Holiday notices and visits fill Monticello column
The Monticello column lists residents and visitors including Mrs. W Dawson of Traer visiting relatives, Senator R C Stirton in Davenport on business, Miss Mary Stoner and Miss Abbie Ferguson from Dubuque visiting, O R Ricker of Cedar Rapids and Anna and Helen Schnier of Worthington in town, and multiple trips to Edgewood Danville and Chicago. Also notes shopping, new sewing machines, Christmas goods, and local events at Deatrick's Hubbard Hanken Hall's Hardware Burrichter's and Davis hardware with mentions of candies, furs, and a recital.
Christmas entertainment and town notes in Monticello
A Monticello column lists church events and holiday displays, a small fire incident, retail mentions, family updates, local trades and politics. It notes tax sale results, new business ownership, real estate transfers, school retirements, and upcoming high school play with ticket details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello High School
Opera House
Holiday window splendor and farm sale notices
The town highlights festive shop windows at Hilers & Bolton and a surge of holiday trade. A Hicks estate house on Bowen's Prairie burned briefly. neighbors saved the building. Auctions near Langworthy sell horses, cattle, corn, oats, hay, and farm implements, led by Capt Tarbox. The Diatrick store and Davis Hardware feature holiday goods and weather prognostications spark chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs Hilers & Bolton
F. M. Hicks
Bowen’s Prairie
Cyrus Whittemore
Lewis Batchelder
Batchelder
Langworthy
E. Tarbox
G. B. Colton
Monticello
Davis visits in Langworthy area planning Missouri winter
Mr. Marshall Davis and his wife travel from Langworthy toward Southern Missouri to spend the winter. He reports his 84 year old father, Squire Minor Davis, is in good health and the couple hope a milder winter helps Mrs. Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Davis
Langworthy
Missouri
Davis
Towa
Mr. Davis
Squire Minor Davis
Jones County
Andrew McDonald
Frank Serbousek
Guthrie
Dubuque
McDonald
Board of County Supervisors
December 1876 Monticello Happenings Preview
Thirty years ago December events in Monticello and vicinity are recapped from The Express files. Marriages include Alice Curtis with Clifford Keith and Calhoun Stevenson with Caroline Shaw. A death records Porter Babcock and Typhoid claimed Henrietta Oswald. The Tremont House sale and a fire loan story are noted amid church hoaxes and a frozen Maquoketa river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
the Express
Alice A. Curtis
Clifford Keith
J. 8. Eberhart
John Clark
Clinton
Calhoun Stevenson
Caroline Shaw
Porter H. Babcock
Maquoketa
Tremont House
William White
Henrietta W. Oswald
Theodore Soetje
Mike McCullough
Bentley
M. AL. Phillips
Old Subscribers Speak Expressing Reader Support and Local Notices
Letters from readers praise The Express for news about familiar people and places while notices advertise holiday sales hardware stores a creamery auction and a teacher examination in Anamosa. The mix shows community support and commercial appeals in a single issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Express
C. F. Schneiter
Mason City
Gregory
Mitchell
Dakota
Herrick
Samels Bros
Minneapolis
Minn
the Express
Sandy Shoemaker
Bridgewater
Town
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NEW Shoe Store
Goodyear Glove
Banigan
Home News
Mr. Henry George
Mrs. W. Dawson
Traer
Deatrick’s
O. A. Ablers
R. C.stirton
Davenport
W. G. Eilers
Edgewood
Mia Blanche Peltier
Hubbard & Hanken’s
Hall's Hardware
Mary Stoner
Abbie Ferguson
B. Paul
Nathan Lathrop
Oxford Junction
Eclipse Lumber Co
O. R. Ricker
Cedar Rapids
Hall’s Hardware
Anna
Helen Schnier
Worthington
Frank Podhaski
H. P. Bancroft
Greeley
Burrichter’s
George Inglis
George Schoonover
Danville
Ilinois
Deitrick’s
Mrs. W. Eberhart
Manchester
Charles Cramer
Henry Heisey
Perry
Charles Winner
Davis’ Hardware
Luna Templeton
Emma Eams
Wasi Andes
B. Devlin & Co
N. W. Hutchins
Wyoming
Anamosa
Henry Harms
Wm Heiken
Gerret Harma
Sherman County
Kansas
Puleston
Hubbard & Hanken
Mons Corbett
X’mas Handkerchiefs
Filers & Bolton’s
Messra Hicks
Ricklefa
Mary Smith
Lorain
Ohio
Stuart
Harry
K. K
A. B. Livingstone
Wallace, Idaho
Alexander Livingstone
Iowa Legion of Honor
Noyes
Onslow
J. F. Petcina
Olin
Oxford Township
Fairview Township
R. Coultherd
Owl
Joe Jock
Jock
Cedar Rapide
Coatrick’s
John Rieder
Washington Township
Frank Kurt
Kurt
X’mas Fura
Eilers & Bolton’s
Albert
Harriet Batchelder
Herman Stutt
Misa
Maurice
J. C. Magee
Fayette
Methodist, Episcopal Church
D. F. Magee
Toyland
Variety Store
Pearson
Petcina
F. M. Magee
Storm Lake
John Martin
Chestnut Street
Patent Office
John H. Heisey
Heisey
Miller
R. Coutlherd
Rebecca
E. V. Monroe
Soetje
Deatrick
Grandpa Heisey
Brother
Sister
Edwin Sparks
United States
Congregational Church
America
Central Lumber & Coal Co
Clara Whittaker
Presbyterian Church
Arteas I. Kepford
Kepford
Ah Iowa Association
Cornell College
Monticello Public Library
Iowa
George Pierce
Millington Carpenter
H. M. Carpenter
Morgan Park Academy
Chicago
Chicago University
Sears, Roebuck Co
Douglass H. Smith
M. A. Breed
Oakwood Cemetery
Northwest Territory
N. B. Noyes
Busse
Parrott
Supreme Court
Anamoga
Cornell
Scotch Grove
Scotch Grove Township
Wyoming Township
John G. Krause
Wayne
Clay Townships
Eilers Bolton's
John Blanchard
Hal’s
Burrichster’s
Chicago, New York Electric Air Line Railroad
G. W. Eastwood
J. A. Deutrick
Douglasa H. Smith
Clover Leaf Creamery Co
Wayne Township
John Ke, Folkerts
Clifford B. Paul
Itc
Eilers & Bolton
C. H. Schipman
South Cedar Street
Merry Christmas
Lovell Block
Mrs. Delaine
AD Wikow
Ubeu
Cee
Evrerees Olotitdy Dautrensont
Reber Ech
O Foundling
Nied
Frieda Hanssen
Clarissa Codman
Mary Pond Club
Dora Gaines
Marence Hubbard
Jennie Woodman
Selma Suter
Sadie Morrell
Berthy Soc
Gracie Greenwood
Mae Hubbard
Emma Stevens
Blanch Hilers
Katie
Aeyve
Mary Coxsee
Nellie Sutherland
Edith Bajasch
Lou Dayton
Edna Templeton
Madge Dayton
Ghatlys Fairianks
Dick Mujendie
Oj. H. Dreibelbis
Duchess of
Diddiesex
Marie Bateman
Fanny
Alta Spate
Delseher
Algernon Penryhn
Heron
Charles Doxsee
Russell Stabler
Loctje's
Picture Sale