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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
7
A collage of brief items lists visits by residents to nearby towns including Anamosa Marion Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. It promotes goods from H C Wills Deitrick's Hicks and Eilers Model and mentions tax lists Woodmen excursion and multiple small business offerings and travel notes.
Local residents share social calls and travel to nearby cities while merchants advertise specials. Families visit Marion Cedar Rapids Boone and Missouri, and store promotions for lace curtains dress goods and baking powder appear alongside concerted civic events.
Presiding Elder Williams to preach at U. B. church Thursday evening August 28. Three I league teams sought for a fair game on Friday. Emma Deischer and brother Boyd return from Colfax. health reportedly poor. Various local updates on residents, contracts, and fair preparations.
Mr and Mrs C A Kendall of New York state tour Monticello before Denver on homeward journey. Oxford Junction band played a street concert to cheering crowds. C W Brown slowly recovers from illness and may soon attempt the beach. Mrs Anna Matthiessen marks her 65th birthday with a family reunion. Clell McLaughlin runs a Hawkeye drug store since July 4. Wm Bartholin sought for double murder. Chicago police involved. W B Guthrie to speak at Presbyterian church and Castle Grove, then union service at Methodist church. Mrs Marion Sleeper ill in Chicago. husband stays with her. Fair association orders 300 cushions for amphitheatre seating. Frank Sutherland recovering after leg injury from stock yard sale. Bi-Bi Comedy of Toys to be staged at the opera house with Drills. low admission. Harvest Home Festival set at M E church with wares from Towa. chicken pie dinner and supper planned. Debt concerns noted to keep church-building efforts from encroaching on entertainment budget.
George Hogan is serving ten days in Anamosa county jail for drunkenness. Earlier he appeared before Squire Matthiessen on the same charge, with steps taken to send him to the Mt. Pleasant inebriates asylum. After another drunken arrest by Justice Babcock, he was again sent to Anamosa. Matthiessen recommends Mt. Pleasant confinement. Judge Remley is expected to order it. He would be the first Jones county case under the new law, with detention from one to three years, and a second appearance could bring three to five years.
The farm hand Jake Mohlman vanished in July on the Huels farm in Cass township after a day in the field with Fred Huels and Sam Humble of Monticello. Neighbors reported rumors, back pay, and a missing supper, while a five-man party including County Attorney Reed failed to uncover his whereabouts. Authorities believe he left the farm but provide no explanation, and the case draws Sherlock Holmes comparisons as the community seeks light on the mysterious disappearances. Mr. Benjamin DeWald of Monticello died suddenly last Tuesday at age 82. He born in 1820 in Lycoming county Pennsylvania and left a large family. funeral services were held this afternoon in Monticello.
Wm. E. Curtin reports from the Chicago Record-Herald on Atlantic City attractions including a dangerous bicycle act where a nervy rider dives from 125 feet onto a water tank net. The sensational stunt is billed for the upcoming Jones County Fair, drawing local interest. A German ministerial convention met at Rev Balcar’s Richland township home with ten to twelve foreign ministers in attendance for discussion and social exchange.
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