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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
5
Local notice highlights the theater production Dora Thorne to be staged tonight at the opera house. Various community items note visits, shopping deals at Deutrick's and Stabler's, and local individuals traveling or ill.
Local items report ground hogs resting last Saturday and several residents traveling to Marysville Kansas and Cedar Rapids. Missing letters linger in Monticello post office while auctions, sales and fence ads appear from Deitrick's and Apex hardware. Other notes mention illnesses, injuries, obituaries, and upcoming council actions on oil warehouses.
Reports include Mrs. Hebert Foster ill with blood poisoning traced to a safety pin, a deep cold snap with temperatures from 18 below to 23 below, weddings of William Wenger and Effie Eilers and Augusta Toenjes and Herman Folkers, a funeral for Lawrence Schoonover, and social visits by Monticello Presbyterians. Also noted are Mrs. Julia Beatty’s abdominal operation in Dubuque, church farewell for Morris and Mrs. Bebb, Edith Curtis in California sending subscription money, and a Monticello run of Dora Thorne staged by Sullivan’s company tonight at the opera house with tickets 26, 35, 50 cents.
Monticello city council met with all members present except Mayor Voorhees and took little action. A February 5 session will decide granting Standard Oil Co. rights to build tanks and warehouses on Kellum property near Kitty Creek bridge, with a public notice ordered to invite objections.
A popular play from a well loved book will be staged at the opera house tonight with the company already familiar to local audiences. Tickets range 25 35 and 50 cents and the engagement is expected to be memorable for attendees. The Monticello Co operative Creamery Co held its annual meeting on the 4th lnst naming J M Hofacre Carl Schatz Chris Egger J B Oswald Rickles Gerdes Charles Schneiter O W Brazelton as directors with Hofacre president Schatz vice president Bohren secretary and Carpenter treasurer. The reports praised a debt free financially strong organization and high patronage. Resolutions of respect for Douglass H Smith a former director and longtime contributor were adopted.
Lawrence Schoonover, president of the First National Bank of Anamosa, died suddenly of heart failure in Los Angeles on a Saturday morning. Born December 12, 1828 in Bradford County Pennsylvania, he served in the Civil War, later became Jones County treasurer, then co-founded Shaw Schoonover & Co. He valued thrift and local progress, was a lifelong Mason, and is survived by wife Amelia J. Tanner and children George L. Schoonover and Mary Schoonover, with several early children predeceased.
Isaac DeWitt a Jones county pioneer died at his Wyoming home February 6 at age 93 years, 4 days. Born October 2, 1813 in Warren County New Jersey he farmed in Iowa after Miner journeys to California and Panama. Survived by eight children and widow Elizabeth Longshore died years earlier. Funeral set for February 8 at 10 am. Tax lists released for nearby townships at Monticello State Bank with taxes due by April 1.
The notice lists services and sales including eye examinations by Dr Coffman in Davenport and fit glasses at no charge, lumber stock and low prices, tax lista at Lowell State Bank, warm lined shoes at Stablers, and wood for sale by W J Mills on the former Fred Burrichter farm between Monticello and Cascade. It also advertises the sale of James S Applegate farm of 200 acres near Scotch Grove station with two houses, a barn, well, and fencing. Enquiries directed to Adolph Igger and Charles S Applegate.
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