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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
3
Wyoming correspondence recaps many town visits by residents and visitors including cooks, teachers, and clerks. Notables include John Cameron’s nuptials to Hattie Clearman and Mrs. W. H. Alden’s death with burial in Oxford Junction.
Castle Grove updates include Lulu Lande’s return to Greenfield Iowa, a Harvest Home trip to Hopkinton, Rawleigh remedies sold by Philip Hildenkrant, and visits from Nellie Lawrence and J A McLaughlin group. Threshing ends with good quality yield.
In Cascade on August 25 J H W Berger and family are in Dubuque while all hands work on streets Dr M P Hamill and family return to Utica Illinois Dan Seery travels to Michigan seeking rheumatic relief Over 200 KCs and friends head to the Mississippi River for a outing Water mains will be laid on East Street south of National to the corporation line Miss Kathleen Kelly visits from Chicago Atchison and Moran win schoolhouse contract in Fillmore Pat Donovan leaves Cascade for a visit to Ireland
Aged 13 emigrant reflects on changes since leaving home. Nurses Blanche Fairburn and Emma Marsh plan to work from Davenport after leaving Cascade. C L Kay of Epworth Iowa ill at home. Mr Carson died when a wagon wheel passed over him near Washington township. Mrs Sylvester Dean of Mitchell South Dakota died aged about 75 from a broken hip after a fall. Her funeral was held and she will be interred in Manchester Iowa. the Dean family long resided in Cascade.
Onslow notes list residents visiting in Des Moines and Clinton, teaching appointments in Maple Grove and Defiance Hill, and homestead claims in South Dakota. Two deaths are recorded: Joseph Yerrington after an August 9 accident in Clinton and Robert Carson at 74, buried from South Mineral church with large turnout.
Center Junction community reports visitors and moves among residents including Jessie Crans, Dave Ward, George Magee and family, Lee Kell, Anna and Daisy Livingstone, Mrs. David Smith, Lillian Perryman, Guy McDonald, and others. The piece notes travels to Monticello, Hopkinton, Columbus Junction, Rock Island, Des Moines, and a funeral in Clay township with multiple gatherings, talks, and social events.
Rural Route No 2 notes August 29 as Win Rieken paints his corncrib while Mr August Scheer attends the event.
Miss Sophie Gerdes extended visit to Pomeroy. Julia Engebarta and children left for Pomeroy. Henry Rickels and wife back to California. Will Schone and John Rogs made local trips. Mayors and others visited Dorsey and state fair in Des Moines. Several headed to the Dubuque fair and Dan Patch. Wall ace Greythreshed and built a bridge. Photos: postcards and buttons offered by The Chicago Photo Co in the Noyes building nearby Hicks & Guyan's.
200 acre farm offered for sale or rent located 324 miles north of Monticello. Listed by W. H. Hoult, 10w4.
Three properties offered near Center Junction Onslow Scotch Grove townships in Iowa totalling 303 acres plus eleven acres timber land. Inquiries to Mrs William Overley Onslow Iowa. Also sale of five acres with eight room house and outbuildings via FE G Brazelton. Cedar Rapids Business College advertises as best equipped in the West with a twelve‑teacher faculty and catalog on request.
510 acre farm between Monticello and Sand Spring offered for sale. Formerly occupied by Harry Sandhouse. Easy terms. Line Herman Sandhouse.
Notice to school patrons informs that all incoming Monticello students from other schools should attend the high school Friday forenoon September 7 for classification. Rural pupils passed by county exam may enter ninth grade without further exam. superintendent John E. Foster will discuss course choice with parents at that time.
I offer a 195 acre farm east of Monticello for sale or rent and a house in town available for sale. The seller identifies as Barney Magee.
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