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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1897
Page
8
A wide set of notices lists discounts and offerings from Wills & Deutrick's Hicks & Hilers Sumter's and Eastwood & Chase. People visit relatives return from trips buy harnesses corsets and dry goods. The district court meets March 8 and readers are urged to shop cash at Lon's for value.
The Monticello area reports a June picnic, visits by notable residents, and local business notes. A. A. Mirick of Anamosa spent time with Dr. W. A. Mirick’s family, while Dr. Willits lectured on The Model Wife at the grand opera house. Businesses promote harness and dress goods, and civic life includes temple and lodge activity plus upcoming sociables.
Union Oregon visitor Andrew Dunganson calls on Jones county residents. Henry Hartman and Lulu Evans wed by Rev. David Street. Mrs. C. E. Hill suffers a mild stroke and rests with a nurse. Col B. H. O Meara from C M St P Ry visits Monticello on business. Nathan Smith renews artificial foot in Minneapolis. served in army. Sermons by Rev Street on The Devil's Power. Fritz Florine injures his right hand finger in a coupling accident. Mrs. E V Monroe joins Sanford Dodge theatrical troupe. Supper at MWA hall and dance at Kinsella hall to fund regalia and uniforms. Joseph King, 94, visiting son in Maxwell, near centenarian. George and Mrs Barnard visit Soetje in Monticello. William Cline, cancer of throat, condition critical. Watch repairing offered cheaper locally at Parrott's next to rail road. Samter family buys spring stocks in Chicago for five stores. Democratic caucus nominates city officials including Street Commissioner Will Long and council candidates. J O Lawrence’s withdrawal not accepted by law. may move to the country. Infant of Hicks suffers leg sprain from fall. Wives and daughters of MWA plan Royal Neighbors auxiliary in Woodmen hall with Mrs Albert presiding.
Hon Geo W Lovell recovering with no paralytic recurrence but new stomach issue noted. Miss Carrie Haeussler and Mr John Reichart wed in Sacred Heart Monticello. Lecture changes move Teachers meeting to Anamosa March 6. Monticello hosts April 3 session. Diphtheria case in Edith Rettig quarantined and improving. Plan to improve Iowa Telephony service expands Monticello exchange. Damon and Pythias play praised. troupe to perform Richard III in March. Tramps cause disturbance. arrest and removal. John Fitzsimmons Jr and Catharine Cashen wed at Sacred Heart. Washington Township trustees assign Curran as clerk and Finn as JP. constables OConnor and Gavin named. road supervisors Fagan and Cooley appointed.
A list of unclaimed letters at the Monticello post office in Iowa is published with names and initials including Cook Miss May Wick E W L T Alexander P M. Notices offer farms for sale or rent in Castle Grove and Richland townships with acreage and contact details. Illness report mentions Mr Cecil Hosford being very ill.
The preliminary examination of Dr. L K Bobo of Oxford Mills continues in Wyoming with testimony from both sides. The state rests its case and presents medicine bottles labeled by Bobo as used for an abortion while Drs Poore and Hammond identify the substance. Bobo challenges Miss Sutliff's character and claims a conspiracy. The defense cites a paying order to Dr Cook and questions the timing of the dying statement, with Bobo denying involvement and a verdict expected as the examination nears conclusion.
Notice seeks Annie Agatha Schuetz address for a royal commission involving her interests. 8689 ZW Montroaur Notary Public in Center Junction Iowa requests contact to facilitate transactions. 381F R C Shirron Executor advertises 80 acre Monticello area farm for sale or rent with terms at Monticello location. Tiarks and Soetje dissolve drug and stationery partnership. Oscar H Soetje assumes the business. all debts to be settled at the store. dated February 17, 1897.
A series of land transfers is listed for multiple parties across sections in Rome, Wyoming, Hale, Fairview, Jackson, Monticello, and Anamosa, with names including D KE Rummel Nora Hmerson John Eye Mary Propst James Guthrie and others. The Riverside Cemetery Association sale to Christine Kratzer is noted along with nursery stock sale status and remaining hay and buckwheat bran.
A brief and witty exchange from the Somerville Journal where a man asks if she is the first girl he kissed. He reveals he has three sisters, turning the moment into light humor.
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