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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
4
A Cornwall of social visits and travel. residents from Anamosa Hartley Waterloo Clairmont Davenport and more appear in holiday correspondence. Local events include a Onslow funeral, a Chicago stock show, Christmas cantata, and a fire at Mrs Ballard's barn.
Center Junction notes list Dora Smith returning from Davenport, Elmer Watson of Cedar Rapids visiting Thursday, Prof. Jones vacationing at Epworth, Charles Livingstone on a Wyoming trip, Floyd Emerson visiting James Young in Epworth, Christmas dinner with O. Freeman and wife, Margaret French on a week’s vacation in Onslow, and Nellie Albertson vacationing near Langworthy.
Spencer Guiles and family of Shellsburg visit M Foust at his home. John McNeilly and family have Christmas dinner at C B Larkey’s in Wyoming. Alfred Hanna and wife visit Mrs. Sutherland in Everly. Bernice Lewis of Wyoming visits D Smith and D L Young’s family in Towns City for Christmas. Mrs. John Dickerson of Anamosa visits her father J S Brown in town. Relatives attend Wm Overley’s funeral in Onslow. John Dawson of Clinton spends vacation with Thomas and Mrs. Dawson. R G Lyons sells 80 acres to John Lotte and 348 acres to a Scotely Grove area resident. A member attends Christmas exercises at the Scottish Grove Presbyterian church. Sara Buck and Carsta Dreibetbis visit T E Canty at Rock Island. Thomas and Mrs Sutherland and Charles Sutherland of Cedar Rapids spend Christmas with Mrs CL Sutherland. Christmas exercises at M B church Saturday evening feature a fine program by Sunday school scholars. Local students’ vacations include Robert Lyons J C, Arthur Lyons Coe College, Sam Thompson Lenox College, Harvey Young Pred Collier, Leo Courtney Epworth Seminary, Vera Smith Cornell College.
Cascade reports visitors from Lyons Dubuque Des Moines Waterloo and Des Moines. Local events include church programs school program Christmas services and a Christmas tree. Maurice Brown 50 died Christmas morning leaving a wife seven children and siblings. Blanche Fairburn hospitalized in Davenport improving. Matt Sadler and Masons host banquet. weddings planned for Ethel Hamilton and Ralph Smith in Chicago set for January 1.
Local rural column reports residents visiting relatives in Monticello Pomeroy and Anamosa. School closures on Monday and Tuesday at Wayne Center. Travel notes include Hl W Rizer visiting son Walter and George Dorsey family Christmas with parents. See plans for William Collmann moving to Dickinson County and Henry Alferts shop loss repair at Sand Spring.
The groom tried to avoid a serenade by staying late in town. The groomsmen, not fooled, set up camp and awaited the bride and groom. At 4 a.m. a distant approach prompted the guards on duty to announce the arrival and the ensuing serenade was memorable.
Castle Grove reports Christmas social at the schoolhouse No 2 next Friday. Residents include Mrs Anna Cole and children from Nebraska visiting near Monticello. Elsie and Grace Noble home from Coe College for the holidays. Community prayers and trees at Lutherans Methodist chapels, Scott of Chico visiting, and reflections on holiday scenes.
Onslow reports recovery of Will French and visits from relatives including Rev J G Van Ness at Mt Vernon. Christmastide returns include Mila and Alice Lamey visiting Monmouth mother. Vera Paul home from Coe College. Miss Lou Sears from State Normal. Obituary notes William Overley dies, funeral at Methodist church. family details and cemetery burial.
In Cass on December 27 visitors from Langworthy Souris Monticello Cedar Rapids Orange New Jersey and Atlantic Iowa mingle with locals. Christmas church exercises a success and a Cass livestock show trip to Chicago counted among recent happenings while an artist Blashfield debate draws readers into art criticism.
The German Mutual Insurance Co. of Monticello offers a reward of 50 dollars for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who set fire to the Henry Merts building in Sand Spring. The building carried an insurance policy with the company. B. Bohlken, President.
Willard W Crouch born Hague New York January 25 182L died Prairieburg aged 76 years 11 months. He moved from Pennsylvania to Iowa lived near Prairieburg joined Prairieburg Baptist Church 1870. Funeral by Rev J E Treloar Ogden Iowa on December 27. He leaves no near relatives.
A festive goat on the steamship Galveston fell ill after ingesting unusual items aboard while escorting the peace squadron from New York to Portsmouth. A doctor diagnosed indigestion from white lead and later quinine, with sailors recalling a tale of powder and asbestos risks. The crew’s mock seriousness underscored naval banter amid lighter seas.
Clarence thanks Cordelia for accepting him and declares happiness. Cordelia replies she hopes he is not superstitious, and he notes he is the thirteenth man to propose to her. The line appears in a Chicago Daily News feature.
A Yonkers Statesman quote of a teacher asking a boy about the meaning of a minor and the boy answering that a minor is a young man who cannot drink beer or smoke cigarettes.
Nickel Plate routes offer Christmas holiday excursion fares for round trips Chicago to Buffalo with sale dates December 28, 1905 to January 1, 1906 and return by January 3 1906. Through service to New York City Boston and other eastern points no excess fare. dining cars provide meals. Three through trains daily from LaSalle and Van Buren, Chicago Elevated loop depot. The January Century features color frontispiece sewing room by Anna Whelan Betts and decorative printing of Yet is His Majesty our Sovereign Lord plus inserts by Albert Sterner and Daniel Chester French with a Thackeray portrait in black and white from E Goodwyn Lewis.
Holiday season travel sale on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers one and one third fare for round trips between all points. Dates of sale include December 22 23 24 25 30 31 1905 and January 1 1908 with return limit January 4. Also an investment plan of $10 monthly for twenty months paying $4 to $7 monthly dividends for life. 714 Tropical Fruit Co Jacksonville Fla.
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