Deaths of Mrs Elizabeth Robertson and Mrs Lois Colton
Obituaries recount Elizabeth Robertson of Amber Iowa who died December 12 1908 aged 75 years eight months and seventeen days and Lois Elvira Worden Colton who died November 17 1908 after a long illness. Elizabeth leaves a husband seven sons twenty nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Colton narrative notes her marriage in 1853 to Miles Colton and long Iowa residence with late funeral at Cass Congregational church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Robertson
Elizabeth Robertson
Peter Smith
Amber
O. F. Hoffman
Elisabeth Smith
Blair Gowrie
Perth Shire
Scotland
America
New York
Columbiana County
Ohio
Better Land
United Presbyterian Church
C. S. Hoffman
Wyoming
Our Horn
Scotch Grove
N. Y
Charlene Clark
Christian Church
Miss Worden
Miles Colton
E. W. Clark
Arcade
Baptist Church
Yorkshire Center
Deleven
Jones County
Iowa
George B. Colton
Colony
Kansas
Joseph A. Colton
Yorkshire
Cass
Amber Local Notices and Obituary Remembrances
Amber reports include George Bailey at the sanitarium in Anamosa and Mrs Eliza Robertson dying in Jackson township aged seventy five. Funeral held at her home with interment at Four Horn church cemetery. Survivors include husband seven sons and two brothers. Also notes cattle shipment to Chicago and visits by Wisconsin visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amber
George Bailey
Anamosa
Frank Parten
Chicago
Clarence Robertson
Wisconsin
Hazerigg
Cedar Rapids
H. Meil
Waubeek
J. J. Bailey
Bowens’ Prairie
Robertson
Eliza Robertson
Jackson Township
Four Horn Church
East Wayne
P. C. Smith
Monticello
David
Hopkinton
Iowa
District Court Proceedings and Probate Matters Summary
District Court reports approve final accounts and discharge administrators in several estates including Louisa M. Hilla Rachel Ellison Miiza Ann Carter Louis Brown Hannah L. Beardsley George Schoonover Elizabeth Espy and join Rice. Will admissions probate appoint executors and guardians bonds fixed. real estate sales set and hearings scheduled for March 1909. Civil cases include dismissal set aside judgments remanded for new trials and multiple verdicts with sums awarded or settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa M. Hilla
Rachel Ellison
Miiza Ann Carter
Louis Brown
Hannah L. Beardsley
George Schoonover
Rebecca Schoonover
Cora I. Weir
Loyal
Niblo
Catherine J. Beam
C. N. Niles
Local Officials Review County Books. Juvenile Offenders Sentenced
Mr. Ingalls and an assistant finish clerk records and move to the recorder’s office. Judge Ellison sentenced Joe Miner and Frank Smith to the reform school for up to five years on guilty pleas. both are 17 and 18 and accused of stealing a horse near Anamosa last October. Ed Byerly plans to move to Colorado with his daughter Zelma. Mrs. Byerly is already there. Alpheus and cousin Charles Ilowe also intend to relocate to Colorado from Castle Grove. Miller & Paul announce a new law firm. Judge Miller has 33 years practice plus bench service. Clifford B. Paul, a State University law graduate, was in the legislature. firm poised to become prominent in the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingalls
Recorder’s Office
Ellison
Joe Miner
Frank Smith
Reformatory
Anawosa
Elbert Tallman
Hogan
Marl Miller
Olin
Ed. Byerly
Longmont
Colorado
Zelma
Miller & Paul
Miller
Wolf
Tipton
Pierce
Anamosa
Notice of Plat and Assessments for Improvements in Monticello Iowa
Notice on file in Monticello Iowa city clerk office shows a plat of portion of First street and South Cedar Street with improvements under Ordinance No 845 dated July 19 1907 including guttering curbing and cement sidewalk and a schedule of lots parcels and owners and assessments against each. Objections must be written filed within 20 days after first publication and will be heard at the council meeting in January 1909 in the library council room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Iowa
First Street
Cedar Street
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Egaid City
J. A. Voorhees
A. Kempf
Mixed Classified Listings From Iowa Newspapers
A collage of farm sales rental notices and advertisements from Cedar and surrounding counties describes 180 acre Laclede county Missouri estates, a 7 room house on a double lot, Duroc Jersey hogs, coal dealers, and local shops. Obituary notes report L. Mayerhoffer’s Maquoketa death and Evangelist Sunday’s $7,000 revival offering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laclede County
Lebanon
Carso Orune
Croom Hotel Proprietor Credits King’s New Discovery
Mrs. Ada L. Croom of Vaughn Mississippi credits Dr King’s New Discovery for curing a severe cough and consumption after months of illness. She notes three bottles effected a complete cure and mentions the remedy’s wide fame. The drugstore of O H Soetje sells it 50 cents and 1.00 with a trial bottle free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada L. Croom
Croom
Vaughn
Miss
Dr. King
O. H. Soetje
Parthian Shot Echoes a Judge’s Wry Remark
A courtroom aside features a judge remarking sternly that he must discharge a man though he is his brother's son, followed by a sly concession about his mother’s feelings and the son's light reply. The exchange reflects family ties and formal authority in sharp wit.
Keeper Page's Upcoming Marriage Rites Noted
The game keeper reports that fellow keeper Page will wed, with prayers said at church for the second time last Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Mail
Raising the Ante in a Georgia Divorce Case
An elderly Georgia man applying for divorce told the judge that marriage cost him little and he would pay a high price to avoid it again, expressing his wish to be done with the union despite his willingness to suffer for freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jedge
Browne and Towne Dialogue On Earthward-Way Passenger
Browne asks if Towne ever met a man who truly wanted the earth. Towne recalls the first trip passenger on an ocean liner as the exemplar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browne
Towne
Bishop’s Third Wife Buried at Brompton Joke
A cleric visiting a cathedral asks where a bishop’s wife is buried. The verger jokes that the bishop mostly buries them at Brompton. The note ends with a proverb about poets being born, not made, implying the poet’s birth is luck not effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Brompton
Detroit Tribune
Farmer Mortgage the Farm Says Arnica Salve Cures Sores
W A Floyd of Empire Georgia claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured his worst hand and leg sores and he would mortgage the farm to keep it. Drug store price is 25 cents at O H Soetje's. Also a New York political quip asks if Can non would stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire
W. A. Floyd
Bucklen
O. H. Soetje
Capital raises annual rate and adds staff for better paper
Des Moines Capital announces a bargain period offer from December 21 to 28 1908 at $2.50 by mail, up from $2.00. The publisher plans to reinvest the 50 cent increase to improve the paper with a new market and financial editor Emilia Bischmore Stapp a Washington correspondent George Hi Carter a weekly short story page and enhanced club coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Emilia Bischmore Stapp
Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs
George Hi. Carter
Washington
Carter
Capital
Safe Young
Des Moines
Iowa
Notice of suit to quiet title in Jones County Iowa
James D. Skelly sues to establish fee simple ownership of rural lands described as the se quarter of the se quarter and related parcels in section 23, township 86 north range 3 west. Defendants warned to answer by March 1, 1909. publication ordered four weeks in The Monticello Express.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Walker
William Walker
James Renwick Walker
Francis Walker
David Graham
G. H. George
Sarah Altman
Frank Altman
Libbie George
Thomas J. George
Mary George
Otto Meyer
District Court
Jones County
Town
Muquoketa River
Kliva Timanus
Wear
Eliza Timanus
William Nelly
Ann George
James Sloan
Iowa
James Skelley
William Kelly
George George
H. George
Liza Timanus
David Graham God Eliza Timanus
J. W. Doxsee
Monticello
Final estate reports set for hearing in Jones County
Final reports of executors and administrators in Jones County estates have been filed with the District Court. A final hearing is scheduled for Saturday December 1 in the Anamusa court, with parties able to appear and object to the approval of the reports listed, including those for Howie Tyrrell Yarrington Harris estates. The notice is dated December 8 1408 and signed by Clerk J H Ramsey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Blaney
Frank Blaney
A.M. Dillon & Co
City of
Geo. Saum
J. D. Saum
Robert Johnson
District Court
Jones County
Dee
Charles Howie
Renetta B. Howie
W. C. Tyrrell
Polly Ann Tyrrell
T.R. Murry
Jon O. Yarrington
Charles Harris
Benetta
Lb, Harris
Anamusa
Iowa
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Boston Transcript
Hiegen
Geo. W. Walker
L. Zeller
A. J. Cantondine
Thos. N. Belknap
Chas. F. Pratt
C. IL. Hargrave
Truman G. Peet
Rhoda C. Brown
Larry Neunaber
Amamosa Eureka News
South Cedar
First Streets
Andrew Steiner
Cascade
G. H. Egger
J. A. Voorhees Coal Co
Condon
Ke, Reed
Paul Peterson
Bugs
Alsever’s
Center Junction
Puleston
Lotf
Northwestern
Garrison
Edison
Victor
Locher Brothers
Soetje's
C. W. Metcalf
Alsover’s
Eby
Samuel Eby
Proctor
Eby Bros
Hubbard Furniture
Hicks & Rickle Fs
I. Ll. Mayerhoffer
Maquoketa
Ottumwa
Cannon
THE
State of
James D. Skelly
Louis G. Stuhler
Filers & Bolton’s
A. M. Maurice
D. D
Lovell
Block
Drake University
Crown Bridge
Reed
Burrichter’s
Drygooda
W. E. Daly
Fred Puleston
Eilers & Bolton
H. M. Remley
James Remley Remley & Remley
Attorneys AT Law
Main Street
Frank Carroll, M. D
Dalber & Carroll
Ely Block
South 3Rd Street
Mirick & Inglis
Physicians
Monticello Bank
Jaws
Oalls
Herrick, Cash & Rhinehart
Tvorneys AT Law
Monticello State Bank
Citizens' State Bank
Geo. Albery
C. C. Bort’s
West First St
Lovell Block
Poland
Brown Monticello
J. A. Colton
B. Coffman
Davenport
Lovell House
Diamond Creamery Co
Monticello, Iowa
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance
Castle Grove
Jones
J. A. McLaughlin
S. M. Hosford
Andrew Davidson
Dennis Delay
James Hogan
J. A. Wowie
Arthur Fairbanks
Thomas Ff. Kehoe
J. Noble
Lowa
Trountain
Peng
Kodak
Amas
Ernst Vogal
Central Lumber & Coal Co
G. P. Rockstad
Brown’s
C. W. Brown
ST. P
Traina
Omahaessseceivers
West
Sioux City
Omaha
St. Paul
Kansas City
Farley
Coimbi
Cece Cere
Ocalmar Freight
Oxford Freight
Marlon
Evenee
Peecee
Lrave
N. Schoen
MFG
Furrier
North 3Rd Street
J. E. Bateman
Chaler IN
First Ft
Aia
C. H. Soetje
Eagle Drug Store
Prop
H.C. Bohlken’s
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