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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1911
Page
2
Wyoming correspondents report holiday travels and family visits among residents. notable items include post office Christmas stamp sales, a Hood River apples exhibit, and local marriages. death notices honor Rev. Nathan Shaffer, long-time minister, and the mysterious car accident death of Wm Seegar investigated by a coroner's jury. Bear Creek Valley Telephone Company votes to maintain own switchboard.
A round up of local items from Cascade Iowa includes a fine ice harvest in progress A M Debois of Lehigh visits the city D J Kingsley returns to Bedford Iowa and numerous residents travel or recover Miss Blanche Pierce returns from Hartville and Mrs Isabel Loomis visits Cedar Falls Others report illness and travel Fannie Moore resumes nursing duties in Iowa City Bertha Faber returns to Pella to resume teaching W S Sylvester visits Chicago and the Kearney family spends holidays in Grinnell and Ooon Rapids About 830 friends surprise Bernice Horning Masons and O E S set a public installation for the 6th E M Kearney family guests of Dr C A Kearney Rev J A Lapham assists at church Mich Folliard heads to Barnes Kansas Local note on a K K K gathering and Myrtle Gosden in Hazel Valley Civil War veteran Jacob Lees seeks relief commissioner post John Featherston and his wife visit after a paralytic stroke the patient improves gradually.
January notes from Castle Grove report visits among neighbors in Hopkin ton Prairieburg Scotch Grove and near Hopkinton. People travel for family duties medical consultations and insurance meetings while a measles outbreak affects the A T Glass family and Farmers Mutual Insurance holds its annual losses paid totals for last year.
Onslow sees visitors from Anamosa and Clinton. Deaths include Mrs. James Lowham and Mrs. Jobo Corbit with funeral held. Dr. Barnhill from Missouri stays with J. Z. Mackrill. Clifford French returns to Hopkinton. Florence Easter visits from Independence. families host and travel. Christmas trade up. post office receipts exceed last year.
Prairieburg residents report a butter famine in the past few days while local couples travel to Anamosa and Parlor City. Alva Deene of Rolfe visits his brother Orval, as Mr and Mrs T Loder spent Sunday in Anamosa. L E Minehart visited Parlor City last week.
The creamery cant run due to needed repairs and butter is scarce because of cold weather. W Payne of Delphos Kansas visits the McQueen home. Mrs Maria Conklin stays with her daughter Mrs Wollmut. Dwight Smith visits Grandma LeClare in Motticello. Arthur Came in from Wisconsin plans to bring a wife home. Ada Golden of Cedar Rapids visits friends in town. Prof Titus returns to Kenwood Park after a two week vacation. Rev Densmore leads revival services drawing many bearers. Laura Schleicher leaves for school duties near Marion after a week at home. Measles are reported in town but few serious cases. Meat market changes hands with Ryan buyer taking over from Patrick Stevens. Mrs George Fish of Central City falls and breaks a limb while Mr Fish is ill with blood poisoning.
Long list of visits and encounters in Center Junction and nearby towns including Hallie Hart Mead twins Martins Petersen and Decorah visitors. The piece ends with a detailed obituary praising Mrs. Finis end and noting her funeral at Onslow Presbyterian church and burial at Wyoming cemetery with Rev. S. B. McClelland officiating.
Mrs Eliza A Patton Corbit dies at her Onslow area home two weeks after illness. Born June 20 1837 in Ireland, she married John Corbit in 1865 in New York City. Survived by three sons Thomas William and Robert with Lettig predeceased. The family settled near Onslow in 1881 after residence in Weehawken New Jersey. John Corbit died November 14 19u1.
Scholars trace dice origins from divine guidance tools to games of chance. Cubical dice feature opposite sides summing to seven, a number long held as mystical. Other forms include long prisms and spinning dice found in Naucratis ruins and Kabylion discoveries.
Captain Edwin Cottin recalls the Ziegler Polar Expedition ordeal as a relief ship sighted in July 1905 ended sixteen months of isolation on a remote Arctic island. The crew prepared to abandon relics and records in the panic before the Serra Nova carried them to Norway, with some members heading to London and others to Germany.
A mother who lost her only son to drowning at seventeen sought a portrait from a family friend artist. He gathered all photos from infancy onward and painted a glade scene with five children: the boy at seventeen leading his younger self. The mother cried, exclaiming I have fost seven sons.
Users of replacement goods are asked to return empty sacks as soon as convenient so they can be settled before year end. Issued by Ricklefs and McNeill on 26w3.
Members of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Association of Castle Grove Iowa will hold their annual meeting for the election of officers in School House No 2 Castle Grove Township on Saturday January 14 1911 at 1 pm. Secretary M Hosford announces.
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