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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1909
Page
4
The Monticello city council asks engineer William H. Kimball to review a standpipe project to boost fire protection and pressure. Estimated costs total about 7 000 dollars for the standpipe and 30 stop valves, with a sinking fund to retire bonds in twenty years and no tax increase expected.
The list records payments authorized by the Board of Supervisors on January 19 1909 including Anamosa Lumber Co freight and piling charges, poor farm expenses, bailiffs and court staff, hog sale, stamps, hospital accounts, lumber purchases, coal for the poor, telephone service, and multiple names for labor and assessor duties, with totals and voucher references. The entries include city and county providers such as Independence St Hospital Knoxville Inebriate Hospital Peet Lumber Co and Prospect Park Law among others.
Public notice announces a plat on Sycamore Street in Monticello showing improvements by the city council on August 18 1908 including guttering curbing and macadamizing both sides and listing each lot owner and assessed amounts. Objections in writing must be filed with the city clerk within twenty days of first publication. hearings will occur at the April 1909 council meeting in the library building council room.
Be it resolved that the plat and schedule for guttering curb ing and macadamizing Sycamore street as prepared by Matthiessen Lee and Voorhees is approved. Notice of the plot and schedule will be published in two issues of the Monticello Express and Jones County Times. A hearing of objections is set for April first 1909.
J A Bracha the mayor of Oxford Junction resigns explaining the job is an annoyance to the man who tries to do his duty and a nuisance to business. He cites criticism over enforcing ordinances and notes losing friends and business from both enforcement and nonenforcement. He says a business man has no license to occupy the mayor's chair and resigns for financial and social reasons.
An old advertisement extols Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the earth’s supreme healer for inflamed conditions and pain relief. It promises effectiveness on boils ulcers fever sores eczema and piles with a 25 cent price at O H Soetje’s.
In a Kansas City Times overview, the article notes a federal question of the moment: Why is Nevada? The piece hints at political and strategic reasons behind Nevada's position in national policy debates.
A grateful patient proclaims Dr King’s New Discovery saved his life by curing deadly lung hemorrhages from C. V. Pepper and enabling him to work again. The ad touts relief for coughs, colds, bronchial issues and asthma with a 50 cent to 1 dollar price and a free trial bottle offered by O H Soetje.
A lengthy Iowa district court petition seeks to quiet plaintiff Christian Siebenthal's title to portions of sections 4 6 and 7 in township 86 north range 3 4 west with extensive claims by defendants including Denis Kehoe William Ainsworth Edward C Lewis Catharine Fowkes Isaiah Williams Lot Boody John Hodger Hiram Field Augusta Stevens Rosman Ingalls and others alleging adverse possession and various purported conveyances plus unknown claimants The notice requires appearance by March 1 1909 and warns that default will bring judgment in favor of the plaintiff The proceeding records chain of title issues and decades old conveyances and asserts statute of limitations as to many interests per the petition and publication order by Judge Flo Ellison in Monticello Express.
In the District Court of Iowa Jones County W W Stickford a registered pharmacist applies for a permit to buy keep and sell intoxicating liquors at his Monticello drug store 125 East First Street The hearing is set for March 1 1909 in Anamosa and the March term notices are given by attorney H M Reed and applicant WW Stickford with court proceedings to follow
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