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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1896
Page
7
Northern Iowa trip notes and town ads fill the page. Mendings from Wills & Doutrick and Hicks & Ellora feature new goods, sales, and promotions. Residents like Miss Mabel Baade and Mrs. Henry Shippman visit relatives while vendors push groceries, dry goods, and summer items. Quarterly church meeting announced with a love feast and sermon. The Daily Jaws Capital touted for news at 25 cents monthly.
The upcoming campaign opening features Hon Robert G Cousins delivering a highly anticipated address at the Monticello opera house on Tuesday evening September 8 at 8 o’clock. He is praised for his famous critique of Secretary Bayard and draws large crowds, with Miss Bessie Levan and Rep Loomis among visitors noted in the town sections.
The little railroad park features an iron fountain topped by a stork statue, funded by Hon. G. W. Lovell. The base is ringed by standing storks as water flows from the beak. Next Sunday evening Rev. A. M. Case preaches at the M E church at 7 30 with three sermon topics for the summer union meetings.
The Anamosa fair saga ends with the arrest of fair officers J Z Lall president E R Moore secretary and Will Prentice in charge of concessions on charges of maintaining a nuisance by permitting gambling on fair grounds. Bonds set at 500 each for appearance September 14 before a district court. Street clashes and heated language mark the episode as Hall pursues proof via warrants.
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