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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1900
Page
7
Elections slated for March 26 with civic notes on taxes services and local merchants. Monticello items report fashion goods sales briefs, a chimney sweep, farm leases, real estate for sale and upcoming moves by professionals. Notices mention travel to Lincoln for dairying meeting and a patent grant for a local blacksmith.
Local items report Mr. Enno Barrack visiting relatives, a Castle Grove party hosted by Ed Moore, and a Loyal Rebekahs supper. Various meetings and moves are listed including M W A, Woodmen, and Eastern Star events. Several residents travel to Des Moines Chicago Grinnell and Cedar Rapids for church, business, and family matters.
Farmers and locals praise J. A. Deutrick's Store as a convenient source for dry goods with reliable stock and friendly service. The article highlights community trust, reasonable prices, and comfortable shopping conditions in the rural town.
Local items report Wm Skelley quitting the Milwaukee road to work the Fry farm for the season. Eastern Iowa Odd Fellows plan Monticello events on April 26. Robert Scroggie postpones a farm sale to February 26 due to a storm. Orlando Hosford buys property on South Chestnut and plans a move to Monticello. The Coollman Helgins marriage occurs in Wayne township. Kairns plans relocation to Strawberry Point March 1. A yeven suit over a horse trade ends with judgment against Hultz. Capetown paper on war shown by C W Hosford. tax lists available at Lowell State Bank. A large catlike animal is captured and named several ways. Dr Mirick’s horse nearly drowns in a snow-filled vault. A local wrestling match yields Gavin the winner. next bout set Sprague vs Fuget.
Harry Hicks of Hazel Green buys twenty acre farm near Dickeyville and will move March First. Rev. and Mrs. E Tarper host family gathering as sons arrive from Chicago and Garwin. Rev W O Harper to take U B church pastorate in Hastings Nebraska. Edna Harper dies of bronchial pneumonia at six, funeral held at Oakwoods. Frank Friend of Monticello dies in Waterloo from appendicitis. J S Hall attends. Roy K Farwell marries Pearl Marie Farwell in Chicago. Yale graduate to honeymoon in the South. Mrs Farwell’s sister Isabel Farwell is maid of honor. companions from Attica Indiana.
Mr Wm Kehoe delivering hogs at the stock yards near Castle Grove was struck by an incoming freight train at the Hubbard place. The wagon and box were thrown thirty feet and he was tossed into the air but landed on his feet unharmed. He held the horses and kept them from fleeing. The wagon was badly damaged. No bell or whistle warning was heard. Also noted is the impending end of G E Bishop’s tenure at the Jones County Times with mortgage details and possible sale to Ray Schaeffer. Bishop may return to show business. Seymour Bennett of Marion visits Monticello.
A Tuesday Monticello event featured Anderson Ridner of Savannah Tinois vs Charles H. Smith formerly of Rock Island now Cascade in a Marquis of Queensberry rules bout for 100 dollars a side plus gate. Five bouts decided Ridner won and spectators debated if fixed, with Cascade bets around 200 dollars amid strong showings by both men.
Mrs. W A Mirick hosts her mother Mrs. Jeanette Curtis of Independence Iowa and sister Mrs. L Foster of Logan Utah. Curtis and Foster arrived in Monticello last evening.
The anniversary of Washington's birthday will be appropriately observed in our public schools today. The notice emphasizes a respectful observance within the education system.
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