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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 11, 1897

Page

7

Spring election on March 1st and local notes

The item list covers a March 1 spring election date, social events, shop promos, visitors to Dubuque and Rolfe, clothing and millinery ads, a post office petition in Langworthy, and a Friday oyster supper. Notable names include Cyrus Heisey, Mrs O H Soetje, Lizzie Hill, Nellie Haeussler, J W Doxsee, and local businesses Wills & Deitrick, Sumter's, Goldstone Bros, Henderson's, Eastwood & Chase, and the Lovell house. Local happenings span church notices and dancing classes, with multiple visits and upcoming socials.

Prolific Local Notices Spur Community Plans

A flurry of social and business notices fills Monticello and nearby towns. Caucus details for street commissioner candidates, a February 19th sociable at the Stevenson home, temperance services at the opera house, and music club plans at Mrs. Carrie Lee's. Local sales include canned goods, restaurant stock transfer to Mr. A Miles, farm auction at Center Junction, and a large livestock and crop sale by Marugg Bros. and E G Hicks. Also listed are tailoring discounts, house moves, and improvements to the U B church building with a Valentine supper planned.

R. G. Lyons Center Junction Valentine Spccial J. Boyd Hicks & Eilera the Presbyterian Church Marugg Bros E. G. Hicks Hicks Monticello

Young banker’s son dies of lung fever at 18

Fred C Beatty youngest son of Dickson Beatty president of Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Cascade died last Tuesday afternoon of lung fever. He was 18 on August 27. Funeral held this afternoon. Local news items note taxes, local business tips, and a mix of notices from Monticello and Anamosa.

Fred.c. Beatty Dickson Beatty Farmers’ and Merchants’ State Bank of Cascade Business Men’s Association

Longtime Monticello resident Frank Coakley dies at 97

Frank Coakley died last evening at 10 o clock after a lingering illness. Born in County Cork Ireland on March 17 1819 he came to America in 1836 with family. He lived in Monticello since 1874 and leaves eleven children eight surviving. The funeral will be at Sacred Heart church Friday at 10 a.m.

Frank Coakley County Cork Ireland America Boston Washington County Wisconsin Johanna Sullivan Coakley Monticello James McGee Minneapolis L. A. Baron Chicago W. F. Coakley Galveston Texas C. C. Coakley Fort Dodge Iowa T. J. Coakley George Eugene John Mae Church of the Sacred Heart

Monticello Council Advances Tenants and Light Move

City council in regular session approves January weighmaster report with $23.46 and $15 for services. Ordinance 177 authorizes Iowa Telephone Company polls and lines. readings dispensed. Election judges and clerks for three wards appointed. meeting adjourned.

Overing Bohlken Heisey Clark Button Schoonover W. W. Button Abel M. W. Haas S. E. Sarles South Cedar St O. R. Ricker Iowa Telephone Company Monticello Iowa Helsey Bohiken Nayes W. A. Overing George Schoonover Matt Noyes W. G. Eilers O. J. Lawrence Leroy Clark Henry Heisey Alexander Marshall J. F. Petcina F. J. Koop Third Ward Henry Bohlken W. W. Burton A Matthiessen J. B. Smith J. G. Suter

Republican Caucuses for Mon ticello Ward Nominations

The City Central Committee calls Republican caucuses in Mon ticello with separate meetings at the city hall and other locales on February 13th and 18th to nominate candidates for street commissioner weighmaster and three water commissioners as well as councilmen for the first and second wards.

City of Monticello First Ward Third Ward John White City Central Committee

Public notice Monticello election March first details

General municipal election set for Monticello on March first to elect a street commissioner weighmaster three water commissioners and councilmen for wards one two and three. Polling places listed as city hall North Cedar streetHarness shop location Zentner's hall. Also notice of 80 acre farm for sale or rent by Anna Porter estate executor R C Stirtron.

Big Hill First Street Altman Anamosa Monticello Supreme Court City of City Hall Cedar Street C. W. Brown Zentner’s Hall A. Mattnesben Anna Porter R. C. Stirtron

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CHE Express J. W. Doxshh Monticello Bank Valentines Bidwell’s Home News Cyrus Heisey Lisbon BAZAR Wills & Deitrick’s Sheriff Babcock Jones County Farmers’ Institute Wyoming Lons Della Pier Dubuque Florence Langworthy O. ‘H. Soetje Geo. Barnard Mamie Keenan Pillsbury Flour Hicks & Eilers U. B Jennie Dailey Co Opera House Ferris Sumter’s Ernest White 8S. J. Errickson & Co Arlington Band Wills & Doutrick’s Lizzie Hill Central City Nellie Haeussler J. W. Doxsee A. R. Doxsee Miss Gwendolen Doxsee Rolfe, Iowa Samter & Samter’s John J. Smith Worthington Lucy Lattner St. Paul’s Church Goldstone Bros Howard Putnam West Hill Eastwood & Chase’s Langworthy Howard Glass F. L. Clendenen Davenport Kinsella Hall Henderson’s John Platte N. W. Tieman Waterloo F.M. Hazlett Lovell House George W. Lovell Wills & Deutrick’s The Congregational Church Andrew Davidson Matt Stevenson Carrie Lee Henry Scheer Lon Hosford’s Willie Campbell Henderson’s Corner G. A. Starks & Co A. Miles Coggon Town Cr. H. Shipman H. Clay Wills Vinton Wills & Deutrick Isaac White Clear Lake White Bowen’s Prairie Wills & Dea Trick’s Lodge No Woodmen of America Mike Curtin Charles H. Rastede Condon First South Cedar Streets Mr. Rastede Fflenderson North A. W. Stiner Pennsylvania Lon’s U. B. Church Lona Babcock Iowa Telephone Co Mary A. Buxton Cutting New York Eli Reynolds Newton Parrott Reynolds Childrens Kerchen Cascade Dubuque County Mitchell of Eastwood & Chase Walt. H. Butler Atlas Mutual Fire Insurance Co Des Moines McKinley Raawuue SamTer & Samter Wills & Deurick’s Express Parrott’s Low’s Sumters Bankers Mutual Casualty Company Fedelity & Casualty Company of Campbell Francis E. Wood Etta Perkins Wm. A. Wood Justice Ricker Fred Miller Oklahoma Henry Harms Wayne Township Harriet Chamberlin Oak Woods Cemetery Elizabeth Mead Go . Yath D. T. Gardner Joseph Champion A. C. Sandhouse Chauncey Mead Simon A. Mead Joseph Price Jane Fisher Mary Ann Wasley Benater Kellum John Herrick A. G. Holler James Conway Harold A. Palmer Elizabeth Leibenthal J. Deiterman Anne Stirton Eric Carl Albertson Iaa M. McLaughlin John Ruff W. M. Allen Hannah Sandhouse Fannie Stevenson Floyd L. Brazelton Council Proceedings Second Ward North Cedar Street C. H. Schipman South Sinz First Sr MonricEyo Hanken Clarks Soetje Ste Sherwin-Williams Hichland Township Jones County B. D. Haeussler & Son B. B. Haeussler C.F. Schneiter John Haeussler C. F. Schneiter Castle Grove Township Jane Foreman South Cedar Street M. Thoeni Monticallo Sand Spring Alex Livingston
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