Monticello Express 1898 Subscription Price Notice
The Monticello Express announces the subscription price for the weekly edition. Per year the cost is 81.78 dollars, with publication every Thursday. Editor J. W. Doxsee oversees the paper.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1898
Page
3
The Monticello Express announces the subscription price for the weekly edition. Per year the cost is 81.78 dollars, with publication every Thursday. Editor J. W. Doxsee oversees the paper.
The Wayne Center church, with members and friends, welcomed a new pipe organ from Pekin Illinois. It weighs 3 300 pounds and cost 560 dollars. Announcements urged churchgoers to attend an address on Church Polity and a lecture on John Calvin by visiting ministers. Weather and roads may affect attendance. James Murray, now in Marshalltown Soldiers Home, is gravely ill and near death.
John Haley visits Pennsylvania and Dr P Healey visits from Rockdale. Peter Kehoe and Genevieve Phillips wed at Argand Immaculate Conception with reception at Evers home. Downerville Co operative Creamery reports 2,993,780 pounds of milk yielding 121,058 pounds of butter. receipts 19,168.76. expenses 2,705.87. Old board Reelected. A W Cramer president, A L Fairbanks vice president.
Onstow February notes report new girl at C W McMaster s and several residents confined or recovering from injuries. A wedding visit to Independence is noted. Excursion tickets to Cleveland priced at 8 50 round trip for Students Volunteer Movement with trips Feb 22 and 28. Chicago line offers through trains and city ticket office details. Harger Blish piano agent announces regular Monticello visits. Topeka buttermakers convention excursion tickets offered for February travel.
Slee Jacob Jacobson offers house and carriage painting, paper hanging and frescoing with natural wood finishing as a specialty. All work neatly and promptly done from shop 145 W First Street.
The Thursday session of the Farmers Institute featured talks on general farming success, corn fodder handling, and practical dairying. Speakers urged windbreaks, proper calf rearing, and careful cattle management while noting costs and efficiency for farm families.
Public notice offers a 146 acre farm in Castle Grove township with negotiable terms. Interested buyers should inquire at Monticello of 2711 Mrs Jane Forman.
Julian Richards reports on Iowa 1898 legislative scenes with debates over state appropriations and a push to reduce debt. Key items include a possible 8 to 13 mill tax, debt reduction plans, suffrage debates, printing rate cuts, and board of control considerations amid railroad and tax reforms.
For sale a fine residence well located near Enquire of 27th FE BE Hicks. The Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul Railway offers Mardi Gras excursion tickets to New Orleans and Mobile at 29.10 dollars round trip. Tickets sold Feb 14 to 20 with return validity to March 19.
The undersigned invites bids for constructing a school house in sub-district No 9 Wayne School Township Jones county Iowa. Bids accepted until 5 pm Friday March 4 1898. Opened March 6 1898 at Center School House 10 am. Bond required from winner.
Store announces a closing out sale offering every item at cost or less. Shoppers are urged to come in and take advantage of the reduced prices before stock runs out.
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