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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
7
Local items report repeated snow, travel notices, and social calls across Dubuque Cascade Cedar Rapids and Monticello. Multiple residents visit relatives, business trips to Dubuque, and shop promotions at Deutrick and Burrichter with hardware and phonographs.
President Reed of Lenox College and Rev. M. Smith arrived in town today. Mrs. Ida Johnson of Perry traveled to Monticello last Monday and then left for Kansas City the same evening. Thomas F. Kehoe won first prize for seed corn at the Manchester agricultural short course last week. Mr. John H. Perrine returned to Kansas City after a recent visit and is despondent over Mrs. Perrine’s unsatisfactory condition. W. F. Mann’s production The Cow Puncher is a leading local theatrical event of the season. March 3.
Community items include a remnant sale at Deutrick's and brief notes on births and deaths, local transfers, political filings, a Washington's Birthday observance, a severe weather week, and assorted personal notices from Monticello and surrounding towns.
P H Conner promotes stallion Al Platoe noting Mazatlin as grandsire who sold for 5000 dollars as a yearling. Sweet Rose trotted a mile in 2 25.3 as a yearling. Beautiful Bell dammed eleven 2 30 trotters including Bell Bird 2 26 34, Adbell 2 23. Misa Adbell 2 09 34 won the Kentucky Futurity in 1906 worth 14000 dollars to the winner.
The present theatrical season offers several attractions at the town opera house. Among the bookings is Puncher a play about ranch life in Arizona scheduled for March 3.
The article reports Mr Thomas McClary offering to return to Monticello for a Sunday night lecture to a union church meeting with topics like Evolution of the Spiritual Life and The Attractive Power of Jesus. It notes the death of Fred Leesekamp age eight or nine from Bright’s disease and an upcoming funeral at German Lutheran church Wayne township. It also covers Onslow resident W D Livingstone selling his farm and scheduling a public auction with livestock and farm implements, and local weather disruptions from a December or February snowstorm affecting rail and mail service.
Mrs Laura Parrott widow of Wm H Parrott died at home last Friday evening after an acute illness of under a week. Born Laura Bingham July 3 1834 Petersborough New Hampshire she moved to Langworthy in 1856 and married July 4 1862. The couple later settled in Monticello where Parrott ran a jewelry business for fifty years. She had no children and is survived by a brother W F Bingham and a sister Mrs Camilla Johnson of Boston. Funeral at Congregational church conducted by Rev M A Breed attended by many friends.
Monticello loses several residents as Obituaries mark deaths of Mrs Mary Mansfield Blackman aged 79 and Mr George George aged 70 with 4 months. Noted incidents include a German masked ball in Marvin's Hall on St Valentine’s night and a wolf trap capture of a local eagle. Local offices sees high school principalship apps at thirty and Jones County Fair officers elected.
Notice to qualified electors of the Independent School district of Monticello Jones Iowa. Annual meeting at city hall on the second Monday in March 1908 from 1 p m to 6 p m. Directors elected for three year terms to succeed Dr Geo Inglis and J W Doxace and a treasurer. Meeting open for lawful business.
Heirs of the late Robert Cargon announce a public auction of estate property on Tuesday February 25 between 1 and 3 pm at the old homestead 574 miles north of Onslow. The 80 acre tract in Scotch Grove Section 32 joins Center Junction with 202 more acres in Scotch Grove and 76.58 acres in Clay Township. Inspection is invited and abstracts will be furnished.
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