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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1903
Page
7
Cedar Rapids reports a Monticello visitor and a flurry of local ads. The item list includes shop notices for New Ginghams, Embroideries, school caps, spring goods, and household gear, plus travel mentions, sales, and farm updates.
Monticello items include Nugent lecture ads 85 cent admission, washing machines White Lilly and Ocean Wave promoted, fire department call on North Cedar street, town real estate and rentals, piano tuner J C Larson alert, Cream flour guarantee, free mail delivery possible if receipts rise, and local dressmaking partnership Viola Brown with Mrs Andrew Cassady plus a clean up sale at Deatrick featuring dress goods and millinery.
Our Onslow correspondent reports the death of H. V. VanDusen once Jones County recorder about eighteen to twenty years ago. He later moved to Los Angeles and served as postmaster during the Harrison administration. He was regarded as a capable official and a friendly man.
The Monticello column reports church dinners and lectures, dairy convention notes, election stances on rate raises, and social visits. It lists the Klondike Creamery annuals, theater plans for The Man in the Iron Mask, and a public sale by Vesper Rearick with cattle and crops.
Center Junction area notices announce Mr August Rickless will assist customers at the Golden Eagle Clothing House. Nearby resident B C Mackrill plans a public sale February 17, two and a half miles northeast of Center Junction, featuring 25 horses and 7 cattle with Capt Tarbox as auctioneer.
The Valentine Party by the Y M S W B moves from Friday the 13th to Wednesday February 11, at R C Stirton's home. A children’s party runs 4 to 6 pm with light refreshments and an admission of ten cents. the evening gathering starts at 8 pm with the same fee.
Mrs Carrie Lee announces a Monticello studio offering theory and practice of music. The ten week term runs from the second week in April to the second week in June and is preparatory to the regular music year. Inquiries answered. Second term begins in the second week of September.
The Jones County Teachers Association meets at Monticello High School on Saturday February 7 starting at 10 a.m. with the rural school section led by Supt. Paul. The program covers problems and discussion, geography talks, music by the Monticello High School Orchestra, and officer reports with an executive committee and arrangements staff listed.
The Monticello board of education met in regular session approving various bills under the Teronenanas Fund Contingent Fund and School House Fund. Miss Elise Metzenberg, a 24 year old dressmaker from Monticello, died of pneumonia at Le Roy Clark’s home after a brief illness. She was born in Spinz Canton Bern, Switzerland, lived in Monticello most of her life, and leaves parents and six siblings. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church, with interment at Oak Woods Cemetery.
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