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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
7
The Monticento Express plans to relocate around January 1 to the second story of Lovell building. The paper will occupy the rear half of the second floor for its printing plant and the east front rooms for its bus operations.
Busy Monticello area shoppers and visitors are cited in notices across Doutrick's and related stores. Harm Helgens and Burrichters visit Le Mars and Lost Nation, while J. B. Hall travels to Chicago on business. Various promotions feature hats, purses, bed comforts, silk dress goods, and holiday gifts with weekly business updates and local sales.
A jumble of notices and ads notes falls and injuries a revival at the United Brethren church concerts at the Methodist church and upcoming sales Aleta Harms breaks her right arm in a fall near Wayne township Horace Downer fractures a leg near Monticello and Conductor Pike lays off due to a thumb injury Featured promotions include Deatrick and Hermans stores with removal sales canned fruits coats carpets and silverware The Monticello Bank offers calendars and a public sale is planned for C J Rettig's farm with many cattle horses and crops up for bid
Curtis Stone wrote from Bowen's Prairie Iowa in 1851 describing long travels from New Hampshire to Chicago and Dubuque then Rock Island Galena and Dubuque. He details prairie conditions timber scarcity stone quarries and fencing methods. He later returns with land purchases near Bowen's Prairie and notes railroad and church plans. He marries in 1853 in Vermont and settles on the hill farm until his death in 1879.
Arthur Garfield Graves died last Friday at age 25 after a lung injury worsened by illness and travel. He was baptized weeks before death and funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church with Rev. W. M. Lemen officiating. The article notes his faultless character and burial in Oakwood cemetery. Bacher and Abel take over Dolph C. Prader’s drug business, with Robert Abel selling half to Bacher. Abel previously served as the former clerk. A local ad from an old butcher offers watch repair services, promising quality work.
A Johnston alias H H Shutt the famed forger was sentenced last Saturday to three years in the penitentiary for forgery in Anamosa. He pleaded guilty to the Anamosa National Bank charge and other indictments were dismissed. He previously spoke to convicts from the rostrum and now begins a penitentiary term under the name Shutt.
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