Monticello News Roundup Registers Losses and Recoveries
Local items report Mr and Mrs Isaac Orcutt returning to Monticello from Missouri, repair ads at Eilers and Boltons, and corrections to January library circulation figures. Updates include Mrs R V Deiley recovering from pneumonia, Andrew Nimmo’s decline, and a charity social planned by the Presbyterian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Orcutt
Monticello
Missouri
Arnold Euger
Christian Endeavor of the
Presbyterian Church
Eilers & Bolton
Monticello Social Notes and Local Incidents
Former resident E A Morgan reports continued contracting work in Santa Monica. Local items include a snow drift problem on West Hill, a kitchen accident involving Mrs Hogan, and announcements of marriages and a death in Scotch Grove. Miss Eva Glenn dies at 26 after a long illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Morgan
Monticello
Expresa
Santa Monica
California
West Hill
Michael Hogan
Delaware County
Ferndell Coffee Prices and Snowbound Town Notes
Ferndell coffee offered at 20 to 40 cents a pound with a call to taste its quality. Snowbound roads prompt J W Beatty of Cascade in Monticello noting harsher conditions than any winter since 1881 and recalling Cascade trains nearly halted in March of that year. J H Tremain invites a young man to learn barbering for spring work. Funeral services were held for Mrs Phoebe Parrott born May 26 1838 in Ohio with surviving children and kin across Iowa and Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J W. Beatty
Cascade
Monticello
J. H Tremain
Iowa
Phoebe Parrott
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. E van Buren
H. C. Chadwell
Richardson
Ezekiel Parrott
Sand Spring
Texas
Dubuque County
Kilera & Burton Dress Goods Lead Seasonal Sale
A local shopper note urges buying now for spring styles at Kilera & Burton. The dress goods department ranges from five cent calicos to fine wools and silks amid reports of severe winter weather with drifting, blocked roads, and frozen temperatures hindering rail service and rural mail and medical access. The Calmar line faced repeated delays as trains struggled through snow drifts between Monticello and Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilera & Burton
Here
Farley
Drury
Sand Spring
Monticello
Delaware
Cedar Rapids
Demise of Mr Francis M Hicks in Monticello
Francis M Hicks a long time Monticello resident died aged 83 after weeks of pneumonia on January 15. Born March 23 1822 in New York he moved to Iowa in 1848 and acquired about 600 acres in Jones county. Survived by ten children several grandchildren and siblings. Interment at Oakwoodis with funeral Saturday at 11 AM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis
Hicks
Francis M. Hicks
Monticello
Rensselaer County
New York
George Hicks
Mr. Hicks
Laura Carpenter
Massachusetts
Wayne County
Iowa
Frances Little
Ebenezer
Abby Little
Bowen’s Prairie
Jones County
Frank T. Hicks
Sutton
Nebaska
Ophelia Penniman
Hammond
Louisiana
Harry T. Hicks
Hazel Green
Delaware County
Eben G. Hicks
Elmer E. Hicks
Grant Hicks
Arch Hicks
Tacoma
Washington
Ernest H Hicke
Chicago
Fred Koop
Presbyterian Church
Oakwooda
Caria Hicks
Maria Hicks
Nelson Hicks
F. M. Hicks
Monticello notices span funeral plans and seed train visit
Obituary notices speak of Mrs Hicks funeral at Congregational church with interment at Oakwoods. A seed corn special train to Monticello promises lectures by Prof Holden on February 18 with stops at Hopkinton Center Junction and Wyoming. Additional items note poultry show honors, school exhibit February 24, temperance views by Farmer Barns, stock shipping delays due to winter weather, and a Devoe paint endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Areece
N. Baird
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Monticello
Holden
Agricultural College
Hopkinton
Center Junction
Wyoming
Tom Hefner
Milwaukee
F. A. Hefner
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Chicago
American Buff Cochin Club
H D. Cone Jewelry Company
United States
Canada
Hefner
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the Express
D. W. Doxsfe
Koop & Hicks
Messraid Hicks and
Geo. Guyan
Hicks and Guyan
Home News
Wm. Juleson
Sale On Ladies’ &Kirts !—Deutrick’s
Emma Dobling
Lost Nation
Ott
H. C. Wills
John Binggell
Hartford
South Dakota
D. E. Pond
W F Rohn
J S Gall
Doutrick’s
Mary Coxsee
H. G Wills
Rose Ebrismann
Nellie Ragle
Eilers & Bolton's
Pythias Lodge
A. Errickson & Co
H. F .Bourrichter
Emma Ott
Ray Mauslins
Deutrick’s
Lee Rigby
Bryant
Indiana
C. A. Errickson & Co
E. N. Howard
C. A. Smith
Oakley
Kansas
Dunham
Varvel
Doutrick A
Scotch Grove
G. W. Eastwood
H Kreeze
J W. Innes
Castle Grove
Prairieburg
A. Fryberger
Michael Teutem
Anamosa
J. 8
Fryberger
John Walston
Wesr
D. GC. Dutton
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
R V. Deiley
Rachael Mayberry
Langworthy
Eilers & Bolton’s
Andrew Nimmo
J H Fryberger
Jones County Teachers’ Association
Beat
J. H. Fryberger
Allegretto Club
R. C Stirton
J. A Fryberger
Lovell Block
Twentieth Century Club
F. A .Retner
Eigthteen
Penn Family
Best On Earth
Davis’ Hardware
G. H. Bohlken
Tobias
Jane Albertson
Henry Albertson
O. J. Bracklin
Mary Barnable
Lawrence Barnable
George McLees
Richland Township
Mary Turner
Jacob Bracks
Anton Matthiessen
Cyrus Aheisey
Aid
Anton
Tom King
Davis Hardware
New Orleans
C. A. Errickson &Co
Marie Wennekamp
John Wennekamp
Amber
Weert O Bennen
C. Mardorf
Eva Glenn
R R Glenn
Presbyterian Church of
Glenn
Kate Galock
Fred Hicks
Manchester
Flint
Michigan
Oakwoods Cemetery
Opera House
Mellinger
Nelson
Farmer Barns
Tipton
Farmer Burns
Burns
Hag
J. A. Thomas
Devoe
Charles Hollenbeck
Fair Haven N
F. W. Devoe & Co
Bacher & Abel
Hubbard& Hanken
White Pine
QO. H. Soetje
C. H. Schipman
Montice
Ment
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