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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1904
Page
9
A montage of hometown notices lists visits by Mrs Robert Russell and Mrs Orlando McDaniel to Anamosa, a Monticello visitor, and guests of Miss Bertha Rowley. Stores advertise Christmas merchandise including handkerchiefs linen goods and toys at Eilers Bolton Davis and Jay's, with discounts and maple syrup and pancakes featured.
Local shops promote Christmas stock with towels rugs silversware canoes and fashion items. Jay's and Deatrick’s advertise for holiday gifting while H C Wills Davis Hardware and the Variety Store tout novelties and calendars. Community notices report weddings post office parcels and a temperance meeting as winter shopping picks up.
The David Sutherland farm about 160 acres near Scotch Grove is for sale. Enquiries respond to George Sutherland the administrator at Scotch Grove. Garland Gaden's Wife in Name Only thrills Monticello audiences again at the opera house. Miss Lorraine Althouse, aka Laura Lorraine, hails from Maquoketa and appears next Tuesday in the same play. Public auction by Richard C. Kershner set for December 12 near Monticello includes cattle horses hogs grain and farm goods. Capt E Jarbox to supervise sale. Hazards market meat market opens in Hazards building run by French and Strube with high prices for hides. Swigart, Maquoketa Sentinel co proprietor, dies in San Antonio after health decline.
Mr Andrew Nimmo treasurer and local manager of the Diamond Creamery company is gravely ill at his home. He has suffered months of grysipelas and a week ago developed a car buncle like access near the base of the brain behind the ear involving the ear cavity. Despite a physician council including an ear specialist, reports indicate no improvement and many inquiries seek a swift recovery.
November librarian report lists 1816 books issued, 25 days open, average daily circulation, and readers at tables plus 1168 at tables and 125 at reference. The column includes play reviews, subscription rates with The Daily Tribune, local theater notes, a new Monticello Manufacturing Co. being formed, and various city happenings.
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