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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
7
Daily snippets from the fair capture crowds, vendors Hicks and Eilers, and local business notices in Monticello. Names like Bert Gage from Maquoketa and George Arduser visiting Dubuque reflect a busy event week with scores of local happenings and social calls.
Residents and visitors are noted at the Monticello Fair with mentions of Ruth Nelson’s return from Missouri, George Curtis Jr. visiting from Dubuque, and the Everharts from Marcus. Vendors and volunteers, including Hicks & Eilers and J A Suhr & Sons, advertise goods and services while auction activity, door receipts, and no running races are reported.
Mrs. Mead visits Manchester with family as Rev. Lang preaches at the Methodist church. The Jackson county fair runs September 6 to 9 in Maquoketa with Adam Ringlep as secretary. A Hopkinton Monticello shooting match ends with Monticello defeated 10 to 103. Carriage for sale at cost. Injuries from crossings and falls feature at Epworth and the fairgrounds. Jones county fairs compete with Strawberry Point Mechanicsville and a Dubuque meet nearby. Goldstone Bros offers mens gloves. Rev. and Mrs. Warner return and plan Union meetings. Local crime and street scams noted with police presence. New farm sales signal rising land prices in Wayne and Scotch Grove townships with several large-acre transfers at strong per-acre values.
The poem notes neat mercantile exhibits in Moral Hall this year. Displayed by Geo. Stabler & Sons groceries C J Northrop photographs J A Suhi & Sons furniture J S Hall hardware Hicks Eilers crockery W J Rohn harness Geo Schaeffer dry goods Star Clothing House clothing.
Last Sunday and Monday brought hot weather rare for late August. The Monticello paper reports on local events including Monticello High School pictures, soldiers in the Philippines, the Warner Comedy Co. at the opera house, Anamosa fair happenings, and football prep by Jones county teams.
Today’s fair features Prof Barnes diving acts from a forty foot platform, Prof Dockstader balloon ascension, a shooting match between Earlville and Monticello, Cascade and Worthington baseball, and two major races the 2 27 pace and 2 25 trot with entries from multiple towns including Vinton Maquoketa Cedar Rapids and Dixon.
The page records yesterdays race heats with names like Arran and Prince of Traer. It also includes a hog disease viewpoint by Richard Dawson, cider vinegar price notes, and fair coverage praising exhibits while criticizing gambling stands and a balloon ascent that failed due to wind.
Republicans in multiple townships will hold caucuses on September 3rd and 7th to nominate township officers and delegates to the Republican county convention at Center Junction. Meetings occur at listed schools and town halls in Wayne, Jackson, Richland, Madison, Scott Groves, Castle Grove, Lovee, Monticello, and Clay townships with varying delegate counts.
Mr F Calkins, agent for Geo Call, promotes affordable improved farms in a corn and creamery county near Kossuth. He will escort land seekers to Wossyth county next Tuesday the 80th inst, with fare paid for buyers. Round trip five dollars fifty cents. Judge J3 Nye of Town City nominated for Congress by Democrats in the Second district.
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