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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1902
Page
4
Public notice from The Monticello Express listing subscription price for the year at 1.76 dollars. Includes publisher names J W Doxsee Bottor and Prop 1. Subscription terms appear in the newspaper’s advertising data.
A flurry of social news from Onslow includes visits by John Ottsen Sam Canaly and others Miss Lou Sears receives a reward watch chain for teaching Defiance Hill A tea party at Wm Neelans leads to the wedding of Beth Neelans and Dr E H Knittle with a honeymoon to Chicago and return to Ira Stimson’s office for housekeeping
Sunday schools celebrated Christmas as usual. Henry Benka stored ice in his ice houses. Mrs. Willis of Perry visited her mother Mrs. J A Ashcraft. Will Rhodes and wife from Miles shared turkey at the parental home. Inglis Bros. ship corn to Wromina at 65 cents a bushel. Dr. Bradley of Marion seen with a young lady. James McQuan and Effa Hopkins wed at the bride’s parents' home. Rolla James and family from Ledyard visit. Principal Mr Gray and wife host New Year’s day gathering. Miss Weingartner visiting Rev A P Cooper. Hawthorne club gave a Masonic hall entertainment. Many locals, married and single, returned home for holidays. Christmas day family gathering at J W Waite’s with Inglis and Mills families from Hale and Monticello.
CentER Junction reports Miss Maude Lyons visiting Oxford Mills and Miss Myrtle Dreibelbis in Clinton. George Preston remains ill with typhoid fever but shows slight improvement. Arthur Young resumes teaching duties in Harris Iowa. Reverend Hines delivers farewell sermon and departs for the East to start a new home. Cass notes include Ruby Ketcham ill with mumps, Will Allen visiting from Adair county, and other local movements and gatherings around New Year.
Mr and Mrs Joe Soko mourn the death of their infant child. We did not learn the particulars. Geo Benton has returned from Ames where he was called by the serious illness of his brother in law J H Davis. Mrs A A Sloan of La Porte City, visiting her brothers W J and W B Austin, returned home Tuesday.
Castle Grove notes J W A Krueger being able to be out again while A F M Caspers is unwell. Farmers harvest ice, Miss Elsie Cramer suffers a bad cold, and ice house contracts go to R Shear and W H Laude. Bohemian resident Joseph L Holub dies of pneumonia, survived by wife and two children. New Year urges livestock and personal property lists as assessors prepare to roam the state. Monticello residents urged to install more hitching posts for market traffic.
A dance occurred at the hall last night. School resumed Monday after a week of vacation. Albert Lear left for his Nebraska home last week. Miss Maggie Applegate of Maquoketa visits Casteel's. Will Meills has returned from Nebraska and moved to a Linn County farm. Men are filling ice houses this past week. John Foust and Mabel Overley of Scotch Grove wed Christmas at Anamosa. Mrs. M. O'Mara and family plan to move to Oklahoma. Frank Schwartz bought a Langworthy store building and will relocate stock there soon.
A Monticello Iowa clothing firm thanks customers for past business and predicts forward movement in clothing and gents fur nishing goods in the coming year. D I Goupstone, proprietor.
We present a premier assortment of horse blankets and robes in our city. Visit us to examine and compare before you shop elsewhere.
A servant recalls Daniel Webster's humor as a man overcharges him. Webster pretends to settle the same bill thrice, producing two receipted receipts and a decanter demonstration. He warns he will not pay a fourth time and urges the man to start double entry books.
A letter from Hitchcock South Dakota discusses vast prairie lands with rising prices from six to fifteen dollars per acre. It notes successful cattle and sheep herds, creameries aiding debt payments, wolves threatening flocks, widespread farming and stock raising, and favorable credit terms for new settlers. It also mentions dry Jim River country and plentiful wheat barley and corn yields, plus a anecdote about Alvah Gee and a presidential sighting.
A lecturer extols care for timepieces noting 99 percent of people overlook their watches. Winding in the morning with slow turns preserves mainspring and stability, avoids damage from temperature shifts, and reduces dust ingress. Regular cleaning, yearly service, and trusted repair at Parrott’s old jewelry store are advised.
Tips to prevent kitchen odors through careful range management and cleaning. Use washing soda solution on pots and pans, soak vegetables like onions and cabbage to reduce volatile oils, and boil vegetables uncovered to minimize smell while skimming off scum and adding salt with cold water.
The piece extols wild flowers as ideal for decoration in meals and spring luncheons. It advises restraint in color and form, suggests using foliage to provide variety, and warns that crowded masses ruin beauty.
Stilletta Paton Burke argues in Woman's Home Companion that women should shift from daily, fragmentary tasks to scientific, comprehensive planning. She calls for less guessing, more accurate knowledge, and daily girding for a climb to higher thinking levels for broader inspiration and better household outcomes.
An Iowa notice urges mothers to train children from age twelve to carve fowl or meat, mastering a sharp knife and attention to detail. A careful housekeeper reports success and recommends the practice for orderly table etiquette. An estray heifer calf is reported at Center Junction with owner proof and feed advertisement requested.
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