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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Town
E. KE. Reed
Monticello
Iowa
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