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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1896
Page
7
Numerous community items cover visits by Sheriff Babcock and Major N G W Winner, farm rentals, store ads, and weather. Activities include Nellie Drury visiting Marion, James Hanna renting Bennett farm, Kip Grove and Wills Deatrick ads, proclamations of holidays, and a shifting mail office at Broadway near Linn county line.
Mr J M King and family visited relatives in Monticello with a delayed return due to illness in the older son. A charity auction by Rourke Bros and a Joseph Jefferson Rip Van Winkle performance at the opera house highlight a weekend of church meetings sales and entertainment.
Mrs L E Fulton offers 83 acre tract in section 26 Monticello township part of John Skelley estate. Enquirers directed to E E Hicks Monticello. 24tf.
Mrs Phemister prepares to celebrate her 88th birthday tomorrow. The week features community notices about local events, a delayed theatre presentation, farm sales, a sidewalk accident, and a stove explosion in the town.
12 acres of land for sale adjoining Davidson's addition to Monticello on the north. For prices and terms enquire of Joan Q Skelley at 342.
An estray yearling colt is at a resident’s place and the owner is asked to call and pay for keeping. In Monticello township the Republicans meet at the town hall on Saturday afternoon February 29 to nominate fifteen delegates for the county convention at Anamosa on March 6 to select fourteen delegates for the state convention on March 11 and then delegates for the national convention in St Louis June 16.
In Ames last night the Republican caucus at the town hall nominated a full city ticket. A Matthiessen won mayor on the first formal ballot with 34 votes. J S Houser became treasurer by acclamation. Howard Putnam chosen assessor. J W Coxsee city solicitor by acclamation. Brazelton edged Slauson 34 to 31 for street commissioner after a two-ballot tussle. Water commissioners Hubbard Haasussler Tucker named by acclamation. Pond for park commissioner. Doron won three-year term. Northrop over Hunter for three-year term. Ward caucuses selected councilmen Schoonover Overing Clark Hicks Linnell Button. central committee members named.
W A Hunnarn advertises a broad goods sale featuring glass ware timware and dinner sets along with cotton and wool hose gloves mittens overalls jackets and underwear cheap. Pies fried cakes and baked beans daily with pastry orders. First door west of Bachers drug store.
Public auction at the S. H. Clark farm one mile east of the Presbyterian church in Scotch Grove township opens at 10 oclock. items include 20 cows 8 colts and horses 6 broad sows 16 stands of bees wagon harness cultivator 500 bushels corn 400 oats 50 potatoes and other property. Auctioneers D Magee D Dreipeis. WHITING-DAVIS wedding plans and reception details follow with Artie Davis and William H Whiting married at Langworthy Iowa under Rev Blodgett. guests celebrate with a large supper and gifts from friends.
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