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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1904
Page
7
Ferndell and surrounding area report social visits legal business in Manchester and Anamosa. residents attend weddings, funerals and church services while merchants advertise goods from bulk oysters to fleeced lined underwear and coffee.
Rev. CO. D. Moore will deliver a sermon at the Congregational church next Sunday. Dr. W. J. Coughlan visited his mother in Jasper county last Friday to Joins the trip.
Watch Ferndell and follow up on retail shifts as H. C. Wills advertises New Ginghams and dresses down to 8 12 cents. E. H. Johnson & Co. promote bargains while inviting readers to sales and a musical entertainment hosted by the Knights of Pythias. Local exchanges report visits, bank moves, and farm auctions across Wayne and Monticello with cattle oats hay and equipment up for public sale.
George W. Sutherland administrator on the David Sutherland estate will auction the home farm near Scotch Grove station 314 miles east on Thursday January 21. The sale lists 5 horses 7 cattle 35 shoats 60 chickens 750 bushels of corn 15 barley 100 oats 20 tons of hay and numerous farm implements with Capt Tarbox as auctioneer.
Friday evening January 22 will host a debate at the Presbyterian church lecture room on the president’s Panama republic acknowledgment. Proponents H H McKinney Anamosa and Robert Corbit Wyoming will argue the action, opposed by J T Lanigan Monticello and S J McKeever Castle Grove. Admission 25 cents.
Stockholders report 14200 of 15000 capital subscribed and a factory planned immediately. Directors elected include W G Eilers G W Eastwood Andrew Davidson and others. G W Eastwood named president P D Bell secretary H M Carpenter treasurer. A S Loveland named superintendent to oversee construction and machinery installation beginning February 1. Company aims to secure contracts for corn from seven hundred acres and produce about 700000 cans. farmers urged to contact Eastwood or Hicks to participate.
Edwin E. Sparks of Chicago University offers six fortnightly lectures on The Men who Made the Nation. Opening at Congregational church January 19, Franklin the Colonial Spokesman at the Court of the King. Tickets 75 cents with passes, 15 to 25 cents for singles.
Sheriff W A Hogan returned from LaPorte Indiana with Fred Close and Ila Bottomstone in custody. The couple fled Wyoming in September after her marriage ended. she faces grand jury action while Close is indicted. They posed as Walter and Ila Brown and used false identities until arrest. Bottomstone waives examination awaiting March term grand jury action.
Regular session minutes show no action on street lighting bids as records are incomplete. Unofficial figures cite a $3,500 yearly lamp cost at $35 per light for 100 gasoline lamps, plus a $6,000 gasoline plant proposal. Treasurer reports show the general fund overdrawn by $292.28. water, bond, and park funds carry small balances. Licenses brought in $780.50. weighmaster receipts total $84.80 with $20.88 allowed for services. Numerous bills listed from Monticello Electric to various labor charges. several water rebates noted. The German Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Wayne township reports $976,126 in force, up $73,000 from last year, with officers named and cost per $100 insurance tracked since 1891.
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