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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
7
Anamosa visitors and residents listed for Christmas candies nuts perfumes and holiday packages at Burrichters Sojetes and Deutricks. Swanee Jubilee Co appearances and Christmas Eve exercises planned. soley local concerns include sales at C W Browns and Central Lumber and Coal Co with winter goods and coal stock.
Local notes from Monticello Illinois cover shop ads and shop openings, church services, visitors and returns from Shattuck Military School, illness and recoveries, holiday greetings, and upcoming sermons. Mentions include Miss Jennie Alloway, Otto Arduser, Rev J W Innes, Mrs J B Corbin, Russell Stabler, Suter Son butchers, Miss Erma Babcock, John Perrine, Gunther candies, May Hogan, naval recruits, Burrichter’s goods, Brinton picture show, Mrs Lee piano studio, Edison phonographs, Sand Hill Lutheran, Christmas plans, quail season, Peter Meyer confectionery, Christmas sweets, and Masonic officers.
Alonzo Bigley sells his Condon restaurant to a Jock, Joe becomes floor manager, and the elder Jock and wife move into the rear rooms. The Perrine restaurant hires Bigley as a clerk. New Year entertainment is planned at the Congregational church with Mrs. Ray Schaeffer returning to perform. A 750 pound 2 year old pig tops a county sale of 85 hogs at Four fifty each. John Heeren and Mary Bohlken wed at home. groom works as a bartender. Various local notices include post office pocketbooks lost, new Christmas goods at Bacher & Abels, and a Monticello farm sale. A new couple, Kate Harme and Ralph Zimmerman, wed near Monticello. The Sutherlands plan farm moves after January. A Pensacola typhoid death of Charles Hunnacutt is reported, with funeral in Monticello.
The Cedar Rapids gas case halted gas flow in Jones county and will resume when Judge Ellison can start the term due three weeks ago. Christmas delays push jury calls to December 30 with State v Hogan rape case likely first. Local items note a funeral, fire losses, a high school reception, and community notices.
The Campbell family from Farley and Epworth, including William Campbell his wife and father, die when a buggy top up and heated by cold night leads them onto a track before train No 1. The engine crew cannot save them as bodies are wedged in the engine pilot and wreckage. Coroner summons follows as authorities deem deaths instantaneous from the collision.
Merchants listed at the article bottom will close stores at 6 p m on Wednesday January 1 1908 and continue through January February and March 1908 except Saturdays. Lectures and musical numbers at the opera house accompany these notices. A public sale of W H Hughes real estate Langworthy Iowa scheduled December 21 at 9 o clock. Duroc Jersey stock hogs for sale near Monticello Anamosa P O address listed.
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