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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
7
Holiday promotions at Doutrick's charm shoppers with Holiday Rugs Linens and Blankets. Local visitors include A P Jennings from Chicago and Rev M A Breed from Grinnell while Miss Edna Drury returns from Chicago for the holidays. Various residents travel to Cedar Rapids Fayette Monticello Dubuque and Hopkinton as Christmas displays and confections draw crowds.
Miss Clara Hicks of Hazel Green visited sister Helen at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Koop last Saturday and Sunday. The notice ends with an advertisement for Oneida Community silverware and Davis' Hardware offering a 25 year guarantee.
Monticello residents share events and updates including visits between Manchester and Hopkinton guests, a December basket social at D. E. Kehoe school, baking services by Mrs. Andrew Lewis, and schoolhouse and church activities. Local travel, sales, lectures, and holiday preparations feature prominently alongside farm transactions and new hires.
Fifth and Eighth grades will present The Lost Reindeer, a Christmas cantata, at 2 15 PM in the opera house as part of Friday afternoon exercises. Parents and the public are invited to attend. Davis' Hardware promotes King of Whiskers razors with a satisfaction guarantee.
Stationers offer decorative stickers asking recipients not to open packages until Christmas. Also for sale a few fine thoroughbred White Wyandotte Cockerels at reasonable prices from O. W. Brown at 2314.
Jackson the C M St P station agent has been ill but improved enough to sit up yesterday and hopes to be out tomorrow. Five to six inches of snow fell last Sunday, with lighter snow on Monday, improving sleighing though rough roads remain. Ben Che, formerly of Monticello, moved from Marion to Hopkins to farm, arguing farming offers steadier income for a growing family.
Report from Edgemont South Dakota notes men returned home from a field trip without pursuing investments while cold weather and snow froze the ground The piece adds a humorous jab about a prospector and polar conditions. It also announces John A Petersen and Alma Johnson of Wayne township will wed on the 23rd with a wedding dance at Kinsella Hall Monticello inviting local German community members.
The Selim Worster estate heirs contracted to sell forty acres of timber land in Wayne township near the Toenjes farm to Harm Fechtmann for 150 dollars per acre. The land has about thirty acres of timber on strong soil and no immediate timber removal planned.
Howard Deischer, brakeman on Higgin's Davenport passenger train, was injured last Thursday while running to set a switch in Davenport yards. Steam obscured his vision as he passed the engine and he struck an unseen target, injuring the knee cap. He continued work en route to Monticello but the knee swelled and he sought medical attention.
West bound Milwaukee road passenger train No 7 left the track near Bayard in western Dakota yesterday injuring about a dozen passengers. Among them Q O Ahlers of DeSmet and Monticello's Pat Donavan, the engineer, were noted. Three cars slid into the ditch but the engine stayed upright. Other items mention Red Cross stamps sale, court cases, and a fatal shooting of Joseph Bailey near Amber.
The Express files recount December 1889 events in Monticello and vicinity. Indictments numbered thirteen saloon keepers for prohibitory-law violations near the Jones county line. Cassade saw excitement as some saloon liquor was shipped to Dubuque. J. R. Stillman became justice of the peace after John White declined the post. Daniel Varvel, Monticello’s first white settler, lay ill in Correctionville, Iowa. Mrs. J. M. Sleeper and Mrs. Laura Chapman mourned losses. December’s weather was mild with no snow until after Christmas. Noted births included grandchildren of Rev George Rettig. marriages included Charles Craig to Dora Brodt. Mattie J. Fawcett wed W. H. McClintock of Chicago. Deaths included Stanley R. Howard and Peter Devlin, both 67. Congregational vote tallied officers and a Christmas display featured Mrs. William Schodde’s pansies. Mrs. Jennie Porter left for New York City with her father Robert Henderson accompanying her to Chicago. Holiday notices and local ads conclude the snippet.
Ill students Misa Warnecke and Cecil Cross are listed as ill or absent. Miss Ethel George teaches in place, and plans for a Christmas program with a tree, stockings, and surprise items are described. Readers are urged to attend and bring presents to place in class stockings.
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