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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
2
The Wyoming column reports Miss Emma Bates visiting Clinton, D R Johnson on Cedar Rapids business, and Rev W H Ilsley with wife visiting Amosa. It notes stock shipments to Chicago, local visits, and a Christmas message from The Express. It highlights a possum novelty, a wagon-shipping incident at the depot, and marriages of Coyle Holden to Noble Seamon, with church notices and local temperance remarks.
An offi ce demonstration this morning showed the remedy to be simple and effective with striking effects. Further information can be obtained by personal interview or written inquiry with a stamped reply, to be provided later.
Mrs. D M Hogan is in poor health. Haley Bros shipped cattle to Chicago Tuesday. Sheriff Hogan visited his mother recently. F M Clark went to Neola SD on business. Wm Noble and son of Canada visiting relatives. W H Laude of Monticello on business. Mrs N C Deischer visited relatives in Monticello. Wilder sold butter fat at 27 cents a pound at Downerville creamery on the 15th. Christmas tree in chapel Christmas Eve at 7:30. Leclerc from Allegheny PA to preach Sunday afternoon. Spitzer Bros of Central City bought a thoroughbred polled Hereford bull from Arthur Fairbanks. Some breaking occurred last week. Sod turning is unusual in December. Miss Lulu Howie clerks in Hicks Rickles during holiday rush. W A Krueger visited relatives at Farley, then returned to Doon Tuesday. Miss Kate Harms will marry Mr Zimmerman near Amber. Farmers Mutual Insurance Association of Castle Grove organized in schoolhouse No 2. Meeting well attended with enthusiasm. over $56,000 in insurance planned. Board: J A Howie, J A McLaughlin, James Hogan, Dennis Delay, Andrew Davidson. Three adjusters elected: Arthur Fairbanks, E J Noble, Thomas F Kehoe. Officers: President J A McLaughlin, VP Andrew Davidson, Secretary S M Hosford, Treasurer J A Howie. Charter to be procured. business to begin March 1, 1908. Confidence in success for the new insurance association.
The issue highlights local bargains in Center Junction Iowa with storewide lighting upgrades at McDonald and Andrews and Harr Gibbs Co. It advertises candies, coffee blends, roasters, oils, and a variety of household goods. Milwuakee depot heat outage comment and festive promotions close the item.
Will Yount returns to Pumpkinville for winter. Gerd and John Harms visit from Monti. Wm. Rieken returns from Lemars to visit relatives. Ed Stutt hauling rock from Anamosa for foundation work. Tim Cundy rents Berlin farm near Monticello and leaves No 2 in March. Dorseys visit Cedar Rapids relatives. Louia Schuetz visiting brother Rev. Schuetz in Monticello. Kearns family visiting relatives in southern Kansas for about two months. John Johnson travels to Amber and Bailey’s store chat. Carl Thuman buys gasoline engine for grinding and sawing. Helgen barn burns. renter Gerd Benken loses cattle and horses. A local marriage spree with Miss Katie Harms and Ralph Zimmerman to wed Thursday. Dan Slife sale proves successful with lively bidding on a dish cupboard prized by Will Connery and Will Yount.
Cass December news from Linn county events include visits by G G Ketcham and C G Croot and social gatherings with Mrs. Sarah Ogden and Mrs. Ray Mann. Members attend funerals, dances, and a Mystic Workers lodge event. Dr. Fred Sigworth operated on Millard Joslin. Maurice Croot plans to leave soon.
About twenty friends visited the Ketcham farm home in Montclair New Jersey on Monday evening after Maurice was summoned by telephone. The gathering was described as a pleasant evening for all involved.
Onslow stores report ample holiday goods in stock. Residents and visitors including F J Sokol family and James French of Volga SD travel news, with relatives in the area. Sad note on Mrs Ed Franks remains near death, while M B Walters heads to Coldbrook NY for stepmother's illness and W D Livingstone returns from Texas with a cold setback.
A roundup of local visits and events includes A W McDonald of Hopkinton staying in Center Junction, Belle Moncrieff and Fannie Carson visiting Monticello, and Miss Lucy Bottomstone from Wyoming calling on friends. Rev Condit spoke at the Presbyterian church on Anti-Saloon League work while Mrs Potter delivered a sermon on The True Woman. A large Lightfoot farm barn burned with four horses and fourteen cows lost. Ethel Young and Moses home visit included a Monticello basketball game in Anamosa.
Scotch Grove news from December reports Gid Hughes bailing hay and Ellen Mead visiting friends. Miss Countryman of Anamosa visits E L Hoyt, while Mr and Mrs John Woellert visit Delaware relatives. Travel to Chicago by E L Himebaugh and Harrison Loomis. Mrs Hall of Oelwein visits Geo Moats. Henry Doering sells farm to Will Schoon for 75 dollars an acre. Frank Royden visits from Hopkinton. Geo Laphan of Minneapolis visits. Rev Condit of Cedar Rapids preaches temperance at Presbyterian church. Mrs Rickels and son Will head to Rockwell City to visit her older son John. Mrs A P Moate recovering from operation in Iowa City. Barn fire at Fred Welgins farm destroys cattle, horses and equipment. Behnken uninsured losses. Insurance 600–700 dollars not covering total losses.
A group from Jones county plans to depart January 7 for Middlewater Texas. The trip is organized by the Ben I Tanner Land Company of Cedar Rapids Iowa which owns a large tract of rich agricultural land near a railway line and a station and town site midway through the property. Prices are low and terms reasonable and written requests will secure full land particulars and a plot drawing.
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