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The Monticello Express announces weekly publication every Thursday under editor J W Doxsee. Subscription price per year is 1.75 dollars.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1902
Page
4
The Monticello Express announces weekly publication every Thursday under editor J W Doxsee. Subscription price per year is 1.75 dollars.
In Castle Grove on Feb 4 health concerns touch residents H I Clark and Mrs J A Howie while Rev C C Warner visits from Monticello. A basket social funds an organ at School House No 3 taught by Miss Waddick. Downerville creamery lease extends. annual meeting yields re elected directors. Baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Balster. Clover Leaf Creamery holds directors re election. Shover returns to Center School after illness.
Miss Amelia White of Baldwin visited her father here last Monday. Center Junction plans a Teachers Meeting on Saturday February 22 with teachers and patrons urged to attend. The K L G P Lodge play last Friday drew a large crowd with Miss Kent, Mr Robinson, Eddie Tomlinson, Miss Lincoln and Mr McRoberts in key roles entertaining the audience. Schultz Bros have taken over the local butcher shop and seek patronage.
Dr L J Tourtellot of Anamosa visited the parental home over Sunday while H H Freeman of Olin stayed on business. Rev White, recently married to Mrs Mead, moved to Hardin county. Merchants report a satisfactory past year after invoicing. Smallpox rumors caused postponement of a Friday school entertainment. Dr Metthey of Davenport confirmed smallpox during a town visit and travel to Onslow. Ladies encouraged a sleigh outing to Oxford Junction for a royal supper with twenty four attendees.
Bert Atwood is quite ill in Cass cited alongside Mrs M Bruce among the sick. Visitors include Mrs Will Ketcham at Monti cello week and Miss May Helmer visiting Clara Benton in Anamosa. Rev Mardorf of Wayne and Rev Cross of Cass make moves in school and church roles.
Wayne Center February 5. John Stutt and family of Scotch Grove visited his parents last Sunday. Tobiason Bros sold a fine team of horses to Monticello buyers last Saturday.
The record lists numerous couples who received marriage licenses in January. Names include Albert Hutton and Jennie Hayner, Thos Smithson and Sophia Harris, Ernest Zaedow and Mary Brokens, James Kohl and Millie Bear, Thos A Dean and Ellen Ellingham, Edward Becker and I'melie Behnke, Michael Geary and Ida Lang, Wm Puls and Martha Hinrichsen, Jos Jarrett and Ada Harrison, Geo Tobiason and T Behlken, Ben McClout and Maggie Gray, Jos Morrisey and Johanna Flemming, Walter Ellison and Cora Studer, A C Schuermann and Bertha Lage, Frank Ledwina and Mary Eleck.
A list of grand jurors for 1902 is announced to appear at Anamosa courthouse on Tuesday March 4 at 10 a.m. The roster includes Thomas Crain and others from various townships. The item also reports an outbreak of smallpox in Onslow with strict quarantine measures and evolving figures from Cedar Rapids Republican dispatches.
In Blackwood's Magazine a narrator contrasts Kaffir foodways with English tastes. He notes maize as staple, taboo on animal foods, and describes a Zulu girl grieving over lost food. A glittering spray of enormous green caterpillars is tasted by natives, while an observer refuses to try them.
Open bids invited for John Stevenson farm north of Monticello about 284 acres to be offered at my office from 2 to 4 p m on Saturday February 22. Right to reject any and all offers for inadequacy of price reserved. Lease two years in effect. James Voorhees, Agent.
Notice of application to sell real property in Jones County Iowa to pay debts. Administrator A Matthiessen seeks court authority to sell described parcels including railroad addition blocks and jets in Turck's addition Monticello, with widow Marie C. Prader’s distributive share preserved. Heirs named include Thomas Kasper Andrew Kasper Manga Foust Marie C. Prader Florian Prader. March term.
Archibald Livingston sues to quiet title to multiple tracts in Jones county Iowa. The petition asserts ownership in fee simple of specific sections and seeks to adjudicate claims by William Joshua Barney Georgianna F Barney Horatio W Sanford and their heirs and unknown heirs, with possession uninterrupted over ten years and color of title. It details past unrecorded conveyances lost deeds and misdescriptions dating from 1855 to 1868 and names numerous defendants and unknown heirs.
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