat Marvels and the Ronaldos premier grotesques. The program runs August 24 to 28 with pace and trot races, several runs, and baseball and basketball games including Center Junction vs Anamosa and Cedar Rapids Rail Splitters vs Anamosa.
The Hagenbeck Wallace combined show comes to Monticello featuring world class acts from both troupes. Highlights include new Parisian Thaleros and Bersini Troupe with a large zoological display and sea lion act, plus riding lions and polar bears. A free street parade precedes the performance with two nightly shows and a stock pavilion event. Reserved seats and transport plans are noted, with petrol coke promoted by Voorhees Coal Co.
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