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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1895
Page
7
A lively sales notice invites readers to inspect a full stock of watches, jewelry, silverware, china, glassware, lamps and fancy goods. It promises free engraving and urges a thorough, no pressure look to compare prices and styles before deciding.
Monticello residents and visitors fill the week with attention to shops and gifts. Mrs. D G Hazard visits Farley. Matt Noyes and J C Overley visit from Dubuque and Onslow respectively. Wm Starr of Maxwell tours the town. Wm Abel from Chicago travels east. Local stores tout holiday goods from slippers to silverware, dolls, and bound books.
Monticello merchants push holiday sales with Wills Deutrick offerings and festive displays. Monticello orchestra set to supply music for a Christmas Eve Center Junction ball as townsfolk attend events and social notices.
Mr W H Corbett, an elderly man living in the northern part of town, was unloading poles at his home when a pole slipped and struck his right ankle, breaking a small bone. Dr W W Hunter reduced the fracture and he is recovering. Also an advertisement urges cash purchases with free candy.
A small wedding was held at the German Lutheran church parsonage southeast of Monticello with Rev. F. Van Strohe officiating. A. H. Hanken of the township married Mrs. Jacobs widow of Henry Jacobs of Wayne township as a modest ceremony.
A prisoner bound for the penitentiary escaped after tripping Sheriff A W Schmalle in Hancock county. The chase led to Straw berry Hill before the convict vanished, later turning up at a Pleasant Valley farmhouse and being returned to Anamosa. Schmalle, 255 pounds, was injured but recovered enough to ride home. The story ends with a local vendor promoting holiday sale items from J H Bacurr & Co.
Local columns record the death of Mrs. John Henry Folkers of Castle Grove from consumption with funeral at the Lutheran church next Saturday. Rev. Geo R Carroll former Wyoming pastor died in Cedar Rapids after years in Linn county. Geogre Nordman sails for Germany to join his father. Burglary at J W Conway’s Anamosa with goods worth 250 dollars. Anamosa remains host to the Strauss assignment case. Parrotts jewelry advertises sale of watches rings and chains and offers clock and watch repairs. Unclaimed letters at Monticello post office include L T Elf and P M Alexander.
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