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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
7
Local notes report a northbound train with 55 cars passing through Monticello this morning. Busy social calendar includes visits, dances, and holiday shopping updates across Dubuque Waterloo Oxford Junction and Petersburg Illinois.
A collage of Monticello and Center Junction notes from late 1908 covers farm ads, travel, Christmas events, store promotions, and social visits. Highlights include Mrs. J M Young and Miss Minnis Dawson visiting Monticello, a Christmas tree and oyster supper at Scotch Grove Presbyterian, theater ads for Cohns Yankee Doodle Boy, and winter shopping at Soetje’s and Perrine’s.
Local sales report at McLaughlin and Rynerson notes corn at 56.34 dollars per hundred, hay at six dollars per ton, and spring calves reaching fourteen dollars. Obituaries include Mr. Thomas H. Smith of Dubuque County who died in Epworth, leaving property to Epworth Seminary. Christmas events announced at Center Junction Presbyterian church.
Community legal clashes unfold as the state board denies renwal of itinerant licenses for the Shallenberger brothers prompting a mandamus suit in Des Moines. District court activity continues with cases from Olin and Anamosa including a walk repair dispute and a late verdict on transient merchants.
L R Jacobs plans a Monday sale southeast of Monticello featuring 10 horses, 50 cattle including 20 dairy cows, 15 two year olds, 7 spring calves, and 15 Duroc Jersey sows. Farm gear includes a McCormick binder, Milwaukee mower, Deere planter, plows, hay loader, and other implements. The sale accompanies legal notes on habeas corpus proceedings for James Moore and Joe Roach, tied to a post office robbery case in Reinbeck and Grundy County.
December 1878 events in Monticello and vicinity include Clarence Blanchard’s 16th birthday, a city ban on sidewalk hill sliding, a home minstrel troupe with Wright Sherrick Hunt and others, a birth at the Rice home, H D Sherman at a National Dairy convention, Diamond Creamery winning a sweepstakes prize, a Wayne Creamery butter prize winner, a masquerade benefiting the Indies library, a district court verdict against Jeremiah Sweeney, a surgical operation by Dr. Mirick, hogs sold at Monticello market, Father O Connor beginning parish service, a burglary on John Righby’s house, Misses Farwell hosting a large party, the Indies of the M I church presenting a chair to editor Blanchard, two charity school evenings raising 87, Kate Curtis visiting Independence, M M Moulton at Minneapolis, and Burrichter selling Christmas novelties.
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