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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1903
Page
7
Local brief notes people traveling for work or leisure, arrivals and visits. includes Kate Maurice leaving tomorrow for Ames school duties, Dr. George Inglis and son Ward at Lake Okoboji, and various local shoptalk and social items.
Local residents Mr L Graves and Mr J W Coxsee travel and visit relatives in Illinois and Colorado. Horseretailer Cy Bert reports a satisfactory sale averaging $125. County official Scroggie visits from Clay township. Monticello residents Mr B Rhinehart and families travel and attend court in Adams vase incident. Charles Lambert wed Miss Anna Gray. church group to hold charity sale. The community news notes fall fashion, remnant bargains, and a wedding in Denver narrows.
Anamosa Eureka reports Master Galen Mirick son of Dr W A Mirick of Monti cello visited Anamosa on a bicycle and on returning home his right hand's first finger was caught in a sprocket the flesh torn away and bone exposed. The injury was painful though not fatal.
An old classified notice promotes Deutrick's Central Block shop The Farmers' Store offering drygoods and millinery with prices advertised as always right.
Monday night's severe storm near Prairieburg damaged corn crops and farm buildings. Windmills owned by John Nelson Albert Dillard F J Barker John Leclerc and Andrew Shearer were destroyed along with several barns. A falling tree barely damaged Fred Richards home.
Visitors from Rands Iowa and Chicago arrive, with Heisey noting the two hottest days of summer at 95 and 94. Anamosa fair reports mixed weather, strong attendance, and several game scores. Local notices include a land listing, a marriage, a dressmaking arrest, and a call for idle youth to seek work.
A Pan-American circus in Anamosa featured shell games and fakirs. Hastings, a local liveryman, fought back a thief who grabbed his $10 winnings, officials settled with Hastings receiving $10 and $26 for bruises. A separate note mentions fresh cows for sale near Monticello by J. M. Hofacre.
Mr. Irwin of the Dubuque Western Railway Co. visited Monticello to discuss a proposed interurban line from Dubuque to Cascade via Monticello with a later route to Independence. Communities would subscribe to first mortgage bonds, with Eastern Securities purchasing 80 percent if locals subscribe 20 percent. Cascade has already pledged 25 thousand dollars.
Monticello August 19 board met with present Stirton Tiarks and Hall. Minutes approved. Bills paid from contingent fund including labor and supplies. Textbook committee recommended Rand McNally readers. contract authorized. No school during Jones County Fair week. Language book for third grade referred to textbooks committee. Meeting adjourned.
The Klondike Creamery Co lists July patrons paid above 50 dollars each, naming those who received earnings. Names include Prosperous Dairymen recognized for monthly payments.
In Hard Scrabble Mr Bernard Sweeney was shot in the head while sleeping. His wife Mrs Sweeney is the primary suspect though she denies involvement. The missing revolver and a buried weapon are cited in the case as investigators seek motive and opportunity. No arrest has been made as the mystery deepens.
School began last Monday delaying a week for the Jones county fair set to start September 1. Over 600 pupils enroll as Clarence McCracken leads the staff with Mary Jarman as high school principal and Nancy Carroll as first assistant. several teachers bring strong credentials and local ties from Wyoming Stone City and Dubuque. E Landherr announces sale of about 104 acres in Scotch Grove township at Monticello State Bank on September 12 with a March 1, 1904 possession and 10 acres of timber to be sold the same day.
Bacher and Abel offer Sprague's Lice and Insect Killer to quickly rid poultry houses of lice and mites. Effective control product for farm use.
Local notice advertises Parlor City Laundry with guaranteed work and a Monticello agent H Stockwell. Also promotes Parrott's old jewelry store inventory including gold watches rings and silverware, with prices claimed as lowest, plus Burrichter's dry goods stock arrival.
A correction states the declarant retracts accusing H Dannemann of causing a March 20 1903 fire and cites Aug Toenjes. An unrelated note recalls Dr Edward Divers remarks to the British Association in Belfast on stars whose immense distance makes their angular diameter insensible and whose apparent disks are spurious due to irradiation.
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