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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1902
Page
4
Castle Grove February notes report residents laid up and visiting, moves to new farms and towns, births and marriages, social events, a creamery project, stock shipments, and the Davidson and Shear families preparing to relocate. Several neighbors welcome and bid farewell, with community ties and shared activities highlighted.
James Dewitt buys the Fred Arnold house on West Main. Belle Brownell wed Mr. McGuire of Madison. P Celis. P Chamberlain’s case in Anamosa ends with a bonds settlement between Miss Lena Hubbell and related parties. Dr. W W Bronson returns from Chicago to finish veterinary studies in March. Several relocations and society meetings noted including Ladies Shirt Waist and Ladies Industrial groups.
Onstow notices report John Smith visiting Clinton and Mrs. Geo Sears returning from Lyons and Clinton. Schools opened Monday and churches held services Sunday. Mrs Abrams left for Illinois to be with her daughter Mrs Ieva Owens. Moving week brings many changes. N 2B Noyes has a fine lot of apples.
Local items note Tom Carson visiting parents, violin class formation by Wilbur Watson, Fred Preas seeking eye treatment in Iowa City, and Lucile Andrews recovering from lung fever. Monticello teacher Nettie French hosted by Lillian Livingston. marriage rumors teased with names withheld. Mr. and Mrs. W B Thomas travel to Dixon Illinois then east to relatives for two months. A sleigh party at Robt Livingston's yields lively memories. Brown couple moving from old home to Center Junction. locals welcome them.
Ben Engelbarts of Amber visited Monti cello last Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Schoon and kin visited Monticello. Mrs. Gerd Harms is very sick and friends wish for the best. Have Heyen and neighbors shipped a car of hogs to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Harm Fechtman welcome a daughter. George Claussen of Illinois visits Mrs. H. Siemers. Juli Husmann moves from Amber to Sand Spring. Clover Leaf Creamery installs a new separator and plans improvements. Carl Rickels leaves for Pomeroy. Mrs. Rickels and daughter depart with Lena Hanken for two weeks.
A look at New York floral spending reveals about a million dollars yearly on wedding flowers. Church decorations at St Bartholomew's cost at least 1000 dollars, with Christmas and Easter lilies filling churches. One florist grows 50 000 lilies for Easter and high end decorations at balls are unmatched, with florists supplying palms ferns and greens as a specialty and hiring expensive plants rather than buying them.
In a Berkeley classroom Professor Bernard Moses quoted a French passage from a Parisian political economist. A student asked for an English rendering. Moses retorted that the student should learn French by getting up early before breakfast.
John Stoner a Blacksmith now in the county jail faces bigamy charges in Anamosa after an informant wife alleged a prior marriage and large Pennsylvania family. The case, paused for witness timing, resumes March 11 with potential testimony from a half-brother. Another note mentions a 280 acre farm for sale in Richland Township, Cascade, with 160 cultivated acres and two wells. Several local residents are noted as visiting or returning from travels in Nebraska, Strawberry Point, Lost Nation, and nearby towns.
Herrick and Bunder serve as attorneys for the estate with D QO Sinclair listed as administrator in the probate proceedings.
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