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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1904
Page
2
The Monticello Express operates weekly on Thursdays with J W Doxsee as Eaton and Prop’r crediting subscription price at 1.75 dollars.
Local items report Fred Day at Cedar Rapids Business College and Miss Mary Calkins visiting Chicago with Monticello friends. Lectures, bank director elections, marriages, funerals, and community events fill the week in Wyoming and nearby towns with Christmas decorations and social gatherings.
Mrs S F Shaeffer serves as marshal while Mrs Hoyt is manager and Mrs Leek guards as sentinel with Mrs Borah and Mrs Countryman assisting. Davenport residents Jesse Luda and Robert Holmes accompany D E Brainard’s remains to Wyoming. Dr J W Richards moves his office to the south Main street store district. Mrs Martha DeWitt heads to Oklahoma City for the winter. Orlando McDaniel and wife depart to St Augustine Florida for several months. Ida Fishwild starts a second term teaching in Oak Grove district.
December reports from Onslow and nearby Cass and Cascade note visits by Dr. Knittle and Mrs. Mary Carter, Anamosa trips, and a large Anti saloon League delegation. Local trades flourish, weddings announced, farms moving, and a church fire at St Martin's noted with limited detail.
Castle Grove reports a social season with the ladies aid, visitors from Langworthy and Buck Creek, and a plan for a winter literary society. Henry Evans and family moved into W T Kehoe’s house while L Rigby returns to timberland life and C J Rigby relocates. Local figures A B Harms and Rev Hubbard of Cedar Rapids are noted for illness and temperance lectures.
Last Friday evening the senior class staged two plays The Garroters and Economical Boomerang drawing a good audience and boosting about 100 dollars to the piano fund Performances by Maude Mirick Margar et Potter John Mayberry Doyt Rhodes Libbie Thoeni Will Wales Minnie Barnts and others drew praise with strong ensemble work Music by Augusta Haeussler Helen Albertson Edith Schneider and others Included a well received rap song and a Topsy Turvey drill Also notices promote buckwheat flour from Samuel Eby Monticello and a sale of a span of seven year old mules from P H Schmalfeldt Onslow Iowa
The Monticello district court reported light activity with upcoming jury business. Entries include guilty pleas with 30 day county jail sentences, dismissals, settlements, foreclosures, and civil matters such as divorces, guardianships, and probate claims with monetary amounts and rulings outlined.
80 acre farm 214 miles west of Langworthy for sale. Good house drilled well windmill barn and space for 2 cattle and 4 horses. Granary corn cribs hen house every acre tillable good fences price 5800 dollars call at the place Justus Darrow.
Two March-born Shorthorn bull calves offered for sale. Sire is recorded and dams eligible to record. Contact I. D. Terwilliger for details.
Eight Poland China brood sows offered by H Nall Onslow Iowa. E Hoag lists a private sale of a homestead on advantageous terms as he moves to Kansas. J A Voorhees trustee announces auction of all stock of clothing and fixtures known as the T A Rohn stock on December 16 and December 18 with afternoon and evening sessions.
A county Anti-Saloon League meeting in Anamosa drew about 100 delegates from across Jones county. Rev L L Lockard presided, with W G Hubbard and John T Houser among speakers. The group backed malce law enforcement, pledged 520 for a fund and authorized raising to 2000, adopted a constitution, and planned legal action to challenge a multi petition. The meeting also noted anticipated raids on saloon keepers and outlined future county-wide efforts to restore prohibitory law.
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