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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
2
The Monticello Express issue dated December 21 1899 includes standard Thursday publication details with editor J W Doxsee and subscription price information. This record notes the newspaper’s weekly release and publishing staff.
Center Junction notes Will Felton's home visit Miss Ida Perryman and Jessie Kent visit Epworth trio R A Williamson family in town Christmas exercises planned at Methodist church Free entertainment planned by woodmen and royal neighbors Young party at Clarence Mills home With Morrison Osborn visiting from Ohio and heading to Kansas and beyond Old maid convention earns about 30 proceeds to ladies aid society Lyons to build new two story store on burnt site preparation underway two dwelling units on upper floor
Christmas will be appropriately observed in the Presbyterian church on Monday evening. The families of Alex Shultz and Philip Hildenbrandt have each welcomed a new son. Homer Espy and family of Dixon NL plan to visit relatives for the holidays. Mrs. C R Applegate and Miss Blanche hosted a party for granddaughter Jane Schoonover's fourteenth birthday. Mr G J Hughes married Miss Dena Rickels on December 6 and friends wish happiness to the couple.
Castle Grove and nearby towns share holiday wishes and community updates. Mentions Olive Cramer visiting Mon ticello relatives, Welch case witnesses in Cedar Rapids, sales and auctions, new U S officers, farm moves, and local commerce updates with a farm for rent and a horse feed ad. Additional notes cover weather, travel, and Christmas season goodwill.
U B church lists Sabbath school at 10 and sermons at 11. junior and young people meetings. Thursday prayer meeting. Presbyterian next Sunday services with Rev Innes. Congregationalists plan Christmas Sunday and Monday with sermons. Santa Claus hunt at opera house Monday 7 30. M E Sunday school to stage a Christmas pageant with 30 characters. Admission 5 to 10 cents. Christmas sermon at opera house Sunday morning, evening message No Room for Him in the Inn. Target 615 attendance hoped. Choir to sing. Christian ladies social postponed.
The program notes a January Institute in Onslow for January 9 to 11 with horse show events, cattle feeding discussions, dairy stock care, hog breeding and feeding, dairying, grain and grasses exhibitions, home arts, sanitation, and diet talks. Prof Atkinson and Miss Beatty appear among speakers with plans for prizes and demonstrations.
Verona H H Welch sued Union Central Life Insurance in Cedar Rapids Superior Court over a 1896 policy issued to Otis Hogg of Monticello. The jury found for Welch in 3500? The amount stated 3584 with interest. defendant plans appeal to the supreme court.
Dr J B Thomas at Brooklyn City Hospital witnessed a patient with a failing heart deteriorate then die after a final irregular pulse. He checked the heart and minutes later the patient died as respiratory activity lingered briefly and convulsions occurred. The Detroit Journal notes the unprecedented medical moment.
A Chicago Journal anecdote recounts a witness recalling Lincoln warming by a stove in Judge Davis' courtroom before a Senate race. Lincoln told stories in a low voice until Davis warned him to quit or adjourn. Lincoln replied he had business down the street, then left.
The Denver Republicn notes engineers have redirected streams from the Neecky mountains and Long’s Peak area into passes up to 10 000 feet high to headwaters of the Poudre. About 400 cubic feet per second now flows from the Pacific to the Atlantic slope aiding Larimer County farms.
Advertises remaining unclaimed names Rosa Trenton Kitty Overly E D Williham D E Poxp and P M residence for sale. Cottage and two lots offered on reasonable terms in Monticello with everything in good repair.
A husband and wife debate a harsh message about Mary and calling her a mug. The wife contends the remark hurt Mary more than it saved face, noting her expression fell while the husband defends the literal meaning and the mug pun.
A collection of brief sayings on character and money from 19th century papers. The Indianapolis Journal notes true gentleness is born, while Evening Wisconsin warns many never grow rich due to perpetual spending.
The Nickel Plate Road sells round trip tickets at five and a third for travel within Central Passenger Association territory during Christmas and New Year holidays. Valid December 23 24 25 80 31 1890 and January 1 with return by January 2 1900. Students with credentials may buy at same rate with liberal return limits. General Agent contact 111 Adams St Chicago.
Mr Nf Fredkinskey runs a junk purchase room at the Van Meter shop on First Street. He offers top prices for old iron rags rubber copper zinc brass tallow beeswax horse hides sheep pelts and wool.
Forty acres of well improved land with good buildings, a well and windmill, located one mile east of Monticello. Inquiries directed to Geo Stabler & Sons or Gerd Schaller.
Late Young publisher of the Daily Capital in Des Moines offers an eight page daily edition for December 28 1899 at two dollars for the year 1900 with a two eighty cent check accompanying the order. The Capital is described as a regular eight page daily newspaper with modern facilities including owned building and linotype machines.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company offers excursion tickets to all points within 200 miles of Monticello at a third off the round trip. Sale dates are December 23 24 25 30 31 and January 1 tickets valid for return until January 2. Buy a farm in Blue Grass region of Southwest Iowa at 25 to 40 dollars per acre.
In Jones County Iowa district court Rh C Stinton administrator de bonis non with the will annexed seeks to establish title to eleven acres in the southwest quarter of section 36 township 8 north range 4 west. The suit names Jedediah Ferris and Mary Ferris unknown heirs and other unknown claimants. The plaintiff alleges prior conveyances and defects in description and requests cancellation of adverse claims and quieting title in the administrator. Default possible if defendants fail to answer by March 5, 1900.
In the Eighteenth Judicial District of Iowa the plaintiff Tobias Tobiason seeks a quiet title and removal of adverse claims to parts of section 35 and section 2, township 86 and 85, west of the fifth and sixth principal meridians, held since 1854 through George W. Lovell and predecessors. Unknown heirs and claimants of Wm. W. Hamilton and Engelhard Fielitz are named as defendants. publication requested for six weeks in the Anamosa Journal.
Peter C. Swinn is appointed administrator of the estate of Peter Strong deceased by the district court of Jones County Iowa. Creditors must file sworn claims with the Monticello Iowa court clerk within legal time and debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated November 28 1899. Attorney J W Doxsear represents the estate.
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