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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
4
Correspondence from Rural Route No. 2 August 16 22 includes reports on visits Monticello and Center Junction. It lists illnesses births deaths savings and farm activity plus arrivals from California South Dakota and Texas and notes on farming yields and repairs.
Cascade notes Mrs Wall is very ill at North Whitewater. Guests include Wm Kneistadt and Wanda of Chicago visiting the Vogel family. Birth announced for Mr and Mrs Clarence Beggs. Various visits and travels listed including Monticello, Waterloo, Minneapolis, Scotch Grove and Morrison. Co op creamery paid 22 cents butter fat, $6,000 to patrons. Miss Theresa Dixon dies, Hietchen ill at G A R meeting hospital.
Miss Emma Howard died yesterday forenoon at her parents home on National Street after a two month illness. She would have turn 23 in October. Funeral plans were set for tomorrow at St Martin's. Nearby friends and Dubuque relatives mourn with J M Howard and family.
Cass residents and visitors are noted in a wide mosaic of Sunday trips, visits, and gatherings. People travel to Anamosa Langworthy Martelle Sand Spring Strawberry Point Marion and Central City, with many attending funerals picnics and birthdays and sharing letters of travel and health updates.
Onslow reports sales of threshing gear, visits from Wm Dunecanson and L I Masters, and plans for Prof John Cameron’s Oxford wedding on the 29th. The Stanislaus exhibit car arrives from California and draws crowds as Will Dennison and Onslow merchants boss lake visits.
Clay rumor round up reports visits by W J Corbit and family and other locals with relatives. C L Butler sold threshing outfit to a Mr Bankhe. Mrs Neelans of Onslow visiting Mrs Scroggie. Vennie Paulson with Adelia and Marianne Reid. Miss Worden from Monmouth at grandmother Mrs Orr. Mrs J R Simpson of Magnoketa visiting. Dick White spent day with Orrin Snyder. Mrs Frank Johnston visited Mrs George Hanna. Sociable planned at Mrs W B Orr residence Friday night. Pearl Hamilton formerly of Clay married Miss Alden. J T Lannigan and Al Kiburtz guests of friends in Clay and Temple Ill. Miss Tillie Gault returns to Chicago after visit. Messrs Robert Scroggie and Leon Carpenter bought manure spreaders. Misses Elsie Bender and Inez Zad-
Dock spent Sunday with Misses Visie and Kiya Orr. A few visitors from Amosa escaped rain at John Kennedy home. About thirty five young people surprised Al and Iazel Tramilton. Last Wednesday Al enjoyed a pleasant time.
Castle Grove reports 40 to 50 bushels per acre oats and strong barley yields. N Kehoe of Monticello visited Tuesday. Mrs J A Howie and Miss Lulu Laude hosted at Buck Creek. Singh Martin and two daughters from St Paul stayed with J A Howie. Will Leclerc threshed 1 178 bushels of oats for G J Heiken in four hours. a diamond ring was lost by Fred Leelere near Linn county routes. reward offered at John Perrine's in Monticello.
Miss Nettie Bailey visited friends near Anamosa last week. Miss Inez Platner of Baldwin visits Wm White. Miss Nellie Livingstone returns from Wyoming. Miss Nellie Williamson of Adair County visits her cousin Belle Lyons. Mr Robert Lyang leaves for Ames to resume duties at Iowa State College. Mr and Mrs Starry Davis of Chicago visit relatives. Many youths camped at Dale's Ford on the Maquoketa River. A California car exhibited at Northwestern depot for two days.
Lawrence Wahl traveled to Monticello on Sunday evening. Harry Sanderson and family visited James Clark. Lena Decker of Bowens Prairie visited Langworthy. A hall dance is planned for Friday night with all invited. Charley Rastede’s dog was killed by the evening train last Thursday.
The passage argues that life depends on the atmosphere for air water and warmth. Plants need air for carbon. without vegetation there is no food for animals or humans. Water comes from the atmosphere. lack of water ends plant and animal life. An atmosphere also drives winds waves ocean currents. without it the sea would stagnate and be uninhabitable.
A clubman recalls paying $430 for an American accent tax in London and notes a kennel price of $500 for a bulldog pup. He says a hotel cabby bought the same pup for $60, with a $10 tip, calling the cabman an agent who charged $130 in total. The note also questions Fairbanks' strategy to win Milwaukee support while drinking buttermilk publicly.
Painters know white lead and linseed oil make the best paint. Adulterated pigments and oils ruin durability. The National Lead Company advertises pure products, sold by O. H. Soetje Boscher & Abel in St. Louis.
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