Wapsie Valley Fair Hype and Local Visit Recap
Wapsie Valley Fair ads invite attendance at Central City next week. Alma Eilers and Laura Eilers visit Waterloo friends. Numerous visitors travel from Clinton Oskaloosa Cedar Rapids and Muscatine for fairs and social visits. The fall millinery opening at Deatrick's and Old Soldiers and Children's Day on September 2 highlight local events.
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Wapsie Valley Fair
Alma
Laura Eilers
Waterloo
Central City
Monticello items note visits concerts and fairs
The Monticello column records visits by Dr. Arthur Baker and others, engagements by the Monticello Concert band for the Wyoming field day, and various travelers to Des Moines Cedar Rapids and Omaha. It notes farm work promotions and local outings, plus church services and school assignments.
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Monticello
Wyoming
Lovell Township News Highlights Local People
Neiman Moore recovering from a runaway injury. several local residents head to teaching posts in Wyoming Minnesota and Cedar Rapids. Others attend funerals, visit relatives, and plan moves or medical consultations as fair entries, ice deliveries, and crop conditions shape the week.
Rev Warner Accepts Mo Bridge Congregational Call
The Rev C U Warner former pastor of the Congregational church in this city has accepted a call to Union Congregational church Mo Bridge South Dakota He recently served Plymouth Congregational Grand Forks North Dakota Mr and Mrs W H Samels and daughter returned to Minneapolis after visiting Castle Grove township Mrs Samels broke her arm slipping into a car On the fly inspection day food inspectors will threaten prosecutions Grocers and restaurateurs should use fly and dust screens The German Lutheran Wayne Mission Festival was a success with sermons by Carl Mardorf Ide and Blessing and over 300 dollars collected.
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C. U. Warner
Congregational Church
Union Congregational Church
Mobridge
South Dakota
W. H. Samels
Castle Grove Township
Minneapolis
Wayne
C. Mardorf
Carl Mardorf
St. Paul
Ide
Monticello
Blessing
Hildorado
Dairy depot feeds Bose with limited milk supply
Rudolph Bohren reports his dairy, with 26 cows, cannot meet demand for milk and cream and must buy additional daily. Ben Stiffler sells 160 acres of Nickel farm in Castle Grove township to James Howie and M. J. Gass for 165 dollars per acre. Stiffler previously bought the land for 140 dollars per acre two years earlier. 40 acres were sold to Stadtmuller.
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Rudolph Bohren
Bose
Ben Stiffler
Castle Grove Township
James Howie
M. J. Gass
Stiffler
G. H. George
H.S. Richardson
Mr. Stadtmuller
Ray Lee Visits Family While Traveling Through South
Ray Lee spent a short visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. H.8. Lee after traveling in the southern states. Monticello friends learn Robert Livingstone of Center Junction cannot find further surgical relief in Rochester for a jaw growth, with Mayo brothers unable to promise eradication. A removal occurred months ago but the deep seated trouble remains.
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Ray Lee
Mrs. H. 8. Lee
Monticello
Robert Livingstone
Center Junction
Rochester
Mayo Brothers
Manchester excursion trains for fair and back
Today Manchester residents can attend the fair and see the ball team, with a morning M and O train at 8 40 connecting to a C M and St P special to Monticello arriving 10 20. Return Monticello 6 30 meet by M and Q O train at Oneida.
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Manchester
Monticello
Oneida
Foster family relocates from Monticello to Des Moines
Prof and Mrs John E Foster and daughter Josephine left Tuesday for Toledo for a day of visiting relatives before moving to Des Moines to make it their future home. The city, once home to Prof Koster in his role as high school inspector appointed during the Independence school superintendent tenure, is noted as a preferred base. Friends here regret their departure.
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Independence Bulletin Journal
Monticello
John E. Foster
Josephine
Toledo
Des Moines
Koster
Independence Schools
Independence
Monticello Girls to Teach in Many Towns This Year
The Monticello list shows Mary Hanawalt and others leaving week for teaching posts in Cresco Osage Norwood Charles City Green River Aberdeen Manterville and more. Another note records Donald Sinclair selling a 191 acre timber farm in Scotch Grove township for 20000 to Henry Schlemmer. The piece also notes John Franks of Wyoming died after operations and Hon Robert G Cousins spoke at Anamosa on Public Life.
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Clara Rickless
Florence Hefner
Green River
Gunn
Wyoming
Monticello
Mary Hanawalt
Norwood
Mary Coxsee
Cresco
Francy Schneider
Margaret Pond
Charles City
Frances Koop
Osage
Clara Ricklefs
Marjory Nelson
Hartley
Donald Sinclair
Scotch Grove
Henry Schlemmer
Prass
Sinclair
Schlemmer
Death of Lovell township resident Jacob Killias
Jacob Killias a well known resident of Lovell township died at his home last Saturday after a several months illness Funeral conducted at the family home by Rev Kuntsel German Reformed church Born in Chur Canton Graubunden Switzerland February 1836 he was over 78 He came to the United States in 1881 and settled at Monticello He owned Killias Spring and about 26 acres of land east of Monticello He left the property to George Ambuohl in trust for his son Wilhelm with the daughter Elizabeth to receive full title after his lifetime
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Jacob Killias
Lovell Township
Kuntsel
United States
Monticello
Baldy Florine
Wilhelm
Chris
San Francisco
Milzabeth
Nikias
Killias Spring
Monticullo
Ilo
George Ambuohl
Elizabeth
Improvement at the Monticello Dam Construction
The Monticello Halcotrie Co. builds 225 feet of reinforced concrete dam at its power station under Virtus Hanssen with a twenty man crew. An apron forms a 20 foot water outlet and protects against eddies. Season cost exceeds 8000 dollars with plans to extend 2385 feet next year if it holds against ice and floods.
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Monticello Halcotrie Co
Virtus Hanssen
Death of Mrs. Thomas Schoon in Wayne Township
Margaret Schoon 72 wife of Thomas Schoon of Wayne township died last Monday after a three year illness. Born as Bud berg in Hanover Germany on April 18 1841 she came to America in 1870 and married Thomas Sahoon that September. Survived by William Sahoon and Mrs August Lund she was a longtime parishioner of Rev O Mardort and funeral services were held yesterday at one oclock in the German Lutheran church.
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Margaret Schoon
Thomas Schoon
Wayne Township
Budberg
Ilovel
Province Hanover
Germany
America
Thomas Sahoon
August 1883 Monticello Chronicle of Local Happenings
The Express reported August events from 1883 including a new cylinder press installed on the 14th, births and deaths across families such as the Bachers Parrotts McBrides Vernimonts and Youngs, a political speech by Henry Rickel, and Mr. Walworth returning from Boston. Local business plans mention Frank Adama and Joseph Pierce aiming to open a hardware store in Grinnell and telephonic links for Monticello with nearby towns. The Jones County fair announced 3100 dollars in prizes for September 8 to 9. A new Democratic newspaper was planned with I W Baldwin Cascade as editor in chief and Monticello editors.
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The
Express
John Bacher
Edward Parrott
Cascado
Monticello
Louis L
J.O. Lawrence
Wwth
O. B. Pond
Bridgeport
Connecticut
J. M. McBride
Wayne Township
Henry Rickel
Opera House
James J. Walworth
Boston
Anna Moody
Emporia
Kansas
Frank Adama
Joseph Pierce
Grinnell
Iowa
Nicholas Vernimont
Robert Young
Indianola
Jones County Fair Association
Frank Millen
Oxford Junction
Independence
Ile
Sarah L. Smith
Arthur L. Seward
Aurora
Nebraska
HH. D. Smith
I. W. Baldwin
Cascade
Alexander
Clinton News
Pastor to Attend Mission Feast as Church Briefly Sits
There will be no services in the German Reformed church next Sunday. Sunday school will meet at 10 o'clock in the usual choir. The pastor Rev Roland Kuntsel will travel to Marengo Saturday to take part in a mission feast.
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Ide
Roland Kuntsel
Marengo
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Platte
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Moline, Illinois
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Castle Grove
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Kansas City
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de Smet
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Odeboli
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Mas Willan
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Watwurloo
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Anamosa Fair
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Mlgin
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Adair County
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Scar Newton
Missouri
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Okoboji
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Urla Coykendall
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Hazel Green Township
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India
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Neiman Moore
Alfred Moore
Blanche Dress
Salt Lake City
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Idaho
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W. 4. Allen
Wall
Mantorville
Jacob Kiltlias
Ryan
L. G. Stuhler
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Mason City
Gent
Cedar Falls
Rebecca McNeill
Here
Albert McNeill
Ireland
Samuel Greer
Washington
Eleanor Baumbach
Milwaukee
Deatrick Dry Goods
Adelbert Sandhouse
Merman
Fort Collins
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Vinton and
Waverly
Alfred Moore Sr
Austin
Walter Jones
Pittsburg
Mary A. Fawcett
Pacific Coast
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Quaintance
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Weyboro
Saskatchewan
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Ottumwa
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W. Z. Allen
Boots
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John Perrine
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Miles
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Osler
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