Local notices and greetings in Monticello ads
The Monticello column lists visitors from Edison Nebraska and Washington DC, sales on Edison talking machines, a slaughterhouse offer, repairs for harnesses, a knit goods sale, and multiple town visits. It notes Christmastime store hours at Locher Bros music, travel to Austin Minnesota, Cedar Rapids, and Marengo, plus local church services and bazaar sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Cchristmas
Locher Bros. Music
W. M. Welch
Excelsior Springs
Ali Edison
Locher Bros. Music Store
Man receives fifteen day jail term for intoxication offense
Charles Manning of Monticello was sentenced to fifteen days in the county jail by Judge Locher for intoxication and disturbing the peace. The report also mentions local business ads and a potential post office discontinuance in Langworthy with a rural route survey underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Manning
Monticello
Locher
Langworthy
Prominent Bee Keeper and Local News Items
W S Pangbarn travels between trains to Des Moines for the state bee keepers meeting at the Savary hotel December 10 to 12. Ford Gundlach named janitor for school buildings to fill W B Sloan vacancy. Du buque county saloons win out in canvass with Cascade and White Water above required margins. Mrs Emma Cooper and daughter visit from Steven’s Point Wisconsin meeting old Monticello acquaintances. Miller, a former Monticello barber, dies in Manchester after serving under General Custer. Ray Fairbanks’s home burgled on Thanksgiving but thieves fled empty handed. Weather improves after a cold spell with rough roads turned to sunlit, bracing December. Farm sale clerk H B Richardson notes 4800 sale paid mostly by checks rather than cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Bee-keepers’ Association
Savary Hotel
Panbgarn J
Old-Time Resident Perry Parrott Guests Local Family
Perry Parrott of Extra and Spring Valley spent last Friday with Mr and Mrs Newton Parrott. He came with his daughter Mrs Eagan and her son George. The 80 year old remains spry and active as a rooster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Parrott
Extra
Spring Valley
Worthington
Cascade
Newton Parrott
Mrs. Eagan
George
Mr. Parrott
The Third Degree Play Prompted by Wrongful Execution
Charles Klein wrote The Third Degree after reading of an execution later found to be wrongful. He endured a fourteen hour police interrogation and the confessed guilty party died in prison years afterward. Klein moved quickly to stage the play with Henry B. Harris and George H. Bubb presenting it locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Klein
Klein
Henry B. Harris
George H. Bubb
Mrs Verna Tremain Dies After Stroke at Monticello
Mrs Verna Agatharemain Tremain wife of Charles Everett Tremain died last Saturday evening from a stroke of paralysis suffered the day before. She was born August 28, 1890 near Onslow, daughter of Samuel and Mrs Reade, had lived in Monticello, married in October 1912. Funeral Tuesday conducted by Rev W Z Allen. Sympathy extended to Tremain and her parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verna Agatharemain
Charles Everett Tremain
Mr. Tremain
Death of Daniel E Pond After Twenty Month Illness
Daniel E Pond died at his home on December 10 after more than twenty months of illness. He first suffered a partial stroke in March 1911 leaving him unable to walk and affecting speech briefly. He regained much of his speech and could sit up daily until death came following another stroke. His wife cared for him throughout, reading to him and tending to his needs. Born in Providence Rhode Island on June 12 1841 he moved to Worcester Massachusetts with his parents at age one and lived there until 1869.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel E. Pond
Pond
Daniel B. Pond
Providence
Rhoda Island
Worcester
Massachusetts
Veteran of Civil War and Monticello citizen obituary
The article profiles John E Pond a Civil War veteran from Massachusetts who served in multiple units and battles, settled in Monticello in 1869, led a long insurance agency, financed the Diamond Creamery, and served as postmaster for over twelve years. It notes his late wife, four children from the second marriage, and his active civic role, ending with funeral details and remarks on his character. Also covered is a Sunday concert and church dedication by the Methodist Episcopal church featuring Dr. P. S. Slocum and Rev. Hugh D. Atchison, highlighting the organ dedication, choir, and sermon themes about the household of God and tolerance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
5Th
Massachusetts Infantry
7Th Regiment Corps
D’afrique
Worcester
Roanoke
Island
Kingston
Goldsboro
Port Hudson
Monticello
Diamond Creamery Company
Pond
Hattie E. Pickering
Emma Milner
Milnerville
Iowa
George
Masonic Fraternity
Slocum
Methodist’ Episcopal Church
Orient
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hugh D. Atchison
St. Luke's Church of Dubuque
Dr. Atchison
Addison
Beieve
Tmuthio
Zion
Atchison
Guilmant
Grace Campbell
Edward Atchison
Roy V. Porter
Merkel
Woodward
van de Water
Jensen Pilgrim
Eevashpieh
Paulo Flynnn
Darwall
Lemmens
Ada Campbell
God
Christ
Miss Campbell
Lemaigre
Nicaea the
B. W. Briggs
Louis Schwartz
George Flanders
W. Z. Allen
Presbyterian Church
Charles E. Cushman
Congregational Church
Wirsching Organ Company
Salem
Ohio
Mrs Prouty of Scotch Grove Dies After Illness
Frances Breeden Prouty, born August 20 1862 in Fulton Jackson county, died last Friday after a yearlong cancer illness. The funeral was held last Sunday by Rev Albert Welch Baldwin with interment in Scotch Grove cemetery. She leaves no children and was highly regarded by neighbors. L G StablerCandies at the Golden Rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Prouty
Scotch Grove Township
Albert Welch
Baldwin
Scotch Grove
Frances Breeden
Fulton
Jackson County
Prouty
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J. W. Doxser
E. G. Burrichter
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Fred Huyck
Cedar Rapids
Herman Hanken
Doutrick’s
Hogan
Arvilla Tuel
Davenport
M. H. Teeter
Waterloo
EF. J. Cross
Cold Weather Goods
George L. Lovell
Nellie
Minnie Matthiessen
Hugh Campbell
Wyoming
Tuesay
Harry Magee
Epworth
Deutrick D. G. Co
John Wheden
J. H. Henry
Daisy Noyes
Justin
Golden Rule Variety Store
Milton Alsever
Center Jranction
Rhodes
Edward Templeton
California
Victor Victrolas
Locher Bros
Mrs. Trumble
Lamont
Mary Howell
Mabel Gleason
Bertha Wolf
M.A. Harrington
Edith Haeussler
Messrs
John and
Hago Schoon
Barnston
Nebraska
J. Suter & Son
Mrs. A. Gordon
Mary Chapman
J. L. Arduser
Abe Arduser
Woman’s Magazine
Mrs. A. Beckley
Fort Lupton, Colorado
Podhaski Brothers
A. E. Himebaugh
Oelwein
Inlaw
Fred Matthiessen
Deatrick
Mrs. Propst
James Gordon
Dr. L. Q. Stabler
Rudolpih Ricklefs
Bob
Oxford Junction
James Foffel
George Wheeler
Kate Maurice
Mrs. N. Maurice
Leonard van Kirk
Ial
Swaleale
O. H. Soatje
Jerome McMahon
State Center
Margaret Pond
Charles City
Onslow
N. B.noyes
Morris Quaintance
John
Carl Stubbler
Washington, D.C
Suter & Son
W. H. Waugh
Millsap
Renk & Cropp
Harry Rodman
Plainfield
Peter Prahm
Blooming Prairie
Minnesota
Deitrick’s
P. D. Bell
Marie
Mary E. Howell
Esther
Parlor
Ernest Kellogg
Hanken’s
David Wilhelm
Highland
Illinois
Ed’ Harms
Manchester
Sarah Shelley
Nettie Jacobson
James
Austin
Earl Young
John Perrine
Robert Williamson
Marengo
Mrs. Baumer
Mrs. Loomis
Richardson & Young
Center Junction
Albert McNeill
Admp
Miss O'Brien
Henry Matthews
Mrs. Matthews
Rapids
Golden Rule
J.S. Hall
A. J. Jackson
Vic Chambers
James McAleer
Louise Schneider
Margaret Maire
Lillian Maire
D. Chase
Hopkinton
Santa Claus
Shelley’s
Brown’s Business College
Soetje’s
John Webber
Florida
Patrick
Ford Gundlach
W. B. Sloan
Gundlach
White- Water
Emma Cooper
Charles Scholl
Steven’s Point
Wisconsin
Arlington
Wus Miller
General Custer
Mr. Miller
Clarence Monroe
Ray Fairbanks
Cass Township
Fairbanks
H. 8. Richardson
Miss Hazard
Ben Balear
B. T.balear
Switzer
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Canada
Baloar
Alexander D. Johnson
Charles Weising
Uncle Sam
Anamosa
Mexico
L. G. Stabler
Nery
C. H. Schipman
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Hicks & Ricklefs
Xinas
K. A. Hubbard
L. H. Lang
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