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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1901
Page
7
A compilation of social notes and short items mentions visits by Mr Wm Rohn to St Paul Cedar Rapids visitors Miss Maud Palmer Mr and Mrs A L Chase Mr D D Palmer and Editor Cooley with wife at Monticello. Updates on illness weddings travel and upcoming Warner Comedy Co show dates Feb 25 and 26.
Attorney Reed in Anaomosa on business. Miss Anna Clow of Independence visits Mr. and Mrs. Mundell. Public auction by Carso Crane in Cass township next Saturday. Duffy’s cider at 30 cents a gallon at the Model. Moving season to bring active real estate. Sewing contest premiums at Eastwood & Chase’s show window. Mrs. G. O. Matthiessen and Miss Dolly Rundle visiting in Marion. Mrs. John Finke returns to Clinton. New prints at H. C. Wills. Mrs. C. E. Mudge back in Marion after illness. Seven weeks old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Repstein dies of whooping cough. Feathers and pillows at Deutrick’s. Foresters’ dance at Kinsella hall a success. 89 numbers sold. Nichols & Lanigan to take over Jones County Times March 1. F. C. Sears to return to Maquoketa. Thaw and cold snap foster coasting. Monticello residents witness bootblack case in Dubuque. convicted, 90 days. Two farms for rent via A. Matthiessen. Three-year-old Bryan Lambert dies. funeral at Christian church. Warner Comedy Co. tour to open Feb 25 at opera house. Ladies’ millinery at Deutrick’s. Rumor of smallpox unfounded. Julia Champion at state asylum still incurable. All wool blankets at Wills. Knights Templar Trinity Commandry to banquet and dance Feb 22 at Masonic Hall with Italian band from Dubuque.
Local notices describe Washingtons Birthday observance in the public school. Several social events and personal movements are noted, including visits, meetings, and upcoming sales and gatherings at various Monticello venues.
Community records show Henry Rickels Jr and family visiting Monticello en route to Orange City California to settle on a fruit farm. A run away incident injures FE Hazlet near the Hawkeye saloon. A tax collection plan layers with Lovell State Bank. C A Thomas set for farm sale February 26 offering hogs cattle grain and tools. J F Petcina sells grocery stake to A W Steiner. A livery team runaway injures a driver. Chas Lorentzen dies in Fruithurst Alabama after early Monticello life. John McLaughlin home fire scare near Castle Grove. Mise Johanna Hanken and Carl Rickels wed at German Lutheran church. The newlyweds depart for Pomeroy that evening.
In Monticello last Monday evening about thirty to forty neighbors presented Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Ricker with a handsome chair as a farewell keepsake. E E Hicks spoke for the group expressing friendship as the Rickers prepare to leave town. The couple thanked the donors and spoke warmly of their Monticello friends. Lime Aldrich faces trial tomorrow before Justice Matthiessen on larceny charges filed by Mrs. Ulysses Whittaker.
Fay Lovell loses control of a sleigh on Amber and Military roads, tipping into a ditch and damaging the cutter as the old family horse balks. Rev. C C Warner and his two children escape injury after a runaway on First street with a dog spooking the horse. Geo Tousley ships 16 000 feet of walnut logs from Castle Grove to Cedar Rapids for gun stocks, costing 25 per thousand at stump and 8 more to load, netting a sizable margin. A residence on the northeastern town edge damaged by fire likely from a defective chimney, with Mrs. Sarah Miller owner living in Oklahoma.
Marcus Z. Farwell of Otero County, lone Republican in the Colorado senate, is praised for a strong,Debate filled session where he defended his party against fusion critics. He addressed labor questions and urged a pro labor stance while attacking rival measures and defending Republican work.
Dissolution notice states that the Monticello Iowa grocery partnership has ended by mutual consent. The mercantile accounts will be assumed by Mr Steiner, and all claims against the firm should be paid to him.
Property for sale or rent including the Steven son homestead at Monticello and 20 acres of pasture land south of the town. Inquiries to Clinton Missouri or Nancy Stevenson in Monticello. J. Mo Stevenson, Adm'r.
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