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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
7
A wartime exhortation urges unity with allies and confidence that supporting friends abroad will secure domestic peace and stability at home amid ongoing conflicts. Statements emphasize standing with Britain and its partners to ensure victory and restored harmony.
Local notes recount New Year cheer and daily life: residents traveling to Chicago for business, visits from kin, shop ads for carpets, clothing, and hardware, and warnings of a cold wave. The Cedar Rapids Gazette is touted for Iowa news. a theater engagement is canceled. a Christmas gathering spans four generations.
Community snippets list residents traveling for holidays, ball attendance, and local business ads. Includes names such as Miss Carrie Franks, Mr. J. H. Mathews, Dr. Geo. Inglis, Col. G. W. Noble, and Miss Bertha E. Lovejoy plus references to Wills & Doutrick, Hicks & Eilers, and Gold Stone Bros. Also notes snow, ice skating, and a baptism service scheduled by Dr. Case.
Harry Howard son of C R Howard collided with barbed wire along Cleveland street near Mrs Keeler's property last Thursday. His forehead was badly cut and required a surgeon's care. Town officials urged strict prohibition of barbed wire use.
The itemized column reports guests visiting from Marion and Chicago, church services in several towns, and the Monticello State Bank showing deposits of 548 404 and loans of 615 307. It notes a calendar giveaway, shopping ads, a skunk farm sale, and community events including a Christmas tree, New Year festivities, and a charity banquet with the Wide Awake Encampment. It also covers local legal matters, rail and mining chatter, and the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Mead aged 89, with funeral details forthcoming.
The article recalls leap year customs granting marriage proposals to eligible women and prints the 1892 bachelor list, noting some have since married. It also mentions President Cleveland naming a Venezuelan boundary commission and local business updates at Will’s & Doutrick and the Star Meat Market changes.
Mrs L E Fulton puts up 88 acres in section 26 Monticello township from the John Skelley estate set off to her Enquirers directed to I E Hicks Mon ticello. The notice also advertises watches charms rings at Overing Stockwells with Beau Campbell escort and trip details for January 20 21 with special cars and rates from multiple cities to Chicago via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway.
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway announces excursion ticket sales to South and Southwest at very low rates with information available at the depot. Unclaimed letters listed in Monticello post office from December 1895 remain to be claimed. Notice also of a Scotch Grove United Presbyterian Cemetery Association annual meeting set for January 13 1896 at 1 pm.
Listings show transfers from James Hogan to Samuel Rigby and other parcels in Castle Grove and Wyoming including land, lots, and trusts. Several entries reference Beablen Rome, Oxford Junction, and Monticello with values noted. Additional items cite sheriff sales and a 1896 Pennsylvania law abolishing grace days. regional olive harvest in Southern California began a week ago with a light crop.
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