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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1898
Page
5
Miss Essie Hoag visits Cedar Rapids while Miss Mary Leyden spends Christmas in Independence. Straw berry Point visits by Mr. Cartan and Mrs. Shipman noted. Holiday markets feature clearance sales at Hicks Hilers and Lon’s buckwheat. Many residents travel to Dubuque Des Moines Waterloo and Missouri with Christmas and New Year wishes.
Social updates list Mrs W W Loomis of Farley visiting her sister Mrs W B Sloan and several locals traveling for Christmas. Arthur Maurice returns home from Des Moines dental studies. Eyvin Slauson comes back from Nebraska. Many residents visit relatives in Cedar Rapids Davenport Dubuque and Aberdeen. A clipping highlights sales at Hicks and Hilers Wills Deatrick and Lon Jenkins along with charity baskets from the Ladies Benevolent Union.
The three children of Mr. T. T. Smith of Alexander South Dakota are making a short visit to their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Smith.
A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. H. Tuétken on Bowen's Prairie. The post office will close next Monday January 2 from 11 am to 5 pm. Several residents and visitors are noted including Mrs. Olive Rice, Mrs. John Mallory, and Mr. Frank Kehoe ill with pleurisy. Post office hours on Sundays revert to half an hour 10:30 to 11 am. Multiple marriages, visits, and local commerce updates appear, including Wills & Doutrick sale, saloon moves, and bank closures.
Announced events include Burton Comedy Co. set to stage a one week engagement starting January 9 at the opera house. The company is described as well recommended. Local social notes mention marriages, reunions, travels, and family ties across Monticello and Pattensburg Missouri.
E A Hough of the American Type Founders Co. closed the sale of a printing outfit to Eugene Coakley, who will start a Monticello newspaper in January after twelve years on the Jones County Times. Meanwhile a Castle Grove rider escaped a Davenport train by steering onto a side street and continuing home.
Secretary J L Arduser of the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Co presents November figures. Milk received shows a large total and butter sold amounts to 16 090 pounds with cash receipts of 8697 39. Freight and commissions are 348 1 and other expenses 220 00. Patrons were paid 3 052 97. Average price per cwt and butter yield are listed but incomplete.
The holiday season brings heavy travel with daily crowded trains in Monticello. Prosperity appears near as people spend on short vacations. Local news notes Rearick plans to move near Detroit and five Monticello saloon licenses approved with builders hastening readiness.
Elijah Hubbard died at his Monticello home last Monday evening December 26 in his 78th year. Born in Chesterfield New Hampshire in 1821 he moved to Castle Grove in 1858 and later to Monticello with his wife. Survived by his widow Meldrida Redman and a son Alan, funeral held at Presbyterian church with Rev. David Street and burial in Oakwoods cemetery.
Miss Lettie Rigby of Monticello and Mr Oswald Ahlers of Bellevue Iowa wed at the bride’s father’s home with Rev D B Staebler officiating. The quiet ceremony followed by a dinner and neighbors’ congratulations. The couple will reside in Bellevue after a Chicago visit.
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