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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1904
Page
2
Jan 5 Onslow column highlights visits by Libbie Irwin and Vera Paul, local illness news, new marriages Arthur Alexander Nellie Hanna, and Ettie Fagan death. Reports of community events include church, school progress, and the Sears patent shed business. Broad social, religious, and civic updates across town.
Miss Anna Canty returns to St Patrick Academy Chicago on Monday. May Kent visits Monticello with Miss Ethel Collins. Margaret Thompson returns from Winthrop visit. Charles Sutherland returns to Cedar Rapids after holidays. Ladies host linen shower for Maude Lyons. Mrs George Andrews and sons visit daughter at Center Point. Lillian Livingston friends play Flinch at her home. Anna Livingston and Mabel McNeilley visit Wini fred McCaren in Cedar Rapids. Walter Muller visiting from Kansas renewing acquaintances. Area churches hold revival meetings led by Rev Sheckler and Rev Tinkham Onslow. Kathryn Leech hosts watch party New Year’s Eve. About one hundred attend R G Lyons wedding of Maude to Nathan Lathrop at Oxford Mills. Mendelssohn march played by Mrs Newton Smith.
The ceremony officiated by Rev. McIntosh joined the couple in marriage. The bride wore a cream gown and carried cream roses, with Miss Georgia Lathrop as bridesmaid and Robert Lyons as best man. A bountiful supper followed and the newlyweds left for a visit to Washington county.
Mrs. Frank Miller was under the weather last week while Mrs. J. A. Howie hosted her Sunday school class on New Year’s day. J. Egger moved to the M. Mc Laughlin farm. Clell McLaughlin and wife visited Castle Grove relatives. Miss Maggie Lauser of Cascade stayed with Mrs Ed Miller. Fred Cramer, William Hiller, and Miss Elsie Cramer attended the Lyons Lathrop wedding at Center Junction. Andrew Davidson and wife and D. H. Smith and wife of Lovell township visited Castle Grove friends. C. R. Wilder plans a wagon repair shop in Downerville. W. A. Hogan moved to Anamosa to head sheriff’s office duties. sister Kate Hogan will run the house. Mary Marek will join the household. Downerville creamery patrons pack the ice house. creamery runs on cooperative lines with a skilled buttermaker. Farmers haul butter coal and supplies, and cream generation continues to be welcomed. The Downerville creamery now receives cream regularly.
December 30 notes a white Christmas while Miss Ida Siebels suffers from lung fever. The Ladies Aid met with Mrs. J. A. Howie on Wednesday. John Rider of Sand Spring rents the Danks farm for the coming season. John McLaughlin Jr. returns from Ames for holidays. The Downerville creamery pays 85 cents per hundred for milk testing 4 in November.
Mrs. Lauser of Cascade visits daughter Mrs Ed Miller. Several families share Christmas dinners in Richland township and Prairieburg. Rural delivery concerns noted as post offices shift. A Pleasant New Year party at Onslow features Scottish tale and songs with Archie Henderson and guests from Center Junction Anamosa and Onslow.
Daily life snippet lists Will Daly shipping hogs, a party at Alex Robertson's, J. T. Bradley and wife visiting Cedar Rapids, Dennie Englebarts visiting relatives, Mrs Wentworth and daughter en route to Clinton, a marriage of Frank Bailey and Edith Lincoln at Amosa, and visits by Mr. Thomas Crane and son from Battle Creek with homes listed. Mrs Belknap traveling to Washington for a visit.
The annual meeting of the Scotch Grove United Presbyterian Cemetery association will be held Monday January 11 1904 at 10 oclock a. m. in the church at the cemetery. All are requested to be present. M. J. McNeilley. New York Tribune report notes Bryan told Tolstoi he was not a socialist. Topeka Journal comments on Russia Japan war predicting China to suffer most.
One farm of 120 acres and another of 222 acres listed for inquiry one mile from Prairieburg Iowa. Contact Tom Baker Prairieburg Iowa for details.
A man who claimed All men are liars meets a fisherman a politician and a man in love in a humorous Augusta Journal moment.
Tremendous spiders in Java forests spin webs so strong a knife may struggle to cut them A Texas spider reportedly builds a four by two feet balloon attaches it to a tree with one thread and sails away with its brood to establish a new home.
In a Philadelphia Press item, Mr Crabbe refuses to buy an extravagant bonnet while his wife proposes a plain, cheap option she favors a widow's bonnet, highlighting a humorous domestic exchange.
Angelina questions if Edwin will miss bachelor life. Edwin answers with confident resolve that he would not regret losing it, joking that if he lost Angelina he might marry again. The exchange reveals their strong commitment and light humor about marriage.
A Washington Star quip features two men discussing how to spell gibbering with a joke about calling someone an idiot without writing the insult. The humor hinges on opting for spoken straight talk over spelling it out in text.
Miss Keedick declined Mr Gilley offered himself to Miss Darley on a postal card. Miss Gasket asks the outcome. Keedick says she preferred sealed proposals.
A brief editorial quip from the Atchison Globe suggests reuniting with a friend after twenty years is eased by compliments while forty years would require a longer catch up. The piece precedes a local ad touting Jay the Grocer's bulk oysters.
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