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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
7
Monticello shoppers read of holiday specials at Hicks Eilers Deatrick's Deutrick's and Stuhlers. Locals Mrs Peterson Mr Howard and Rufus Ricker recover from illness while relatives visit Independence Marion and Manchester during the vacation.
Monticello residents greet the holidays with family visits and travels. returnings include Miss Ethel George and Mr. Ray Schaeffer from Chicago, while Typhoid patient Joe Vernimont recovers at home. Town businesses advertise deatrick's winter goods, fresh can goods, and holiday gifts as locals share news of travel, illness, and community events.
The article urges early gift buying at Burrichter's and D. C. Prader's as Christmas approaches while reporting rising egg prices and holiday trade slowdowns. It notes chicken thefts near Monticello, a hospital operation for Miss M. Kromminga in Anamosa, Diphtheria cases in Center Junction, and a New Year's Eve ball by the Knights of Pythias with a 25 cent admission.
Judge J S Stacy of Anamosa pursues executive clemency for Mrs Ernestine Bertoch serving a life term for murdering her first husband. The supreme court freed her co defendant Theo Bertoch, and Mrs Bertoch must rely on clemency as no appeal was filed. Also notes at Liberty, escape and recapture from Anamosa prison.
The district court completed several civil cases including Lawrence vs Washburn a land boundary conflict decided for the defendant after a day of testimony. Other trials followed with verdicts on horse possession and arrow stack damages while criminal cases began and will finish soon. Probate matters and guardianships dominated the docket with multiple final reports approved and administrators discharged. Sam Jones spoke in Monticello delivering forthright moral lecturing style amid mixed reactions.
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