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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 22, 1906

Page

4

New Store Opening and Local Notices In March

March 15 marks a new store opening in Bidwell Block. Local items note illnesses, visits, travels to Chicago and Missouri on business, property sales, and various promotions at Davis Hardware and Kempi’s drug store.

Bidwell Block W. J. Kiburz Missouri Mies Edna Schonoover Chicago Kempi’s George L. Lovell Iowa City Monarch Davis’ Hardware Jennie Alloway Jin.9 Lake City Iowa Emma Ott Marshalltown Chisago Willon Costello J. A. Deitrick Bidwell

Monticello Notes Tell Of Local People and Events

Monticello diary items record Miss Hattie McQuusky’s visit with Hopkin ton kin, a new baby boy for Mr and Mrs Conrad Mardoff, and Margaret Pond returning from State University. Farm sales, auctions, marriages, business moves, and civic notices fill a stream of brief reports and social updates.

Conrad Mardoff Margaret Pond State University

Village nuptials and court echoes from Monticello area

Marriages mark a Wayne township ceremony at eleven. Miss Elsie Brown wed Charles L. Hughes of Cedar Rapids in Cedar Rapids. A Dorrell assault case ended with acquittal after conflicting testimony. Local school quips about physiology reveal playful ignorance. Insurance broker Eastwood takes Matthiessen & Himebaugh office. Pioneer Alexander Livingston, aged eighty one, recalls early Red River origins and 1839 arrival. Naomi Halacre case settled for 8000 plus costs after multiple trials and appeals, with city paying. Wanted ads invite applicants for McClure’s Magazine positions.

Elsie Brown Henrietta Brown Cedar Rapids Charles L. Hughes E. J. Lockwood St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church North 12Th Street Ilinois Kenwood Alexander Livingston Sand Spring Monticello Mr. Livingston Red River British America Naomi Halacre Manfuicello Supreme Court Linn County Miller J. W. Coxsee FF. O. Eilison E. E. Reed Herrick & Bauder Welch & Welch

Twenty Years Ago in February 1886 Happenings

Recollections from The Express note events in February 1886 including W. H. Proctor visiting New Orleans, local business changes, marriages and anniversaries, political results, a mad dog scare in Monticello, school discipline, lodge activities in Anamosa, and a fire destroying several businesses in Onslow.

the Express W. H. Proctor New Orleans

Cascade Pioneer Attorny Gallagher Seeks Des Moines Police Judge

Cascade’s C J Gallagher an attorney for about eighteen years is a Republican candidate for police judge in Des Moines. The piece notes the oratorical ambitions of a man named Duffy who wrote the lecture Grass and pursued humor until public reception cooled, with exchanges about Artemus Ward Mark Twain and Bill Nye as references.

Cascade C. J. Gallagher Des Moines Artemus Ward Mark Twain Bill Nye Duffy

Farm for Rent Near Monticello Iowa

The Rogs farm a sixty five acre property one mile north of town is available for rent with liberal terms. Contact E. K. Reed in Monticello Iowa for details.

Town E. KE. Reed Monticello Iowa

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