Local Notes and Advertisements From Monticello and Vicinity
Flora Deischer ill. Fred Peck visiting in Monticello. Virginia Auldridge organizing a dancing class in Maquoketa. Hicks & Eilers advertise largest stock and carpets. Wills & Deatrick promote gowns and muslin underwear. Supper at M. E. parlors Jan 17. Revivals with Street and Bolton. P. H. Schlatter visiting Monticello. Frank S. Verbeck in town. County officials, cattle interests, and local trades highlighted.
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Virginia Auldridge
Maquoketa
Monticello News in Brief Roundup of Local Happenings
Judge Pond discharges a defendant after a criminal case fails to prove guilt. Local visits, church events, socials, and lectures fill the town calendar. Monticello residents plan concerts, masques, store promos, and notable notices from merchants to the Presbyterian church society and agricultural society plans.
Monticello Elect Co directs choose new officers
At a stockholders meeting in Monticello the board elected S E Sarles J S Hall D E Pond Wm Stabler W F Rohn R M Hicks and J W Coxsee as directors for the year The officers named were President J W Coxsee Vice President D E Pond Secretary Treasurer R P Smith Rev A A Willits and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Electric Co
S. E. Sarles
J. S. Hall
D. E. Pond
Wm. Stabler
W. F. Rohn
R. M. Hicks
J. W. Coxsee
Oxford Junction Diphtheria Fears Close Schools
The Oxford Mirror reports diphtheria deaths from a decade ago and a recent five year old fatality. In response, the Oxford Junction school board kept schools closed this week and plans to reopen after one more week if health improves, with several country schools also shut.
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Oxford Junction
Oxford Mirror
Peter Stewart
City Council Advances Ordinances at Adjourned Meeting
The January 11, 1896 adjourned council session in Conner discussed Ordinance No. 169 and 170 with second readings dispensed and readings passed. City Attorney Coxsee’s report on McAleer’s claim was laid over. A committee to build a fence for stock and scales was appointed before adjournment. The Jones County Farmers Institute schedule for Wyoming Jan 29 31 was announced with a full program.
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Jones County Agricultural Society
Monticello
Page
Clark
Matthiessen
Warner
Lawrence
Schoonover
McAleer
Lawrente
Naye
Jones County ‘Farmers’ ‘Institute
Wyoming
John Russell
J. A. Bronson
H.H. Monroe
Board of Education Minutes and Bills Report
MonoTIcELLo January 11 1896 the board met and approved last meeting minutes. Bills listed include teachers fund Jno Arduser tuition returned contingent fund W H Proctor advertising bids hall hardware repairs cleaning clocks Page repairs school house fund Geo Netcott Fuller Warren Co W A Fulkerson and R P Smith secretary notes legislature delayed until committees review state institutions.
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Monoticello
Board of ‘Education
Stirton
Bacher
Hunter
Hosford
Techers' Fund
Jno
Arduser
W. H. Proctor
Wood
Deqoue
Yeupe Co. Times
Another Wife Turns Up in Curtis Case
A letter from Jamet W Irving Curtis's alleged third wife emerges after his five year penitentiary sentence for bigamy in Jones county. The writer details their 1887 Angola marriage and Curtis's long deception across Indiana and Illinois, leaving her to raise a child who did not survive. She notes Curtis as a jeweler with forty three years' practice and offers work references.
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R. B. Curtis
Jones County
Curtis
Mee Smith
Lacon
Illinois
Lettie Arnold
Wyoming
Iowa
Babcock
A. D. Barr
Angola
Chicago
Indiana
Ohio
Huntington
Bloomfield
Linden
Linden C, O, D
Logansport
Barnet Hote
Locansport
Ind
A. L. Chemin
Clement
A. L. Clement
W. Ih. Parnortr
Cartano Bros Meat Market Winds Down Collections
Cartano Bros announced closure of their meat market and call on debtors to settle now. Accounts will be placed with Justice Ricker for collection around January 20.
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Cedar Rapids
Justice Ricker
Cartano Bros
Fulton Sells 83 Acre Tract in Monticello Township
Mrs. L. E. Fulton offers for sale a tract of 83 acres in section 26 Monticello township. Part of the John Skelley estate set off to her. Enquirers directed to E. E. Hicks at Monticello. 24tf.
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L. E. Fulton
Monticello Township
John Skelley
E. E. Hicks
Monticello
For Sale Frame House in Monticello on Main Street
For sale a five room frame house with a stable on lot 138 in the irregular Monti cello plat on Main Street south of Proc tor's store. Property belongs to heirs to settle an estate. Payment terms: half cash, the rest on time if desired. Call J. B. Smith. 2ws.
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Monticello
Main Street
Proctor’s Store
J. B. Smith
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Wayne Cemetery
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Philadelphia
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Mary A. Wales
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Conner
W. S. Chamberlain
M. H. Calking
M. McLaughlin
B. Brown
M. Tasker
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J. W. Morse
James Mallicoat
Minta Tasker
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