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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1906
Page
5
Mrs Rose Kruel visits Des Moines. Sheriff Hogan in town on official business. Hicks Ricklefs promotes new waists and skirts. Several residents travel to Sioux Falls Chicago Anamosa Monticello and Wyoming for visits and events. A Knights of Pythias dance and multiple sales and notices span the region with Deutrick and Eilers Bolton featured merchants.
Monticello and area residents keep busy with visits and news. Clara Hogan spends New Year's Day with Julia Gavin at Anamosa while Martin Kehoe hosts his brother Bernard Kehoe in Fort Dodge. Community members attend dances, birthdays, and church events, and officials report local court cases and county business.
The passenger train due at 6 05 from the north arrived at nine after heavy snow. It left north this morning with two engines and a snow plow leading. Local notes report Rev David Street still pastor of Waterloo Presbyterian Church with fifteen children and grandchildren on Christmas Day.
Monticello notes a brisk start to 1906 with New Year resolutions, a quiet business day, and bank stockholders electing directors at Monticello State Bank and Lovell State Bank. Major N G W Winner and wife honored by Rathbone Sisters in Seymour. Alonzo Hosford moves stock and property to Platt, S D. community mourns James Wilson with funeral at Greeley and Masonic honors.
Mrs. Caroline Sherman widow of Capt. Philip B Sherman died at her Monticello home Saturday noon after 51 years in the area. Funeral services were held Sunday at her residence by Rev. M J Breed. Interment at Bowen's Prairie cemetery. Born November 30 1817 in Sweden she married Capt. Sherman in New Bedford and joined the Iowa settlement on Bowen's Prairie in 1855. Capt. Sherman died years earlier after a whaling voyage. She lived a long pioneer life with faith in the Congregational church and leaves a quiet legacy in the community.
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