Center Junction News Highlights Thanksgiving Week
Richard Williamson visited Monticello while Anna Livingstone explored Wyomin g on Saturday. Several local residents attended gatherings in Scotch Grove Hopkinton and Monticello during Thanksgiving.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
3
Richard Williamson visited Monticello while Anna Livingstone explored Wyomin g on Saturday. Several local residents attended gatherings in Scotch Grove Hopkinton and Monticello during Thanksgiving.
Onslow residents report travel to Chicago Texas and South Dakota for work and property concerns. Thanksgiving visits and homecomings occur at Coe College Marengo Stanwood Wilton and Ana motive. Evangelistic meetings in the Presbyterian church led by Rev. Grant closed with strong attendance and uplift for the community.
Cascade reports visitors from Kansas City Waterloo and Dubuque with several social events noted. A large Thanksgiving gathering occurs as John Polliver injures himself at Bisenius store. Miss Ida Kingsley prepares for a Leonard Kingsley wedding with Miss Blanche Fairburn in attendance. Eleven join the M E church as Rev Fleming delivers a sermon and a local baptism/soloist pairing is noted.
Scotch Grove reports several residents ill including Mrs. Paul Jacobs and Mrs. Alex Sutherland. Sickness also touches Geo Balster and others. A newborn boy honors Geo Oltman’s home. Thanksgiving visits scattered among Hopkinton Hanover Anamosa Oxford Junction and Monticello. Dr Reed will preach at Scotch Grove church December 7. Winter weather brings snow and unfinished corn. Social gatherings light up John Woollert and Philip Hildenbrandt houses Thanksgiving night.
Miscellaneous notes from Cass, Monticello and nearby towns recount visits and travels of residents including Maurice Croot and Henry Nordman. Social events feature parties at Chas Fairbanks Jr and Henry Chipman’s sale. School terms resume with the same teachers and Ida Lake leaves for Cedar Falls to study.
O R Wilder entertains a nephew as winter pressures rise with a recent snowstorm leaving corn still in fields. Richard McLaughlin returns from Omaha while Rev Innes of Monticello speaks at the chapel. Local residents visit relatives, attend funerals, and schools resume term with Misses Noble and Hubbard back in Cedar Rapids and Ames.
Long obituary outlines Ann McLaughlin born 1832 in Whitehall New York who died November 28 1907 in Jones county after seventy years in the area. She never married lived with family and supported the Church of Immaculate Conception with a quiet Christian life. Funeral services led by Rev M S Murphy were held at Immaculate Conception and burial followed in Argand cemetery. surviving brothers James W McLaughlin Michael McLaughlin and John A McLaughlin.
General Alexander Hughes longtime Monticello resident and former law partner of M W Herrick died in Minneapolis at age 63 after a storied career in law military service and Dakota development He served in Co B Tth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was wounded four times and later held multiple Dakota roles including attorney general and territorial commission president He is survived by his widow and five children A storm caused a Monticello Marion basketball game to be postponed and a 500 acre Henry Sandhouse farm for rent was listed
Forty years ago in Monticello and vicinity December 1867 records a death, a nearly finished parsonage, deer hunting, a dancing school, a lecture on Turks, a Christmas Masons festival, a frigid day, and several inches of snow. Notables include Rev A Bodale, Dr Simington, H D Sherman, Maj S B Farwell, Capt James Davidson, and local teachers EL O Failing Jennie Moore Wrane Van Vliet M H W Johnson Robert S Sullivan. Local ads promote china glassware post hauling lumber and assorted goods from C A Errickson Co and Hall's Hardware.
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