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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1897
Page
2
Monticello items report new Fraternal Brotherhood of the World, local deaths, marriages, births, and illnesses. Notes include railroad timetable changes, residents traveling, weather to zero, and a letter listing at the Monticello post office.
Miss Olive Hughes of Cedar Rapids spent Thanksgiving with her mother in Scotch Grove. Rocky Ridge and Slough schools begin winter terms with Miss Myrtle Clark and R. M. Heasty as teachers. Center school starts Monday with Alex McKean as teacher, and Miss Anna McKean will teach in No. 2. Geo Sweesy and R. G. Sutherland, Lenox students, visited relatives and went to Monticello. Mr. Wilson Watters, Cedar Rapids business college student, stayed in Scotch Grove en route home to Clay Mills, hosted by J. L. Prouty.
Castle Grove and Navy area news include Ed Harmis visiting near Independence. Jas F Laude and F J Crusinberry traveled to Cass Center. R Shear family spent Thanksgiving with Hazel Green relatives. Lulu Laude visited home and returned to Hopkinton. Mrs Jas I Laude visited Hazel Green and joined him home. James Sullivan and Kate Crowley wed at Immaculate Conception Argand last week. A W Cramer family attended Lizzie Thompson funeral in Hazel Green. Lizzie, 15, died of consumption after illness. Mr Wm McAleer hanged himself, reported in brief.
The board of directors met in regular session with J.A. Doutrick E. EH Hicks A. Kempf and J. HH Bacher present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved and bills were allowed with orders drawn for the TEACHERS' FUND.
A reflective piece on Navajo weaving praised as unmatched in its first-class blankets while lamenting the loss of traditional ponchos and vageta textiles. The author contrasts old perfect colors with modern industrial dyes, notes 20,000 Navajo left, explains color rules, and recalls grave burial practices that hid many works. An unrelated ad fragment and cough remedy notice follow.
The Geo. A. Gill farm, 220 acres near Castle Gore six miles west of Monticello, is for sale or rent. Oye Euan B. Ginn offers a brick ten room residence for sale via Sater & Samter. Har ger Blish music manager Al Poure will visit Monticello for piano or organ purchases.
The statement outlines a program to plant evergreens and fruit trees to protect against weather, offered by a company for Jones county farms. They will plow, prepare soil, and plant in spring, with two years of establishment risk assumed by the firm and payment after trees prove well established. Visitors and correspondence invited.
Notice to interested parties that final reports of executors administrators guardians and trustees in several estates have been filed in the district court. A final hearing is set for December 1 1897 in Anamosa Iowa. Persons may appear file exceptions and show cause why reports should not be approved.
Probate notices list Ellen F. Gill executrix of Geo A. Gill deceased John M. Lele administrator with will annexed of Nzeklel Letze deceased. Final hearing set for December 6 1897 at the District Court Jones County Anamosa Iowa. Interested parties may appear to file exceptions and show cause why reports should be approved. Dated November 25 1897. J B McQueen Clerk.
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