Taubert’s and local ads mix of names and notices
Local notices and ads list illnesses, travels, vacations, and sales. W D Boswell ill with quinsy. Mrs Kate Wheelock visiting Hopkinton. Newton Parrott visiting Dyersville. W A Doron and son in Cedar Rapids. Lon’s reduced raisin offer. Hicks Eilers stock. B D Haeussler high poultry and hides price. various teachers and students on vacation. Golden Eagle ad. Manchester Press gains new press and folder. Overing Stockwell ware. Galloway coats and more.
Marital News and Local Notes from Monticello
Social items report marriages such as Matilda Peters and Peter Jock at the bride's home, and various visits and travels of locals including Grace Smith from Marion and families in Cedar Rapids and Goo Thunder Minnesota. Community events cover church meetings, a Christmas drought and frost, a Masonic gathering misinformed, and a banquet planned by Wide Awake Encampment No. 140 with Monticello orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matilda Peters
Peter Jock
Herman Petera
Lodge Hall
Monticello
Prices Drop After Christmas Clearance at Lon's
Storewide sale at Lon's offers deep discounts as prices fall to clear inventory after Christmas. Shoppers are invited to take advantage of marked-down items across departments with no price limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lon’s
Midnight Flood melodrama at local opera house
A typical American melodrama The Midnight Flood will be shown Friday night January 3 at the opera house. Spectators will see a grand scenic environment and a vivid flood scene with floating houses stores barns debris and boats with life savers rescuing people from buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
Monticello Area Sees Christmas Cheer and Civic News
The census rose by three in the district this week. Christmas brought visitors to homes of A F M Cas persevering in Castle Grove and Henry Rienits, with a boy and a girl noted nearby. Burns Lodge A I and A M elected officers led by A I Jackson and O H Soetje, with several named officers. Charitable actions marked the town with warm gifts to the poor and to widows, including turkeys and jackets. Local sales, lectures, and plays are announced including Wills Deitrick January clearance and a big melodrama at the opera house. Notables: J W Geiger to lecture in Center Junction for library funds. George Shaffer family visiting, Doron attends Des Moines teachers meeting, and Lenox College oratorical winners A M Cloud, Emma Fisk, and R M Corbit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casper
Castle Grove
Henry Rienits
John Rickels
J. W. Geiger
Marion
Young America
Opera House
Center Junction
High School Library Fund
Geiger
Carmichael continuance questioned in Jones county case
The 1895 Jones county case State of Iowa vs Jacob Carmichael highlights a defense affidavit claiming illness and bed confinement to avoid court. Doctors certify incapacity for at least a week, yet observations suggest the defendant worked days earlier and appeared in public after the continuance was granted. The state aims to proceed against Carmichael on the stabbing charge against Herman Zubler. Also noted are local items including the 55th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peak, and a Dubuque visitor involved in a street incident with a disorderly clash near Louis Starry’s cigar store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Carmichael
District Court
Jones County
State of Iowa
Dan R Jacob Carmichael
Las Jones County
Monticello
Iowa
J. E. Gilmore
Lown
J.B. Gilmore
J. G. Grong, M.D
Carmichael
John Lubben
Castle Grove Township
Herman Zubler
Commonwealth
Thomas J. Peak
Peak
Sugar Creek
Dubuque County
Louis Starry
Marshal Miller
Miller
Plance
Monticello School Board Accepts Netcott and Heating Contracts
In Monticello on December 13 1895 the board approved Geo Netcott contract of 1496 and Fuller Warren Co heating 500. The January meeting allowed payrolls and building expenses, approved clerk and teacher renewals, and new hires Miss Halsey and Miss Van Derpoel. A basement floor change to concrete at 53.40 was authorized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Board of Education
Stirton
Sarles
Hosford
McCannon
Geo. Netcott
Mr. Netcott
Fuller & Warren Co
R.P. Smith
J van Dorpool
Carrie Paul
Greer
Fossie Fawcett
K Wheelock
Nettle
WR Sloan
Mo Bo L Palmer
R Ricker
FE Pond
J B Smith
Chicago Tribune
Bacclopedia Brit
Piqua
Clinton
Hunter
J. van Derpoel
Julia Halsey
R.P. Sum
Sec
Hopkinton Leader Reports Local Sales and Plans for a New Railroad
The Smith gins near Hopkinton marketed eight hogs totaling 4,965 pounds last Saturday. C. A. Crawford sold his house and lot to J. M. Johnson for 1400 dollars and plans moving to Fruithurst Georgia next summer. Dubuque businessmen advocate a Dubuque to Toledo railroad linking with the Northwestern line. Local citizens meet at Music Hall on Saturday night December 21 at eight to discuss the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith Gins
C. A. Crawford
J. M. Johnson
Northwestern
Drawn From the Bible in Hall Caine’s Works
Hall Caine asserts he knows the Bible better than most writers and says his novels derive from biblical stories such as the prodigal son in The Deemster and Esau and Jacob in The Bondman with Samuel recast as a girl in The Scapegoat. He hints his new book also comes from a striking biblical source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall Caine
Esau
Jacob
Eli
Samuel
David
Uriah
Annual Meeting Notice for Scotch Grove Cemetery Association
Notice of the annual meeting of the Scotch Grove United Presbyterian Cemetery Association to be held at the church on the cemetery grounds Monday January 13 1896 at 1 pm. M J McNeilly signs the notice. The Vanderbilts reportedly pay florists about 1000 dollars monthly even in the dull season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Congregational Church and Society
Scotch Grove United Presbyterian Cemetery Association
Said Cemetery
Vanderbilts
Comforts and furniture for the home sale pitch
An ad urging homeowners to buy comfortable furnishings to brighten the house for the wife during Christmas. It promotes a full line of necessary and desirable pieces, including upholstered chairs that may ease back rheumatics, and nudges readers to keep the store in mind for holiday budgeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Wits & Dourrick
Prople
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the Express
J. Ww. Doszshkh
Monticello Bank Building
Bidwell
Taupert
Home News
W. D. Boswell
Wills & Deitrick
New Ad
Kate Wheelock
Hopkinton
Hicks & Eilers
Newton Parrott
Dyersville
County Board of Supervisors
Golden Eagle
W. A. Doron
Joshua
Cedar Rapids
B. D. Haeussler’s
Mary Smith
Oxford
King’s Cash Store
Jennie Rose
Vinton
Wills & Deutrick’s
Onslow
Vanderpool
Tipton
Koor & Hicks
Kate Chrystal
St Louis
Manchester Press
Overing & Stockwell’s
Hicks & Bilers
Mable Baade
Dubuque
Goldstone Bros
Jessie Fawcett
West Union
Joseph Es Nye
W. I. Roun
Lizzie Schoenherr
Iown Normal College
Messrs
G. H. George
H. M. Carpenter
Jas. George
Lon Jennings
Schaff Bros. Co
Chicago
Charles Henderson
West Side
Grace Smith
Home
Douglas Smith
S. Farwell
Ed. Templeton
Marla Woodbury
Alexander
Goo Thunder
Minnesota
McConnon
Mrs. Woodbury
Mrs. McConnon
Fred Abel
James Abel
Boone
Julien House
Charlie Wales
H. G. Vernimont
W. D. Bird
Ida Grove
Jackson
Mississippi
T. H. Kenyon
Downerville Co-operative Creamery Co
Bowen’s Prairie
Story & Clark
Overing & Stockwell's
Congregational Church
Presbyterian Church
Burns Lodge
A. I. and
A. M
A. I. Jackson
W. M
O. H. Soetje
S. W
W. W. Hunter
J. W
Pond
Geo. L. Lovell
W. J. Coughlan
S. D
David Sumter
J. D
T. A. King
Tyler
Clark Byam
John Linnell
Wills & Deitrick’s
John Clark
Colfax
Washington
Methodist
United Brethren
George Shaffer
Scotch Grove
Shaffer
Spirit Lake
Wills & Deutrick
State Teachers’ Association
Des Moines
Prisby O’farrell
Darkies
Heaven
Shop Girls
New York
Paradise Alley
Coney Island
Hans Fredericksen
Lenox College
A. M. Cloud
Earlville
Emma Fisk
Ilinois
R. M. Corbit
Onsion
E. W. Brown
Milton Remley Esq
Iowa City
J. I. Guthrie
J A. Carmichael
O. BR. Rickkrr
School Board Proceedings
Genta
Koop & Hicks
Hopkinton Leader News
Bible
McClure's Magazine
M. J. McNeilly
C. H. Schipman
South Sion First Sr
Monricnso
Comforts
Overing & Stockwell
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