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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
7
A flurry of visitors and local happenings fill Monticello as Mrs. A F Bort visits relatives in Anamosa and Miss Clara Hogan returns from Cedar Rapids. Others travel to Davenport Chicago Boston Freeport and Manchester while local stores advertise bargains and holiday treats.
Local society notes recap visits and travel from Cheyenne to Monticello. Monticello girls beat Prairieburg in basketball. Thanksgiving events, funerals, and a variety of travels and business moves across town including banking reports and stage entertainment.
The death of Miss Ann McLaughlin of Castle Grove township sparks reminiscence of Monticello’s early schooling. debate over which woman began the local school but McLaughlin is praised for pioneering education here seventy years ago, as Maple syrup advertised by C A Errickson & Co.
Mrs Frances E Whiting wife of C A Whiting long time Monticello resident died at her Sioux City home last Friday after illness and a stroke. Her remains were brought to Monticello for services in the Methodist church and burial at Oakwood cemetery. A son died in infancy and she sheltered Lillian Alberty and other girls as a mother figure. Rev Dean Dutton spoke at the Monticello service.
The funeral for Mrs. 8. S. Brazelton aged 71 years 2 months 10 days was held in Coggon with Rev. Shoemaker of Alburnett officiating. Born Mary J. Fuller in Erie County Pennsylvania she moved to Wisconsin then Iowa and married in Independence in 1856. Survived by her husband and six children, the family reflects on a Christian life.
Funeral services were conducted last Thursday by Rev. Mardorf at the German Lutheran church in Wayne township for Mrs. H. E. Harms. Born in Germany June 30, 1880, she came to the United States as a child and married H. E. Harms in 1895. Survived by husband and five children after a short illness.
Obituaries report the death of Mr. Finley McDonald at 78 in Des Moines after heart disease. He was born in Scotland in 1820, lived in Wayne township since 1866, and survived by his widow Ann and several children. Also noted are the death of Mr. Jacob von Besten on Bowen's Prairie and Rose Saggs, a Swiss-born graduate naturalized in Waterloo, with details on their lives and families.
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