Local News Roundup From Anamosa Area Shops and Visits
Mr. Charles Winner visits home. Letta Rigby visits Ana mosa. Lon's offers fancy fruit and groceries. Hicks Eilers shows largest stock and latest styles. Editor Booth of the Eureka in town. Bishop adds a new safe to his office. King’s Cash Store sells Standard Fashion Sheets and patterns. Various visits from Phil Schlatter of Fayette and Veranus Diley of Liberal Missouri. Wills Deitrick advertise carpet warp. story stock piano sales at Overing Stockwell. Weds and Sundays highlight visits by Coxsee, Cartano, Podhaski, and the Rigbys. The Y M L W plans a Valentine party. Miss Eberhart sisters visit. Goldstone Bros offer silk plush caps at 50 cents. Des Moines Capital ad and local butter from Charles Henderson corner.
Local notes mix church events and travels in Monticello
Monticello social and business notices weave through community life. Mrs Diedrich Folken dies at Bowen s Prairie after lung fever age 85, and family shifts bring visitors from Cedar Rapids to Dubuque and Bryan Ohio while church groups sponsor a dime social and a missionary tea.
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Diedrich Folken
Bowen's Prairie
Bowen’s Prairie
Mardorf
Diedrich Huels
Swerhave
Local News Briefs From Monticello and Vicinity
A clash of short items notes Altman the harness maker dealing with a front porch theft, D W Hanna's public sale of stock February 10, and Evangelistic services starting February 10 at the Methodist church. Also mentions Low Jennings grocery spectacle of the smallest man and woman, electrical inspector W C Stewart in Monticello, George Meade's death from a poison accident, six Oxford Junction lawyers arrested for liquor law violations, snowballing boy antics, travel plans of locals for Fruithurst Georgia, and a bridge construction update with injuries among workers.
Williams to present Much Ado About Nothing recital and farce
Geo B Williams known for Henry the Second recital and The Sleeping Car will perform Much Ado About Nothing next Thursday evening February 13 at the opera house. Proceeds benefit local schools. Reserved seats 45 cents, general admission 25 cents. Show starts promptly at eight. Also reports the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Lambertus Leesekamp of Bowens Prairie on February 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry the II
Opera House
Williams
Monticello audiences praise local theater and vaudeville acts
The recent home produced play Convict’s Daughter drew fair crowds Friday and Saturday with repeat showings. Major Noble G. Winner the dwarf and Mary J. Gongware from Mason Michigan were celebrated guests at the depot reception. Dr Lafayette W Lovell of Kalamazoo is remembered in Monticello as a prominent physician and former state official. A festive 34th birthday party for Mr F M Hazlet featured a surprise gathering, Masonic emblem watch charm, and a multi course supper hosted by Mrs Hazlet.
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Houge
Monticello
Noble G. W. Winner
Iowa
Major Winner
Ringling Bros
Mary J. Gongware
Mason
Michigan
Rev
Urch
Knights of Pythias Order
Major
Mrs Winner
Geo. L. Lovell
Climax
Lafayettee W. Lovell
Lovell
G. W. Lovell
Kalamazoo County
Lovell House
W. A. Doron
Alazlet
Mr. Hazlet
Herrick
City Council Mulls Licenses and Elections Procedures
The meeting adjourned after approving general fund bills and a city scales license. Officials debated license fees, with $25.00 approved, and discussed election logistics for wards one through three including polling sites and clerks. A child in the second ward was severely scalded by hot water from a boiler, with injuries to both arms.
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Schoonover
Matthiessen
Warner
Clark
Lawrence
Yeas
Page
Mayor
Clark Mayer
Town Hall
Matthiessen Bros
Lovell House
Cedar Street
Geo. Schoonover
First
Angle Streets
O. KR. Ricker
Lawrence and
J. Fr. Percina
Fred Koop
E. EI. Hicka
J. G. Suter
Conner
D. Pagé
L. Clark
H. Warner
Farley Street
J. W. Coxsee
McAleer
Nayes
J. S. Percina
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. W. Doxssmh
MonTicello Bank
Bidwell & Taupert
Home News
Charles Winner
Willa & Deatrick’s
Letta Rigby
Anamosa
Lon's
Booth
The
Anamosa Eureka
Hicks & Eilers
Bishop
the Times
King’s Cash Store
Phil. Schlatter
Fayette
Overing & Stockwell’s
Veranus Diley
Liberal, Missouri
Isaac Rigby
Wills & Deutrick’s
Carey Wright
Epworth
Lon’s
Bert Cartano
Springville
Hicks & Hilers
J. L. Gardner
Story & Clark
Overing & Stockwell's
Joseph Podhaski
Wyoming
Ed. Diley
Fulton, Iowa
W. H. Gregory
Mitchell
South Dakota
the Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Presbyterian Church
Eberhart
Oxford Junction
Dr. Robinson
Celia Bubletter
Dubuque
Goldstone Bros
Messrs
Leroy Clark
Fred Matthiessen
Pat
Connor
Moline
K.P. Hall
Iowa Capital
Des Moines
Safe Young
Charles Henderson
West Side
Proctor
Hattie
California
U. B. Church
C. W. Brown
F. W. Gates
Cedar Rapids
E.G. Waite
M. J. Gallagher
C. J. Gallagher
Thos. J. Day
Marion
Grace Smith
J. Brucks
George
Jacob Brucks
W. F. Roan
Robi. Abel
Jennie Rose
King Kaylor
Minnie Starks
U. B
Chloe Brazelton
St. Luke’s Hospital
Wm. Brazelton
J. S. Hall
Will van Meter
Missouri
van Meter
L. Peltier
Joshua Carter
Englewood
Illinois
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the
M. E. Church
George Schoonover
Manchester Driving Park Association
O. R. Davis
Cleveland
Ohio
Bryan
E. V. Monroe
Altman
D. W. Hanna
Low Jennings
W. C. Stewart
Iowa Alliance
George” Meade
Caas ‘Township
Law Dellers
Justices Pond and Ricker
Jamies Smalley
Henry Sacora
John Powlester
John Shemonke
John Blick
Frank Powlister
First Street
O. C. Hunter
Alexander
Fruithurst
Georgia
I. N. Austin
Anamona
David Glenn
Roland Glenn
Scotch Grove Township
Hunter
New ‘Bridge
Geo. B. Williams
Lambertus Leesekamp
Col. N. G. W. Winner and Wife
Lon Jennings Grocery Store
Council Proceedings
Aregepae
Warner Lawrence
Wills & Doutrick
C. H. Schipman
Sipz
Monrich
Clarks
Soetje
Dralurs IN
Sherwin-Williams
Strelt
Overing & Stockwell
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