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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
7
A collage of retail pitches and social notes: best flour at Hilers & Boltons, E H Johnson & Co groceries fresh and clean, Deatrick linens and neckwear, and specials on dress goods. Visitors include Mrs J M Hofacre in Mechanicsville and Miss Virginia Bardwell in Chicago. Also brief mentions of Christmas visits, New Year wishes, and a record high in money orders at the local post office.
Monticello residents host relatives from Illinois and Wisconsin during Christmas and vacation periods. Notable items include railway schedule changes on the south line, a dancing invitation by Knights of Pythias, new bridge progress, post office upgrades, a medical student home visit, and upcoming Iowa Supreme Court cases from Jones County.
Families from Wabasha Clinton County and Castle Grove visit relatives in Monticello. Local rumor swirls about the Anamosa Journal sale to E B Moore as negotiations continue. Bert Hoss tours the South with a carnival company and James Robertson marries Ethel Sherman at Center Junction. The Carnaby Bucklin Carnival Co dissolves, Bucklin seeking sale options. Congregational Sunday School elects new officers and staff.
Part of the Davenport freight crew swapped runs with Monticello Calmar men during a recent shake-up to keep their homes at Oxford Junction. With the earlier train now changed again these workers feel inconvenienced and seek the company’s next move.
The staff at the U S express office cleared holiday packages briskly and left the depot clean on Saturday night with only one lost item. Transit delays are common due to business congestion, but this year the crew avoided trouble and faced little criticism from superiors.
The contest board certified W. A. Hogan as sheriff after reviewing ballots from Castle Grove Monticello Lovell Richland Cass Scotch Grove and Wayne townships. Barber gained one vote in two wards and in Cass and Scotch Grove, but overall the recount produced no majority for Barber.
The Express urges readers to settle all open accounts at year start. It promotes borrowing from lenders to clear balances and praises those who present statements. The publisher pledges to liquidate its own debts and thanks those who bring their bills, encouraging prompt action.
Edwin E Sparks Ph D associate professor of American history at the University of Chicago will present a six lecture course on United States History or Men Who Made the Nation in Monticello this winter starting Tuesday January 19. Tickets are offered at 1.00 with children’s price 75 cents. Funeral services for Mrs Nancy Batchelder were held at her home Saturday with sermon by Rev Van Buren focusing on divine love. The Oakwood burial followed. The Men’s Club at the Presbyterian church hosted a banquet for nearly one hundred, praising church progress and unity with speakers Rev Purmont and Rev S Callen delivering essays on cheerfulness and faith.
An 120 acre and a 222 acre farm near Prairieburg Iowa are advertised for inquiry through Tom Baker. The notice also features 1904 New Year greeting and a clothing ad from EH Johnson Co Monticello and B A Johnson Co promising boys and children’s suits and overcoats, highlighting their best assortment in the region.
Al Martin brings his mammoth Uncle Tom’s Cabin company to Monticello for a Saturday matinee and evening show. The production is billed as a major midwinter holiday event and follows the big-city show tradition with extensive investment, star power, and mass appeal across the country. The piece highlights Martin’s approach of scale and sentiment, drawing comparisons to Barnum and Charles Frohman while promising authentic, harmonious entertainment.
The Martin stage production, highly praised by press and pulpit, brings 80 characters and 28 scenes to a grand scale. It travels in two 70-foot circus cars with 60 performers, 12 musicians, and a parade of 20 animals and floats. The $80,000 production features famed settings from Uncle Tom’s cabin to a Civil War tableau and opens with a 2:30 PM parade from the opera house. Saturday promises a big day in Monticello.
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