Monticello Express Local Weekly Listing
The Monticello Express notes weekly publication every Thursday with J W Coxsee as editor and proprietor and a yearly subscription price of 1 75 dollars.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1902
Page
2
The Monticello Express notes weekly publication every Thursday with J W Coxsee as editor and proprietor and a yearly subscription price of 1 75 dollars.
The American Sunday School Union backs rural Christian outreach through missionaries who visit families, distribute Bibles and literature, and organize Sunday schools. In Iowa since 1902, 183 new schools were formed, 6 524 members enrolled, 41 137 families visited, 105 614 miles traveled, and 1 423 Bibles distributed. In Jones county in 1902 W A Haggie organized two new schools with 45 members and aided 29 existing ones.
Miss Jessie Smith improving after illness. N W Crans back in town. Prof Bratton visited Maquoketa. Merlin Moses home from Hopkinton. Frank and Mrs Ray returned from Minnesota. Florence Smith and Nellie Livingstone visited Wyoming. Mrs Hoyt and Mrs Walsh shopped in city. A W McDonald departed for Indian Territory. Mrs W H Davis improving. Margaret Serbousek visited Amber. Olive Bradley accompanied her home. Mrs Nance ill with pneumonia. daughters also ill. Epworth League Fishing Party invited at the opera house next Friday. John Livingstone returns from Rock Island carpenter work to visit relatives.
Cass residents share news of visits and sickness with Chicago connections. Miss Belle Griffith visits Chicago. M. M. Dean ships cattle to the city. a daughter blessed to Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Perry on December 6, 1902. Rev. Keeler preaches at Cass church. births announced for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Washburn on December 4, 1902 with Mrs. Washburn ill. several locals travel or visit relatives in Rockford and Coggan.
D J Hogan plans a spring barn project while I A Heiken notes jury service at the county seat. John Barrack sold hogs in Hopkinton last Thursday. D W Cunningham and Dennis Delay addressed cattle and butcher stock shipments to Chicago. Harold Howie recovers from an earlier accident as Parrot sale results are reported. Jones County Telephone wires were downed by last week’s storm. Thomas Haley Jr. under went a surgical operation at Anamosa Sanitarium. D J Hogan shipped another carload to Chicago with stock.
The Monticello school reports 46 nonresident pupils and September to November records show 150, 277, and 294. Rhetoricals by juniors and seniors were held, with parents urged to visit. Mr Geo Lovell donated 85 volumes to expand the library now at 925 volumes. A local drunkard case sends Henry Landman to Cherokee’s hospital. An excursion trip and a Bellevue journalist visit are noted, plus a dipso maniac sentence for Jim Mead.
Mr W B Carr plans a December 18 sale at his farm ten miles southeast of Cascade and three miles northwest of Canton featuring 11 horses, 70 cattle including 16 milch cows, various steers and calves, 1400 bushels of corn, oats, hay, and farm machinery. W A Hogan to cry the sale. A separate note advertises Grape Sugar Flakes breakfast cereal.
The piece outlines Isaac Barrow's varied definitions of wit from pat allusions to clever wordplay and bold irony. It cites the Chicago Post noting a Clark family gift of 1,000,000 to his first grandson and asks whether czars or King Humbert have tried such a plan.
Public notice from Jones County Iowa appoints Many Ann Seahill as administratrix of Clara Smahill deceased. Creditors must file sworn claims with the district court clerk and debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Cascade December 10 1902.
The ad touts a free test of Dr Miles treatment for heart disease nerves liver stomach and dropsy. It claims a scientific system with a tonic elixir tablets laxative pills and plaster and asserts three times higher success than usual. Testimonials from Col Shepard W Warren Keister Trimmer and others accompany the offer with a request to send five dollars worth of treatment to Elkhart Indiana.
An advertising note urges quick use of Chamberlains Cough Remedy to prevent pneumonia catarrh chronic bronchitis and consumption from neglected colds. It touts its quick cure and states sale by Bacher Abel.
A Cham berlain’s Pain Balm testimonial claims dampened flannel bound on the back or chest relieves deep seated muscular and rheumatic pains. Sold by Bacher and Abel.
Public notice proclaims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy contains no opium or harmful substances. It can be given to babies and adults with confidence and is praised as pleasant to take and fast acting. Sold by Bacher & Co.
When a child shows hoarseness or a croupy cough, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy should be given promptly. It is described as safe pleasant and effective. Sold by Bacher & Abel.
Daily train schedule excerpt shows departures for Omaha and Sioux City routes with freight service to Calmar Davenport and Oxford. Times listed include early morning and late evening slots, with multiple trains daily except eight remaining unspecified.
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