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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1903
Page
7
Cedar Rapids visitors include Mr. J. H. Bacher and Mrs. J. Hi. Bacher. Miss Lisle Richardson returns from the East. Miss Caroline Byerly from the South. Telmo coffee urged at Dawson's. Doutrick’s and Hilers & Bolton’s advertise goods. a union meeting at the Presbyterian church next Sunday. Local events include barn erection by John Fry, a 10 dollar purse race won by Rasmus Christensen, and a sermon by Rev. Barend H. Kreeze.
Town readers learn of school opening next Monday and fall stock buys plus lace curtains sale at Deatrick's. Residents travel to Chicago, Platte and Cedar Rapids while harvest home events, ball games, and a barn raising highlight the week in Monticello with new steel bridge spans planned over Maquoketa bayou.
The Monticello meeting elected Park Chamberlain of Anamosa as chairman for the coming year to fill the vacancy from John Kettlesen of Wyoming who resigned. The committee also chose the date and site for the next nominating convention to be held in Anamosa on September 8.
Monticello area items include Mr and Mrs W H Waugh visiting their daughter in Wyoming over Sunday. Local millinery sold to Miss Emma Ott of Lost Nation with possession planned in about two weeks. Farm sale ads list cows for sale near Monticello and a phaeton offered. Invitations to call on properties for sale or rent. Two marriages reported in Monticello: Frank White and Mamie Lutz wed at the former's mother's home with Rev J W Innes officiating.
Three Linn county youths visited Monticello and entertained a crowd of young women with a magic trick. A gold locket vanished mid performance as the speaker claimed haste presto and the youth swallowed the locket whole. He left town with the locket inside him and no serious injuries reported. Local residents plan tighter security on silverware during future visits.
Mr Ray Schaeffer from St Paul visits Monticello before a Chicago AP assignment. Oliver typewriter workers from Woodstock beat Monticello 10 to 1 at the city park. A Diamond Creamery driver, Chas Adams, faces adultery charges. bonds set at 500 dollars and a Monday hearing expected. A runaway near Monticello injures no one. a girl falls from a horse, two children hurt? No. The Parlor City laundry agent solicits bundles at Mundell shoe store.
Miss Maria Wright long time Monticello resident and former Monticello teacher died last Thursday at her niece’s home in Greeley of heart failure. She was 71 or 72, born in Massachusetts and taught 37 years including about 20 in Monticello schools. Burial followed in Oakwood cemetery after services at the Christian church.
Mr and Mrs A L Fairbanks celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at their southwest of Monticello home. Rev J W Innes performed the ceremony in a gathering of eighty five to ninety relatives and neighbors. The couple, Vermont natives who settled in Jones county, raised eight children and built a substantial farm, now enjoying comfort and rest in later years.
The board of supervisors calls a special meeting per code 420 at the auditor's office Anamosa Iowa for August 26 1908 to receive bids for material and stone abutments for an iron bridge on First street and for erecting a steel bridge on said abutments plus two 100 foot steel spans on steel tubes in Lovell township across the Maquoketa river north of Monticello. Also notes brief marriage in Mohall North Dakota and Monticello attendance at Dawson Young nuptials Center Junction with local residents listed.
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