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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1898
Page
4
Local Monticello merchants promote holiday goods and sales from Wills Deutrick’s and Samter’s while noting discounts on hats undergarments and linens. Residents visit relatives travel to New York and South Dakota as Christmas preparations and social calls fill the week.
Monticello residents and visitors appear in a flurry of Christmas shopping and social calls. Notables include Miss M L Hallock visiting Waterloo, Prof Bollman of Lenox college in Monticello, and Mrs F M Hazlet in Cedar Rapids. Stores announce clearances and new goods from Hicks Eilers, Soetje, Goldstone Bros., Sumter’s, and others while Hicks Hilers offer blankets and Christmas mufflers. Several locals travel between Anamosa, Cedar Rapids, Rock Island, and Baldwin for gifts and visits.
Local notices report tax rates set in Anamosa and Monticello, editor Lafe Young touring for lectures, Burns Lodge officers elected, and Santa Claus at Sleepers. Also notes on a barn fire, a prison escape capture, a medical institute evaluation, and Christmas goods at local stores.
A double wedding took place yesterday afternoon at the M. E. parsonage with Rev. D. S. Stackler officiating. William Jackson and Leafa Millsap wed, as did Frank Cooper and Celia Jackson, both couples from Linn county and Cass township.
Rev and Mrs Staebler received a cordial welcome from Monticello Methodist Church members and friends last Thursday. Epworth League presented an elegant chair as thanks while the couple expressed appreciation. Also advertised: overcoats priced 25 to 35 cents off dollar for youths five to eighteen years.
Mrs. John Henderson of Castle Grove died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at the W. H. Proctor & Co store in Monticello. She, age about 38, accompanied by her husband and daughter, grew cold and faint during the ride, collapsed in the store, and died after several hours of unsuccessful medical aid. The physicians cite undiscovered kidney disease amplified by a chilly trip. husband, four children, and family mourn.
Albert Hubbard died last Monday at age 81 at his son Edgar Hubbard’s home after a long, peaceful life. Born May 16 1817 in Chesterfield New Hampshire he moved to Massachusetts in youth and married Sophia Powers in Spencer in 1848. He lived in Castle Grove then Monticello and is survived by sons Edgar and William both in Monticello. Funeral was held at Edgar Hubbard’s home with Rev D S Staebler officiating and burial at Oakwoods Cemetery.
Seventeen percent of the listing notes a 227 acre farm in Clay township Jones county. Former timber land now two thirds cleared with good improvements and timber land soil. Suitable as a stock farm with asking price twelve dollars per acre. contact H. M. Troy Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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