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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1900
Page
7
Monticello residents and visitors frequenting Anamosa Dubuque and Cascade are noted for meetings sales and social events. Andrew Boswell of Anamosa visited Monticello while Mrs Gerry Matthiessen and others traveled to Dubuque. House rentals millinery and fabrics featured in local ads alongside job movements and recently dismissed cases.
A long snowstorm affects sleighing. Local births, visits, and business notes include Miss Margaret Johnson hosting Miss Chic Brazelton, a baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Tasker in Chicago, and J. A. Doutrick’s store praised as a dry goods hub.Several residents recover from ailments, new hotel contracts, and upcoming sales are announced.
Local items include weather in Dubuque with ten below, pension news for W H Waugh, visits from Mrs L Shirley of Massillon, a Monticello wedding between Charles Pepin and Edna Ackerman, a Scotch Grove death of Mrs Clara Shaffer, and Cornell College attendance figures. Also reports on Mr Sprague Hosford marriage in Castle Grove, upcoming city election concerns, farm rental notice for Andrew Scroggie, Monticello tax list availability, and sale of a residence by G H George.
The funeral for Frank Altman, who died of apoplexy on Thursday morning at age 62, was held Saturday at the Church of the Sacred Heart at 10. Rev. Father McCormack officiated and burial followed in the Catholic cemetery north of town. Altman, born in Luxemburg in 1887, lived in Monticello and had ties to Dubuque and Jones counties. He married Mary Webber in 1868 and left eleven children, eight surviving with their mother. He worked in the saloon business and owned a share in a harness shop run by a son. he belonged to the Catholic church and the Roman Catholic Mutual Protective Society.
The column lists church services for M. E. U. B. C. Congregational and Presbyterian parishes next Sunday with sermon times, Sunday school, Junior League and Young People meetings. It notes a baptism, a supper at the M. E. church, and a Washington birthday theme. A quotation from Hon. Robert G Cousins closes the notice.
All persons indebted to F. Altman & Son harness dealers must settle immediately. Due to the death of the senior partner, all accounts are due by March 12. Unpaid accounts will be turned over to a collector after that date.
The Nickel Plate Road markets safe roadways, fine trains, luxurious equipment and fast time with through sleeping and dining car service. It promotes a desirable route from Chicago to New York and Boston via Ft. Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo and other points east with lower rates than competing lines.
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