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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1896
Page
5
Monticello residents and visitors are noted in a stream of ads from Wills Deitrick Hicks Eilers Sumter Shipman Goldstone and others. Mentions include Mary Leyden in Independence Jacob Schneider in Switzerland and J W DeWitt family time on Sunday. Local retailers promote blankets fur coats and suitings with prices and locations across town.
Local items report small thefts of shoes for sale at 80 cents a pair and visits by Grace and Vera Smith to Mrs. Earhart in Wyom. Italian pond dances, Christmas week musings, and New Year plans fill Monticello notes with sales, theater, and church events.
A chronicle of residents visiting Chicago Centerville and Mt. Vernon. sermons by Rev. Waite. New Year guests. social events and entertainments. local business ads. election notes. horse shipments. and municipal legal notes.
In Monticello several town items include visits from Mr W Hi Stilwell of Texas and Mr Bryan Eastwood a Normal Mnols student with parents. Diptheria cases appear in south eastern Monticello and outside the corporation with quick quarantine and anti toxic treatment.
Bride and groom planned Christmas night nuptials with a full reception and dance though guests joined in celebration before the decision to delay the ceremony until summer. Other items include the capture of Reuben Schneider in Dubuque on a charge of ravishment, the pursuit by Marshal Miller, and a court exam set for next Saturday. Also reported are a poetry note from Bradley Stuart on the old year, a larceny case involving a rifle and tramp gang, the death of Mrs Elizabeth White at age 80, and a newspaper subscription promo for readers.
A list of unclaimed mail remains at the Monticello Iowa post office advertised December 28 1896 including Curtis John Lund Charlie Mathewson E E Ryan J H L T Alexander P M.
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